What the f*ck happened?!?
Why would my IP address be blacklisted?
Blacklisted from the BedroomProducerBlog!?
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- KVRAF
- 4314 posts since 31 Oct, 2004
I went to the Bedroom Producer Blog to check out the new freeware and got this message:
What the f*ck happened?!?
Why would my IP address be blacklisted?
What the f*ck happened?!?
Why would my IP address be blacklisted?
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- KVRian
- 880 posts since 26 Oct, 2011
Well, most simple explanation I can come up with is that you have a dynamic IPv4 address and you got assigned one that has been banned from there due to actions of someone else who had temporarily the said address. There has been a shortage of IPv4 addresses for a long time so your ISP often does so that it tunnels every unique client into one of the available addresses instead of assigning a static one to every client (also known as NAT). Your ISP knows who is connected and when to what, but unfortunately same cannot be said for a site such as that, unless they take some extra measures to make sure that doesn't happen (I'm not entirely sure how it's possible, but I'm sure there are ways to do it, just that not everyone is necessarily aware of this).
The switch to IPv6 will solve these kinds of problems, but it hasn't yet really been universal in any way. For example, while my ISP (I use mobile prepaid) has done the switch, it hasn't insofar actually applied to its mobile prepaid clients; we're still stuck with IPv4.
The switch to IPv6 will solve these kinds of problems, but it hasn't yet really been universal in any way. For example, while my ISP (I use mobile prepaid) has done the switch, it hasn't insofar actually applied to its mobile prepaid clients; we're still stuck with IPv4.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 4314 posts since 31 Oct, 2004
You must be right because now I can access the website without any problems. This is the first time something like that happens to me, and I'm a heavy internet user (I spent most of my days on the internet).Functional wrote:Well, most simple explanation I can come up with is that you have a dynamic IPv4 address and you got assigned one that has been banned from there due to actions of someone else who had temporarily the said address. There has been a shortage of IPv4 addresses for a long time so your ISP often does so that it tunnels every unique client into one of the available addresses instead of assigning a static one to every client (also known as NAT). Your ISP knows who is connected and when to what, but unfortunately same cannot be said for a site such as that, unless they take some extra measures to make sure that doesn't happen (I'm not entirely sure how it's possible, but I'm sure there are ways to do it, just that not everyone is necessarily aware of this).
The switch to IPv6 will solve these kinds of problems, but it hasn't yet really been universal in any way. For example, while my ISP (I use mobile prepaid) has done the switch, it hasn't insofar actually applied to its mobile prepaid clients; we're still stuck with IPv4.
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- KVRian
- 880 posts since 26 Oct, 2011
Well, it's just a statistical chance based on many factors. Just think about what you need: a person who gets banned from a site and a person who uses the same ISP, same sort of network provided by that ISP, visits the same site while being assigned with the very same IP address that got banned. So yeah, the chances of this happening get very low when you consider that we're talking about a rather obscure site. But on the other hand, obscure sites are the ones where no additional measures exist to prevent these sort of situations.
With that being said, if this happens ever again, you might want to contact the website owner with your IP information and explain to the person your situation, so they probably will whitelist the IP address again because it is dynamic and therefor they can't achieve much by banning it permanently.
And that has also happened to me once, despite me being as well a heavy internet user. Its a rare situation and gets rarer by the day due to IPv6.
With that being said, if this happens ever again, you might want to contact the website owner with your IP information and explain to the person your situation, so they probably will whitelist the IP address again because it is dynamic and therefor they can't achieve much by banning it permanently.
And that has also happened to me once, despite me being as well a heavy internet user. Its a rare situation and gets rarer by the day due to IPv6.
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- KVRAF
- 25849 posts since 20 Jan, 2008 from a star near where you are