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#81
Questions & Answers / Abuse alert from Google
Last post by Nordulven - August 03, 2023, 02:40:05 AM
Hey folks! Has anyone else been notified by HE that Google has filed an abuse warning with the source IP being in your subnets?



It seems like Google is on some sort of war path against HE?
#82
Questions & Answers / Re: Google forcing ReCAPTCHA o...
Last post by simondeziel - August 02, 2023, 08:16:57 AM
I too got an email asking to stop all automated or non-human activities toward Google's services. I asked for more details as there should be no such thing on my network and in fact, most devices are configured to use DuckDuckGo anyway.
#83
Questions & Answers / Re: Google forcing ReCAPTCHA o...
Last post by dittman - August 02, 2023, 07:31:40 AM
Support responded, Google is only giving them the /64 subnet but not the actual IP.  Google is being very agressive which is hypocritical because their bots don't honor /robots.txt.

I just blocked any outgoing IPv6 traffic to Google's /32.
#84
Questions & Answers / Re: Google forcing ReCAPTCHA o...
Last post by dittman - August 01, 2023, 06:26:50 PM
I was getting the captcha for a while but it stopped but today I got the following email from HE Support:

Hello,

Your tunnel has been seen as a source of automated google-services scripting behavior without adhering to Google's /robot.txt file.

Please stop all automated or non-human activities google's services through our tunnel services or your account will be disabled/removed.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,

Hurricane Electric Support


I've replied back asking for the IPs but I don't have anything configured to use google-services and I'm pretty sure I don't have any malware doing it.  Has anyone else seen this?
#85
Questions & Answers / Re: IPv6 tunnel and GeoIP
Last post by bartgrefte - July 30, 2023, 01:49:52 AM
Quote from: kamil445 on March 24, 2023, 01:36:25 AMFor example, Facebook use geolocation based on ASN, ASN location for tunnelbroker from hurricanes is US, Freemont, so Facebook always will think, you are from US. BUT if you have Facebook app installed and enabled geolocation in you phone, facebook sometimes update IP location based on phone location.
For exmaple sometimes Facebook think i'm from US, but sometimes think i'm from Poland, sometimes this  change everyday :)
Since Facebook and Instagram are from the same company, does the ASN location apply to Instagram as well? I've been getting banned regularly due to "suspicious activity", probably because my /48 ends up in the US while my IPv4 address ends up in the Netherlands. After objecting, my account keeps getting restored because no violations of terms/agreements were found.

Also, there's a Netflix like website ( www.videoland.com/nl ) that also is being a pain in the butt, it won't let me view content (for being outside allowed region) unless I disable IPv6. Tried contacting the customer service, all I got back was a checklist for basic connection problems.
#86
Questions & Answers / Re: What's the API's max call ...
Last post by kcochran - July 28, 2023, 10:22:28 AM
As long as you're only updating when your IP changes, you'll never hit the limits.  As noted in the API information, it conforms to the Dyn dynamic DNS API, whose return codes are documented at https://help.dyn.com/remote-access-api/return-codes/

You should only send updates when your IP changes.  Any well-behaved script should store your IP from the previous run, and only hit the API when there's a change.

We're reasonably strict on this, as there are a surprisingly large number of people who send updates every minute (or few seconds!) when there's no actual change to their IP address.  Virtual all of the rate-limit blocks time out in a reasonable period of time, on the order of minutes.  People who are on the level of updating every few seconds are a different story, however.
#87
Questions & Answers / What's the API's max call freq...
Last post by vitaprimo - July 28, 2023, 02:12:54 AM
The host that used to update my tunnel client's address doesn't exist anymore so while setting the cron job on another host and before I knew it I got distracted trying to do it in systemd, cron yet changed again in Fedora Server.

I ran the curl command a few times to see the output, to see if the output could be useful to do something else with it, e.g; directly updating nameservers, which made me forgot this is an API and that it must have a call limit and by the third command in a minute or so I got an "abuse" reply. It's a bit scary; I don't want to be banned or anything.

I sent three updates within a minute or so, before this; it was scheduled every five minutes on macOS' launchd.

So... two consecutive [successful] updates I sent could be the [near] last and [near] first of their respective <consecutive-call-timeout-period> but the third merely seconds after makes me think at least a minute must be passed before another update. I don't know; I'm speculating since I couldn't find information about it in the site.

Could you tell me what the allowed frequency please? (or share a link with the info)

Thanks!

#88
Questions & Answers / Re: IPv6 tunnel and GeoIP
Last post by MaZe - July 21, 2023, 06:32:02 AM
btw. Google won't recognize the following (which show up in the above geofeed) as valid country codes:

AC - Ascension Island -> should probably be GB
AN - Netherlands Antilles -> should probably be NL, or possibly one of BQ, CW, SX
AP - African Regional Industrial Property Organization ???  Asia Pacific ???
EU - European Union -> pick a specific country in the EU
OH - Ohio??? -> should be US,US-OH

My guesses based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2
#89
Questions & Answers / Re: Unable to use Google Searc...
Last post by Pentium4User - July 20, 2023, 11:57:39 PM
At least for the Frankfurt tunnels, Google search works fine again, no captchas, no error 403.
#90
Questions & Answers / Re: Google forcing ReCAPTCHA o...
Last post by Pentium4User - July 20, 2023, 11:56:22 PM
It seems that Google fixed it, I can now access google.com search without any captchas and without error 403.