Wordfence

[Kathy Stevens]

Just received multiple messages reading, “Your access to this site has been limited by the site owner”

Looks like Woody has been working  hard with Wordfence overnight.

He has blocked a large number of our VPN’s servers that I have been using to connect to the site.

Moving forward it looks as if I will have extremely limited access to Woody’s site.

 

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[PKCano]

You are being blocked because your IP addresses issued by the VPN are dirty (have been used for spamming, etc). Please read through this thread for an explanation.

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[Microfix]

Kathy Stevens wrote:

Looks like Woody has been working hard with Wordfence overnight.

nope, I’m sure Woody sleeps at night 🙂
Please refrain from using block capitals in thread titles as per general rules

and absolutely not ALL CAPS

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[woody]

I do work day and night, but nevermind.

My guess is that your VPN got hit by a bunch of creeps overnight.

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[F A Kramer]

I am pleased that AskWoody is diligent in keeping the site as secure as it is useful even though this entails some inconvenience for me. It is my experience that an increasing number of websites have begun to block access when a VPN is involved. This includes some financial ones that I would most want to access with a VPN from a “public wifi” location. My guess is that in another year a VPN is going to be nearly useless for any serious work for me but still useful for some internet shopping.

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Microfix

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[Kathy Stevens]

I use NordVPN and had to try six different servers to gain access to the Woody site just now because of Wordfence.

Did not have a similar problems with my bank, credit card companies, Newegg, Amazon, etc.

As a result, I will probably be visiting the Woody site less often.

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[anonymous]

hi, getting access issues here, firefox is throwing up secure connection failed errors PR_END_OF_FILE. Accessing other sites around the web is fine, is there a problem?

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[PKCano]

I’m using Firefox 82.0.2 with AdBloc Plus, Disconnect, and NoScript. Have not had any problems today.

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[Kathy Stevens]

As I indicated back in August we use NordVPN.

This morning I was I was unable to log into AskWoody from the server that we have been using for the last three or four months.

Moved to another server and all is well for now.

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[Chris B]

I am having problems with WordFence blocking my post – it seems they don’t like British Telecom!

[Moderator Edit] moved from the testing forum

Chris
Win 10 Pro x64 Group A

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[Paul T]

We need details about the error message(s) you are getting.
Are you using a VPN?
Read the links at the top of this thread.

cheers, Paul

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[Chris B]

Paul

No VPN – just a normal British Telecom IP address. I have tried it with four different IP addresses, all with th same message (attached). Strangely, I can post here, but cannot start a new question/tread in the Windows 1909 forum.

Cheers

Chris
Win 10 Pro x64 Group A

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[Microfix]

This is for one of the ‘manager‘s to sort out within Wordfence.
Your IP is clean, probably an IP typo when dealing with a toxic IP
Passed this on to the relevant staff.

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[Chris B]

@Microfix Thanks – I’ll keep checking, because I have a problem that I can’t sort  that is getting serious!

Chris

Chris
Win 10 Pro x64 Group A

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[Microfix]

I suggest that you read this post by @Kirsty as the problem was not your IP but what you tried to upload to the site 🙂

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