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Overview

This page contains information about user agents and IP addresses that have been banned from accessing Toolforge

Banned user agents and IP addresses

The following user agents and IP addresses have been banned from accessing Toolforge:

• Any requests without user-agent. Please set your user-agent to something recognizable.
• TweetmemeBot: T73120
• 70.179.6.9: T122307
• Chrome/38.0.2125.104: T122582
• Applebot: T134591
• QIHU 360SE: T313131

What to do if you are banned

If you have been banned, please review which of the above reasons applies to you. If you feel this is in error, please contact the Toolforge admins by creating a task in Phabricator or by sending an e-mail to root toolforge.org.

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