I was locked out of ICMAG!

[SilverSurfer_OG]

Gday folks

2 nights ago i was refused entry to icmag presumably by my net provider. I was taken to the front page but the message "you have been forbidden access" or words to that effect.

I assumed it was just icmag down for a bit or some such, forgot about it and went to bed. Next day same deal...

When my missus got home i used her phone (i dont own one) to get online and voila! - icmag loaded no worries and i was able to login. Now using her phone to go online is a very frustrating experience and typing into boxes is useless. So i didnt post.

Today i just tried this out - http://uwnthesis.wordpress.com/2012...-instructions-how-to-set-up-a-vpn-in-7-steps/

Worked a treat. Allows you to register free and encrypts your online activities. Takes your ip through Romania(!) and makes your invisible online!

I thought it would take much fart arsing around to get it working but no, easiest thing ever.

So, here i am. Took a wee bit longer to load but worth it for total privacy.

Looks like my net provider (was Netspace when i bought the package but that was couple years ago. They were bought out by IINET) is blocking me! What a bunch of hairy ****s. I am going to phone them but WILL NOT wait on hold for ages so perhaps my patience will wear thin.... but i will get in touch somehow.

Anyone else have this happen? Not happy...

On the flip side had this not happened i would'nt have found out about the Romanian thing...

 

[rasputin]

Ditch that Romanian proxy. Random third party that has the ability to collect and monitor your browsing history? No, thanks.

Use TOR.

And get a new ISP, if you can. They sound like a kunty lot.

 

[hard rain]

Same thing has happened to me. I am/was with AApT also bought out by IINET! I am using a proxy at the moment.

Don't know what is happening. I can get on other stoner sites (but I no longer want to). If it turns out IINET are blocking I will switch as I am not on any contract.

 

[Sat X RB]

Sorry to hear this has happened. WTF!!!???

I would be SO ANGRY!

anyway ... good to hear yr back on ... altho sounds like the issue is not fully resolved because Romania is noted for its corruption.

cheers Cob!

 

[SilverSurfer_OG]

Yeah cheers for the info. I had never heard of this vpn client thing but found it yesterday after searching for answers to this little prob...

I have read about TOR before but assumed it would be a pain in the ass and would slow me down too much?

Using Romania is working thus far.

Personally i think we have much dodgier online privacy in Australia and UK, USA than anywhere else except China, NKorea etc...

Romania kicked out their dictator so they got that going for them. They also make great red wine and are home to Translyvania and their lovely history of blood drinking and all that.

Besides that i know very little. Cant be any dodgier than our current ALP kiddy fiddlers/fraudsters...

 

[Sat X RB]

But I 'm wondering by what authority your server blocked you both?

how come they blocked your access to this site?

who pulled YOUR specific identities and authorised that your activities be restricted?

why?

 

[Terroir]

Thanks for the heads up Silver Surfer re smart phone. I haven't been able to log on for 2 days. Just turned off the wifi on my smartfone and connected via 4g. Needed a password reset and all.

I have a telstra act for phone and a big pond (telstra) for internet.

I dont think though its my isp thats blocking the access to be honest. When blocked i am seeing the ICMAG page and a message saying your access has been denied. Now please for a moment understand that i know nothing about computers and the internet but i wonder if i am getting banned as i have my connection via a router and icmag is banning the ip generated by the routers. If it was the isp's that were banning the routers the site just wouldn't work and would get one of those blank pages with some sort of error code or i would end up on bigpond search engine page and it would list icmag but a click would not lead any where except straight back to the big pond page.

Also seed boutique seems to work fine.

 

[Easygrowing]

Also get those for 2 days and had got it many times Silversurfer-and it had nothing with your IP to do..Your PC is set to-do some asks,for 30 seconds-handshakes-if no connection-into those 30 seconds-your PC-just asking over and over-about the same-

Try go into your intetnetsettings.connections-see after those packs you reciving and sending-you shall be able to send and recive-you can ask it,for fix-Repair you connection-
You also have a map-called minidump-those likes to be empty-sometimes-it,s a map-for regi fails-if it,s to full-can lead to trouble-think it,s under Dr-watson-system 32--find out about those later...do some scan with Hijackthis-superantispyware-CC.cleaner or which you likes..an onlinescanner also good and free-Trend Micro-housecall launcher is a good one-and,it also clean up and so-without you need to buy,their product..

Pretty sure banning is nicknamerelated-of some reasons hmm..

Nope-no need for goes into system 32-just dobbeltclick on your local harddisc-then open the Map-windows-there you finding your Map-Minidump-you can see-how much-there is in those-how much is fill.s out--then,You dont get an connection,or other fail-those be reported,into those map-you have not much,to use those imformation to--your sometimes be asking from microsoft-do you like to send-an failreport-you can say yes or no-but-i always says NO-they get an report-there you have been and why no connection-had just emptyed my own map-and back on IC......the answer,can be many-why no connection-or slow...also your cache-needs to be emtyed,sometimes--

 

[SeaMaiden]

Ah! I was going to link your thread here, Terroir, then saw your post and reconsidered, but what the heck, gonna link it anyway. Something's afoot, yes?

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=250743

 

[Skip]

Anyone unable to access the site thru your usual IP#s please PM me your IP# so I can check it out. Thanks.
Or better still provide me with a traceroute so I can see which IP may be blocked along the way.

 

[SilverSurfer_OG]

You too huh Terroir? Yeah its funny...

That vpn thing was down for a day for everyone but now its back up and im able to get in... phew!

I did download a TOR program but it stuffed up and gave some error msg and it closed down.

Yeah sure i will send my ip Skip.

Hopefully we get to the bottom of this soon.

 

[Terroir]

I have sent skip my ip. Performing trace route now. Learn something every day.

 

[Terroir]

And trace route done. 64 hops 40 byte packets (wtf that means in the nicest possible way)

all asterisks. 64 sets of 3 asterisks.

 

[Fly by Night]

Good to have you back...enjoy some peace and privacy, you deserve it!

 

[SeaMaiden]

And trace route done. 64 hops 40 byte packets (wtf that means in the nicest possible way)

all asterisks. 64 sets of 3 asterisks.

So, wait.. your traceroute didn't show you who's shaking hands with whom? In other words, it didn't show you whose routers were being gone through and how much time it took to hit them?

 

[headband 707]

But I 'm wondering by what authority your server blocked you both?

how come they blocked your access to this site?

who pulled YOUR specific identities and authorised that your activities be restricted?

why?

LOL I get blocked all the time for example I can't get to a lot of the USA sites like Washinton Post or Harvard's reasearch dept. etc. I also get this message all the time about DNS servers not responding. imvho they are already in your computer doing whatever they think is right lol.. To this I say "go fuck yourself and grow the fuck up with the rest of the world"..!! Seeing as though both our coutries have got a shit load of spies to spy on it's own ppl . They have hired too many ppl in the private sector that think they are 007 out for God and country LOL real idiots in other words!There is no such thing as privacy the Gov has taken all that away. headband 707

 

[SeaMaiden]

It's also possibly to do with your ISP. If someone who's using your same ISP has been flagged as a spammer, then your ISP itself may be blocked. We've experienced that because our ISP is a very small company who has to 'rent' router space from another large company.

Do a traceroute and you'll see what I mean.

 

[PhenoMenal]

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[SeaMaiden]

I'm not saying it's a spammer who's blocking you, I'm saying that your ISP may be being blocked because of spamming activity on that IP range. If you're having this problem, you should contact your ISP as well, because stuff like this means they're not keeping their stuff cleaned up; i.e. they're allowing spam activity on their equipment, prompting the blocks from others. It's not your ISP that's blocking, it's someone else's routers/servers, and based on Skip's response I'm thinking perhaps he was forced to set up blocking a particular IP range. I've seen some spammy posts around.

 

[nimbin1]

it happened to me as well guys. went to get on yesterday and copped this msg saying your access has been denied.gets worse, if i googled anything to do with icmag and clicked on it it just gave me the same msg. also while i'm being paranoid, and i hope i don't get in strife for mentioning another site. around a week and a half ago i tried to access another site autoflower.net and low and behold the user name and password were invalid. i triple checked them they were right but wouldn't let me in. i have been using the same user name and pass word on that site for over three years. i'm calling government conspiracy.