Is there such a thing as an IP ban?

Question

I ask because I cannot access certain pages on a web site. When I visited on of these pages today, it said that I did not have any access privilege. So, I cleared my cookies, temporary files, and history and I still can't get on. (1) Do you think this is a real IP ban? (2) Do you know of any way of circumventing one from the same IP address (i.e. your home)?

Answer 1

All I can tell you that there are sites that I have tried to get into and I get the same, "Access Privilege Denied". I can only assume that the webpage reads my IP address and the owner of the webpage only allows certain IP # to have access to the owners site.

Nothing to worry about.

Minddoctor, France

Answer 2

You certainly can ban by an IP. That is pretty much how all serious bans are implemented. When you go to a website, what you are really doing is asking the webserver for the webpage. In order to see the webpage, it has to be sent to you. But to do that, the server needs to know what your IP is (or how would it know who to send the page to).

The point is, your IP is available to the server administrator. If you did something wrong, your IP could be banned.

Those certain pages, they require you to have access privileges, right? Are you sure you have them? You can access the rest of the site, correct? Try contacting the administrator of the site for help.

Answer 3

Are you trying to access this from home or elsewhere?

If you are at work, school etc..........they can ban certain websites by either ip addresses or keywords. If you are having these problems from home i am not sure what may be happening there............Someone may have installed a site blocker there as well.

Answer 4

yes it is an eg of ip ban............

try using proxy sites to access those sites.......