New Site Update Bans lots of IPs

[palmermd]

I'm still blocked from work access. Something to do with the cloud server. Sad. Those of us legitimately want on are blocked, and the spammers are still getting through

[wxxyz]

Could some of you guys PM me the IP addresses you are getting blocked from? Something isn't working right and I'd like to see what rules are blocking you still

[LeftieBiker]

Meanwhile, I got slammed with spam last night. About 15-20 posts. Pakistan and India, when I checked.

[palmermd]

Could some of you guys PM me the IP addresses you are getting blocked from? Something isn't working right and I'd like to see what rules are blocking you still

I'm on vacation until Tuesday. I'll reply then.

[palmermd]

Blocked from 65.255.41.x

Access Denied!

Your access to this page was denied because your IP address is recognised as belonging to a cloud service, and
connecting to this website from cloud services isn't permitted by the website owner.
ID: 1567609214-635883-2022337201
Script Version: CIDRAM v1.14.0
Date/Time: Wed, 04 Sep 2019 15:00:14 +0000
IP Address: 65.255.41. x
Signatures Count: 1
Signatures Reference: 65.255.32.0 /20
Why Blocked: Cloud service ("Zenlayer Inc", L9813 F2, [US])!
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0
Reconstructed URI: http://mynissanleaf.com/

Generated by CIDRAM V1.14.0

[wxxyz]

Blocked from 65.255.41.x

Access Denied!

Your access to this page was denied because your IP address is recognised as belonging to a cloud service, and
connecting to this website from cloud services isn't permitted by the website owner.
ID: 1567609214-635883-2022337201
Script Version: CIDRAM v1.14.0
Date/Time: Wed, 04 Sep 2019 15:00:14 +0000
IP Address: 65.255.41. x
Signatures Count: 1
Signatures Reference: 65.255.32.0 /20
Why Blocked: Cloud service ("Zenlayer Inc", L9813 F2, [US])!
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0
Reconstructed URI: http://mynissanleaf.com/

Generated by CIDRAM V1.14.0

Hi I've whitelisted your IP address, please try again

[LeftieBiker]

News from the spam front: after going back to pre-upgrade levels for a few days, the spam is now virtually gone. Whatever you did last seems to have worked.

[palmermd]

Blocked from 65.255.41.x

Access Denied!

Your access to this page was denied because your IP address is recognised as belonging to a cloud service, and
connecting to this website from cloud services isn't permitted by the website owner.
ID: 1567609214-635883-2022337201
Script Version: CIDRAM v1.14.0
Date/Time: Wed, 04 Sep 2019 15:00:14 +0000
IP Address: 65.255.41. x
Signatures Count: 1
Signatures Reference: 65.255.32.0 /20
Why Blocked: Cloud service ("Zenlayer Inc", L9813 F2, [US])!
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0
Reconstructed URI: http://mynissanleaf.com/

Generated by CIDRAM V1.14.0

Hi I've whitelisted your IP address, please try again

I just tried again this afternoon to check, and it seems I'm able to get online from work again....Thanks!

[2k1Toaster]

My connections are still banned. Banning VPNs is not a good way of doing it. Only way I can get on now is to hotspot with my phone. Otherwise all my connections go through various VPNs.

The forums I moderated with MUCH more traffic we just had all new posts from new members go into a queue to be approved by a human moderator. That simple. No blanket bans of any kind. With a few moderators in each timezone, no post went more than a couple hours before it was posted. And once you became trusted you were approved and could automatically post. If you tried to post spam, your user id and email were blocked (useless, but it helps log in the forum database). New users also could not post links or images.

[LeftieBiker]

The forums I moderated with MUCH more traffic we just had all new posts from new members go into a queue to be approved by a human moderator. That simple.

This has been suggested, believe me. It wouldn't stop all of the spammers who sneak in here, though.