I tried connecting to the site this morning and I got a message:
Bad IP
You are banned from this site due to a bad ip.

I have connected from the same IP many times before. Nothing should have changed. I am able to connect currently through a php proxy. Did something change with the recent upgrade?

The site was upgraded.

I don't know what was changed, you should ask someone in IRC.

I do know that there's a new "flood protection" thing in place, but I doubt that's why it's doing that to you.

DF's flood protection may have been turned on. The most likely reason you set it off is because of a firefox 'tuneup' that highly increases the number of threads it uses to download stuff to increase clientside performance at a cost of serverside performance.

The ban should auto-expire, or PM me your IP and I'll remove you from the list. However, if you don't fix the underlying problem you'll just get flood banned again.

I am still connecting through the proxy, but I just disabled network.prefetch-new and I will try periodically to see if it works when the ban is lifted. Not sure if that's the setting, but I will let you know.

Do you use FasterFox?

Nope, Firefox 2.0.0.11.

kk, fasterfox i a prefetch addon for FF that could cause this issue. If you find a setting in FF that is causing it, let me know.

PleegWat wrote:DF's flood protection may have been turned on. The most likely reason you set it off is because of a firefox 'tuneup' that highly increases the number of threads it uses to download stuff to increase clientside performance at a cost of serverside performance.

The ban should auto-expire, or PM me your IP and I'll remove you from the list. However, if you don't fix the underlying problem you'll just get flood banned again.

I use firefox both from work and from home, but my home ip has been banned twice now, and I can't see why. I got home from work yesterday, it worked. tried again an hour later, it was banned.

Yeah, I'm still banned, even after disabling that prefetch option.... and I'm the same way as Wyren. I used Firefox in Windows XP at work and Firefox on Debian Etch at home. It works at home but not at work.

I have this problem too Windows Vista - Firefox 2.0.0.11. (with only 1 addon: ADBlock...)
I am here with proxy :/

First thing this morning I tried to visit with IE instead of firefox and I got the same message. It doesn't appear to be an issue with firefox. I guess I'll just keep using the proxy.

I just checked the banlist and the only 3 in there are

71.106.29.63 forever details
83.86.63.81 forever details
98.16.63.63


which are the ones I just put in there

I'm posting right now from IE with no trouble. I'll try IE a few days to see if it bans me again. If not I'll go back to firefox and see what happens.

Soz to bring up an old topic but yeah I've just started having this issue in FF too. I just added a couple of plugin addons for it and soon as I opened FF after installation and came to the forum it said instantly "Flood Protection - You are not allowed to flood our system. You may view our website again after 4 seconds" so I waited 5 seconds just to be safe and got this "Flood Protection - You are not allowed to flood our system. You may view our website again after 6 seconds - This is your last warning, next time you will be banned!" so I waited 10 seconds this time. And was able to get on no problem.

Looks like FF's plugins have some major issues with preloading or something.

Not sure which it is but these are what I recently installed (for extra security and features): Interclue (probably this to blame), WOT (could be this, but more likely Interclue since if memory serves this is one of those types of addons that let you view links in a quick popup before clicking on them).

*EDIT* Was just thinking, if a person has a browser window open that has say 4 tabs linked to a few forum threads on wowroster.net and the browser were to crash. And they had the browser set to restore tabs, that'd also set off the flood protection block system too. Infact, yes it does, as last week this exact thing happened to me when I was trying to debug a problem with wowroster (the roster database and webpage not this wowroster.net site) and my browser crashed and when I came back in (I only had 3 pages open at the time, and zero addons) and soon as I loaded up (this was IE not FF btw) I was instantly banned for an hour. (The other 2 tabs were warning and last warning). lol Fun times, heh.

It's clear that the ban process is needed on this site.
Many times, more then ten site members, as many web crawlers and bots, and a couple of hundred of visitors are on www.wowroster.net at the same time.

Even a nice dedicated $$ web server would somewhat "feel the load". I have to say that this site becomes somewhat slow, but this forces me to read more

"Quality always comes in slowly..."