Posting anonymously

cee_jay

I am unable to open a new thread anonymously in Work Problems, State Benefits or Personal Issues.
I get the error message:

Boards.ie Message

You do not have permission to post anonymously in this forum because the country you're trying to post from has been blocked due to spam.

Anonymous posting is available from Ireland and UK IP addresses only.

I am in Dublin, on UPC broadband. Just did a check on my IP and it is showing as being in Ireland. I have no proxy running either. I have tried in both Firefox and IE.

Boards.ie: Danny

Howdy,

I'll have a look at this tomorrow for you. We use the Maxmind GeoIP tool to get a country for an IP address and according to their online tester you're being picked up as an irish IP.

Danny

Boards.ie: Danny

Hi cee_jay,

As I suspected the data files for IP to country geolocation on boards were out of date - we had you pinned down as being an Austrian IP. This should no longer be the case. Thanks for the report

Danny

Bumping this as I'm getting the same problem!

Unless I should have created a separate thread.

Boards.ie: Danny

Yeah, not a bad idea to create your own thread - the OP might be subscribed to this thread and will get a mail even though their problem is resolved

I've once again updated the IP data files, please try again

Danny

buffalo

I'm hitting this issue despite being based in Dublin... is gelolocation out of date, or is IPv6 to blame?