Permanent IP ban from Bnet?

[Lenny]

I'm beginning to think I've been blacklisted by battle.net.  It's probably because I left one of my bot clients on autoreconnect for 2 or 3 days.  That might'ev also been the cause of my slow connection for a few days.  Once I found out and stopped the reconnecting, my bandwidth went back to normal.  But battle.net still won't take me back 

Has this happened to anyone else? (or anything vaguely similar)

[Warrior]

Hmm, I seem to have gotten IPBanned for a long period of time (sometimes about 2 days) . I usually just try to reset my IP

[Lenny]

I've considered doing that.  But I would need to be offline long enough for my IP to be thrown back in the DHCP pool, wait for that to be leased to someone else and grab another available one.  That might take a couple days.

[Kp]

If your client was reconnecting so fast that it had a noticeable impact on your available bandwidth, you've got much bigger problems than being temporarily banned from battle.net.  Fix your client while you wait for the ban to go away.

[Lenny]

Well my client can have multiple connections to battle.net, I was loading 6 connections at the time.  So the reconnect was 6x what one connection would normally be.  3 connections on east and 3 on west.

[Kp]

That's still a negligible bandwidth consumption if your client has any reasonable backoff delays.

[Newby]

I've been banned for a day before, maybe two. I forget.

If it persists for over a week, I suggest you get another IP if you are really into Battle.net. Otherwise, move on.

[Lenny]

That's still a negligible bandwidth consumption if your client has any reasonable backoff delays.

It wasn't the bandwidth consumption that caused my connection problems.   It was the thousands upon thousands of reconnect attempts building up that slowly hurt my connection.  I'm uncertain what was happening on my ISP side, but my connection was progressively slowing down.  It came to a point where the bandwidth loss became noticeable, so I decided to investigate and found that my client had been trying to reconnect on the other computer for probably about 2-3 days.  Perhaps I should have set the amount of tries.  But I always left it on infinite since it had never given me problems before.

[iago]

In my older bot, I had it set so that no two instances could connect within 15 seconds of eachother.  So if I was running 8 bots, and got disconnected, they would reconnect one by one.  If they went on to get disconnected again, they would get thrown back into the queue nad wait their turn.  It might be a good idea to implement that.

I've had longish ip bans before for massive reconnects.  I find it easiest to reset my ip, since that takes me like 20 seconds

[tA-Kane]

I've considered doing that. But I would need to be offline long enough for my IP to be thrown back in the DHCP pool, wait for that to be leased to someone else and grab another available one. That might take a couple days.

Most operating systems offer a utility to release and/or renew the network interface's DHCP lease.

On Windows, you drop into a command prompt and type in:

ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew

I'm not sure what to use if you're using any *nix (including Mac OS X). On Mac OS 9, there's several utilities (I'd use IPNetMonitor). Those utilities may or may not work on Mac OS X, though.

[The-FooL]

When developing a bot, I accidently left it on autoreconnect for a few hours.  I came back from BNET and was IPBanned for at least two days.  It was only after I left and came back from a week long vacaction that I was able to connect again.  Just give it a while, several days at least, before you attempt to connect again.  Every time you try to connect while banned just prolongs the ban.

[UserLoser.]

You guys need a better reconnect system.  First start off with a few seconds, then double if fails, wait that delay, double it again if it fails, etc. 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 seconds and so on.  Works fine

[Warrior]

AFAIK doesn't Battle.net reset your time IPBanned everytime you try to connect while already IPBanned?

[R.a.B.B.i.T]

That's still a negligible bandwidth consumption if your client has any reasonable backoff delays.

It wasn't the bandwidth consumption that caused my connection problems.   It was the thousands upon thousands of reconnect attempts building up that slowly hurt my connection.  I'm uncertain what was happening on my ISP side, but my connection was progressively slowing down.  It came to a point where the bandwidth loss became noticeable, so I decided to investigate and found that my client had been trying to reconnect on the other computer for probably about 2-3 days.  Perhaps I should have set the amount of tries.  But I always left it on infinite since it had never given me problems before.

If you don't skim/clear the chat window (especially in VB), lots of text will cause the program to slow to an insanely slow operation rate, and use up a lot of cycles and memory.

@Warrior: Yes.

[Lenny]

That's still a negligible bandwidth consumption if your client has any reasonable backoff delays.

It wasn't the bandwidth consumption that caused my connection problems.   It was the thousands upon thousands of reconnect attempts building up that slowly hurt my connection.  I'm uncertain what was happening on my ISP side, but my connection was progressively slowing down.  It came to a point where the bandwidth loss became noticeable, so I decided to investigate and found that my client had been trying to reconnect on the other computer for probably about 2-3 days.  Perhaps I should have set the amount of tries.  But I always left it on infinite since it had never given me problems before.

If you don't skim/clear the chat window (especially in VB), lots of text will cause the program to slow to an insanely slow operation rate, and use up a lot of cycles and memory.

@Warrior: Yes.

My connection was slowed, not my computer...My client automatically removes older text from the buffer anyway.

Well I could release my IP manually, but the chances are, I'll get the same one if I renew right after.  I can take solace in the fact that my ip is dynamic, so I won't be stuck calling my ISP and buying a new ip...