IP Blocked

Hello, i would login to linuxcnc forum by now i get the message ip blocked.... to many failed login requests...

i know my login user and pw...

And i dont have failed requests...

Whats the problem? Can you delete this ip block please?

 

My IP is also blocked somehow, if my account would have been blocked temporary I could understand the mechanism, but I could still login with a proxy. I suspect the IP blocking function is not configured properly or too aggressive.

I do have a public IP from which I'm the only user so I don't understand why my IP is blocked ar the moment. I'd this once before when I was also visiting the site from Linux, not sure if it was Firefox or Chromium, but I suspect that something gives a false trigger to the IP block or something like that. I wasn't even trying to login and I it's very unlikely my Linux box got hacked and they're trying to login at this site via my connection.

This is a bit confusing, you do need a public IP address to connect to the www. I don't have a static public IP address, I think it has a lease of a week or something. My WiFi is not hacked, I look every now and then on my router.

Not sure what you mean with being on a public IP. My modem receives a IP address from the ISP, that's a public IP (WAN address), without a public IP I wouldn't get a connection to the www. If someone could connect to it depends on if there is a port routed to a service which the client could connect to. My machines got of course private IP addresses provided by the router with a firewall (local network). If I would have the public IP on my machine (possible by bridging the modem/router), only that machine would have internet unless that machine should be configured as a router.
I'm not worried, but it's a bit annoying to need to workaround the IP block. Public IP addresses are unique, when I connect to www.linuxcnc.org it's my (public) IP that gets routed to the server of the web host of linuxcnc.org.
Although I'm not blocked anymore at the moment I still suspect there is something off with the configuration of the IP block tool.

The IP address may not be blocked by Linuxcnc. 

If  spam is detected sometimes the blacklist servers will block a whole address block.
In one instance a whole class C address block was blocked for one spammer. Thats 4 billion IP addresses. Very lazy work on behalf of the blacklist server. Then its up to the ISP to demonstrate it should be unblocked.