hd-bits.ro - banned for unauthorized IP?

**rahzel54** · 12-12-2009, 10:38 PM

I've been a member at hd-bits.ro for years with nearly 300GB of upload and over 200GB of download (24.07GB of traffic / month) with no hit and runs and not a single warning. One day I go to the site and I get this message:
Forbidden
Unauthorized IP address.
Reason for banning:

WTF?! I can't even access the site to contact an admin/sys-op. Their IRC channel has absolutely no one in it. I'm well aware of all the rules, and -- at least to my knowledge -- didn't break any of them. And again, I haven't received any warnings or anything. What does this message even mean?

Please help.

**anon** · 12-12-2009, 10:41 PM

It is possible that a bad user on the same IP range as you has been disabled, and they also banned all of it, with the side-effect of leaving you unable to access the tracker.

Originally Posted by rahzel54

Their IRC channel has absolutely no one in it.

Are you joining the right channel?

irc.p2p-network.net:6667
#hd-bits.ro-help

**rahzel54** · 12-12-2009, 10:44 PM

I'm very much an IRC noob. I just used the java IRC site here: http://java.freenode.net/.

**xuxoxux** · 12-12-2009, 10:51 PM

Originally Posted by anon-sbi

It is possible that a bad user on the same IP range as you has been disabled, and they also banned all of it, with the side-effect of leaving you unable to access the tracker.

They will ban an IP range as well as just IPs? Seems incredibly odd.