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Cannot access forum with tablet ... but phone works.
- Thread starter siscoken
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Turn it off and back on?
You try clearing the cookies out of your browser?
All permissions appear fine on your account, but you've connected to the site from more IP addresses than almost any account I've ever seen, so I suspect you're right that it's something on the server side. We had a massive DDoS attack early Saturday morning that briefly took the site down. The server's DDoS protection system had to kick in to filter the attack. Prior to that, we'd have thousands of bots scraping the site and attempting to inject malicious code. Additionally, these spam accounts from Vietnam and other countries have become a major issue. My point is that things are getting locked down and mistakes happen, but we should be able to figure it out.
Is your tablet wifi only, or does it connect to your carrier's towers and have a data package?
If your phone and tablet are on the same wifi network, do they both work?
On your tablet, go to whatismyipaddress.com and message me the results privately.
Is your tablet wifi only, or does it connect to your carrier's towers and have a data package?
Tablet is wifi only
If your phone and tablet are on the same wifi network, do they both work?
Both on same wifi ... only phone can open site
On your tablet, go to whatismyipaddress.com and message me the results privately.
Will message
Tablet is wifi only
If your phone and tablet are on the same wifi network, do they both work?
Both on same wifi ... only phone can open site
On your tablet, go to whatismyipaddress.com and message me the results privately.
Will message
Are you logged into the forum from the tablet? If so, can you try incognito/private mode to see if your identity is in question? (to expand on Travis' post)
In case it happens to any other members, was this an issue on the server side or client side? No need to post any private details, only curious about high-level explanation.
After that massive DDoS attack, a few measures were put in place to try to prevent it from happening again, including blocking some old chrome browser versions at the server level since they are mostly used by bots for malicious purposes. @siscoken is using an older tablet that can no longer be updated and is running an older version of chrome (that also can't be updated), and it was just old enough to get caught in the filter. I tweaked the range a bit to allow his version, and a few more, through. It's always a challenge trying to keep the bad traffic out, while allowing legitimate traffic through.
the B$%$#^& are forcing an upgrade to latest, worst win ver. My bank (among others) is now blocking access to look at my credit info because the firefox web browser I'm using is no longer supported, AND I can't upgrade firefox any further without using a later version of windows. (the FOB is currently on win8 LOL) Same thing with Chrome Grr. Need to look into Linix/compatibility.
Same here. Bank cut off my access from my PC with the usual fake "unsupported browser" excuse. It worked for years, it is supported.
You don't have to overwrite your Windblows with Linux, btw. You can install Linux next to it and you can choose which one you want at boot time.
Or you can install a virtual environment where you run Linux inside a window on Win. (I do both) Plenty of threads about it here, plenty of resources online. But feel free to start a new thread, let's not litter this one.
Gary, Similar issues with servers.. even Linux servers that this site (and most of the internet) runs on. All software relies on other software, and they only support older versions so far back. Eventually, they stop supporting old versions and no longer provide security updates. If you don't want your server or site to be hacked, you need to upgrade. Just like what they're doing with Windows 10. We can probably blame hackers, spammers, bots, and thieves. If they didn't exist, we wouldn't need security updates.
True, that is one side of it. But outdating a browser that gets weekly security updates because "it is not supported" is sadly just an excuse at this point.
This thread is dead/over anyways ;^)
Same issue with a perfectly good old tablet I tried to use, catch 22 upgrading android 4.4.1 can't get web access to get a later version F me.
Yes, they update them frequently, but they aren't usually blocked until they are a few years old and pose an actual risk.
