LQ doesn't load anymore, I am posting through CGI proxy
 

If I type in linuxquestions.org in the browser, it just says connecting and then it fails with "The connection has timed out". It seems that the site is up, as I am able to view the site and post from a CGI proxy. Is my IP banned or something ? I guess I could reset the router ?

Mine works fine, try a different browser and see what happens.
The beginning of this sentence indicates you are not really sure about that. Of course it is up, you just posted on it.
Is this paranoia or something?
You haven't actually tried to solve this on your own yet? Try a few different things and then if it doesn't work as it should ask for help.

Tried various browsers on multiple computers and OSs and it doesn't help.
Tried resetting router and it doesn't help.

I didn't change any configuration for anything any time recently, so I doubt it is on my side.

Give us a 'tcptraceroute www.linuxquestions.org 80' and a 'curl -v http://www.linuxquestions.org/'?

Note that if 'linuxquestionsorg' shows up as 'linuxquestions.org', it's actually just the CGI changing everything :( It is supposed to be LQ. This does NOT affect the traceroute because it was run in a terminal not going through the proxy !

Does the same thing happen when you use www.linuxquestions.org (linuxquestions.org redirects to it)?

I'm not seeing any traces from around the world entering into po1. or po2.fcr02.sr04.dal01.networklayer.com and stalling after it, and LQ is one hop behind po1. or po2. IIRC so no idea what's going on...

So you mean I should post the output of it running through the proxy ? Ok:

I don't know what networklayer has to do with this, but it might be something. One thing I should mention is that I use opendns as my DNS. Should I change it ?

I don't think it is the DNS, because I have tried the IP address of LQ and it doesn't work.

EDIT: Running 'whois linuxquestions,org' works fine. Nothing else works tho.

Using the official URL does seem to solve your problem. It would be nice to know what goes wrong with the URL that's been redirected.

I do notice this in the output posted (post #8):That's not LQ's IP address, 75.126.162.205 is. This is shown in the output posted in post #5 (but no connection is made):I'm no expert, but it looks like a routing problem. DNS comes to mind (I do believe the mentioned proxy doesn't work when using the command line).

The 91.105.232.26 is going through the proxy, 75.126.162.205 is the real LQ address, however, it doesn't work either. Doesn't that rule out a DNS issue ?

I guess I will try to mess with the DNS settings on the router. However, all other sites are working just fine.

EDIT: Ok, I disabled opendns ... and it still doesn't work :(

I think it just may be a local (country) network issue. I guess I'll wait till tomorrow and see what happens. Maybe I'll call the ISP then.

We recently adjusted some of our filters due to a spam attack and it looks like you may have been inadvertently impacted. You should be all set now. I apologize for the inconvenience.

--jeremy

Do same for me, please, jeremy! I know i posted something(yugioh) that might be result of this but come-on really? It's freeware..thanks. Take IP from there since i'm using proxy atm.

Arcane, all set.

--jeremy

Ok, it works now, thanks. It seems to have blocked IPs in Eastern Europe ... indeed of place of spam.

No, actually I was right, and I figured it would be a mistake not something personal. If it were personal my account would have been banned.

Phew! Thanks, jeremy! I also though i got banned or something but seriously what for then? Usually there is warning before ban or explanation provided why banned..oh well accidents happen to everyone. No harm done. :)

Not nit-picking or anything but on a forum I'm a moderator on I ban IPs as well as accounts while other mods do one or the other for reasons only known to themselves. The way I read your OP, which was my mistake, was that you thought your own personal IP was banned.

@all: please stop this whole ban notion paranoia thing.

At LQ banning an account is a last resort option. A member has to be warned first and contacted first to try and patch things up. Besides that, for a regular account to get banned (not talking advertising, etc, etc) a procedure must be followed which starts with contacting that member to first try and gauge / reason / fix things. Eventually, when nothing can be mended, LQ may ban a member by (sometimes temporarily) blocking the account. Yes, you read that right: not the IP address but the account. And once an account is locked a note is displayed. That note may even include an invitation to contact me, another moderator or Jeremy because a ban does not automagically mean that member won't be welcome back.

To recap:
0) We don't like banning LQ members. Really. We'd rather keep 'em.
1) A LQ member will know when they've crossed the line.
2) (rare cases aside) there can be no ban without prior warning.
3) When an account gets locked that member will know that will be the case well in advance.

I hope this insight allays any concerns you might have.
Should you wish to know more don't hesitate to contact me or any moderator by email.
Now please go back to whatever it is you were doing and
have fun.

Alright but just in case something like that will happen make sure ban isn't forever and contacting authorities is not disabled otherwise we will never be able to fix accidents(just like this situation) or if someone else will hack into(proxy can also steal data) etc. Better be safe than sorry. :) Especially since today there are plenty of people who just wait for right moment to ruin others lives completely. :(

I have the same problem for few days(and now, used web-tunnel service to report here). Sitting behind corporative proxy, so firefox returns me "(110) Connection timed out".
Since I have not direct access to Proxy station, I cannot report here traceroute and ping results. http://www.whatsmyip.org/ reports me is 178 dot 94 dot 147 dot 229 (yes, I am in Eastern Europe)

FeyFre, you should be all set. We apologize for the inconvenience.

--jeremy

I cannot reach LQ from Poznan, Poland.

Proxying works well, but it is not a solution . . .

Please send me your IP address/netblock offline and we'll take a look.

--jeremy

Here is my traceroute to cnn.com.

<<<<<<<<
bash-4.2# traceroute cnn.com
traceroute to cnn.com (157.166.255.19), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 1.353 ms 1.629 ms 2.158 ms
2 poz-bg2.neo.tpnet.pl (83.1.4.48) 31.412 ms 34.678 ms 34.973 ms
3 poz-r3.tpnet.pl (80.50.156.225) 35.383 ms 37.749 ms 43.749 ms
4 war-r4.tpnet.pl (194.204.175.226) 46.883 ms 47.163 ms 47.418 ms
5 bundle-ether6.ffttr1.FrankfurtAmMain.opentransit.net (193.251.250.169) 73.516 ms 78.501 ms 74.731 ms
6 4.68.62.157 (4.68.62.157) 75.364 ms 57.223 ms 54.006 ms
7 vlan80.csw3.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.69.154.190) 148.907 ms vlan60.csw1.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.69.154.62) 152.071 ms vlan70.csw2.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.69.154.126) 156.878 ms
8 ae-91-91.ebr1.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.69.140.13) 153.458 ms ae-71-71.ebr1.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.69.140.5) 156.176 ms ae-91-91.ebr1.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.69.140.13) 157.147 ms
9 ae-48-48.ebr2.Paris1.Level3.net (4.69.143.146) 158.256 ms 151.821 ms ae-46-46.ebr2.Paris1.Level3.net (4.69.143.138) 153.025 ms
10 ae-42-42.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.137.54) 150.218 ms ae-43-43.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.137.58) 152.280 ms ae-41-41.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.137.50) 158.919 ms
>>>>>>


Cheers

You should be all set.

--jeremy

It works - thanks !

I have registered and logged in via anonymouse.org.
Via normal browsing from 188.27.16.41 the site doesn't works!
When I search via google, a lot of linuxquestions.org results are shown, it's annoying that the site doesn't load!
Why am I blocked?????

Problem with Eastern Europe has not been completely solved yet?
I can't access 75.126.162.205 from a dozen hosts on different subnets and on two different providers.
Any chance of lifting all the filters for eastern europe? Or are the filters going to be lifted only upon request and only for individual IPs/subnets?

Not solved
 

Although this thread is marked as solved, it isn't...
Accessing this site worked for several days, now it's still blocked.

Dear admins, please understand, blocking half of the world isn't a solution to kick several spammers. There are intelligent anti-spam solutions instead of brute blocking.

Since my IP is dynamic, next week I'll be blocked again if you unblock only a single IP address.

BTW I'm posting again via a proxy...

We've unblocked many subnets, but some do remain blocked. If you send us the IP or netblock we'll evaluate each one individually and make a decision from there.

--jeremy

FWIW, we don't indiscriminately block half the world. The number of IP blocks we have in place is far less than 1% of the IP space (and unblocks are almost always done at the netblock and not IP level).

--jeremy

Affected subnets:
95.76.32.0/22
86.127.208.0/21

chicken76, you should be all set.

--jeremy

Indeed. Thank you.

Jeremy, sadly I am blocked by LQ:

traceroute linuxquestions.org
traceroute to linuxquestions.org (75.126.162.205), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 1.544 ms 1.100 ms 1.141 ms
2 183.38.88.1 (183.38.88.1) 27.221 ms 26.340 ms 792.530 ms
3 119.136.1.85 (119.136.1.85) 24.671 ms 45.729 ms 24.810 ms
4 121.15.179.94 (121.15.179.94) 25.470 ms 27.250 ms 24.068 ms
5 121.34.242.234 (121.34.242.234) 43.872 ms 27.370 ms 27.434 ms
6 202.97.33.238 (202.97.33.238) 28.123 ms 32.626 ms 166.234 ms
7 202.97.60.146 (202.97.60.146) 27.132 ms 28.780 ms 27.499 ms
8 202.97.58.230 (202.97.58.230) 201.710 ms 201.444 ms 238.237 ms
9 202.97.50.34 (202.97.50.34) 199.869 ms 197.014 ms 204.046 ms
10 xe-5-3-2.edge3.losangeles1.level3.net (4.71.136.109) 413.271 ms 198.743 ms 198.928 ms
11 ae-4-90.edge1.losangeles6.level3.net (4.69.144.208) 196.186 ms
ae-3-80.edge1.losangeles6.level3.net (4.69.144.144) 187.063 ms 385.991 ms
12 te2-5.bbr01.cs01.lax01.networklayer.com (4.26.0.70) 185.496 ms * *
13 ae7.bbr01.cs01.lax01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.166) 203.209 ms * 327.763 ms
14 ae19.bbr01.eq01.dal03.networklayer.com (173.192.18.140) 307.216 ms 307.017 ms 228.832 ms
15 ae0.dar01.sr01.dal01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.211) 226.973 ms
ae0.dar02.sr01.dal01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.253) 219.280 ms 220.052 ms
16 po2.fcr02.sr04.dal01.networklayer.com (66.228.118.182) 332.935 ms 423.559 ms
po1.fcr02.sr04.dal01.networklayer.com (66.228.118.178) 710.695 ms
17 * * *
18 * * *
19 * * *
20 * * *

kite, you should be all set.

--jeremy

Hi Jeremy, I'd like to ask for the same:

tomtomjkw,

We are not blocking any IP in that path.

--jeremy

So there must have been someone else blocking me until today morning. Works now, thanks anyway.

Hi Jeremy, I'd like to ask for unblock x.x.x.x

All set.

--jeremy

Hi

I have got the same problem.I connect LQ through proxy.
Here in Poland /Orange/ I get different IP every 24 hours from the pool 79.163.64.0 - 79.163.127.255.
HTTP and Ping does not work.
Traceroute looks like this:

BratPit, all set.

--jeremy