Blacklisted by Snoqualmie

softwerkslex · **Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2016 11:18 am

Hey guys at Northwest Railway Museum. When I try to view your site, trainmuseum.org, I get a banner saying "403: Access Forbidden" and "your location (DK) has been blacklisted".

Not a very friendly invitation to us NATO partners.

70000 · **Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2016 11:42 am

Appears to work OK from the UK.............

(Perhaps it's getting DK confused with DPRK !)

sbhunterca · **Joined:** Sun Aug 22, 2004 7:58 am **Posts:** 728

Working OK from Ontario on Firefox 44.02. What on Earth has Denmark done to upset them!

Steve Hunter

M Austin · **Joined:** Sat Feb 05, 2005 1:05 am **Posts:** 488

Not a fluke:

403: Access Forbidden
Your location (PH) has been blacklisted.

Bobharbison · **Joined:** Fri Dec 03, 2004 9:42 pm **Posts:** 3010

sbhunterca wrote:

Working OK from Ontario on Firefox 44.02. What on Earth has Denmark done to upset them!

Steve Hunter

Guessing it's an over-enthusiastic response to spam and/or hacking attempts.

The problem with those things is that you end up blocking legitimate users, while the hackers simply use a proxy server. It's a no-win situation.

WesternStar · **Joined:** Sun Oct 30, 2005 12:15 am **Posts:** 170

I'll see what we can arrange for Denmark! Most EU countries are supposed to be admitted, but the ip filters are imperfect.

Ip filtering is pretty much the new reality for web hosting. We were receiving thousands of brute force attacks per day, which was actually preventing access for everyone. You think you have it covered when you block Romania, Russia, China, Brazil, and Nigeria. Then another country pops up. Easier to just pick a list of countries that are least likely to tolerate that type of crime.

Richard R. Anderson
Executive Director
Northwest Railway Museum

Pat Fahey · **Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2016 9:29 pm

Hi
Just tried it , works fine here in Mass , using Firefox 44.02, Pat

WesternStar · **Joined:** Sun Oct 30, 2005 12:15 am **Posts:** 170

Denmark is now a trusted visitor. Steve should be able to view all the pages on this site, but he may not be able to purchase advance tickets due to regional ip blocking used by the ecommerce application. Sorry!

Don't miss the blog pages hosted by Google: http://www.trainmuseum.blogspot.com

Regards,

Richard R. Anderson
Executive Director
Northwest Railway Museum
http://www.trainmuseum.org

softwerkslex · **Posted:** Tue Mar 22, 2016 4:39 am

Yes it works now.

Look out your window and see if the Vikings are coming.

softwerkslex · **Posted:** Tue Mar 22, 2016 4:59 am

p.s. when I view the blogspot, it switches to a Danish hosted site and all the menus are in Danish.

WesternStar · **Joined:** Sun Oct 30, 2005 12:15 am **Posts:** 170

softwerkslex wrote:

Yes it works now.

Look out your window and see if the Vikings are coming.

Vikings arrived about 125 years ago and have settled throughout the region. Apparently, many of them have an obsession with Alaskan crab fishing, but a few are into railroad history and actively volunteer at the Northwest Railway Museum. You'd be welcome too - Iceland Air flies into Seattle!

--R