Spammer IP addresses denied and blocked - your thoughts on blocking

[Twisted]

And you blocked mine as well


Error 403 FORBIDDEN



You may be blocked OR are looking for a page in error.

IP addresses from China, Russian Federation and Ukraine are blocked from using this site due to heavy spam issues.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

You requested this address: /gsboard/index.php?action=pm;sa=send;f=inbox;pmsg=200350;quote;u=11426

You were refered from: (none)

Your IP addres is: 121.xxx.xxx.xxx

Your browser is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.12 (KHTML, like Gecko) Maxthon/3.0 Chrome/18.0.966.0 Safari/535.12

Server is: gstwins.com

Redirect status code is: 403

I get the same error message when I try to access the forum off my phone. Works on my PC though.

[codajastal]

Didn't work on pc, phone or laptop


Sent from my iPad

[Calpantera]

John how are you looking up the IP ranges to block?
I show 121.x.x.x as Oz and not China
Are you looking in the IANA listing for the proper whois server or using a third party?

[yamahonkawazuki]

John how are you looking up the IP ranges to block?
I show 121.x.x.x as Oz and not China
Are you looking in the IANA listing for the proper whois server or using a third party?

i ran this number via cods post in browser and got china as well

18.0.966.0
http://myip.ms/view/comp_browseragents/1127/Mozilla_5_0_Windows_NT_5_1_AppleWebKit_535_12_KHTML_like_Gecko_Maxthon_3_3_4_2000_Chrome_18_0_966_0_Safari_535_12.html

[john]

No more blocked addresses.  I have been getting them from online lists that clearly are not well done -despite claims they are constantly updated.

So for now nobody should be blocked.  Seems like the Russian and Ukraine addresses were not the issue, but seems like the Chinese pool is fubar for sure.

Sorry for the problems!!!!

ps. one list I found for China blocked my ip address yesterday.  I dumped that list and tried this site: http://okean.com/thegoods.html -they suck too

[Calpantera]

Ya its always a battle, I adminned several gaming servers over the years and they were always under attack. Eventually we had to create custom tools to block them..

John the authority for Asia-Pacific network addresses is APNIC and they have a whois here if you ever need to check

http://wq.apnic.net/apnic-bin/whois.pl

You will not get any false positives from them for sure as they are the ones that actually dole out the adresses

[steezin_and_wheezin]

Bump, i'm still getting a 403 error on my work comp. Any help moderators?

[john]

PM me the IP.  I will release it.  No prob.

I updated the 403 page to include an email address to request unblocking.  The IP I need will be on that page.

[steezin_and_wheezin]

No ip/email on my error screen. Here's what i get. I'll check back after lunch to see if the update goes into effect. 'Preciate it John

[john]

Well that's interesting and not the 403 page I serve. 

But anyway, PM me your IP address.  Lets rule that out first.