IP issue

**wobbly** · 8th November 2025, 20:45

Neels cannot get access here, is he blocked ?

**ApolloMotoMoto** · 9th November 2025, 04:39

Originally Posted by wobbly

Neels cannot get access here, is he blocked ?

Same thing happened to me about 6 months ago.

My home IP address has been blocked from accessing kiwibiker for some reason. I have not been able to load this forum from my home internet since.

I have been accessing the forums using my phone on a cellular connection (dynamic IP address assignment, it changes all the time) or using the TOR browser to circumvent the IP Ban.

I made a post about it at the time but received no responses; I have no idea why it happened.

I dont know who the admins are to contact about it?

**F5 Dave** · 9th November 2025, 11:45

Pm onearmedbandit suspect an overzealous response to some spam bots sharing an ip perhaps.

**wobbly** · 11th November 2025, 07:49

I sent a PM to " onearmedbandit " about Neels issue.

**lodgernz** · 11th November 2025, 14:49

Originally Posted by wobbly

Neels cannot get access here, is he blocked ?

Same thing happened to me a couple of months ago.
I couldn't get to Kiwibiker from any of my desktops or laptops when connected to my wifi on fibre, but no problem if I connected a laptop to the net via a hotspot on my phone.
Called OneNZ about it but no joy.
Suddenly last week, I got access via wifi again. No clue why.

**onearmedbandit** · 11th November 2025, 18:05

Hey guys - Thanks to the members who got in touch regarding the IP issue. It's not anything we can see here so are waiting on a reply from the site admins. We will let you know what we find out.

**ApolloMotoMoto** · 13th November 2025, 18:08

Originally Posted by onearmedbandit

Hey guys - Thanks to the members who got in touch regarding the IP issue. It's not anything we can see here so are waiting on a reply from the site admins. We will let you know what we find out.

Thank you!

**wobbly** · 17th November 2025, 10:11

Neels still has no access to this forum - has anything happened yet ?

**husaberg** · 17th November 2025, 14:53

Originally Posted by wobbly

Neels still has no access to this forum - has anything happened yet ?

I had pm'd oab and gremlin and copied in the site admin Mr T .They are all voluntary so the fixes have to work arround their availability.
It might be a bigger issue or Mr T might be on holiday.

The adding files has been fixed though, If anyone having issues pm me and I will talk through settings.

**onearmedbandit** · 19th November 2025, 17:08

Originally Posted by wobbly

Neels still has no access to this forum - has anything happened yet ?

I'm not on here much but am trying to get an answer on this issue.

**onearmedbandit** · 21st November 2025, 11:27

Originally Posted by wobbly

Neels still has no access to this forum - has anything happened yet ?

I've spoken directly with the site admin and there is nothing at our end that appears to be the cause of the issue. He will possibly need to have his IP changed, the suggestion was to reset his router.

**ApolloMotoMoto** · 21st November 2025, 22:16

Originally Posted by onearmedbandit

I've spoken directly with the site admin and there is nothing at our end that appears to be the cause of the issue. He will possibly need to have his IP changed, the suggestion was to reset his router.

Its really wierd.

I assume its an IP Ban (I have the same issue and have had it for over 6 months, currently posting using TOR), but I decided to do some poking around.

I have not been able to access Kiwibiker from my HOME INTERNET for like 6 months.

If I use ANY OTHER IP address, I can gain access.

I can gain access using a SIM card 4g wifi modem and I can cain access using TOR. When using TOR I share an IP address with anyone else using TOR who is also "exiting" the TOR network back into the public routing table at the same TOR exit node that I am using. The TOR exit nodes change all the time, and I have never failed to have access for the last 6 months using TOR. Sometimes its rather slow.... but, such is life.

If I it on my home internet and PING kiwibiker.co.nz I get an IP address back from the DNS loockup on the domain, so I am getting a domain name hit for kiwibiker.co.nz from the DNS servers.

kiwibiker.co.nz IP address that I am seeing right now from the DNS lookup table is:

125.236.203.172

Can someone please check that???

Its entirely possible there is a corrupted or deprecated entry for "kiwibiker.co.nz" within the DNS tables for some registrars..... maybe I will try a few different DNS servers....

**EDIT** I tried a few New Zealand based public DNS servers, all gave the same (125.236.203.172) IP address for kiwibiker.co.nz; so thats likely the right address.

So, I get the IP back from the DNS lookup, but, usuprisingly the ping times out with no returns of any kind (server at 125.236.203.172 is dead or my ping isnt reaching it)

So I run a trace-route.

Image attached.

As you can see, it doesnt get very far, I live in the United States, California. The trace makes it out of my ISP (Frontier), into Level3 Edge router in SanJose California, and dies right there.

As soon as I get out of my ISP the packets are blocked or dropped on their way to kiwibiker.co.nz (125.236.203.172).

That IS consistent with an IP ban for my IP at the kiwibiker.co.nz domain....

**pete376403** · 22nd November 2025, 06:24

Confirm ip address from within NZ but timeout
Admins-iMac:~ admin$ ping kiwibiker.co.nz
PING kiwibiker.co.nz (125.236.203.172): 56 data bytes
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1

**onearmedbandit** · 22nd November 2025, 09:07

Originally Posted by ApolloMotoMoto

Its really wierd.

I assume its an IP Ban (I have the same issue and have had it for over 6 months, currently posting using TOR), but I decided to do some poking around.

I have not been able to access Kiwibiker from my HOME INTERNET for like 6 months.

If I use ANY OTHER IP address, I can gain access.

I can gain access using a SIM card 4g wifi modem and I can cain access using TOR. When using TOR I share an IP address with anyone else using TOR who is also "exiting" the TOR network back into the public routing table at the same TOR exit node that I am using. The TOR exit nodes change all the time, and I have never failed to have access for the last 6 months using TOR. Sometimes its rather slow.... but, such is life.

If I it on my home internet and PING kiwibiker.co.nz I get an IP address back from the DNS loockup on the domain, so I am getting a domain name hit for kiwibiker.co.nz from the DNS servers.

kiwibiker.co.nz IP address that I am seeing right now from the DNS lookup table is:

125.236.203.172

Can someone please check that???

Its entirely possible there is a corrupted or deprecated entry for "kiwibiker.co.nz" within the DNS tables for some registrars..... maybe I will try a few different DNS servers....

**EDIT** I tried a few New Zealand based public DNS servers, all gave the same (125.236.203.172) IP address for kiwibiker.co.nz; so thats likely the right address.

So, I get the IP back from the DNS lookup, but, usuprisingly the ping times out with no returns of any kind (server at 125.236.203.172 is dead or my ping isnt reaching it)

So I run a trace-route.

Image attached.

As you can see, it doesnt get very far, I live in the United States, California. The trace makes it out of my ISP (Frontier), into Level3 Edge router in SanJose California, and dies right there.

As soon as I get out of my ISP the packets are blocked or dropped on their way to kiwibiker.co.nz (125.236.203.172).

That IS consistent with an IP ban for my IP at the kiwibiker.co.nz domain....

Thanks for the information. All of this is above what we as moderators can access, I have asked the site admin to look into it and there is no IP ban on Neels. I will try to bring it to the attention of the site owner to see if he can shed some light on it. Thanks.