[Scarred Sun]

If you have been having issues with connecting to the forums, I have now whitelisted the following ISPs for use on the server. If you have issues of spottiness (or have to have this message relayed to you), let me know.

Alice DSL
Corbina
Oi
Orange Slovensko
Telecom Italia
Tiscali
VTR

This should take care of the majority of issues that were arising.

[nineko]

Is it a coincidence that three of those ISPs are Italian?

[Chibisteven]

Is it a coincidence that three of those ISPs are Italian?

Must be alot of Italian bots on the internet.

[Rokkan]

WHEW. Thanks a lot!

[STHX]

All right. Tested for some hours and everything is working great. Other guys I asked also confirm they can visit the forums with no problems at all.

Many thanks Scarred Sun. You're truly the best.

[Jack Wallace]

Nice. Thanks Scarred Sun!

[Ashram]

Out of curiosity, would that have anything to do with this:

Warning: fopen(/home/sonicret/domains/forums.sonicretro.org/public_html/zbblock/vault/NOLOOKUP.CSV) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/sonicret/domains/forums.sonicretro.org/public_html/zbblock/zbblock.php on line 188

Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/sonicret/domains/forums.sonicretro.org/public_html/zbblock/zbblock.php on line 190

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/sonicret/domains/forums.sonicretro.org/public_html/zbblock/zbblock.php on line 191

[AamirM]

Apart from from being at top on each page, I get the above errors when clicking on Topic links directly from main board page and when PMing and it nothing else.

[Metal Knuckles]

I got those messages when attempting to log in from the index page.

[nineko]

Is it normal that I see this:

Hourly registration attempts exceeded!
Press your back button and try something else.

When I try to see this page, which worked fine until... 10 minutes ago?

edit: interestingly enough, the page itself seems to work fine, even when the parameters are given in the POST format. But if I try to feed the parameters in the GET format, I get that error message.

edit2: if this is not related to the "Firewall ISPs cleared" topic, please split in a new thread in the Site Affairs forum. I somehow assumed it was related but maybe it's not.

edit3: now it works again. Trash altogether, I guess :|

edit4: it does it again so I don't know what to think :|

This post has been edited by nineko: 10 February 2011 - 02:13 PM

[Metal Knuckles]

Problem's still happening.

[Scarred Sun]

PLEASE DO NOT REPORT A PROBLEM AS "STILL HAPPENING" UNTIL I SAY IT PROBABLY ISN'T STILL HAPPENING

[nineko]

Well, I am getting a different thing, so maybe I should report it anyway:

Warning: unlink(/home/sonicret/domains/forums.sonicretro.org/public_html/zbblock/vault/registration_attempts.csv) [function.unlink]: Permission denied in /home/sonicret/domains/forums.sonicretro.org/public_html/zbblock/zbblock.php on line 262

[Scarred Sun]

THIS JUST IN

WE HAVE WON THE WAR AGAINST SPAMBOTS

MS. SUN HAS TORN DOWN THIS WALL

Now the ~fun~ effort of cleaning out the thousands of residual bots begins!