Re: Debian wiki blocks VPN provider
Steve McIntyre <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.debian.devel.www |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 04:18:48PM +0200, Willem Mali wrote: >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><p>You are not allowed to access this!</p></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. That netblock was blocked due to spam attacks, but that was a few months ago so I've removed the block again. >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. It's nothing specific to VPN providers - it's just unfortunate that most VPN providers ignore spam complaints and so legitimate users get hit by the filtering and blocking that follows.