#1 2019-07-08 9:23 am

thinguyenhalu

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If you have your site behind a proxy

Hi guys
I'm getting this message
If you have your site behind a proxy (ie CloudFlare) then you must ensure that you have
your server and site correctly configured.

I cant get a new api Key. I'm not behind a proxy. Any idea why I'm getting this?
Jin

Papa Parrot

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Re: If you have your site behind a proxy

I think you need to find a better ISP , this just scratches the surface:
https://www.mywot.com/scorecard/poneytelecom.eu
And
https://www.systemtek.co.uk/2017/08/blo … elecom-eu/

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Alex Kemp

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Re: If you have your site behind a proxy

$ whois -h whois.cymru.com " -v 163.172.81.30"
AS      | IP               | BGP Prefix          | CC | Registry | Allocated  | AS Name
12876   | 163.172.81.30    | 163.172.0.0/16      | GB | ripencc  | 1992-02-14 | AS12876, FR
$ whois AS12876
organisation:   ORG-TT1-RIPE
org-name:       ONLINE S.A.S.

ONLINE S.A.S.

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Oblivian

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Re: If you have your site behind a proxy

https://www.stopforumspam.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=7143

Quite busy forum acct since saturday around the world. Multiple language posts - dug from histor it seems

Alex Kemp

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Re: If you have your site behind a proxy

Thanks Oblivian. No spam so cannot report to DB, but banned.

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Papa Parrot

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Re: If you have your site behind a proxy

Good catch, I did not notice it was a copy/paste job, and when I checked the IP it is/was not listed, but when I checked the hosting/ISP, I had my suspicions, but still , some one that did not know better could have been using the  ISP/hosting, and it was pretty obvious, that would be why they could not get a API key, .....thanks Oblivian

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Oblivian

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Re: If you have your site behind a proxy

Unless people have a very good reason (or know how), there shouldn't a reason to be coming from an IP on a cloud computing or VPS cluster.
I mean, remoting into a PC on the cloud to come back and do text based forum browsing from a different IP range? Resource overkill

Find it almost always means they have a server spun up doing bad things. Real users at home wouldn't bother.

NeoFox

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Re: If you have your site behind a proxy

I mean maybe...I hate to play devil's advocate but I do have a lot of friends who are ultra-paranoid and VPN for just about all things online lately. I don't know if it's a good practice to automatically assume VPN = bad guy anymore. Especially with chrome now logging all the things and literally tasked to reporting back to google now.

That being said, good catch of course.

Papa Parrot

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Re: If you have your site behind a proxy

Well, even though similar to VPN's, not everyone using a tor-browser is a bad guy, but some times it is necessary to  keep the doors locked, so the bad guys don't just walk in.  I was trying out this tor-browser, and it will be fine for my purpose, but just now found out even though I logged in OK, I could not post,...the IP the tor-browser used is listed here. Tell your paranoid buddies , they will just have to learn to be upfront and go in the front door, after the security guard approves and let's them in.

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