ALL Chinese User -> 429 Too Many Requests, unfair

From what I can tell, wp.org is not blocking Chinese IP addresses, but there’s a suggestion that many users are coming through the same gateway at the same time, causing a situation where rate limiters may kick in. It has nothing to do with politics (yes, which is rare these days!).

@sterndata Well, Steve, now I understand it.

“[many users] are coming through the same gateway at the same time” , it may not real “users”,but some robots be controlled, they may plan to use some old version wordpress security issue (hole) to do something I guess, or didn’t want some users see something on WP related.

It’s not www.ads-software.com exactly.

See https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/is-wordpress-org-restricting-visits-from-china-region/

@jdembowski I got the link, I hope it’s not an ISP level DNS hijack .

• This reply was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by chrisqie.
• This reply was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by chrisqie.

Most Chinese users have not public IP, they are all in NAT and access server via 1 public IP from ISP.

It should not be limited based on the frequency of IP access.

@kmvan
PPPOE拨号变更IP，不会造成同一时间大量用户以一个IP访问WP， 因为每个用户的IP都是随机的。并不是NAT到一个单独IP，而是一批IP地址。
我个人观察，前端时间似乎一些ISP在调整网络，疑似访问部分特定网站（包括www.ads-software.com）的时候，大部分用户经过同一个网关（不排除是技术问题，或监管需要），这样在一些网站比如WP看来，是属于一种恶意的访问，触发机制导致429反馈。

@jdembowski Is the CDN’s problem?

Any news?

internat IP address not enough in china.

very very poor (ipv4) so Only companies can use it.

How to connect everyone to the Internet ? NAT

All ISP created the big huge Intranet and hundreds millions people use use it then NAT to a few internat IP addresses.

by the way
company internat ip — still 409

now I use vpn
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Don’t struggle,let it go, you have ways

@xadf 问题以前IPV4地址也不够，并未大面积、持续的出现409问题。 而是在中国政治敏感期70年庆典前后出现的，这不是单纯技术性问题。

这段时间不仅大面积IP地址被封禁ban掉，且很多国际网络线路，进入中国的时候，线路调配出了问题，造成极端的缓慢。之后虽然速度有所恢复，但wordpress的问题一直残留了下来。网络调整后，可能是ISP制造规则，把数量庞大的内部地址，NAT到很少的几个IP地址，规则上访问wordpress的时候，只能用这个几个地址。造成了409现象。至于为什么这么做，可能是便于集中监管，甚至是便于劫持。

推测wordpress官方针对这个情况很被动，没任何措施，没有针对中国的这几个网关IP放行开绿灯。

@chrisqie

I work for IT 20 years.I know internat of china.
You are being paranoid.

” 至于为什么这么做，可能是便于集中监管，甚至是便于劫持”
Are you conspiracy theorist????

Are you feeling every one set up you ????

@chrisqie @@jdembowski

WordPress is free and free of charge

It also has a Chinese version

WordPress is also free to upgrade and fix bugs

We should be grateful

During this period of time, WordPress encountered problems. All users need to upgrade. The server may be overloaded. Make some restrictions to prevent the server from crashing. Did it have any problems???

Please understand WordPress’s dilemma when you use all free WordPress.
Don’t speculate about WordPress or ISP or government without any evidence

It’s not Chinese style
We understanding

I did some test . it Verified @jdembowski’s words

It is not that any region is blocked, It’s a protection on the web servers.

This true

I just want to say

Thank you WordPress for everything

Hope WordPress to return to normal as soon as possible

@xadf
conspiracy theorist? 20 years IT ? Funny ,you know what you are …… don’t let others point it .

上网人群总量并没变化，wordpress却忽然出现这个问题，你说是因为IPV4数量忽然紧缺成这样？造成上亿人用几个NAT地址？ 只是更新了5.3一个小版本，429持续如此之久，你说是更新造成的？ 我指出可能的事实，你说我阴谋论？

It’s just Chinese style

I think this topic has run its course.