I apologize for the offtopic question, but this really surprised me...I was trying to make a post over on the DallasMavericks.com message boards and it said I could not post because my IP Number had been banned from the website! What does that mean???? Thanks for the help!

 

D-Town,
An IP address is assigned to every device that is in use on the internet. It is the same as a mailing address at your house, different parts of the number get you closer to your destination. Since computers have become so popular and the number of machines on the net has grown exponetially network administrators have begun to use private addresses behind some sort of firewall or other device that will send all the traffic for the hosts behind it out as the same address. What probably happened is someone on the same ISP as you did something stupid and got his address banned, the problem is you and many others share the same IP as he does. Sorry about the long explanation, this is just something that I could actually respond to and know what I was talking about since I do it for a living. I hope this helps you out.

If you want to know some ways to try to get around this just shoot me an e-mail at my address in my profile or catch me on AIM or Yahoo. Later.

 

IP stands for Internet Protocol. In simple terms to non-network administrator types, its like your address in cyberspace. Without a unique IP address, the internet wouldn't work, much like the Post Office wouldn't without addresses. For some reason, your address has been banned. It could be any number of reasons, but the most likely one is that someone who uses the same Intenet Service Provider as you had the IP address one day, and was causing problems on that website, so they simply banned it.
Try disconnecting and reconnecting to the Internet. That might solve your problem.

 

Your "IP#" is the web/i-net address of your computer (during the current session).

Just as you have a street address for your residence, your computer must also have an address on the web (for the data you request to be sent to).

When you type in a URL, (Uniform Resource Locator) such as "f150online.com", it is converted to an IP# and your request is routed to that website.

The difference is that generally this IP# varies somewhat each time you "log onto" your internet service provider, or ISP.

So... your provider may be banned as opposed to you personally.

XLT_D

 

Hey XceLenT and Rons,
You 2 wouldn't happen to be in the IT field would you? I just thought it was funny we all made mention of the POst Office and all that. Regardless, I see who responded first so I see who has spent to much time chatting and goofing off, LOL. Later.

 

The two most popular forms of IP addresses, Static (never change), and (DHCP) Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (may change each time you logon). DHCP (most likely what all of us get when we logon to our individual ISP's) [Internet Service Provider] DHCP offers dynamic (get a new address when you logon) configuration of IP addresses and related information. DHCP provides safe, reliable, temporary and simple TCP/IP network configuration; prevents address conflicts; and helps conserve the use of IP addresses through a centralized address collection. Check out

http://webdesign.about.com/library/g...BIP+%2Baddress

to get a ton of info on networks.

 

D-townSVT

Your Current IP is registered to UUnet. I HOPE that they havent banned all of uunet.

tnt36.dfw9.da.uu.net

If you use dial up - try dialing again to get new IP.

Doug

 

D-town,

'Snake, XceLenT, Badbolt, and Doug are all absolutely correct.

To take BadBolt's description and turn it into "user-speak," Think of an IP address as a telephone number. Let's say you never physically move. Your IP address (telephone number) could be static (never changes). Now let's say you move a lot for whatever reason, your telephone number would change a lot. This would be dynamic addressing (DHCP).

There are a few instances where you don't physically move but the telephone company treats you like you do. This is not necessarily bad and is pretty much the norm among with Dial-up ISP's, some Broadband providers, and within corporate networks (if they designed did it properly).

 

Hey LOL, I didn't know this site had so many comp geeks.

I am one too, that's why I can afford an L. Well, that and being DINKs and all, hehe.


Anybody else here using Win XP RC2?

 

I've got XP RC2 but haven't installed it on any of my boxes at home.

 

mracer
I have been using XP since it was whistler. It seems pretty solid to me.... LOVE The files and settings transfer wizard.
One most corporations move to 2000 XP will be like a service pack...
Doug

 

There are different reasons for blocking an IP address besides someone pissing the webmaster off. One example would be numerous viruses TRYING to replicate from the address in question. I know that's what we do if our email servers are getting hammered daily. There are other reasons too. Don't take it personal if you can't get in.

 

Silver_2000_! I work on a contract for the (ok, let's just say it's a federal agency). We just got approval to run Windows 2000, 2 weeks ago. I kid you not. We might have approval for XP just before Blackcomb hits the streets. You have to have a committe approval to format a hard drive here.

So, I do my beta's at home. I have to test stuff on my own network. Don't wanna fall behind, ya know.

 

Thanks for the help!! I logged back on and was able to post my comments on the DallasMavericks message boards.

 

geeks ...