Classic British Flight Sim

Something needs to be done about this Spamhaus filter we have on this forum. Most of time when I try to post on this forum I get blocked by Smaphaus with one of the messages like those listed below. I know it may seam like I have not posted much on the forum recently, but that is not because of lack of trying. I given how many times I get blocked I think this should be removed.

I try switching between my local wifi, cell phone connection, company VPN, usually the same result.

Note it took me three times to try to post this message.



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That's quite some list, Joe.
I see that your IP changes all the time. I had a string of these SH blocks a while back, but I can't remember now whether they used my given IP or not. AFAIK, Malwarebytes puts out a fake location for me; I don't know if that's generally a good thing or not. I leave all the tech stuff to smart people. Ben springs to mind

We had a similar thing going on over at SOH with several US ISPs blocking SOH traffic when we switched from a .com suffix to a .org suffix when we were in danger of losing the domain name due to a bereavement. When we switched suffix the ISPs considered us a new site and therefore restricted access despite our best efforts to prove we were the same place with just a switch of server/host/suffix. They also claimed (wrongly) that we were a site distributing pirated software and porn because we had a file library that people could access that had freeware flight simulator model files and repaints for payware aircraft uploaded by the creators and were readily available to users!

The easiest solution in our case was to tell affected members to go into their ISP provided router software panel and turn off the default 'nanny' mode so that it didn't block access to the SOH domain. Maybe you have something similar going on Joe and a setting change on your router might solve the issue.

Tako_Kichi wrote: ↑

25 Sep 2025, 14:57

The easiest solution in our case was to tell affected members to go into their ISP provided router software panel and turn off the default 'nanny' mode so that it didn't block access to the SOH domain. Maybe you have something similar going on Joe and a setting change on your router might solve the issue.

I am sorry but that is not practical. I have tried this on my home wifi, wifi in my office, cell phone coverage and with our company VPN turned of and off. The problem is Spamhaus itself, it need to go.

I just entered all of the IP addresses I showed above to see who owns the IP addresses, they are all owned by CLOUDFLARENET, is this forum using cloudflare to protect itself, in which case spamhaus is only seeing cloudflares IP addresses.

Update one:

My first attempt to post this comment failed, message

Your IP 172.70.214.197 has been blocked because it is blacklisted. For details please see https://check.spamhaus.org/listed/?sear ... 70.214.197.

But when I open dnschecker it says my IP address is 209.196.208.65 and its owned by SIRIUSSATRADIO which is correct as I am in my office.

This is try 4 to post this.

I think spamhaus is blocking all cloudflare IP address coming from the United States. I think using both Cloudflare and Spamhaus is probably a mistake, use one or the other but not both.

Post 1 error
Your IP 172.70.214.196 has been blocked because it is blacklisted. For details please see https://check.spamhaus.org/listed/?sear ... 70.214.196.

It's baaaaack!
This morning, I tried posting Wordle, and was locked out. They said you can only fix it by contacting your ISP; having previously done that, and being told it's nothing to do with us, I didn't bother.
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Later in the day, everything is fine

It is still happening for me also, but if I start some VPN software and tunnel into Canada I can post.