>>>>>>>>>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.... :-}
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>80.200.53.19
>>>>>
>>>>>But it's a dynamic IP
>>>>
>>>>Try : http://86.143.41.42:44444
>>>
>>>Well, thank you - see attached
>>>
>>>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)

Hmm. But this was a completely obscure port (44444) and has been open in the past for testing without getting the hits - I still think they originated from people who saw the UT message.....
When I have I lazy moment I'll do a bit of 'whois'ing......