David wrote: ↑February 17th, 2024, 4:26 pm
This happened again, so now I un-banned all banned IP addresses.
This did not help.
This PM gives a further clue:
Shauing wrote: ↑February 17th, 2024, 7:42 pm
Tried to log out and log in again, same thing. Oddly, the spamhaus link says the IP has no issues...gonna try disconnecting and reconnecting my modem here.
There is a Spamhaus link in the block message.
I wonder if maybe the block is not even coming from the built-in IP-blocking of the forum, but from the Stop Forum Spam extension?
David wrote: ↑February 17th, 2024, 8:13 pm
There is a Spamhaus link in the block message.
I wonder if maybe the block is not even coming from the built-in IP-blocking of the forum, but from the Stop Forum Spam extension?
Err, or maybe it's built-in after all, but it's not from the "Ban IPs" section of the Moderator Control Panel:
https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2148183 wrote:
i find myself at least 3 times a week going through mostly human bots that have tried to get on my forums and have to manually delete as not been denied by phpBB's internal DNS (spamhaus and spamcop).
David wrote: ↑July 17th, 2021, 5:06 pm
Spam is coming from a user who made legitimate posts back in 2017: search.php?author_id=2597&sr=posts
(Note: Only admins and mods will see the trashed spam posts.)