So I’m primarily in the US, and recently I took a trip into Europe.
Everything signed me out because of the location difference, and as I was signing back in, one of my sites refused.
I was given the following message " You are connecting through a VPN or other source of misuse. Please use a different internet provider to log in (81.92.27.131 - The Cloud Networks Germany GmbH)"
I am most certainly not on a VPN, in fact I don’t even have a VPN on my computer, it’s purely because of the location change, but there’s no way to contact the site admin. The site doesn’t even have mods or a help desk, just an FAQ that doesn’t talk about this problem at all.
When I try to look the problem up, I only get responses from people asking how to use their VPN, not useful.
I also asked a Discord server, which told me there was nothing I can do but reach out to someone… That doesn’t exist on this website.
I’m at a loss, and very worried about the situation because I intend to move to this European country, and this website is vital to my side job and commissions online.
Maybe that site doesn’t like it when you use Cloud Networks Germany. It looks like that’s a WiFi internet provider. When you move to this European country you won’t be able to log into that site using the solution you used when you got the error. If you get a home or work internet connection maybe it won’t refuse those.
It’s possible that the site knows which ip addresses are usually used for VPNs. Depending on how the network of the city is set up. You could be sharing a public ip with a VPN server in the area.
Basically they have a SaaS provider, security as a service, like cloudflare and others including the one you are seeing there in your error, they filter based on IPs or ASN either known or on lists of VPN servers.
Basically good luck trying to get them to remove their filter, it’s like emailing GoDaddy about a c2, you honestly will be better off either using a proxy or vpn; Sometimes it comes down to getting residential proxies (dicey but widely used by goodish guy security professionals and bad guy security professionals (and non professionals)). If you say had a VPS make your own VPN and literally use that.
I see this a lot with cloudflare/akamai, a quick vpn server change or two fixes it. More than likely if you move you will have “residential” ip range once you get internet which hopefully should remediate your issue.
To block alot of vpns sites will sometimes use lists of known vpn locations. Cheap vpns are often blocked and from the sounds of it that place has had alot of users that use it that could also make the site block it.
It’s possible (even likely) that this IP has been used as something like a TOR host somehow and got published, causing it to be blocked.
Even if you move to Bavaria, you can still use a different ISP.
From the whois database:
route: 81.92.27.0/24
origin: AS20830
descr: PureWiFi - SE Network
route: 81.92.27.0/24
descr: The Cloud - Nordics PoP
That’s probably why you are blocked.
You can usually install a VPN server on your home connection and then connect your VPN client to this server. This way they wouldn’t notice a different location.
Happy cake day! Also, that’s possible? After I made this post I subscribed to a VPN and activated it back to my home state, and I was given the same error, just with a different country at the end.
Hm… I’m connected to the hotel wifi at the moment
How would I do that?
I don’t believe so. I tried on my phone as well as computer and got the same error.
That site probably has a giant block list of IPs it doesn’t like, like WiFi ISPs, VPNs, etc. This is a solution some companies use.
It’s possible that the hotel tunnels traffic from their routers to a VPN.
Or the site just thinks that the hotel is a VPN server based on the amount of traffic it receives from the various devices.
Hotel wifi almost certainly runs through some tunnels
They’re both on hotel wifi. I have no data in this country at all so I’m forced to connect to any place that offers free wifi