Locked out via WiFi

[Speed99]

Yo Big C. Yesterday when I was posting, I kept getting an error trying to submit the post. Not exactly sure what happened but it appeared to be related to doing a copy and paste of some text from an email. 
 

Since then I can’t open the board from my home wifi connection but everything is fine from a cellular connection. Is it possible that my error triggered the forum software to block my IP. Maybe thinking it was an attack?

[IcePrick]

I had the same thing happen several months ago.  Carlos looked into it, but I don't know if it was ever resolved - it's likely deep in the forum software.  Guess not by your post.  Based on his recommendation, I found that never pasting as rich text was a good preventative, but the error has popped up a couple times since without even pasting anything.  

 

When the error has popped up, I have cut the entire post, then paste the entire thing back in, look for the "paste as plain text?" prompt and select that.  If you keep trying to repost without "fixing" whatever it thinks is "wrong", you'll get bounced.

 

My guess is the same, that the software thinks it is an attack and locks out that IP.  I did the same workaround by jumping on my hotspot (and not trying to post the same content).  IIRC, it was 48 hours before I could post with my original IP.

[SwampNut]

There is a problem with posting certain types of formatted text.  It is triggering a protection mechanism.  I've failed to find exactly what.  I still have plans to get this all moved to a new server with a MUCH newer version of...well everything.  Including outsourced web protection which is super far from my strength and familiarity.

 

I will go look at and remove IP blacklists, let's see what happens.

 

[Speed99]

Resolved. Thank you sir