Blocked in the Most Retarded Fashion

New Member Joined: May 21, 2007 Posts: 13

Here's the back story, I was History Hunting for a site I'd been on today with a similar title to my website. I click on one of the websites, it's mine, but it accesses a module I have turned off. I end up being blocked by my own website Embarassed

Genius!
Anyway to remove this block via FTP?

Here's the message (the more important bits)

Quote:

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Remote Address: **.*.**.***
Client IP: none
Forwarded For: none
Date Blocked: 2007-05-21 @ 21:12:31 CDT GMT -0500
Block expires: Permanent

Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 8:29 pm

What was the reason why you were blocked?

Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 8:30 pm

Gremmie wrote:

What was the reason why you were blocked?

enelth wrote:

I click on one of the websites, it's mine, but it accesses a module I have turned off.

I disabled a couple of modules. The module I believe that got me blocked was Advertising.

((Sorry if I miss a few letters on some words... My keyboard is starting to die and I type kinda fast, so I don't catch some of the errors sometimes.))

Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 9:09 pm

If you have FTP (and PHPmyadmin) access you can probably restore your access by removing the IP from the blocked_ip's table and also by editing it out of the htaccess file.

The table should be your_prefix_nsnst_blocked_ips.

Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 9:21 pm

Thank you very much. That got rid of the IP Block.

Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 7:15 am

I just meant that Sentinel usually displays a "reason" for the block, and that was missing from the text you posted earlier from Sentinel. I was not aware Sentinel would block anyone for accessing a disabled module.

Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 9:26 am

There's always something you can learn Razz

Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 9:38 am

Humor me, what was the reason Sentinel displayed?

Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 12:11 pm

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Remote Address: **.*.**.***
Client IP: none
Forwarded For: none
Date Blocked: 2007-05-21 @ 21:12:31 CDT GMT -0500
Block expires: Permanent

Thats all it gave me.

Lemmie reban myself real quick.

It gives me the error for accessing just the Admin section while logged out. k

You have been blocked from entering this site.

You have attempted to improperly access the admin area of this site.

All of the following information has been gathered to assist the webmaster should this need to be reported to local or federal law enforcement.

If you think this is a mistake you can contact the site webmaster at not4u(at)not4u(dot)com.

Be SURE to include the following information in any email!
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Remote Address: **.*.**.***
Client IP: none
Forwarded For: none
Date Blocked: 2007-05-22 @ 13:07:22 CDT GMT -0500
Block expires: Permanent

Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 5:59 am

enelth, what was the link (URL) that you were trying to access? Did it have modules.php in it or admin.php?

Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 9:53 am

admin.php?op=modules

Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 6:15 pm

enelth, ok, it sounds to me like you have an admin link on your website somewhere that is showing when an anonymous user (like a search engine bot) picked up and has now cached with the search engine cache. If you are not logged in as admin (i.e., the admin cookie is now destroyed), you WILL get blocked every time by NS. This is working as designed.

You say up front that you happened upon, while searching a search engine or on someone else's site, that a link was returned that had admin.php?op=something or other in it. That should NEVER be the case.

Where did you find that link? Search engine cache? If yes, then your site has this link somewhere, or had it previously, and it shouldn't. You need to find out where it is and remove it from being displayed to the anonymous user. If no, and this is someone else's site, why the heck are they linking to your administration area? Ask them to get rid of that link.

Sorry this is so lengthy. Unfortunately, I am not going to be around the forums for quite awhile starting tomorrow, so I am just trying to get as much info out there as possible.

Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 10:17 pm

No, I was History Hunting and clicked the main Administration Page

History Hunting is when you hit Ctrl H and go thru the pages you've been to looking for a specific one.

Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 7:34 am

Okay that sounds like it blocked you because the cookie check failed, not because you are accessing a disabled module. If that is case, it is working as designed.

Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 2:14 pm

enelth wrote:

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Remote Address: **.*.**.***
Client IP: none
Forwarded For: none
Date Blocked: 2007-05-21 @ 21:12:31 CDT GMT -0500
Block expires: Permanent

Thats all it gave me.

Lemmie reban myself real quick.

It gives me the error for accessing just the Admin section while logged out. k

You have been blocked from entering this site.

You have attempted to improperly access the admin area of this site.

All of the following information has been gathered to assist the webmaster should this need to be reported to local or federal law enforcement.

If you think this is a mistake you can contact the site webmaster at not4u(at)not4u(dot)com.

Be SURE to include the following information in any email!
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Remote Address: **.*.**.***
Client IP: none
Forwarded For: none
Date Blocked: 2007-05-22 @ 13:07:22 CDT GMT -0500
Block expires: Permanent

I said that -_-

Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 5:08 pm

I'm sorry, I thought you were still confused why it was banning you. Apologies.

Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 5:35 pm

lol no problem