Hello,
since today openwrt.org refuses my browser connection to this site.
Yesterday everything was ok. Now I can only connect via vpn.
I do not know where to post a question about the reason, so I try here.
Is there anyone who can tell me the right forum or e-mail address to correct the issue?
clear cache?
I have cleared the cache on tablet, cellphone and desktop. No result.
Is the problem for the main openwrt.org website? Does it affect forum.openwrt.org?
Did you add any dns entries or policy based routing that might be relevant?
The problem is only on the main openwrt.org website. Forum.openwrt.org is not affected.
Since yesterday I did not any changes in dns or policies.
does the IP resolve properly when you're not using the VPN? What exactly does the browser show?
Browser output is in german language. Here is the translation:
The website is not available
openwrt.org has rejected the connection.
Try the following:
Check connection
ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED
sudo host openwrt.org
[sudo] Passwort für root:
openwrt.org has address 64.226.122.113
openwrt.org has IPv6 address 2a03:b0c0:3:d0::1a51:c001
openwrt.org mail is handled by 10 util-01.infra.openwrt.org.
sudo host 64.226.122.113
113.122.226.64.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer wiki-03.infra.openwrt.org.
I can't explain why this might be happening. I wonder if your IP was used in an abuse/attack scenario in the past and thus blocked. This would presumably be from a user who previously had the IP address you currently hold.
@thess - any ideas? and/or who else should we loop in?
Connection refused could be caused by blocked IP. @dmei - What IP address is your client connecting with? I can check what the system sees if I know this bit of information.
Also, as others have pointed out, clearing cache, cookies and downloaded data might help but perhaps not in the case of a refused connect (no HTTP involved yet). It is most definitely address related since you say it works via a VPN connect.
You can try something like:
telnet www.openwrt.org 80 (or port 443)
to see if you can at least complete an IP connection.
Using wget http://openwrt.org/index.html you can see the re-direct to https if things are working.
Can you show a screenshot of the error message in your browser please?
@thess
static: 78.94.229.114
If the issue is IP based, I could not imagine why.
The only thing I did in the past days was trying to download the userguide with: " wget --mirror --page-requisites --convert-links --adjust-extension --compression=auto --reject-regex "/search|/rss" --no-check-certificate --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/68.0.3440.1 06 Safari/537.36" --wait 1s --restrict-file-names=windows openwrt.org"
For some reason this IP address and a couple of others have been blocked since 12/28. I am not aware of any reason given by any admin other than perhaps excessive access to certain pages (toh?). Perhaps you could add some information about why this IP was suspect.
@bjonglez - Do you have anything to add to this discussion.
Do I understand you right, that you tried (several times?) to bulk download the whole site contents of openwrt.org?
@thess - What to do to unblock the IP?
@hnyman - Yes. I fount the command line in Offline Documentation. But it doesn't work correct. It downloaded many files, but the links were broken. So I tried several times.
I hope you read the rest of the thread on that approach -- In particular, the following comment which essentially says "Do not do this".
I can unblock your IP if you promise not to try and scrape the site and/or the toh in particular.
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Sorry, did not read the rest of the post.
And I will not try to scrape the site and/or the toh.
My Intention is to setup a stable openwrt router on x86-base.
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On how many devices and which browsers?
If you have only tried one of either try an new device or browser.
Tell us what happens.
I tried 3 devices. On Desktop firefox, on cellphone and tablet Vanadium.
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