[Geocoding] Nominatim silently blocking IPs?

[Frans]

Hi Sarah,

thanks for the clarification.
Can’t check for further reasons, as Nominatim answers requests from our machine again.
Have to investigate at our ISP (and keep your answer for further reference…)

Thank you for your fast response!
Frans

Am 04.03.2014 um 16:55 schrieb Sarah Hoffmann <lonvia at denofr.de>:

> Hi Frans,
> 
> we rarely block clients entirely and there have been no blocks 
> added today for this address on the server. I've also had no 
> other complains about the server being unreachable. It might
> just be a firewall between the servers acting up. Could you 
> do a traceroute to check where the request is being blocked?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Sarah
> (part of OSM sysadmin team)
> 
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 04:31:33PM +0100, Frans wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> starting today, we can’t access Nominatim for reverse geocoding requests from our main server (149.47.177.199) while making the same request from elsewhere works as usual.
>> The IP has not been the source of heavy use and there is no 'Your IP has been blocked‘ message returned. The connection just times out.
>> 
>> Example request:
>> http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/reverse?format=xml&lat=52.508769&lon=13.433471&zoom=18&addressdetails=1
>> 
>> Is our IP perhaps on a subnet being blocked?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Frans
>> 
>> 
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