Banned IP ranges get you redirected to plastic.com

June 26, 2001 6:45 AM

This past week I've tried to access metafilter from a public library computer and an internet cafe computer, but each time I've gotten redirected to plastic.com. Very strange - from my PC at work it's fine. I live in France.
posted by hazyjane to Bugs at 6:45 AM (6 comments total)

If you connect from an IP range that's been banned, you get redirected to Plastic. We talked about it here somewhere.
posted by rodii at 9:09 AM on June 26, 2001

Damn, I just searched again and found the discussion. And here I was thinking the French were newly banned. Sorry for the trouble.
posted by hazyjane at 9:40 AM on June 26, 2001

Didn't really solve your problem, though, did it? I'd suggest emailing Matt.
posted by rodii at 12:01 PM on June 26, 2001

Alternative answer: Jane, you've got to get me over there. This looks like it needs a service call.
posted by rodii at 12:01 PM on June 26, 2001

Hey, that happened to me too. And it happened today while in a Kinko's. I am now connecting from a shell account via telnet.
posted by rschram at 1:34 PM on June 30, 2001

What's the origin of this? Is this something Matt configured? Why Plastic, and not somewhere else?
posted by luser at 7:17 AM on December 19, 2001