Why are users getting blocked???

registered · Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 2:13 pm

I have had a couple unregistered users getting blocked in the past few days with the following messages:

Quote:

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Remote Address: 173.34.103.33
Client IP: none
Forwarded For: none
Date Blocked: 2009-04-17 @ 17:43:44 PDT GMT -0700
Block expires: Permanent

Quote:

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; OfficeLiveConnector.1.3; OfficeLivePatch.0.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30618)
Remote Address: 173.132.92.182
Client IP: none
Forwarded For: none
Date Blocked: 2009-04-17 @ 17:43:44 PDT GMT -0700
Block expires: Permanent

The remote addresses were different and I find the dates listed as curious. They are not blocked in either the individual address blocking list or the range blocked areas. Nor are they in the .htaccess file.

Any ideas as to what is happening??? I am baffled as of right now. Confused

Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 10:30 pm

Looks like they are the same 173.132.xxx.xxx network, could be the "Invalid IP" situation

Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 10:45 pm

According to Domain Tools Whois Lookup (http://whois.domaintools.com/), the 173.132.92.182 IP is Sprint PCS (NetRange: 173.128.0.0 - 173.149.255.255) which I take as being a valid IP.

The same goes for the 173.34.103.33 IP address which is Rogers Cable Communications Inc. in Canada (NetRange: 173.32.0.0 - 173.35.255.255).

Or am I missing something here Question

Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 12:10 am

If you do a search for Invalid IP you will see what Evaders is talking about.

What reason if NS giving for blocking them?

Additionally you should also consider upgrading.