can i post?

[thool]

Testing

 

[thool]

Not running any ad blockers, but I keep getting an error trying to post in Free Parking.


Browser console:


As far as I know, I'm not "banned" or otherwise restricted. No messages in my inbox. Rebooted machine, cleared cookies, and everything.

 

[Steve W.]

Evidently the answer is "Yes".

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[zimman]

Testing

Congratulations, you did it. We just want to wish you good luck, we're all counting on you.
Zim

 

[thool]

Congratulations, you did it. We just want to wish you good luck, we're all counting on you.
Zim

Actually, the problem still exists. I can post here but not in free parking.

 

[thool]

When I try to create a new post in Free Parking:


Console:


Rebooted, cleared cookies, etc. Is there some sort of text detection that thinks this is a commercial post?

 

[mike93lx]

@Ryan

 

[PCustoms]

When I try to create a new post in Free Parking:


Console:


Rebooted, cleared cookies, etc. Is there some sort of text detection that thinks this is a commercial post?

Try just a blank/dumb test post in free parking

 

[thool]

me about , which allows you to bulk export all your : photos, calendar, email...everything. After it is done collecting what you told it to gather, you'll get an email with a link that takes you to a page with download links for the zip file bundles, which you can then download and do whatever you want. This is very efficient.

 

[thool]

AHA. There seems to be some AI that is interpreting my post as spam. If I post the text, it gets bounced. Here is an image of the text


It looks like something in the second block is tripping it.

 

[Ryan]

Ok. This is strange. I'm looking into it now.

 

[Ryan]

AHA. There seems to be some AI that is interpreting my post as spam. If I post the text, it gets bounced. Here is an image of the text


It looks like something in the second block is tripping it.

It's got something to do with your IP address changing so much. It's tripping Cloudflare. I assume you are using a VPN and this is dynamically changing your IP address. I've seen California, Washington, Finland, Korea, etc... all in the last few days of you logging in.

So, if your VPN is assigning you an IP address that Cloudflare deems as unsafe for whatever reason, it's flagging you.

 

[thool]

It's got something to do with your IP address changing so much. It's tripping Cloudflare. I assume you are using a VPN and this is dynamically changing your IP address. I've seen California, Washington, Finland, Korea, etc... all in the last few days of you logging in.

So, if your VPN is assigning you an IP address that Cloudflare deems as unsafe for whatever reason, it's flagging you.

Weird. I am on my local ISP, so they may be routing me somewhere else for some reason, maybe an outage or a load balancing reason. Right now it is saying I am "in" CA, so that's where my requests look like they're coming from right now.

 

[Ryan]

Weird. I am on my local ISP, so they may be routing me somewhere else for some reason, maybe an outage or a load balancing reason. Right now it is saying I am "in" CA, so that's where my requests look like they're coming from right now.

I've never heard of an ISP changing your IP address that much. If I look at your history for the past few months, your IP address has you in Finland and California more often than New York, but quite often it has you in both Korea and Washington state as well.

Something weird is going on there. I'd put you on a whitelist to solve the problem, but your IP just changes too often.

 

[thool]

It appears that what's happening is that traffic is actually coming from Rochester, but Microsoft's geo IP database thinks my IP address is physically located in CA. So any service that asks for the location of an IP address may be getting inaccurate information.

 

[rlitman]

I've never heard of an ISP changing your IP address that much. If I look at your history for the past few months, your IP address has you in Finland and California more often than New York, but quite often it has you in both Korea and Washington state as well.

Something weird is going on there. I'd put you on a whitelist to solve the problem, but your IP just changes too often.

Could it be an issue with the GeoIP database being out of date? I'd check the ASN of those addresses and see if they have something in common (do a whois lookup on each IP). I normally wouldn't whitelist a whole ASN, but Cloudflare (at least at the level I use it) lets you filter events based on ASN, and that can help diagnose an issue like this down to a specific WAF rule.

I will say that their transition to the new WAF rulesets has been causing me some headaches. The OWASP score set has gotten out of hand.

 

[larry_g]

Are you signed in? I think you have to be to post and see free parking, members only.

lg

 

[thool]

Are you signed in? I think you have to be to post and see free parking, members only.

lg

Yes, see image above. I don't believe you can even see the free parking link, let alone post in it.

 

[thool]

Could it be an issue with the GeoIP database being out of date? I'd check the ASN of those addresses and see if they have something in common (do a whois lookup on each IP). I normally wouldn't whitelist a whole ASN, but Cloudflare (at least at the level I use it) lets you filter events based on ASN, and that can help diagnose an issue like this down to a specific WAF rule.

I will say that their transition to the new WAF rulesets has been causing me some headaches. The OWASP score set has gotten out of hand.

I understood about 4 words you said. Odd that I can post and even reply, because I'm doing it here. But on free parking, there is some other condition in play. I mentioned the content itself disallowed the reply until I cleaned certain parts, so I still have to wonder if some combination of geo + content is triggering some sort of denial.

 

[niget2002]

Run some virus and malware scanners on your system. Make sure you don't have any bots sending all your data to overseas IPs to sniff your traffic.

 

[Old Man Roger]

SkyNet

 

[zimman]

Actually, the problem still exists. I can post here but not in free parking.

I'm unable to comment on that situation right now due to loss of security clearance in 1992.
Good luck tho.
Zim

 

[rlitman]

I understood about 4 words you said. Odd that I can post and even reply, because I'm doing it here. But on free parking, there is some other condition in play. I mentioned the content itself disallowed the reply until I cleaned certain parts, so I still have to wonder if some combination of geo + content is triggering some sort of denial.

It was more for Ryan than you, but Web Application Firewalls will calculate a reputational score about your connection, and block you if you exceed the threshold. Cloudflare recently (in the past few months) changed out the rules that calculate these scores, and the new rulesets have caused headaches for a small subset of my customers.

An ASN is basically a number that identifies a range of IP addresses by the ISP that owns it. It's used to route traffic over the internet, and ever since we started running out of IPv4 addresses, many address ranges have been divided up into some small chunks. 20 years ago, an IP to location database could fit on a few sheets of paper. But as newer and smaller address blocks started dominating, it's a bit of a mess, which is why GeoIP is less accurate today.

Run some virus and malware scanners on your system. Make sure you don't have any bots sending all your data to overseas IPs to sniff your traffic.

That is a very real concern. If you go to https://www.whatismyip.com/ , you should be able to see the ASN your IP is in. Click on that, and it will tell you what ISP you are connecting from, as well as what countries that ASN exists in. If it isn't your ISP, that's a huge red flag!
If it is your ISP, and somehow your ISP shows up in Finland, Korea, Washington and California, then maybe you don't have a problem.

 

[PugetDude]

When I try to create a new post in Free Parking:


Console:


Rebooted, cleared cookies, etc. Is there some sort of text detection that thinks this is a commercial post?

You might be on double-secret probation.

 

[PCustoms]

can i post?

Testing

www.garagejournal.com

 

[bimmerdriver]

Test post

 

[bimmerdriver]

I can post text, but if I try to embed an image, I get the error:

Oops! We ran into some problems.

I'm using chrome with ublock origin. I disabled it and it made no difference.

Any suggestion to find out why this is happening?

 

[Old Man Roger]

I can post text, but if I try to embed an image, I get the error:

Oops! We ran into some problems.

I'm using chrome with ublock origin. I disabled it and it made no difference.

Any suggestion to find out why this is happening?

It might be your post count? I think at one point you had to have a certain amount of posts, not sure if it’s still that way though.

 

[bimmerdriver]

I can post text, but if I try to embed an image, I get the error:

Oops! We ran into some problems.

I'm using chrome with ublock origin. I disabled it and it made no difference.

Any suggestion to find out why this is happening?

It might be your post count? I think at one point you had to have a certain amount of posts, not sure if it’s still that way though.

Thank you for the reply. I think the problem is the size of the image. I tried reducing the size and the error didn't occur.

 

[nadogail]

I am seeing a lot of traffic from you, but very little content. My ISP is, and has been, Spectrum; very few problems.