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Old 14-07-2021, 16:21   #1
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Whitelisted IP issue

Hi all,
I'm working from home and regularly use a third party website which required my IP address the be whitelisted to access it.

I'm currently unable to access the site (connection timeout errors). I've checked with the provider and the site is apparently functioning correctly. One of my colleagues can also access the site still. I've checked my IP address and that hasn't changed. I use a split VPN which doesn't route general web access through its servers (at least I don't need to be logged into the VPN for accessing the internet) so I don't think that could be the cause.

As part of my process of elimination, I'm wondering whether there's any part of my Virgin connection that could have changed and be causing this problem?

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Old 14-07-2021, 22:15   #2
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Re: Whitelisted IP issue

Required to be whitelisted by whom? In my experience, it's usually the site hosting the website you wish to access or any firewall through which your IP address must pass in order to reach the website.

That said, you've mentioned split VPN. How sure are you that this has been correctly set up? The normal way is to specify target URLs that must go through the VPN (to the VPN server over a tunnel via Virgin Media ISP) and then, by default, everything else goes to the Internet via Virgin Media as ISP.

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Old 14-07-2021, 22:22   #3
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Re: Whitelisted IP issue

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Hi all,
I'm working from home and regularly use a third party website which required my IP address the be whitelisted to access it.

I'm currently unable to access the site (connection timeout errors). I've checked with the provider and the site is apparently functioning correctly. One of my colleagues can also access the site still. I've checked my IP address and that hasn't changed. I use a split VPN which doesn't route general web access through its servers (at least I don't need to be logged into the VPN for accessing the internet) so I don't think that could be the cause.

As part of my process of elimination, I'm wondering whether there's any part of my Virgin connection that could have changed and be causing this problem?

Thanks
Go here and see if you IP addy is blacklisted and if it is the VM addy or your VPN addy.

https://whatismyipaddress.com/blacklist-check
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Old 14-07-2021, 23:10   #4
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Required to be whitelisted by whom?

In my experience, it's usually the site hosting the website you wish to access or any firewall through which your IP address must pass in order to reach the website.

That said, you've mentioned split VPN. How sure are you that this has been correctly set up? The normal way is to specify target URLs that must go through the VPN (to the VPN server over a tunnel via Virgin Media ISP) and then, by default, everything else goes to the Internet via Virgin Media as ISP.

Thanks Seph,

The supplier that the website belongs to insists they whitelist every user's IP address. The site won't load otherwise.

This is a recent issue - I've been able to access the site fine for over a year. As far as I'm aware, only internal networks are routed via the split VPN and I can't imagine my company would be concerned about this particular site anyway to send it through the VPN.


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Go here and see if you IP addy is blacklisted and if it is the VM addy or your VPN addy.

https://whatismyipaddress.com/blacklist-check
Thanks. There are errors next to three of the servers. I don't really know what I can do about that though..?
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Re: Whitelisted IP issue

From my own experience, companies I've worked for orchestrate updates to VPN software sitting on a remote PC. The new version would implement whatever rules the company has decided it wants. Could anything like that have happened?
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Re: Whitelisted IP issue

Ended up being given access to the full tunnel VPN (IP adress already whitelisted) and all is good again. Not sure what the issue could have been, but seems to have been related to my IP address.
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