[ic] Lost access

[Peter]

On 13/09/25 08:18, davideth--- via interchange-users wrote:
>> While doing some testing on one of my sites, I lost access:
>>
>> "Too many new ID assignments for this IP address. Please wait at least 
>> 24 hours before trying again. Only waiting that period will allow 
>> access. Terminating."

Se4e the Limit and RobotLimit local configuration directives to see how 
this works:

https://web.archive.org/web/20171112171028/http://interchange.rtfm.info/icdocs/config/Limit.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20171115102852/http://interchange.rtfm.info/icdocs/config/RobotLimit.html

>> Is the a way of white listing my IP in interchange?

Yes but it's not a simple setting.  You need to write a Preload that 
will override the RobotLimit config setting if the IP address matches. 
Unfortunately I don't have the time to write one up for you now, but 
it's a bit of a hassle because it has to be done from a Preload because 
it's too late when AutoLoad fires and you don't have the full session 
available in a Preload so you have to access the global $CGI variable to 
get the IP address of the client.  It will require a GlobalSub being 
defined in interchange.cfg and then the Preload set from catalog.cfg.

As a side-note it wouldn't be a bad idea to add a simple config 
directive that holds a list of IPs to whitelist and/or alternatively a 
list of pages that can be accessed without triggering the counter.

>> How do I remove the block?

Remove the file corresponding to your IP address from the 
catroot/tmp/addr_ctr directory, so if your IP is 10.1.2.34 then you 
would remove the tmp/addr_ctr/1/0/10_1_2_34 file.


Peter