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I am or was a long-standing member of the Luger forum belonging to Jan Still, and have made numerous posts there.

Yesterday I made a visit and posted there, and made a shortcut to the thread. Today, upon using the shortcut, a message comes up instead saying that the server of that site has blocked my IP address in its firewall, ... in other words, I have been locked out. Anyone know what is going on with that ?

The same shortcut I used yesterday which worked ....

http://luger.gunboards.com/


now gives this result ....
which I am showing as a screen shot copy JPEG in case the link works for other users ....
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...ps198eb60d.jpg

I get the same result from that link as well ...

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...ps198eb60d.jpg

Can you think of any explanation ?

I have the same thing happening to me!

It appears the block was intentionally applied, ... perhaps to pare down the membership rolls and tighten up the qualifications required for status as a participating member ?

I thought I was considered "in" but evidently not.

Well, as you were answering my previous post, I was busily amending it, but your quote caught the previous version.

The error notice, if it is anything to believe, says "this" server meaning the board's server, and then in the same line, says blocked by "this" server's firewall, which I would grammatically regard as referring again to the board's server's firewall. Maybe I am being too literal in my assumption of proper grammar usage by the server's programmers.

Maybe Ed could help ... 'not sure how to contact him ....

I really don't think I've offended anyone, 'don't remember any controversial statements, nor personal remarks, nor arguments .... I'm not generally a confrontational person, and not overly frequent to post.

You probably just have the bad luck to be on a server or ip-range that has been abused for spamming or hacking attempts. It happens, software usually automatically blocks ip-ranges after it considers something an 'attack'.

Just contact gunboards and ask them to release your IP.

Usually there is an email address available :)

Whatever it was that happened, it happened the within 24 hours of my visiting the board there, where I made one short post, to the effect that I had two of the rare type of commercial holsters being described in the thread. ( The type of early holster that has a long thin pocket adjacent to the mag pocket, for a cleaning rod, and a narrow pocket inside the lid next to the tool pocket, for a pin punch.)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...ps2413f621.jpg
That is a spoon inserted into the mag pocket to keep the tool pocket lid open for the photo to show the pin-punch pocket next to the tool pocket.

I was unable to post a photo link at that time, and the next day unable to enter the site at all.

I don't see why that post would be objectionable.

Alx, again: It has nothing to do with your posts on the forum.

The server on which the forum is running just blocked the IP-range of your provider's host, probably due to someone spamming from the same IP-range.

you can notify your own ISP about this as well. They will have to look into it.

Unfortunate coincidence that it occurred that day, or the next.

No it was not an offer to sell, but it is possible that someone, a moderator, took it that way. I had not thought of that, but now you mention the possibility, maybe that is what happened. I was actually on there looking for and at threads about the Lahti, 'just recently bought an M-40. I also noticed the thread on holsters while looking around at stuff, and the mention of a Luger holster that fit that description.

I like them, 'have cleaning rods and pin-punches for each, and I consider one as matched to a specific DWM 1915 which I have shown on the board years ago, and the other is for my DWM 1910.

I've sent a PM to Ed ....

The server screen shot that you posted shows CSF (Configserver Firewall). That runs autonomously and blocks IP-addresses and ranges automatically depending on a fixed set of rules that it uses.

The owner of the server (not the same as the forum) can fix it by releasing your IP.

Would it not be proper procedure for Ed, or the site operator, to request his site's server to release my IP , if anyone is to do that. ?

Seems to me the server would not be willing to unblock someone just because they asked, if the blocking was done according to the set parameters.

I am at a gunshow, an email will work.. you are not banned!@!@!@!@!@!@

Alx, it is actually a simple operation to add your IP to an 'ignore list'. But it is something the server admin must do, it is not something the moderators can do.

I am in confusion as to what that implies; is the ignore list causing the target server to ignore my server's request for access to the Luger board, or to ignore the parameters it was using to block my access ? Either way, I guess it's a moot point, since I can do nothing directly myself.

Not really:

CSF works with a number of lists:
A deny list: if your ip is in that list, you will not get access.
An allow list: if your ip is in that list, it will never be denied and always be allowed.
An ignore list: ip's that are not in the allow list, but because they are in the ignore list, they will never end up in the deny list. This is mainly used for ip's that end up in the deny list by mistake.

Send me that beautiful holster and I will let you back on....

Well, ok and thank you ... 'not sure what to do now, but Ed says he is presently occupied else-ways, but that I am not banned. ..... I'm hoping he will fix it when he has an opportunity.

I mainly wanted to check out the Lahti-specific discussions and knowledge base, as there was some interesting info there.

Jerry, you're too kind, but I don't want to trouble you with the burden, and saddle you with yet another dang holster ... ;-)

Anyway, it's worthless 'cause some German ( Bavarian ) soldier officer guy from WWI wrote his name and unit inside the top flap.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...ps014a7431.jpg

I think the words for Jerry are: carpe diem; which mean seize the day. He is always ready for the opportunity.
In fun, as always.
Jack

Alx, Yes..I understand..I hate GI graffitti. That pretty much ruined my dream..But! Do yourself a favor and take a toothpick and a terry cloth rag and gently remove that green goo (verdegris) from around the base of the closure stud on your tool pouch. It will eat away at the leather, black rot it and your stud will someday lose it's anchor and pull out.

Jack, yes! I am not beyond some blackmail to get precious Luger treasures! Unfortunately in this case I am not qualified to fix anything!

I was of course kidding about the name inside the holster - it was researched on this board in 2006 ( or maybe on the Still Luger board, I used to visit both,) and the member who had access to German army records found that there was indeed an officer with that name in that exact unit, who apparently also had a son in WWII. I think the name gives the holster a fine provenance, and more value as an authentic piece of history.

Those photos were taken back in 2005, right before I cleaned off the verdigris, so that stuff is no longer on the holster, 'been clean for the last 7 years.

I believe this is on your end, but I have sent an email to the actual server admins and see if they know the below server

' beyond me why a server ( whose ? ) is blocking anything, since this board is not getting blocked, and there is not much functional difference as far as I would think.

No other discussion boards are blocked, including Rimfire, Smith & Wesson, Beretta, Ruger etc. boards I have memberships and access on.

o well ...... as Ed says, what the hell ?

I changed what I wrote

I have never heard of webdynamicsstudios.com and sent an email to Vic, who owns gunboards. It is possible that they are the server personnel. I do not know, but this is a weekend and sometimes folks can't help you as fast as you'd like

Thank you for your help, and there is no urgency. It can surely rest easy for Sunday, and maybe then next week something can be done.

I am very puzzled by this, odd name that you are being directed from?

And like you said, other gunsights open?

Remind me later if it doesn't work right (email works best if I am on my phone)

he is not blocked, so it has nothing by his user name

I don't have or use a smart phone. I like my dumb flip phone which never butt-calls and doesn't have a data plan charge. It does do Bluetooth stereo music and hands-free voice, and I'm a photographer, 'use regular cameras, so that's all the tech I need.

troublemaker :rolleyes:

For the last hour or so I've been on Gunboards.com, looking at Lahti posts .....
I'm gratified that works at least.

When I searched "Luger" several posts had links to the Luger board. Links within Gunboards.com. They all gave me the same result, the "blocked" message exactly as shown previously.

I have no, no, IP's blocked right now...

not urgent, but thank you for the concern ...

this is mysterious, but not 'going to crack the earth ....

As an aside, have you run security scans and cleared cookies? Just something to check?

That's a good piece of advice, and I did restore my computer just an hour ago ... still the same problem. I notice that now a message box appears on Gunboards.com , vBulletin Message, saying " Hello we are currently upgrading our system. "

I get the same problem on my laptop ( different computer) , and on another desktop running Linux Maya, not even a Windows or Mac ...

It must be in the servers somewhere ....

Did anyone come up with a solution to this message?

Your connection to this server has been blocked in this server's firewall.
You need to contact the server owner for further information.

Your blocked IP address is 24.151.60.222

This server's hostname is unix55.webdynamicsstudios.com

Under the premise that misery loves company, I have to admit I'm somewhat relieved that I'm not the only one. CJS57's message is identical to mine, except for his IP address.

Maybe there's been a hijack or hack.

Looks like you are victims of an overzealous spam filter. As a server owner it is possible to subscribe to automatically updated lists of possibly harmful ip-ranges. Some anti-spam 'organizations' are a bit too easy when it comes to blocking servers (like Sorbs, which has IP-address 24.151.60.222 listed, btw), resulting in blocks of entire ip-ranges of users who did nothing wrong.

This is an unfortunate side-effect of the hacking/spamming community that also resides on the internet.

You can check if your IP is listed (blacklisted or reported) by using several sources on the internet:

http://whatismyipaddress.com/blacklist-check for example.