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 ·  Posted: 23.08.2021 - 21:00  ·  #9
Yes, the problem still persists. Just open a private browser window and try to navigate to the forum without login.
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 ·  Posted: 24.08.2021 - 09:18  ·  #10
I don't usually log in and I've never had this error (using Firefox or Chrome).
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 ·  Posted: 24.08.2021 - 10:22  ·  #11
Well, despite the fact that I'm not an admin for emportal anymore, I did some further investigation.

I've found what's happening. Kind of. But I don't have a solution. Not yet. Or perhaps never.

It turns out Harri, BruecknerAmbient and a few other German users are all posting from the exact same ip address. An ip address that doesn't look like a regular user ip address.

Are you using a VPN service of sorts? Or has your provider recently changed tp ipv6? May I ask you who your ISP is?
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 ·  Posted: 24.08.2021 - 17:33  ·  #12
It has also been happening to me across the pond here.
It is slightly better but still annoying!
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Re: error message, if not logged in

 ·  Posted: 24.08.2021 - 20:57  ·  #13
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Well, despite the fact that I'm not an admin for emportal anymore, I did some further investigation.


Thank You very much for that - You are an angel! :)

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I've found what's happening. Kind of. But I don't have a solution. Not yet. Or perhaps never.

It turns out Harri, BruecknerAmbient and a few other German users are all posting from the exact same ip address. An ip address that doesn't look like a regular user ip address.


Weird... :shock:

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Are you using a VPN service of sorts? Or has your provider recently changed tp ipv6? May I ask you who your ISP is?


VPN...? :?:

ipv6...? :?:

ISP - oh, that... :roll:

I had to actually google these things to find out what You're talking about... :lol:

Anyway, I don't use any VPN service (at least I wouldn't know), my provider is Deutsche Telekom and actually I couldn't find out whether they recently changed to ipv6 or not (there were plans apparently to offer some ipv6 based services, I guess, but I only found it mentioned in articles that were already a few years old...).

Oh, and when I just arrived at this page before posting this, the error was still there...

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Re: error message, if not logged in

 ·  Posted: 25.08.2021 - 09:32  ·  #14
it's a place full of errors

When I click on the Smilies button, I get a message which says "hacking attempt".
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 ·  Posted: 25.08.2021 - 23:56  ·  #15
My IP provider is Deutsche Telekom as well. No VPN.

Deutsche Telekom supports IPv6 in general, AFAICT. emportal.info has an IPv6 address as well. If the forum software stores the IP address in the database, but does not support IPv6, then this might be a problem. I would guess just 4 bytes of the IPv6 address are saved in the database (instead of all 16 bytes), which might look weird. They all look the same, because 12 bytes are cut off.

An easy workaround would be to withdraw the IPv6 address for emportal.info from DNS. The forum would be accessible just by IPv4.

But this is just a very wild guess.
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 ·  Posted: 26.08.2021 - 11:20  ·  #16
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My IP provider is Deutsche Telekom as well. No VPN.

Deutsche Telekom supports IPv6 in general, AFAICT. emportal.info has an IPv6 address as well. If the forum software stores the IP address in the database, but does not support IPv6, then this might be a problem. I would guess just 4 bytes of the IPv6 address are saved in the database (instead of all 16 bytes), which might look weird. They all look the same, because 12 bytes are cut off.

An easy workaround would be to withdraw the IPv6 address for emportal.info from DNS. The forum would be accessible just by IPv4.

But this is just a very wild guess.

Thanks.

For your information, when it goes wrong, we get an x.x.0.0 ip-address. And although these are valid, somehow the software seems to be unable to handle these.

There are no easy workarounds unfortunately. As we have very little to no control over things like dns.
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