Re: My IP has been blocked
Hi Mateusz,
On Thu, Jan 01, 2026 at 01:15:27PM +0000, Mateusz Belzak wrote:
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>I'd like to report issue with accessing your wiki (wiki.debian.org) from my home IP address 213.254.181.9
>
>I get below response:
>Forbidden
>
><p>You are not allowed to access this!</p>
>
>In addition, may I know the reason why I was put on block list? I am
>learning Debian and it was working fine until couple of days ago.
>
>In the meantime I use proton VPN to access the wiki.
I've just unblocked your IP address now.
Due to massive abuse of resources by morons scraping the entire web
for data for their LLMs, we've ended up blocking various parts of the
net from accessing the wiki.
Recently, however, those same morons have made things worse by using
botnets to access resources from residential IP addresses scattered
all over the world. We've been analysing traffic to identify IPs
involved and block those too, but sometimes that isn't 100%
accurate. :-(
--
Steve McIntyre 93sam@debian.org
Debian wiki admin - wiki.debian.org wiki@debian.org
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