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Glenn E. Meyer
11-22-2014, 11:36 AM
That's it. I was at the San Francisco Mariott Marquis for the American Society For Criminology. The hotel's IP seemed blocked. All other gun things worked? That's strange.

Someone on staff hate Mariott?

JV_
11-22-2014, 11:43 AM
We're aggressive with blocking IPs, sometimes there's collateral damage. Next time, when you're connected and have an issue with a banned IP, PM a staff member with the public IP: http://whatismyipaddress.com

Crusader8207
11-22-2014, 03:27 PM
When I have that issue, I just use the app on my phone to access the forum.

abu fitna
11-22-2014, 03:53 PM
I have this happen just about all the time when I am on the road, even in otherwise normal countries that one might not expect an issue from. And between this, and the communist thought control regulations of mandatory censorware in many countries, just about kills my ability to participate in many interesting threads.

Some might call that an improvement (grin).... but on the other hand, it is probably not just me, but a lot of other folks that might just have something worthwhile to say now and again.

JV_
11-22-2014, 05:20 PM
Yup, we're even more ruthless with IP bans from other countries, especially ones with IP addresses allocated from APNIC and AFRINIC.

I'm sorry that it's in inconvenience for you, but there's no denying that the vast majority of our participants are from the US, and the vast majority of our spammers have come from IP addresses outside of the US. We've had spamming incidents that were bad enough that we couldn't delete the accounts fast enough, and we had to shut down registration. For a long while, other than one or two here and there, we're fairly spam free.

If you want, you can always email a staff member (ask for their email via PM), and send us your IP address abroad, we can look at excluding some IPs from the ban.

RJ
11-22-2014, 05:41 PM
Interesting.

This has happened to me, recently, twice.

Once was at the Albuquerque Marriott in September, and this month at a hotel in Landstuhl, Germany.

Kinda freaked me out when it happened; at first I thought I had been spam banned lol.

I totally get why it's necessary; I'm a super mod on a fancy pants German car vBulletin forum and am pretty familiar with dealing with spam bots on an ongoing basis. No problem with how y'all need to handle it.

JV_
11-22-2014, 06:13 PM
Once was at the Albuquerque Marriott in SeptemberWe generally don't ban US IPs in large swaths. It's possible that both Marriotts are allocated out of the same larger blocks.

foxj66
11-22-2014, 11:32 PM
I stayed at Marriott in Toledo last month and it was ip ban as well.

Will_H
11-23-2014, 01:56 AM
For another example, I, too was blocked when staying at a DFW Marriott.

LittleLebowski
11-23-2014, 08:57 AM
We would prefer actionable data such as PMs or emails with the blocked IP addresses, gents. If you don't tell us what the blocked IP address, don't post because we can't help you.

RJ
11-23-2014, 02:56 PM
We would prefer actionable data such as PMs or emails with the blocked IP addresses, gents. If you don't tell us what the blocked IP address, don't post because we can't help you.

Not trying to be argumentative, but:

When this happened to me, I was unable to even access this site, period. As a result, I could not PM a mod or admin using the forum resources. I also didn't happen to know site admin or mod email addresses, since I would need to log in. Kind of a Catch 22, if you see what I mean?

Afterwards, back at home, I could again access the site, but by that point, the opportunity to use ip2location.com or similiar locating tools is kind of lost. Meaning, I can't do what you recommend here, because, well, when it happens, you can't.

Now, granted I'm no interweb guru, and I am probably missing something obvious. If so, what would I do differently?

Glenn E. Meyer
11-23-2014, 03:22 PM
Well, I'm glad it wasn't me. As far as using a phone. When I'm traveling, I use laptop to do a lot of work - so not logging into a site is a pain.

JV_
11-23-2014, 03:38 PM
Does the name Lodgenet ring a bell? I think that's who Marriott uses for guest networks. I'll see if they're blocked.



I also didn't happen to know site admin or mod email addresses

I'll PM you my address.

JV_
11-23-2014, 03:49 PM
I'll see if they're blocked.

Their allocations are (at a minimum):

Networks
LODGENET (NET-204-124-120-0-1) 204.124.120.0 - 204.124.123.255
LODGENET (NET-64-250-231-0-1) 64.250.231.0 - 64.250.231.63
LODGENET (NET-64-250-231-64-1) 64.250.231.64 - 64.250.231.127
LODGENET (NET-64-75-200-192-1) 64.75.200.192 - 64.75.200.255
LODGENET (NET-64-75-249-56-1) 64.75.249.56 - 64.75.249.63
LODGENET (NET-72-21-230-128-1) 72.21.230.128 - 72.21.230.159

None of those are blocked.

RJ
11-23-2014, 03:55 PM
Does the name Lodgenet ring a bell? I think that's who Marriott uses for guest networks. I'll see if they're blocked.




I'll PM you my address.

Thanks, I travel a good bit, and yes that does sound familiar. It may be a Marriott thing.

Unlikely to be the issue in the hotel at Landstuhl, but I won't be back there, most likely.

Genuinely appreciate the help.

Rich

LittleLebowski
11-23-2014, 05:30 PM
If you get blocked, go to http://whatismyipaddress.com and save the output. Email it to yourself and send it to myself or JV via PM from your phone (if it's not on the hotel wireless) or save it to send to us when you're not on a blocked IP address.

RJ
11-24-2014, 10:44 AM
If you get blocked, go to http://whatismyipaddress.com and save the output. Email it to yourself and send it to myself or JV via PM from your phone (if it's not on the hotel wireless) or save it to send to us when you're not on a blocked IP address.

Got it. Thanks. Will do.

Rich