Website detecting VPN and blocking me

JeunePadawan

Yo! I frequently go on a website called d2jsp.com and they detect my vpn. There are two ways to know that. First, if you're not logged in yet but you try to while using the vpn, it will say that the password is incorrect. Secondly, when I'm trying to post on the forums of the website, it says that they "detected that I am using a proxy" and therefore are not letting me use the website. However, only a certain (random) few different regions work. Sometime Japan will work, sometimes not. Sometime CA Toronto will work, sometime not. I switch between regions until it lets me in and post on the forums.

Is there a way to bypass this? This is utterly annoying and I need to use a VPN. Or at least to be using a different IP address than my current one which I can't seem to be able to change.

Thanks for the help.

kim

I also now cannot log in - at all - when in China, although I used to be able to. They have obviously detected and blocked my VPN. Is there any way round this, I go there a lot!

JeunePadawan

Still looking for help.

Vladimar

I doubt they can detect a proxy.  More likely they have PIA's IP addresses on a "block list".  I have trouble sometimes with Thunderbird processing my STMP email and craigslist blocks me too.  Thing is, these IP address blocks are not permanent.  It might work one day, not work the next, and then it works again.

There's nothing PIA can do if a site simply blocks the IP Address.  IFAIK, PIA's IP addresses are static.  There are about 19 of them.  You might trial and error each one and see if some will work while others won't in order to prove/disprove the assertion that the website is detecting a "proxy".

JeunePadawan

Is there nothing else I can do? I still can't connect... I'm using a vpn for this because I can manage to change my IP address (DHCP) through the common ways of doing so. If anyone knows of a way that always works for them, let me know please. I tried doing "ip release" and "ip renew" in cmd, connecting my pc to my modem and then reset router and modem, changing to a static ip but it doesn't work... It always comes back to my original ip address which is banned (I made a second account on the website. I had forgotten I had made one like 7 years before that lol). If anyone has a solution, I'd be really grateful towards you.

Thanks.

OmniNegro

If you do "ipconfig /release" and "ipconfig /renew" it loses the VPN connection entirely. Do not use this method if your goal is to use the VPN. Just disconnect from the VPN through the client and reconnect again to a different location. If the connection can only be made if you have an IP from one region, there are only that many servers in the region that you can have a chance at. And you have no way to tell it to use a different IP, only what region to use. It negotiates the server IP on its own.

Vladimar

Is there nothing else I can do? I still can't connect... I'm using a vpn for this because I can manage to change my IP address (DHCP) through the common ways of doing so. If anyone knows of a way that always works for them, let me know please. I tried doing "ip release" and "ip renew" in cmd, connecting my pc to my modem and then reset router and modem, changing to a static ip but it doesn't work... It always comes back to my original ip address which is banned (I made a second account on the website. I had forgotten I had made one like 7 years before that lol). If anyone has a solution, I'd be really grateful towards you.

Thanks.

I just registered at that site: hxxxx//forums.d2jsp.org/ while connected to PIA's "CA Toronto" Server.  They sent me the confirmation and I have an account there now.  It looks old and lame, but whatever.

So I doubt it's the IP Address.  More likely you have cookies giving you away.  What browser are you using?  Are you certain you are actually connected to the VPN?  Have you checked your IP Address?

Also keep in mind that (highly doubtful, but maybe) they are using WebRTC as an exploit to see your real IP Address.  To my knowledge, Internet Explorer is the only browser that is 100% safe in not having WebRTC hand over your IP Address, because IE doesn't have the functionality built into it.

JeunePadawan

It seems to be working now... It looks like my password was changed or something was wrong as I ever tried without any vpn on my phone and it still said that my password was incorrect. I tried the "recover lost password" option and it worked. By the way, do you know of a way to change my computer's public ip? I last night by going in the cmd, typing netstat, then ipconfig /release. I unplugged pc, router and modem for the night. In the morning, I plugged my ethernet port from my computer to my modem, then powered up the modem with it's cable. Turned on the computer and then turned it off. Plugged the router to the modem and my computer to the router. Then, once computer was started, I did ipconfig /renew and I still have the same ip. I'm out of ideas T_T

Thanks for the help.

OmniNegro

It seems to be working now... It looks like my password was changed or something was wrong as I ever tried without any vpn on my phone and it still said that my password was incorrect. I tried the "recover lost password" option and it worked. By the way, do you know of a way to change my computer's public ip? I last night by going in the cmd, typing netstat, then ipconfig /release. I unplugged pc, router and modem for the night. In the morning, I plugged my ethernet port from my computer to my modem, then powered up the modem with it's cable. Turned on the computer and then turned it off. Plugged the router to the modem and my computer to the router. Then, once computer was started, I did ipconfig /renew and I still have the same ip. I'm out of ideas T_T

Thanks for the help.

Your local IP address is provided by your ISP. If you did not keep trying to change things with ipconfig and just used the VPN normally it would change your non-local IP for you.

Vladimar

By the way, do you know of a way to change my computer's public ip? I last night by going in the cmd, typing netstat, then ipconfig /release. I unplugged pc, router and modem for the night. In the morning, I plugged my ethernet port from my computer to my modem, then powered up the modem with it's cable. Turned on the computer and then turned it off. Plugged the router to the modem and my computer to the router. Then, once computer was started, I did ipconfig /renew and I still have the same ip. I'm out of ideas T_T

As mentioned, IP Addresses are issued by your ISP and they have full control over that, however there are some methods that work.  I make a regular practice of exchanging my modem with Time Warner Cable, and when the MAC address of the hardware (cable modem) changes, TWC changes the IP Address.  In general the claim that the standard internet service package gives you a "dynamic" IP Address (subject to change without notice), vs. a "static" IP Address that they guarantee will remain the same indefinately, but my experience has been that a dynamic IP Address is not going to change no matter what you do.

However, trolling Blackhat World forums I have read of many methods that spammers use to get their IP Address to change, for reasons that are probably different than you or I.  Turning off the modem for a period of time (say 24 hours) is said to work for some people who have certain ISP's (never for me with Time Warner, nor when I had AT&T Uverse), however there are a lot of stories and they can't ALL be lying, so it is probably possible that some people can change their IP Address by turning off their modem, which seems to cause the ISP to "forget" what you IP was, and when you turn the modem back on it assigns you a new one.

As far as getting the ("your") IP address to change, those are the only two that I think are valid.  Lots of voodoo, snake-oil and dubious claims by anonymous people.  Personally I don't believe any of them.

My opinion, FWIW is that it is in the corporatocracies best interest to keep as many people with as static an IP Address as possible.  They don't want to have a bunch of people with dozens, or hundreds of IP addresses over (say for example) the course of a year.  (An IP Address rotation rate of say once a day, or once every two days.)   First this is inconvenient for law enforcement and other entities (like your forum, lol) that try to control and regulate people's behavior based on their IP Address.  Consider what would happen to the VPN (business) niche if everyone's IP Address changed every 24 hours.

An IP ban anywhere would have ZERO effect or meaning.  My bank gets pissy when I log in from my VPN.  They "sort of" rely on the fact that I log in from the same geographically appropriate IP Address and whenever I don't, the chance that they are going to throw additional security filters at me increases.  When was my mom's birthday (like I fucking know) and how tight was the pussy of the 1st girl I fucked in High School.

I don't think there's any single, "magic bullet" method of trying to get around the fact that IP Addresses are used to regulate internet connections, and the methods needed to circumvent those policies are dependent upon a User's specific situation.

drenah

I'm using now a specialized VPN from https://zoogtv.com, for I hooked to watching my favorite shows even abroad. So far I  didn't encounter any problem to access resources on a network I'm not physically connected to. As we all know, most VPNs are blocked nowadays which is quiet annoying. 

lithium6

Yeah, as someone who has worked with and have owned websites you get a lot of spammer attacks, people trying to create BS backlinks, etc, and you start blocking these visits by certain re-occuring ISP numbers, especially because they throw analytics off. The problem is just like anyone that wants to hide for legit purposes, so do people for non-legit purpose, so scammers also use VPN's. Because VPN services use just so many servers, obviously some will be blocked. If your VPN has a a ton of servers, you can go into your settings and switch servers out and you could find another one that hasn't been blocked yet, but that is just all part of the hassle of the system.