Hi, I know this is not the place, but maybe someone will notice it here! I cant move around in drupal any more as every page gives me the following

Sorry, 196.25.255.246 has been greylisted by http:BL.
You may try whitelisting on http://drupal.org/httpbl/whitelist.

I live in South Africa and this is the ip I get from the governments Telecom. TELCOM
I have been with Drupal for over 6 years. This white screen of death is killing me.
Clicking the whitelist link does not work. And there must be other South Africans having the same problem

I have over 120 druple build sites and I am not allowed to browse my most favourite site "Drupal.org"

Again, I know this is the wrong place for this message! But it took me 300 refreshes and 200 page clicks to just get to some place in drupal to sent a message.

It will take me another 300 page refreshes to just see if someone has replied to this dilemma I am in. This blacklisting is getting progressively worse every day and soon I will not be able to enter Drupal at all.

I am no Spammer, why do I get punished for something my government has done?

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Everett Zufelt’s picture

Everett Zufelt commented
Project: Drupal core » Drupal.org infrastructure
Version: 7.x-dev »
Component: browser system » Other
Category: bug » feature
Priority: Critical » Normal

Good morning,

I suggest you look at http://groups.drupal.org/node/186079 where it looks like this issue has been discussed.

In short, it looks like you need to use a web proxy / VPN to access drupal.org reliably.

Moving to Drupal.org Infrastructure project in case someone has a better idea. If nothing else this is probably the best project queue for this issue to be closed in.

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TribalMan commented

This is ridiculous. A web proxy is not an option as links get encrypted making a wget to your server impossible. And a VPN... this is absurd. Drupal.org needs to look at another solution that does not effect logged in users.

Also, quit often I have tried to whitelist an IP and then it turns out that the IP given in the message is not even my IP, thus I can not whitelist it. If I try whitelist the IP I'm currently on -whitelisting on Honeypot does not recognise it.

TribalMan’s picture

TribalMan commented

The discussion on the South African group does not pose a viable solution. Only a bad work around.

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sincronista commented

I am having the same issue in Argentina....
I sometimes can acces the web, but before loggin in I always get thie message...
any ideas?

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Mixologic
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Location Portland, OR
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Component: Other » Blocked IPs
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Mixologic
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Primary language English
Location Portland, OR
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Status: Active » Closed (cannot reproduce)

Drupal.org is no longer using the http:bl blacklist, so this should no longer be an issue for South African users behind the SAIX proxy.