Statick777 Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 This forum is completely inaccessible when I use my VPN. I normally use my VPN 100% of the time, because I live in the UK and our government watches and records absolutely everything we do online, holding all data for a year. I prefer privacy, so I use a VPN. Anyway. When I use the VPN (ExpressVPN, a popular provider) this forum is completely blocked, giving a permissions error on every single page including: my own profile/settings pages, the "log out" button also results in a permissions error, and even the "help" link that it offers me when it gives the permissions error, this help page also then results in the same error. Basically every page of the whole forum is blocked, and it's not very helpful. Perhaps this could be changed? VPNs are becoming more and more popular nowadays and it doesn't seem to make sense to block huge numbers of ordinary users this way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thandal Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 @Statick777; It's something to do with the way you've set things in your browser, or in ExpressVPN. (Or something in ExpressVPN itself, of course.)The Nexus doesn't do anything special to limit access through a VPN. I use PIA and have had zero problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoorlyAged Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 (edited) I have heard about this kind of thing with VPN before. When a user on Nexus is blocked, their IP address is also blocked. IUf that IP address is a VPN IP address, the VPN cannot access Nexus. Edited January 6, 2018 by PoorlyAged Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thandal Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 (edited) This forum is completely inaccessible when I use my VPN. I normally use my VPN 100% of the time, because I live in the UK and our government watches and records absolutely everything we do online, holding all data for a year. I prefer privacy, so I use a VPN. Anyway. When I use the VPN (ExpressVPN, a popular provider) this forum is completely blocked, giving a permissions error on every single page including: my own profile/settings pages, the "log out" button also results in a permissions error, and even the "help" link that it offers me when it gives the permissions error, this help page also then results in the same error. Basically every page of the whole forum is blocked, and it's not very helpful. Perhaps this could be changed? VPNs are becoming more and more popular nowadays and it doesn't seem to make sense to block huge numbers of ordinary users this way. @Statick777; It's something to do with the way you've set things in your browser, or in ExpressVPN. (Or something in ExpressVPN itself, of course.)The Nexus doesn't do anything special to limit access through a VPN. I use PIA and have had zero problems. In fact, I just switched connections to (appear to) be connecting from Manchester, UK. Same log-on, same access. No difference as far as the Nexus is concerned. :geek: [EDIT] And no, except in extremely rare cases, the Nexus does NOT block IP addresses. And even if that were the case here, the VPN user could simply select a different one anyway (as I just did to run this test.) Edited January 6, 2018 by Thandal Responded to intermediate post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Statick777 Posted January 6, 2018 Author Share Posted January 6, 2018 This is what happens when I visit forums.nexusmods.com with my VPN enabled It really doesn't look to me like the result of improper settings on Firefox or ExpressVPN - it's not that the page isn't loading, the page is loading correctly but with an error generated by the forum software, which has decided not to show me the forums I tried several locations on my VPN, all the UK ones produced the same result, but when I tried a location in Germany it actually worked fine. So I'm going to suggest there's some IP-based blocking going on, as the only thing I'm changing is my IP and this determines whether or not the forum loads correctly or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Community Manager Dark0ne Posted January 6, 2018 Community Manager Share Posted January 6, 2018 That will be because the IP address of your VPN is in our banlist. Someone using the same VPN as you was a very naughty girl/boy if that's the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Statick777 Posted January 6, 2018 Author Share Posted January 6, 2018 would you be up for un-banning these IP addresses? they're likely to be affecting quite a lot of people and, equally, whoever was being naughty resulting in these addresses being blocked isn't themselves being blocked if they can just change VPN location the same way I did. happy to provide a list of IPs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Community Manager Dark0ne Posted January 7, 2018 Community Manager Share Posted January 7, 2018 If you use the contact system at the bottom of the page you can send me the IP addresses. I can't promise I'll unblock them, though. It depends on why they were blocked in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Statick777 Posted January 7, 2018 Author Share Posted January 7, 2018 OK I have done that I'm also noticing now that some locations will work for a time and then stop, and then start working again some minutes later. A few minutes ago, servers in Paris, Amsterdam, and London all worked, then all gave errors, then all started working again. could this be a flood prevention thing, where it sees too much activity per minute from the same IP so it temp-blocks it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoorlyAged Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 I have heard about this kind of thing with VPN before. When a user on Nexus is blocked, their IP address is also blocked. IUf that IP address is a VPN IP address, the VPN cannot access Nexus. < prune >[EDIT] And no, except in extremely rare cases, the Nexus does NOT block IP addresses. And even if that were the case here, the VPN user could simply select a different one anyway (as I just did to run this test.) That will be because the IP address of your VPN is in our banlist. Someone using the same VPN as you was a very naughty girl/boy if that's the case. I see contradictory information. I used the term "blocked" to refer to the VPN IP address which belonged to a banned user and was not allowed to access Nexus. Thandal tells me No, IP addresses are not blocked. Now, Dark0ne says that IP addresses get placed on a "banlist". As I read it, a "banlist" IP is the semantic equivalent of a blocked IP. So Thandal, please get with Dark0ne and clarify. Are IP addresses blocked or banned or as you state " the Nexus does NOT block IP addresses"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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