Thanks for the heads up.  I'll pass that on to our office's network
admin.


On May 17, 5:52 am, James Gregory <[email protected]> wrote:
> I appreciate that it's a pain, but you're black listed and that's a Bad
> Thing.
> Regardless of how many websites are affected by it, it's never good to be
> blacklisted. You should really get your network guys to investigate it, and
> if it's a false alarm then it should be a simple matter of just contacting
> the appropriate association and getting them to remove the blacklisting.
>
> At one place I worked we managed to get ourselves blacklisted somehow and
> that culminated in us being blocked by Google for a couple of days. I'd
> wholeheartedly recommend nipping this in the bud before it escalates to that
> point.
>
> On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Jon <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I've worked there for a year now and the Fluent NHibernate wiki is the
> > first and only site where I've run into that problem.  I'm not sure
> > why the company's IP would be blacklisted: it's a (mostly) engineering
> > firm ("professional services")--Michael Baker Jr., Inc.--and they've
> > got the network locked down to the point where we can't even pull up
> > CNN.
>
> > Anyways, I was thinking more people were being blocked, but if it's
> > just one a day, I can understand.  I went ahead and downloaded the
> > wiki pages from home for reference...
>
> > Thanks.
>
> > -Jon
>
> > On May 13, 12:19 pm, James Gregory <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Is it not a larger problem that your work IP address has been blacklisted
> > > for spamming? That's really something you should correct.
> > > I keep a close eye on our logs and it's less than one person a day who's
> > > being blacklisted, so for now I'm not willing to change anything.
>
> > > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Jon <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > Hi James,
>
> > > > I'm getting an "Access Denied" message here at work...  It's nice to
> > > > have zero spam, but how many people are being locked out in the
> > > > process?  It's like building a car with no doors to prevent theft.
> > > > Would it be possible to use a less strict filter?
>
> > > > Thanks, and I really look forward to using Fluent NHibernate!
>
> > > > Jon
>
> > > > On Apr 29, 9:27 am, James Gregory <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > I've had some more reports of Access Denied messages from the wiki.
> > This
> > > > > time I've done some more thorough investigation into the problem and
> > > > found
> > > > > several entries in the log to this effect: "[IP ADDRESS] found using
> > > > DNSBL
> > > > > 27.151.189.85.sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org", which looks to me like the IP
> > has
> > > > been
> > > > > flagged as a spammer by one or more blacklist websites. Our wiki
> > > > software,
> > > > > Instiki, seems to block anyone who's IP address has been blacklisted.
> > > > > If you're seeing "Access Denied", then please check this website:
> > > >http://whatismyipaddress.com/staticpages/index.php/is-my-ip-address-b.
> > ..
> > > > > If
> > > > > any of the sites returns a red dot, then you're blacklisted with
> > them.
> > > > > Ideally you need to contact the particular companies and follow their
> > > > > procedures for getting your IP unlisted; however, you will have been
> > > > listed
> > > > > because a machine on your IP was either sending spam or found to be
> > > > > infected, so you should probably investigate those possibilities too
> > (or
> > > > get
> > > > > your network/systems guys to look into it if you're at work).
>
> > > > > I'm reluctant to remove the spam checking for fear of having to
> > > > constantly
> > > > > monitor the wiki, so far since it's been up we've received ZERO spam
> > with
> > > > it
> > > > > on; however, if this issue persists I may have to look at doing so.
>
> > > > > James
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