Banned from FPN?

[Nomdeplume]

I just got an Access Denied message from Fountain Pen Network?

What did I do to deserve that?
How do I contact Admin if I am denied access?

[heraclitus682]

The site is down now. No one can get on.

[sargetalon]

I don't think it's you. In the brief moment they were up today, wimg reported that they were in trouble with regards to bandwidth. They were going down to apply a security patch and sometime soon after they are to go down for a prolonged period to migrate to larger servers. I'm getting crazy error messages when I try to access the site. Just a waiting game fir now.

[Jon Szanto]

I'm jumping in here pretty quick: while I don't know you, I don't think - at the moment - that you should be concerned.

I know another person, who is certainly undeserving, who got one of these when trying to log in. The entire site is down for maintenance, and I think something in the configuration is messed up and sending these messages out incorrectly. For instance, this other person got the denial on a phone, but not off his computer.

Don't stress, and wait until FPN is back up fully before contacting them (they can be reached at fpnadmin at gmail dot com.

[bassmannate]

Glad to see I'm not the only one getting 403 errors.

[Pterodactylus]

Me too, when I try to access the site normally I also got a 403 forbidden.


403 FORBIDDEN!

Either the address you are accessing this site from has been banned for previous malicious behavior or the action you attempted is considered to be hostile to the proper functioning of this system.

The detected reason(s) you were blocked are:
Vulnerability Scanner (UA-0160).


It seems their threat scanner gone wild/ misconfigurated.

Only when trying to access it using a proxy I get the maintenance message.
I hope they fix this crappy scanner soon.....

[liapuyat]

I got a 403 Forbidden message too, saying my ISP harbors malicious spambots (my ISP is the biggest telco in our country and never used to have any issues with FPN). I sent them an email to the fpnadmin at gmail dot com address, and I hope they are able to fix this soon.

[liapuyat]

I got the following reply from Wim, at fpnadmin at gmail dot com:

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Hi,

Thank you for letting us know.

We are actually offline completely at the moment, so we don’t know what is going on. It looks like our old registrar still didn’t fix their infected server, the one we had problems with in March/April this year, and it seems to point one in the wrong direction.

We will only be back online in about 5-7 days, which is the time it will take us to move to the new server we ordered.

HTH, warm regards, Wim
FPN Admin

[wimg]

Actually, it has nothing to do with FPN, but it has all the looks of a still not yet fixed DNS server at our old registrar, the reason why we move to another registrar.

We are offline to move to a new server, due to the fact we badly need more memory (hence the reboots of the last weeks), and there is zilch activity on the server currently. Literally 0.0 cpu, 0.0 memory. Normally, even when idling, it is about 1.5 cpus, and 1.5 to 2.5 GB of DRAM.

All we display currently is a message to the fact that we are indeed moving, which will take approx. 5-7 days. Never a good time to do this, but better now than never.

BTW, we will not reply to any messages here, just were notified that people were having problems.

In short, check back in about a weeks time, and we will be back online.

Kindest regards, Wim
FPN Admin

[Pterodactylus]

Hi Wim,

Thanks for the info

[85AKbN]

In short, check back in about a weeks time, and we will be back online.

i'll stop with the F5 then.

eta: wimg, when the message was showing last night (pst), what did that phrase pcoac,luh mean at the end after your / admin's e-mail?

[Waski_the_Squirrel]

I'm glad to know what is going on. I wonder how much more writing I'll actually get done now that I can't read anything on FPN? At least I can satiate my interest in pens here.

[mhosea]

It amuses me is that I feel as if the site were up and discussion there moving along and that the problem is that I just can't see it. No doubt when a week turns to 10 days and the site comes back up, I will feel as if there should be 10 days of discussion to catch up on.

[brewsky]

Appreciate the info wimg

sent from my galaxy s3 via tapatalk

[Runnin_Ute]

Thanks for the update.

[VertOlive]

Well, I spent all my free time here and hunting new pens anyway. I am glad to know it's not just me. Or my hairstyle. Or not having enough pens yet to run with the big dogs....

[pajaro]

I don't think I will ever have enough pens or the interest in the right kind of pens to run with the big dogs.

[lisantica]

I'm able to read some posts using the Cache drop down from my searches. It won't show photos, but I can still read reviews which is the information I am looking for.

[85AKbN]

I'm able to read some posts using the Cache drop down from my searches. It won't show photos, but I can still read reviews which is the information I am looking for.

i was trying to do that the other day and finally figured it out.


eta: i was developing a mental list of what to search for when it came back up...

[inkstainedruth]

I kept checking all day on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day and kept getting an error message that the site couldn't be found (I had seen the "down for maintenance" message a day or two before that). I couldn't even get to posts through Google, which I was trying to do some yesterday to see scans of the Diamine Flower inks (Christmas present from the hubby) to decide which one to try first.
I guess I will just have to be patient. Sigh. I am *not* a patient person. Plus a really bored person by now, because I'm sick -- thanks to the *lovely* windchills on Tuesday and can't really go anywhere at the moment. And there's only so many times you can check Ebay to see how much you got outbid by....
Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth