why am i banned from the chat?

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i went to the chat thing for the first time ever, and it says i'm banned.. why?

Can you post the exact error message given? Also, your IP address used at the time?

i'm not sure which part of this is the error message...

it said:
*** Welcome to CGI:IRC 0.5.9 (2006/06/06)

*** Looking up irc.freenode.net

*** Connecting to irc.freenode.net [216.165.191.52] port 6667

-72.161.38.95- *** Looking up your hostname...

-72.161.38.95- *** Checking ident

-72.161.38.95- *** No identd (auth) response

-72.161.38.95- *** Found your hostname

*** Welcome to the freenode IRC Network nicky-chan

*** Your host is brown.freenode.net[brown.freenode.net/6667], running version hyperion-1.0.2b

-brown.freenode.net- *** Your host is brown.freenode.net[brown.freenode.net/6667], running version hyperion-1.0.2b

*** This server was created Sat May 19 03:04:27 UTC 2007

*** hyperion-1.0.2b aAbBcCdDeEfFGhHiIjkKlLmMnNopPQrRsStTuUvVwWxXyYzZ01234569*@ bcdefFhiIklmnoPqstv

*** IRCD=dancer CAPAB CHANTYPES=# EXCEPTS INVEX CHANMODES=bdeIq,k,lfJD,cgijLmnPQrRstz CHANLIMIT=#:20 PREFIX=(ov)@+ MAXLIST=bdeI:50 MODES=4 STATUSMSG=@ KNOCK NICKLEN=16 are supported by this server

*** SAFELIST CASEMAPPING=ascii CHANNELLEN=30 TOPICLEN=450 KICKLEN=450 KEYLEN=23 USERLEN=10 HOSTLEN=63 SILENCE=50 are supported by this server

*** There are 24511 listed and 20610 unlisted users on 28 servers

*** 36 flagged staff members

*** 22675 channels formed

*** I have 4139 clients and 0 servers

*** Current local users: 4139 Max: 4719

*** Current global users: 45121 Max: 50795

*** Highest connection count: 4720 (4719 clients) (1441394 since server was (re)started)

and then it just said some stuff.. some message of the day or something...
and then:
brown.freenode.net- idoru set your hostname to "gateway/web/cgi-irc/wrongplanet.net/x-4193f81e0835aa92"

*** #wrongplanet You're banned from that channel

i don't know what my IP address is... i'm not sure how to find out. my dad knows, but he won't tell me because he's paranoid about hackers. i'm not sure what else to say... i live in Tennessee (near the Georgia border), if that's any help. i know someone else was banned because he lived near Tucson, AZ... but i don't live anywhere near there.

Go to http://www.whatismyip.com and it will give you your IP. Your dad's an idiot if he thinks you can't find it out without him.

here it is.... IP removed due to no longer being needed

but is it really ok to post an IP address here?? my dad made me a little worried about hackers, too.

Posting your IP is really a minor security risk at worst. Trust me, neither hackers nor crackers need to know your IP to target you, and most attacks are automated scans of thousands of machines at once. The only real risk would be if you had a static IP, and had known poor security (worse then usual) and something desireable, such as a Cray or a fractional T3 or better.

As to the ban, we've had to do a ban on all users of dyn.centurytel.com (which is your subnetwork and your ISP) because of repeated abuse by a single user over the last year or more, who is coming and attacking us on a regular basis. THankfully, we have recently been seeing Centurytel seperating various parts of their network more, so hopefully that will not be needed much longer, and we can be more specific and just ban one smaller subnet.

I am sorry for the inconvenience, but until service providers either learn to make it possible to narrow down the range of connections abusers will use (and it's not a very technial one, is almost always in that range or at one of two public libraries), or actually respond to our abuse reports, I have no intention on lifting the ban, as while it would be convenient for you, one user, it would subject the 80 some in the channel at any one time to more attacks.

can he use mibbit or is that banned too for his range?

i don't know what a cray or fractional t3 is...

anyways, thanks for letting me know what was up. it's not that big of a deal... since it was my first time trying to use the chat, anyways.. i'm willing to continue not using it, especially if it means keeping a troll from attacking my fellow innocent aspies.

Oi, bats. Couldn't you add +e's for individual usercloaks in this situation? This is pretty much how Freenode deals with Tor users who want to be able to get on when Tor in general is blocked due to the usual riffraff.

Better question: How many users can't get in in order to keep how many trolls out?

if you make changes to wikipedia when you aren't signed in, a robot will sign your comment with your ip address and that signature will be visible for everyone to see