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Uncategorized January 12th, 2009
Hmmm after a little bit more checking it looks like Brad and his website was the host of some rather curious pages I wonder if he even knew about them?
http://web.archive.org/web/*/instrumentsolutions.com.au/*
Check out the spammy pages. When I did a bit of a google search for those pages they were spammed out like crazy. Who ever got access to their site had posted spam on their site and then proceeded to gain 100’s of spammy links to those pages
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I sense this was not caused by SMF but a possible hack on my website account [hosted by www.mdwebhosting.com.au ...and this makes it the 3rd time this
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my website keeps locking me out and banning my ip address. this has only been happening in the last week. md writes back and says i have had ‘log in failures more than 3 times’… now i have been able to log in as normal without any issues,however if i go back to my website more than 3times they ban my ip?
its something they have done on thier server but wont admit to it as usual. i am getting sick of them unblocking me as it affects my business email also.
what can i do? this is what they sent me back this morning-
Hi John,
Thanks for writing in. The Ip 58.165.117.79 has been removed from the grip and now you can access the domain without issues. We enabled the firewall settings, in a way to increase the reliability of the server with complete security and blocking of an Ip is not a glitch whereas a kind of security measure, a server is following. So please avoid login failure’s (for more than 3 times) to get rid of the issue in future. For more information, kindly check the logs given below and please revert back for any further clarification.
58.165.117.79 # lfd: 5 (mod_security) login failures from 58.165.117.79 in the last 300 secs – Sat Feb 28 09:14:26 2009
Have a good week end.
Kind Regards,
John, I feel for you I had the same problem. They have no idea how to run their firewall. Rather than learning how to configure it to allow real users decent access to their websites they just block all ip’s from multiple queries, which in the case of a game site like yours or any site with lots of small images/files can cause major interruptions in uploading and accessing the sites.
Other hosts have managed to combine security and use-ability together in a decent hosting package. Just a pity after 12months which is when I complained of the same problem they still haven’t worked out how to use their firewall. I think your only option of getting this problem fixed would be to find another host.