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I am using Astrill VPN (Switzerland). Unfortunately, this prevents me from accessing the Kodi forum. I am receiving error message below when trying to access forum.kodi.tv
*** I'm sorry, but you are banned. You may not post, read threads, or access the forum. Please contact your forum administrator should you have any questions.
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It is likely that the person before you that used that IP Address was a spammer.
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So, what to do? Possible to unblock Astrill (Switzerland IP) again?
Alsternatively, I seem to have an option to define domains to exclude domains from being routed through the VPN. I tried to exclude "forum.kodi.tv". This didn't seem to work and Astrill support shared with me that I'd need to know the full IP range that the Kodi forum is using.
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No, we won't unblock it. You may have that IP address today, then what happens tomorrow when you are assigned another IP Address? Can you force change the current IP Address?
Plus we have no idea which IP Address they are allocating you.
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I don't really know how the Astrill VPN service works, but it has been blocked for quite some weeks now (and I'd assume I'd have different IPs all the time). It's only Astrill's Switzerland IP that is impacted, other country IPs will work.
I can configure Astrill VPN not to use VPN when accessing forum.kodi.tv. To do so, I'd need to know the Kodi forum IP range / domain. Somehow excluding "forum.kodi.tv" does not do the trick. Can you help share? This way I should be able to keep using Astrill VPN, while accessing the Kodi forum.
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2019-03-02, 07:42
(This post was last modified: 2019-03-02, 07:42 by steve1977.)
That's also what surprised. I thought that it works that I get a new IP address assigned every time I log in / out from the VPN. And basically impossible that all are blocked (and none of the IPs from other Astrill countries). Anyhow, let's see how this works when you unblock me. I'll report back over the next days.
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2019-03-02, 07:44
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Sure, but I can't unblock anything until you provide an IP Address. I have no idea what IP Astrill VPN has given you.
Thanks. Got it.
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Ok, found it and removed the ban.
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so if I got flagged under the spammer's IP on the forum - my account will automatically closed/get banned? or I get it wrong?
I found such rules are not so wise if I get it right
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Ok, but what if the case when the user used some sort of VPN, forget to turn it off, comes at the forum, at getting banned accidentally?
In such a case, the only contacting the admin may help to get unbanned?
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Using a VPN to visit a forum and get a ban message, the user in question should have smarts enough to know what is happening.