IP Address Ban?

[MartinT]

A person trying to join our forum has received a banned IP address warning.  I have checked our banned members' list and that address does not appear.  Would another forum have banned it?  IP address is 54.84.18.39

https://theaudiostandard.net

[Michael]

Hi,

What is the exact wording of the ban?

Members that have been IP banned from other forums does not affect bans on your forum.

[MartinT]

I've attached their screenshot here.

[Michael]

Hi,

That is a Cloudflare ProBoards security ban. This usually indicates that the IP was banned by our system, usually for malicious or bot activity.

Taking a closer look this looks like a commercial VPN. I would suggest to the member that they don't use a VPN to access ProBoards, or switch to a different identity that has not been banned.

[MartinT]

Ok, thanks, I'll pass that on.

[raccoon1]

This happened to me this morning, but I don't use a VPN on my computer. My phone can log into my board just fine, but I don't know how to post mobile. Is there any way to fix this? Should I just leave it alone?

[raccoon1]

Apr 8, 2021 5:20:15 GMT -8 raccoon1 said:

This happened to me this morning, but I don't use a VPN on my computer. My phone can log into my board just fine, but I don't know how to post mobile. Is there any way to fix this? Should I just leave it alone?

Update, it turned out that the internet at my apartment complex was the reason why I couldn't get on. Switched to a hotspot and it was fine.

[blogoklahoma]

I just got word this afternoon this happened to one of our members too (okpreps.boards.net).   I figured it was a system ban and asked them to try from a different machine and IP #.   Was this a new thing added by Cloudflare or was this just bound to eventually happen?

[Michael]

Apr 13, 2021 11:01:05 GMT -8 blogoklahoma said:

I just got word this afternoon this happened to one of our members too (okpreps.boards.net).   I figured it was a system ban and asked them to try from a different machine and IP #.   Was this a new thing added by Cloudflare or was this just bound to eventually happen?

Hi,

In the future please create a new thread for your issue as it may not be related to this thread.

I looked into this further and it looks like a security IP ban. Can you have the member restart their phone to see if it resolves the issue for them?

[peter3499]

Probably this could be happen because of your cookies that are stored in your device. So you can try for signup in private window or in other device