Re: My IP has been blocked
Thank you. It works.
Happy New Year! :)
On Friday, 2 January 2026 at 12:39, Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Mateusz,
>
> On Thu, Jan 01, 2026 at 01:15:27PM +0000, Mateusz Belzak wrote:
>
> > 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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