Quote from: dooglus on November 16, 2016, 11:21:05 PM

Quote from: Dank Frank on November 16, 2016, 06:57:46 PM

This one is new for me:

Your IP address has been blocked for an hour. Sorry for the inconvenience.

What for is it blocked? I refreshed the page and this message showed up, my UID is: 1035511

The first time I've seen it. I'm not using vpn or anything and haven't been in chat since 8 hours or so.

IP addresses are only blocked if they are hitting the site much too often. It's a primitive DOS protection.

In your case it looks like user 91380 (Seuntjie) is logging in over and over from your IP address. Are you using his bot perhaps? If so I think it's the bot that is getting your IP address banned.

Edit: specifically, your IP address tried logging in 25 times in a single minute, at these timestamps (UTC):

2016-11-16 18:24:08
2016-11-16 18:24:08
2016-11-16 18:24:09
2016-11-16 18:24:09
2016-11-16 18:24:09
2016-11-16 18:24:09
2016-11-16 18:24:14
2016-11-16 18:24:14
2016-11-16 18:24:36
2016-11-16 18:24:36
2016-11-16 18:24:36
2016-11-16 18:24:36
2016-11-16 18:24:36
2016-11-16 18:24:42
2016-11-16 18:24:42
2016-11-16 18:24:42
2016-11-16 18:24:42
2016-11-16 18:24:42
2016-11-16 18:24:47
2016-11-16 18:24:47
2016-11-16 18:24:47
2016-11-16 18:24:47
2016-11-16 18:24:52
2016-11-16 18:24:52
2016-11-16 18:24:52

Some seconds there you were doing 5 logins per second. That's what got your IP address banned...

Ah ok I think how that comes, I was on a different address and I use a separate laptop for dicebot, that one was on sleep mode while traveling home but I didn't log out from the bot. So when I got home and got my laptop from sleep mode the bot didn't do anything yet since I needed to re- login but I didn't hit the log out button yet.

So that must be why the bot tried to connect. Next time I won't forget to log out properly in such case.

I just needed to know because I thought maybe there was something malicious going on or something. Thanks for the answer.

Quote from: seuntjie on November 17, 2016, 07:24:58 AM

It's possible he's using dicebot and the bot failed to connect for some reason and tried to unsuccessfully reconnect a few times,

That's exactly what must have happened.