How we keep spam, flooding and ban-evasion off the network, and what to do if you find yourself listed.
There are a lot of viruses, trojans and mis-configured computers on the Internet these days. Attackers use them to attack NationCHAT services, spam, flood or evade bans.
Because of this, NationCHAT implements the DNSBL service (DroneBL), which checks your connection in case you are using a misconfigured or open Wingate, Socks or proxy server. Don't consider this an attack on your system, but a necessary measure to prevent abuse over you or any of our guests and services.
Every person connecting to the NationCHAT network is checked against this list of abusable machines. These lists are maintained by different groups to help stop spam, phishing attacks and IRC abuse.
They have various mechanisms for finding and reporting hosts which have insecure proxies, trojan horses, or are otherwise allowing abuse.
It probably wasn't you. It was probably someone at your Internet address before you. For many people, addresses are dynamically allocated every time they connect, so sometimes listings are wrong and out of date.
Most RBLs allow you or your ISP to request a retest and removal from their list. The use of these lists has drastically decreased the ability of miscreants to spam and flood on NationCHAT; however, some people with dynamic IP addresses will get frequent false positives as spammers use their IP before them.
If your host is listed in DroneBL, don't fear. You can still get on NationCHAT by following these directions:
By connecting to any NationCHAT server, you are supposed to know, accept and want to comply with the NationCHAT Acceptable Use Policy (AUP), which is simply the rules for the use of the network services.
Enjoy NationCHAT!
Kind regards,
the NationCHAT team
Email us with any suggestions or comments. We read everything.
Send us the exact connect message and your IP address. We will check the listing and help you get back on.