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You got it, it’s just ~cks not letting me in. The University itself is still good.
by pitched 4mo ago
You got it, it’s just ~cks not letting me in. The University itself is still good.
- embedding-shape 4mo agoGot curious, tried to figure out what exactly is being blocked, and came across this, unsure if it just applies to emails, maybe not: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/OnBlockingIPRanges https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/OnBlocking... (https://hastebin.com/share/fipayoqofo.vbnet https://hastebin.com/share/fipayoqofo.vbnet) > [...] An open Internet is a great thing, and it would be nice to have one. But it is now less and less compatible with running systems that are useful to their users. I hate firewalling off large chunks of the net from our mailer, but I would hurt even more from our users fleeing email because of spam. And so I firewall. [...]
- pitched 4mo agoI am getting Forbidden when connecting from a cheap (but Canadian!) VPN but allowed through with a pricier one. So it isn’t geo-based blocking, probably more like a per-IP request limit.