#1 2022-10-06 7:42 pm

AOC18

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Registered: 2021-03-21

Posts: 3

I'm the forum admin and I was ban, what the heck ?

Hi,

I'm the forum admin and I've set up myself SFS weeks ago. Today I've tried to register a new account to test the rules for newcomers, and as soon as I've submitted the captcha, I was banned because my IPv4 is said to be in the database ?
And when I come here, it says my ipv6 is ok.

I'm lost. And I want to test my rules ?

Thanks !

Alex Kemp

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From: Nottingham, England

Registered: 2009-12-02

Posts: 2,422

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Re: I'm the forum admin and I was ban, what the heck ?

Hi AOC18, sorry that you are having problems.

Send me your IPv4 address by PM & I'll double-check for you.

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pedigree

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2008-04-16

Posts: 7,056

Re: I'm the forum admin and I was ban, what the heck ?

if its this IP address that you're coming from now then its not listed in the API

as for the IPv4, I don't have that at hand so you'll either have to PM or test yourself at https://www.stopforumspam.com/api?ip=YOUR.IP4.ADDRESS

sklerder

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Registered: 2012-10-11

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Re: I'm the forum admin and I was ban, what the heck ?

Hi all !

... and as soon as I've submitted the captcha ...

AFAIK, there's no captcha with SFS database, so wouldn't it be an issue with the captcha itself ?

NeoFox

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From: WI, USA, Earth

Registered: 2013-09-26

Posts: 830

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Re: I'm the forum admin and I was ban, what the heck ?

*sniffs*

i think theres someone using SFS as firewall.

*grabs pitchfork*

AOC18

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Registered: 2021-03-21

Posts: 3

Re: I'm the forum admin and I was ban, what the heck ?

Thanks for all your answers !

Here the result of my IPv4 test :
<response success="true">
    <type>ip</type>
    <appears>no</appears>
    <frequency>0</frequency>
</response>

So I don't understand what happened. And I can see in the history of the events of the forum, other ipv4 were banned from the forum, and, like here the result is the same...

For the captcha, I'm using hCaptcha at the registration step.

pedigree

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2008-04-16

Posts: 7,056

Re: I'm the forum admin and I was ban, what the heck ?

are you using a proxy service such as cloudflare/cloudfront where you haven't configured the code to read the correct real client ip?  PM me details and I can look at the data

AOC18

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Registered: 2021-03-21

Posts: 3

Re: I'm the forum admin and I was ban, what the heck ?

No CDN, no proxy, nothing special. Just a basic web hosting service. And the ipv4 is really one of my provider.

I send you the stuff.

cyrker

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Registered: 2022-10-30

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Re: I'm the forum admin and I was ban, what the heck ?

And then ?