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Posted: **Mon Dec 18, 2006 10:14 pm**

Two of our NZFF members who use cannot access the forums via TelstraClear.

There is two possible reasons for this- 1) Telstra is blocking access (unlikely) or 2) it's an issue with Invision.

One member with this issue, ZK-MAT was able to connect via his laptop through a FreeNet dial up account it accesses fine.

Anyone know what the problem would be, or even better, a solution?

I have checked through the Invasionfree control panel and found nothing that would be blocking their access...

Posted: **Mon Dec 18, 2006 11:00 pm**

It's a right pain in the a$$. It just fails to load the pages, no timeout, just a blank page. It's not only this forum but any invisionfree sites.

I've emailed Telstra, and phoned them. I haven't had an email response yet, but the guy at their helpdesk suggested it wasn't Telstra blocking access, and they cannot tell any website to accept any particular IP, as whoever runs a forum etc has the right to accept or deny access. I agree with them there.

I wonder if it's due to Invision seeing the IP block as a 'Bogon' IP range. This usually happens when a new IP range is released and not all services recognise it as legit. It happened when UBS / Bitstream was released, some Bitstream users couldn't access some sites. I have raised this in my email.

I am aware that Chris J (Pieman) and Chris D are Telstra clients, and know
that Pieman cannot access here, I haven't spoken to Chris D but will text him tomorrow to see how he's going.

I am getting around it using a proxy IP server that makes my IP address look like something different but it's a nuisance doing that just for this site.

I can connect thru dial-up (aaarrrrggggggghhhh) using FreeNet but that is just stupid (and only my laptop has a dial up modem, the main PC wouldn't know what dial up is!)

Anyhow, any help would be appreciated

Posted: **Tue Dec 19, 2006 8:46 am**

I've posted on the invision support forums but there is little we can do really, its out of our hands...

Alex

Posted: **Tue Dec 19, 2006 9:26 am**

it also has happen to me alot with my xtra account .....the page just doesnt load

Posted: **Tue Dec 19, 2006 10:27 am**

Blimmin frustrating. Thanks Alex and Trolly for looking into things.

I text Chris Donaldson this morning and he also cannot access the forums

Posted: **Wed Dec 20, 2006 3:39 pm**

Just received feedback from Telstra, it's been passed onto second level support ....

Here's hoping

Posted: **Wed Dec 20, 2006 4:37 pm**

Hmm, this is with PDQ? Damn, we're changing to that at the end of this cycle.

Find a solution quick!

Posted: **Thu Jan 04, 2007 6:37 pm**

OH MY GOD I JUST TRIED THE FORUM FROM HOME AND IT WORKS!!!!

It must be Ian hanging from the wing that did it!!!!

Posted: **Thu Jan 04, 2007 7:38 pm**

Yeah when telstra switched me over it didn't work, but a day later it's fine!

Party!

Posted: **Thu Jan 04, 2007 7:51 pm**

ZK-MAT Posted on Jan 4 2007, 06:37 PM
OH MY GOD I JUST TRIED THE FORUM FROM HOME AND IT WORKS!!!!

AAAAAAAArrrrrrr Thump ,

Dang .. that was'nt so bad , must be that big spoungee cable I landed on :lol:

Posted: **Thu Jan 04, 2007 7:56 pm**

Good stuff Matt.

Alex

Posted: **Thu Jan 04, 2007 10:18 pm**

Don't know what happened but everything working again, now I just have to trawl through the 9 pages of topics we missed over the last month :blink:

Posted: **Thu Jan 04, 2007 10:38 pm**

Good News ! pleased :thumbup:

Posted: **Fri Jan 05, 2007 4:32 pm**

Hooray it works, it actually works

Now i can get my daily fs fix agin from nzff

OH MY GOD I JUST TRIED THE FORUM FROM HOME AND IT WORKS!!!!

It must be Ian hanging from the wing that did it!!!!

Either that or because it was my birthday

Posted: **Fri Jan 05, 2007 5:03 pm**

** UPDATE **

I was just phoned by a chap named Carl @ Telstra, who wanted to make sure we could now access the site....

I said we could and wondered what the problem was. Carl said that Time Warner administer/own the InvisionFree servers and they hadn't updated their 'bogon' IP address list, so anyone using a clear PDQ IP was looking as a false/suspicious IP.

It's nice to know they followed it through for us, thanks TelstraClear!!

Posted: **Fri Jan 12, 2007 7:43 pm**

Great to be back online this week !!....thought I had been "blacklisted"....the following text was sent to NZFF 31 dec 06:

"You may be able to help...as I have now been unable to access NZFF for over three weeks.

With reference to my email of 26 Dec below is it conceivable that I have somehow been "blocked" from accessing NZFF?...
http://z11.invisionfree.com/nzff/index. ... wtopic=185 is programmed into my "approved sites" of my PC-Cillem software and currently NZFF is the only flight sim site that I cannot access"

Cheers and have a great 20071!!

Bob R

Posted: **Fri Jan 12, 2007 8:27 pm**

Glad to see you back, and somehow I missed/didn't recieve your message, which is unusual. Anyway, good to hear problem solved.

Alex

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