Mac OS 9 Lives
General => News, Information & Feedback => Topic started by: aBc on March 27, 2026, 12:03:31 PM
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Unable to access the Forum, MacGarden or System7Today, in usual fashion — OR via several other “also tested” browsers… for the last several weeks. Browsers simply time out. DieHard reported same situation a week or so ago.
However… THIS connection, login and post was possible via an LTE network over an iPhone.
I do wonder if this might be the result of possible recent efforts to curtail bots and AI scrapers access, via some sort of implemented solution(s) aimed at those concerns. AND if that is indeed the case, how many others might also now be prevented from accessing the Forum due to that?
No Forum access, can’t report it. ;)
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Our hosting ISP banned a lot of US subnets. After the recent US "excursion" into the middle east (which we wont discuss in this forum) there's been a huge increase in the traffic from these subnets. It seems to have calmed now and ban has been lifted.
Unfortunately out of my control, but we'll get through these rough times and everything will hopefully brighten a bit.
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I think this is what is called "collateral damage".
BTW, I'm back today for the first time in a week or so.
On behalf of my fellow Americans, I'd like to extend a formal apology……… again. :-\
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Our hosting ISP banned a lot of US subnets.
I'm not in US, but I wasn't able to connect to forum 90% of the time :(
Edit. Make that 98%
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use tor or a vpn for urgent forum posts (about midi cables or game emulation or whatever can be urgent and important)
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Well, all is well now at least. I've flagged us to be excluded from being affected by banned subnets, so all should be well and hopefully wont happen again :)
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Well, all is well now at least. I've flagged us to be excluded from being affected by banned subnets, so all should be well and hopefully wont happen again :)
Fingers crossed. My last successful connection was on 2nd of April. Eight days of blackout.
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For some reason I can only interact properly with forum is by using powerfox on G4 MDD, I tried to log in using ie5 on os9, but no luck
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When I post now I get redirected to a blank page. I'm on the latest Safari for macOS.
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I'm experiencing some issues as well after moving from the CloudFlare proxy. I'll investigate the upcoming days.
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Now the blackout was from 10th to this moment (18th). Very very bad! I'd say the forum is broken. Kaputt,
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Everything is fine and I haven't seen anything strange in our logs. Try clearing browser cache and cookies and try again, ssp3. There's nothing wrong with the server infrastructure or configuration from what I can see.
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Another 8 days without a contact. :(
I'll try to cler cache and cookies and stuff, but if that won't help, then it's not my fault.
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Looks like subnet bans + proxy changes caused widespread access issues some users still getting blocked or cache-related glitches.
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Was able to connect only now. It's 1st of May. How many days this time?
I've been trying to connect every day, several time a day. Could not establish connection. The site is unreachable bla bla.
Knez, please fix it!
Something gets blocked at your end. Either IP addresses or subnets or whatever.
Forum/ Garden site is unusable for me right now. For many others probably too.
* I've cleared cache, deleted site data, cookies. Tried different browsers and 2 different phones.
** I was able to connect to HL server all the time using Nostalgia on 10.6, but there's not much going on in the news section, to be honest.
EDIT. It's May 2nd. I am still here. Lets see how long will it last..