[OZAPRS] Server down?

[derek]

Maybe you can have your IP or the internode netblock included as a filter 
exclusion.

Derek
vk5tcp
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Carey" <michaelcarey at internode.on.net>
To: <vk3jfk at amsat.org>; "VK / ZL APRS Users" <ozaprs at aprs.net.au>
Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2006 7:55 AM
Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] Server down?


> Unfortunately, I have a static IP.... which is good when I want to VPN
> in to my network at home, but bad, it seems, if I want to use Aussie
> APRS servers (-:
> I think it's easier for me to use the Japanese server...
>
>
> Richard Hoskin wrote:
>> The VK APRS-IS servers were badly hacked a few years ago. To stop this
>> happening again some aggressive software was installed which blocks IP
>> addresses to the servers that the software thinks is a threat. 
>> Unfortunately
>> the software gets it wrong sometimes.
>>
>> If you are blocked changing your IP address will get you back in. One
>> advantage of having a dynamic IP address. That's why your dialup
worked.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Richard
>> VK3JFK
>>
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au [mailto:ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au]
On
>>> Behalf Of Michael Carey
>>> Sent: Friday, 23 June 2006 11:48 PM
>>> To: vk2xci at aanet.com.au; VK / ZL APRS Users
>>> Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] Server down?
>>>
>>> I used to always have trouble with the Australian APRS servers
blocking
>>> my Internode ADSL IP address randomly for some reason. Right now I
can't
>>> ping australia.aprs2.net, while australia2.aprs2.net works OK. Both
are
>>> shown to be up and working here :-
>>> http://f5vag.nerim.net/php/tier2_stat.php
>>> Sometimes, I couldn't connect to either server while other users had
no
>>> issues at all. If I then got on-line via dial-up, I could connect!
>>> In the end, I gave up on the Australian servers and now connect to
>>> japan.aprs2.net with no problems, quite often vk5zea is up near the
top
>>> of the list. The Japanese server always seems to have heaps of
connected
>>> users, but I've never had any issues with connection refusals.
>>> Regards,
>>> Michael.
>>> VK5ZEA
>>>
>>>
>>> Norm, VK2XCI wrote:
>>>
>>>> Have I missed something?
>>>>
>>>> Is aprs.net.au down?
>>>>
>>>>
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