Debian wiki blocks VPN provider

Willem Mali <[email protected]> Mon, 23 May 2016 16:18:48 +0200

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Hi,

Your wiki blocks the IP address of my VPN provider. Whenever I connect from
my VPN I get the following response:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
<title>403 Forbidden</title>
<h1>Forbidden</h1>
<p>&lt;p&gt;You are not allowed to access this!&lt;/p&gt;</p>

However, when I use my own IP or that of my work, the page loads normally.
The IP address that got the forbidden response was: 104.156.228.110. I also
tried a few of my VPN provider's addresses, but all of them got the same
403 response.

Why is the wiki blocking any IP addresses at all? I don't understand why
the decision has been made to wholesale block access to VPN providers.

Regards,
Willem