Trying to access en.wikipedia from the UK fails. Other wikipedias are OK.
Error message (extremely helpful):
ERROR The requested URL could not be retrieved
While trying to retrieve the URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:GeoTemplate/Group
The following error was encountered:
* Access Denied.
Access control configuration prevents your request from being allowed at this time. Please contact your service provider if you feel this is incorrect.
Your cache administrator is nobody. Generated Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:48:16 GMT by knsq11.knams.wikimedia.org (squid/2.7.STABLE6)
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.comwrote:
Trying to access en.wikipedia from the UK fails. Other wikipedias are OK.
Error message (extremely helpful):
ERROR The requested URL could not be retrieved
While trying to retrieve the URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:GeoTemplate/Group
The following error was encountered:
Access Denied.
Access control configuration prevents your request from being
allowed at this time. Please contact your service provider if you feel this is incorrect.
Your cache administrator is nobody. Generated Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:48:16 GMT by knsq11.knams.wikimedia.org (squid/2.7.STABLE6)
Works fine for me.
Oh, not some provider with a badsites filter run amok again, surely?
Al Tally wrote:
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.comwrote:
Trying to access en.wikipedia from the UK fails. Other wikipedias are OK.
Error message (extremely helpful):
ERROR The requested URL could not be retrieved
While trying to retrieve the URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:GeoTemplate/Group
The following error was encountered:
Access Denied.
Access control configuration prevents your request from being
allowed at this time. Please contact your service provider if you feel this is incorrect.
Your cache administrator is nobody. Generated Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:48:16 GMT by knsq11.knams.wikimedia.org (squid/2.7.STABLE6)
Works fine for me.
On 2/25/09 11:49 AM, Magnus Manske wrote:
Trying to access en.wikipedia from the UK fails. Other wikipedias are OK.
[snip]
Error message (extremely helpful):
* Access Denied. Access control configuration prevents your request from beingallowed at this time. Please contact your service provider if you feel this is incorrect.
I've got other reports of no problems accessing the site from the UK.
There are three reasons you might get a 403 from our squids:
1) "&" in your URL (tends to produce infinite link loops that broken spiders follow)
Doesn't appear to apply.
2) Missing or blacklisted User-Agent header
Could be something custom in your browser or proxy configuration.
3) You're connecting from an IP address that's been blacklisted due to abusive spidering
Not knowing where you're coming from, we can't really check this. :)
-- brion
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 2/25/09 11:49 AM, Magnus Manske wrote:
Trying to access en.wikipedia from the UK fails. Other wikipedias are OK.
[snip]
Error message (extremely helpful):
* Access Denied.
Access control configuration prevents your request from being allowed at this time. Please contact your service provider if you feel this is incorrect.
I've got other reports of no problems accessing the site from the UK.
OK, at least it's not the IWF again ;-)
There are three reasons you might get a 403 from our squids:
- "&" in your URL (tends to produce infinite link loops that broken
spiders follow)
Doesn't appear to apply.
Nope. http://en.wikipedia.org/ doesn't work as well.
- Missing or blacklisted User-Agent header
Could be something custom in your browser or proxy configuration.
Didn't change anything since it worked a minute before...
- You're connecting from an IP address that's been blacklisted due to
abusive spidering
I'm on cable modem so I'm likely to keep my IP, right? Also, would that blacklist only apply to en.wikipedia, or all sites? Because the rest works just fine. Even https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Main_Page works!
Hitting reload on the error message, I get lots of different servers knsqXX.knams.wikimedia.org (XX being a number) so it seems to be something systemic and not just a bad cache.
I'll just use the secure site for now ;-)
Magnus
Here are some recent IP edits (within the past few minutes) from the UK:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Improvisation&diff=273262801&a... http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conversation&diff=273262757&am... http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Double-decker_bus&diff=2732628... http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Outlook_Express&diff=273262902... http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Phil_Anselmo&diff=273262700&am...)
-Aude
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.comwrote:
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 2/25/09 11:49 AM, Magnus Manske wrote:
Trying to access en.wikipedia from the UK fails. Other wikipedias are
OK.
[snip]
Error message (extremely helpful):
* Access Denied. Access control configuration prevents your request from beingallowed at this time. Please contact your service provider if you feel this is incorrect.
I've got other reports of no problems accessing the site from the UK.
OK, at least it's not the IWF again ;-)
There are three reasons you might get a 403 from our squids:
- "&" in your URL (tends to produce infinite link loops that broken
spiders follow)
Doesn't appear to apply.
Nope. http://en.wikipedia.org/ doesn't work as well.
- Missing or blacklisted User-Agent header
Could be something custom in your browser or proxy configuration.
Didn't change anything since it worked a minute before...
- You're connecting from an IP address that's been blacklisted due to
abusive spidering
I'm on cable modem so I'm likely to keep my IP, right? Also, would that blacklist only apply to en.wikipedia, or all sites? Because the rest works just fine. Even https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Main_Page works!
Hitting reload on the error message, I get lots of different servers knsqXX.knams.wikimedia.org (XX being a number) so it seems to be something systemic and not just a bad cache.
I'll just use the secure site for now ;-)
Magnus
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2009/2/25 Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com:
OK, at least it's not the IWF again ;-)
Heh. Wanna bet? Might be Cleanfeeding - they work by server name. Worth seeing if anyone else here on Virgin Media cable is having problems.
- d.
On 2/25/09 12:12 PM, Magnus Manske wrote:
- You're connecting from an IP address that's been blacklisted due to
abusive spidering
I'm on cable modem so I'm likely to keep my IP, right? Also, would that blacklist only apply to en.wikipedia, or all sites? Because the rest works just fine. Even https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Main_Page works!
Hitting reload on the error message, I get lots of different servers knsqXX.knams.wikimedia.org (XX being a number) so it seems to be something systemic and not just a bad cache.
Rejections at the squid level should do the same for all our sites identically... Can you test with other browsers on the same machine, check for funky cookies, etc?
-- brion
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 2/25/09 12:12 PM, Magnus Manske wrote:
- You're connecting from an IP address that's been blacklisted due to
abusive spidering
I'm on cable modem so I'm likely to keep my IP, right? Also, would that blacklist only apply to en.wikipedia, or all sites? Because the rest works just fine. Even https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Main_Page works!
Hitting reload on the error message, I get lots of different servers knsqXX.knams.wikimedia.org (XX being a number) so it seems to be something systemic and not just a bad cache.
Rejections at the squid level should do the same for all our sites identically... Can you test with other browsers on the same machine, check for funky cookies, etc?
Too late, it's back to normal :-)
Disconnected cabel modem and router for a while - maybe new IP now.
Thanks anyway, Magnus
Herdict Web just launched today: http://www.herdict.org/web/
Looks like a promising system to track this sort of problem.
Sincerely, George / User:GChriss
On Wed, February 25, 2009 16:15, Magnus Manske wrote:
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 2/25/09 12:12 PM, Magnus Manske wrote:
- You're connecting from an IP address that's been blacklisted due to
abusive spidering
I'm on cable modem so I'm likely to keep my IP, right? Also, would that blacklist only apply to en.wikipedia, or all sites? Because the rest works just fine. Even https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Main_Page works!
Hitting reload on the error message, I get lots of different servers knsqXX.knams.wikimedia.org (XX being a number) so it seems to be something systemic and not just a bad cache.
Rejections at the squid level should do the same for all our sites identically... Can you test with other browsers on the same machine, check for funky cookies, etc?
Too late, it's back to normal :-)
Disconnected cabel modem and router for a while - maybe new IP now.
Thanks anyway, Magnus
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Probably a remote bot (they consume _no internet bandwidth_ when they are local) that was not going through an account, much less was it following rules in [[WP:BOT]]. If it is still operating, (maybe the operator took a hint and did some research), then during the next power failure, you might find yourself with a blocked number. If it is *not* operating, and your ISP's admin was not clued in, then again, the story concludes with some specific IP#s that can be unblocked -- tentatively. Ask your service provider, as well as a checkuser, if they know anything about it. Start with the talk page for your _previous_ number and abuse@localhost (that domain name actually works on a shell account). Then again, if the number was blocked for spamming, the usual motivation, then the trick for your admin is catching someone in the act (or just knowing what to look for in logs). _______ Nothing happens until you call for attention from the operator, and you will never like what happens when you call for attention from the operator.