wrong bans from accessing site

[Lionheart]

Well, as it says on the screenshot, 91.231.55.236.
The spambots were on the grey IP's provided by my ISP, before I decided to rent this white IP for myself. Spambots sitting behind one communal IP was only part of the problem; I really wanted to have the ability to host stuff on the Internet - be it minecraft server, or a website, with all the ports open. ISP said "nah-nah-nah, you want the ports open - you rent a white IP specially for yourself". So I did, as I said, for over 5 years now. No spambots on this IP though, I check it sometimes at https://whatismyipaddress.com/blacklist-check

Edit: Pardon, I think I did not write it clear - my personal investigation into "why are we getting captcha every 2 minutes" happened 5+ years ago, and it took a week to figure out. I used a combination of local network sniffer tool, to monitor traffic within our network (had a suspicion one of the computers in our network was infected with virus, hence the captcha and spam) and using spam-email sinkohles detection (just googled spam databases).
Back then, I basically ruled out our house as the source of this spam, when the spam database reported there was a genitalia enlargement letter (that is also how I know what was in the spam, lol) two hours prior to me checking - with everyone in the house sleeping at the time, and power to the router turned off. Besides, I also vaguely remember the spam going out on ports 25 and 465, which I blocked in my router settings.
That's when I started calling my Internet Service Provider and complaining about other people sending spam on cheap communal grey IP's were ruining it for everyone. And switched to this one, been using it since.

[Buster's Uncle]

I don't understand what's going on - the ban log has you bouncing off several different IPs, none of them 91.231.55.236 or the one you're on now.  I've deleted the IP bans you ran into today, and I'll not be using the Russian jerks reason anymore - I've got a Latvian friend who thinks that's funny...  I never thought a human being would ever see it. [shrugs]

[Lionheart]

I'm using different IP's because when I try to enter without a proxy, it says I'm banned. So to even write this, I need a proxy or a vpn. I can turn it off now, but unless the IP 91.231.55.236 is unbanned, I think I won't be able to enter again...

[Buster's Uncle]

Hmm.  I don't understand why that doesn't seem to be on the list of ban triggers...  I'll go look again...

[Buster's Uncle]

Draz?  This has me stumped...

[Lionheart]

Seems I am okay now, thank you! My IP should be correctly displayed down there \

Edit: It shows 172.68.238.17, which is datacenter, Kyiv, Ukraine. Weird, but ok. I can access the site now at least.

[DrazharLn]

Seems resolved to me! The datacentre IP may be the Cloudflare proxy server that Lionheart is connecting through. Maybe the ban software looks at both the forwarded IP (X-Forwarded-For) and the real source IP of the packet (which will be the proxying cloudflare machine's IP) but the code for displaying the user's IP only shows the IP of the proxy server.

[Geo]

Guess who's banned from the forum? Right, my tablet when logged in through a hotel wifi.
But when I use my personal smartphone, and through my phone/internet provider (European non-roaming zone) I get through just fine, as this post proves.

[Buster's Uncle]

PM me the IP if you're going to be there long...

Where you touring this time?

[Geo]

PM me the IP if you're going to be there long...

Where you touring this time?

Thanks, but I leave here tomorrow. Its a midstop in Munchen to meet an old friend before continuing to my vacation address in the Alps.

[Geo]

I thought it funny enough to mentio, that's all.