>>>>>>>>How is anyone going to know whether or not you have posted a link to a site?
>>>>>>>>Why, if the site is blocking your IP, would it be consistently *unblocked* just as frequently......
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I gave in my previous message a reference to a thread where I gave a link. The message is available for everyone to see.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>BTW, I re-tried again just in case and got this message in FireFox: "Sorry, myIP here has been banned."
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Post a picture - I'd like to see that message of the ban ..
>>>>>
>>>>>If you give me your IP address then I'll ban you from one of mine if you want to test.... :-}
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>>>>
>>>>80.200.53.19
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>>>>But it's a dynamic IP
>>>
>>>Try : http://86.143.41.42:44444
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>>Well, thank you - see attached
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>>If I go in via www.vtunnel.com I get - see 2nd picture
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>Here's an interesting statistic: I looked in the IIS log to see if I could identify the IP used by via vtunnel.com when you tried to access and there were at least a half-dozen hits on the site in the relevant time period - but all of those must have come from UT'ers reading the above address - that port has only been open for the last half hour or so......

You would be amazed (then again, maybe not), how much attempted hacking goes on out there. We see an average of 250 attempts/hour (and that is with rules in place to block an address after three suspicious attempts)