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Cannot access See Us Speak website or District 24 website 11 years 4 weeks ago #30731

2299389
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I am President of the See Us Speak Toastmasters club in Omaha, NE. We are a corporate club at CSG International. Our club number is 2299389. We are a club within District 24 in Nebraska.

Our members have not been able get to the See Us Speak website or District 24 website since Monday, 11/18. I have spoken to both TMI as well as opened a ticket to my company's internal Network dept. TMI thinks the CSG Firewall is blocking us from getting to the sites. Our lan dept says Toastmasters is blocking the Omaha IP address (Omaha Internet 205.144.147.4). They’re telling me they can access the See Us Speak website from our Atlanta data center but not from the Omaha data center.

The traffic to seeusspeakclub.toastmastersclubs.org/ is being allowed out to the internet. It looks like the toastmasters are blocking or have black listed the IP address from the Omaha Internet 205.144.147.4 as all the connection attempts to the URL fail and have been failing for several days now. Other datacenters like the Atlanta datacenter work fine.

I see you may be a member reports.toastmasters.org/findaclub/zoomc...m?clubNumber=2299389. Wonder if you can use your club number and contact them. Let them know they are blacklisting or blocking CSGs IP address 205.144.147.4.

I am not sure where to go from here as both sides are telling me the other is blocking.

Thanks in advance

Don Karnish
402.964.1536

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Cannot access See Us Speak website or District 24 website 11 years 4 weeks ago #30732

SteveTheTechie
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Brian can remove the block if he confirms that there is one.

I can access your website. From a quick look at it, I see a lot of photos which normally is just fine. However, if you have bad <img> tags in your HTML referencing photos that you have deleted or the <img> tags no longer point to the photos on the server, you will frequently get blocked for trying to repeatedly access files that do not exist. You have to be really careful to make sure your <img> and <a> (links) tags are valid... if they are not, you will likely get blocked.

Regards,

Steve James, DTM
FreeToastHost System Developer
Officer Emeritus, Mindful Communicators (Club 1966, District 52) A President's Distinguished Club for each of the last 10 years.

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Cannot access See Us Speak website or District 24 website 11 years 4 weeks ago #30733

Brian Offline Administrator Posts: 12016 Thank you received: 3948	The block has been removed. The server saw a very high volume of activity from the same IP address and flagged as a bad spider. Thank you, Brian McDonald DTM, PDD D61 FTH Lead Technical Support member Cataraqui Valley Toastmaster 9560 The following user(s) said Thank You: SteveTheTechie, 2299389
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Cannot access See Us Speak website or District 24 website 11 years 4 weeks ago #30734

2299389 Topic Author Visitor	Thank you Brian. Is it related to the way we manage our photos? Is there a way we can prevent this in the future?
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Cannot access See Us Speak website or District 24 website 11 years 4 weeks ago #30735

Brian Offline Administrator Posts: 12016 Thank you received: 3948	If you can explain how on Nov 14, your IP generated Pages Hits Bandwidth 205.144.147.4 United States 5,902 6,809 5.92 GB Thank you, Brian McDonald DTM, PDD D61 FTH Lead Technical Support member Cataraqui Valley Toastmaster 9560 The following user(s) said Thank You: SteveTheTechie
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