HN bans Hector Martin’s home IP address
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HN bans Hector Martin’s home IP address
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#2Martin writes on Mastodon: “So apparently dang and the HN crowd are so upset I wrote some messages for HN visitors to our website, that they now banned my home IP address ”
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#3well that's petty
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#5HN has been under a botnet attack for several days. We had to lower the threshold for certain types of blocking in order to keep the site up. Unfortunately that leads to false positives, meaning some IP addresses of legit users get blocked. (It's not easy to distinguish between a legit user who is e.g. opening a bunch of tabs at once, from a distributed botnet sending a handful of requests from a massive number of IPs.)
I'm sorry! I know it's a pain and we're trying hard to avoid it. But it has nothing to do with any individual user. How would we even know who's accessing HN unless they tell us?
This sort of automatic block clears itself in 3 days, and in the meantime anyone in this situation can unban their IP as described at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. (You have to do that from a different IP address, of course.)
People are, of course, also welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com to get this kind of thing fixed. It's easy to take care of in specific cases and we're happy to help anyone.
Edit: I just cleared all those IP blocks from any time before 24 hours ago, so hopefully that will help.
Re: HN bans Hector Martin’s home IP address
#6well that's petty
It could be if it were true, but it's inaccurate. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37740928.
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#8Martin writes on Mastodon: “So apparently dang and the HN crowd are so upset I wrote some messages for HN visitors to our website, that they now banned my home IP address ”
He sounds a bit paranoid to be honest.
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#9HN has been under a botnet attack for several days. We had to lower the threshold for certain types of blocking in order to keep the site up. Unfortunately that leads to false positives, meaning some IP addresses of legit users get blocked. (It's not easy to distinguish between a legit user who is e.g. opening a bunch of tabs at once, from a distributed botnet sending a handful of requests from a massive number of IP…
Thank you for mentioning this! I tend to open a lot of tabs all at once and then read them one at a time. I got hit with the 403s suddenly the other day (when setting up a new laptop, terrible timing) and it flabbergasted me for about 45 minutes. When I got to the office it all worked just fine, so I never had closure.
Re: HN bans Hector Martin’s home IP address
#10well that's petty
I think HN has more than earned the benefit of the doubt here. I've been visiting this forum well over 10 years and have never noted heavy handed moderation[1]. When I've looked at banned users there is always a clear track record of abuse/violation of rules/spamminess. HN breaks sometimes but there's a big difference between intentional and unintentional DoS
[1] I don't like the shadow banning though