What's with failure to cross post to LJ?

[elainegrey]

Anyone else having issues cross posting to LJ?

Crosspost of Day 3 & 4 (Merry Christmas) to elainegrey@LiveJournal failed.

Failed to crosspost entry to elainegrey@LiveJournal: Client error: Your IP address is temporarily banned for exceeding the login failure rate.

I'm confused as whether the message about temp ban on IP address is DW's server IP addresses or what. I can post directly to LJ.

I really don't feel like tracking this down...

Comments

[cmcmck]

The Russians are playing the Chinese intranet trick- experimenting with closing their web to the outside, so it may well be something to do with that.

[conuly]

Wait, do you think that could be it?

[cmcmck]

It could well be part of it so how easy that'll make baling out is more than I know.

[elainegrey]

No, if this were due to a "firewall curtain" around Russia, the error would not be received from LJ. The connection wouldn't reach the Russian server to fail.

It's possible that (1) LJ put the bad password protection in recently and/or (2) enough people have had their passwords changed on LJ without fixing the crosspost password at DW that the DW servers are now triggering the hour block almost all the time.

[conuly]

That is not the answer suggested by LJ support: https://www.livejournal.com/support/request/?id=2107874

[elainegrey]

It is consistent with the answer given there. My possibility #2 was informed by the statement in the LJ support threads.

They do not state when the bad password protection went into place. It could be "recently".

"It's likely that you and your cross-posting plugin use different login sessions when connecting to LiveJournal" -- it is true that the crosspost function uses a different login session. You give Dreamwidth your LJ password and the function uses that to authenticate. It is not a "plug-in" though. The crosspost is not made from your browser but via the Dreamwidth servers.

"...that the plugin uses the same IP address for different users. " And this is true because the method posts from the IP range of the dreamwidth servers.

This then sets the stage from someone to use the wrong password enough to "exceed the limit of failed login attempts," my point number 2. It seems less likely that one person could cause 24 hour failures for dreamwidth, though, it it is truly a temporary ban. Many people who have changed passwords at LJ without making the corresponding change at DW could trigger the ban.