Iran IP's are banned

Sefid par · 09-12-2016, 02:05 AM

It's a long time that Iran IP's are banned by LQ. The LQ doesn't even open from these IP's. (Now I've opened LQ using IP changer, Which is not a good way to access forum)
I've asked Mr.Jeremy, the domain owner and he told me:

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While we don't block entire countries, we do block individual
IPs/netblocks due to abuse issues.

But, It would be appreciated that if I know what's exactly the problem, "abuse".
In fact I used LQ many times. As you know the default forum for Slackware is LQ's forum.

Would you mind help me with that?

jamison20000e · 09-12-2016, 05:05 AM

I'd guess that it's automated so if "threats" come from certain IPs they'd get blocked?

rtmistler · 09-12-2016, 07:40 AM

Sounds like your service provider and not the country. Perhaps see if there are alternative service providers you could choose.

dugan · 09-12-2016, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Sefid par

But, It would be appreciated that if I know what's exactly the problem, "abuse".

Spam would be a reasonable guess.

jefro · 09-12-2016, 08:05 PM

Pretty sure I'd agree that automated type things force this issue. Who or whom is behind those we will be polite and say we don't know.

Could be that some members got into heated words.

jeremy · 09-12-2016, 08:26 PM

The most likely culprit for a temporary IPs/netblock blockage is obvious automated persistent spam attacks.

--jeremy

rokytnji · 09-12-2016, 08:29 PM

So, how does skype work for you?

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Iran – mixed reports about Skype being available. Seems the connectivity is often interrupted, making the service unusable.

jamison20000e · 09-12-2016, 08:50 PM

Is definitely cool that you found your way here tho...

Sefid par · 09-15-2016, 06:22 AM

Thanks a lot for all your sincere replies.

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Sounds like your service provider and not the country. Perhaps see if there are alternative service providers you could choose.

I have changed my service provider and it was the same for them.

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The most likely culprit for a temporary IPs/netblock blockage is obvious automated persistent spam attacks.

I think its more than temporary, Or maybe the spam is continued.

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I think its maybe because of cracked software. I like to find out!

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So, how does skype work for you?

I haven't used skype for a long time. After changing dependency to pulse audio.

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Is definitely cool that you found your way here tho...

Thanks a lot for welcoming us. I really feared that LQ doesn't like us to use it.
In fact, I think this problem would be from somethings like software cracks

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Also my IP range is now: 151.245.170.0/24

jeremy · 09-15-2016, 08:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Sefid par

Thanks a lot for welcoming us. I really feared that LQ doesn't like us to use it.
In fact, I think this problem would be from somethings like software cracks

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Also my IP range is now: 151.245.170.0/24

For the record, everyone is welcome to use LQ. I'm not entirely clear what you mean by "problem would be from somethings like software cracks", but I can confirm the IP range you listed isn't being blocked by us.

--jeremy

Sefid par · 09-15-2016, 08:59 AM

Thanks a lot Mr. Jeremy. I heard that some software cracks, which are mostly used in windows computers, do dos attacks to servers.
If you tested the IP, Then, I got a traceroute to LQ. But I don't understand it well:

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traceroute -m 100 linuxquestions.org
traceroute to linuxquestions.org (75.126.162.205), 100 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1)  2.848 ms  4.004 ms  5.038 ms
 2  94-183-224-2.shatel.ir (94.183.224.2)  46.245 ms  49.458 ms  52.820 ms
 3  94-183-224-1.shatel.ir (94.183.224.1)  55.005 ms  57.907 ms  60.386 ms
 4  172.19.4.233 (172.19.4.233)  79.748 ms  79.237 ms  81.734 ms
 5  172.18.205.193 (172.18.205.193)  87.497 ms  89.700 ms  94.156 ms
 6  172.18.205.237 (172.18.205.237)  92.817 ms  55.753 ms  57.476 ms
 7  85.15.0.1 (85.15.0.1)  62.716 ms  63.826 ms  65.041 ms
 8  172.18.196.25 (172.18.196.25)  72.024 ms  71.192 ms  74.204 ms
 9  172.18.196.102 (172.18.196.102)  80.712 ms  79.821 ms  82.634 ms
10  10.10.53.233 (10.10.53.233)  85.461 ms  59.957 ms  62.704 ms
11  * * *
12  * ix-et-8-3-0-514.tcore2.FNM-Frankfurt.as6453.net (195.219.87.53)  370.013 ms  370.017 ms
13  ffm-b1-link.telia.net (62.115.57.29)  369.805 ms  369.739 ms  369.698 ms
14  * * *
15  * ash-bb3-link.telia.net (62.115.139.43)  369.502 ms ash-bb3-link.telia.net (62.115.139.41)  369.149 ms
16  * * *
17  softlayer-ic-307612-ash-b1.c.telia.net (62.115.47.230)  388.677 ms *  388.601 ms
18  * * *
19  * * *
20  * ae13.bbr02.eq01.dal03.networklayer.com (173.192.18.134)  465.388 ms  465.380 ms
21  ae1.dar01.sr01.dal01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.255)  465.324 ms  465.225 ms ae1.dar02.sr01.dal01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.213)  465.203 ms
22  po2.fcr02.sr04.dal01.networklayer.com (66.228.118.182)  465.185 ms po1.fcr02.sr04.dal01.networklayer.com (66.228.118.178)  465.145 ms po2.fcr02.sr04.dal01.networklayer.com (66.228.118.182)  465.008 ms
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Sefid par · 09-17-2016, 07:39 AM

What should we do now??

Should I ask networklayer.com?

rtmistler · 09-19-2016, 07:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Sefid par

What should we do now??

Should I ask networklayer.com?

Have you examined whether or not you have difficulties getting to other sites? Or is LQ unique? Not sure LQ can do much more than any other site if there are troubles with either an ISP or a geographical region.

jeremy · 09-19-2016, 01:12 PM

It appears our network provider may be blocking some portion of IP space "that originate from countries that are subject to U.S. trade and economic sanctions". I'm looking into it further now.

--jeremy

Sefid par · 09-21-2016, 07:32 AM

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Originally Posted by rtmistler

Have you examined whether or not you have difficulties getting to other sites? Or is LQ unique? Not sure LQ can do much more than any other site if there are troubles with either an ISP or a geographical region.

As Jeremy sais, there are other sites too, like Mathworks (They are many) But they write something that they are to banning.

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Originally Posted by jeremy

It appears our network provider may be blocking some portion of IP space "that originate from countries that are subject to U.S. trade and economic sanctions". I'm looking into it further now.

--jeremy

I hope that your network let us use LQ. LQ is about Linux that is somewhere for having understanding and friendship.
How ever US tried ban the most profiting websites. I think most of them are from Oracle (Like android and the websites from Google).
But anyway, Linux is different from all.
The most important reason that I started using Linux was because of the avoidance from banning (about 5 years ago). Which is told in GPL.