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Amillar wrote on [[Wikipedia talk:Bots]]:

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I believe my IP address has been banned because I swamped the server with a
script. (It was retrieving and not updating, but being automated I suppose
it qualifies as a bot anyways. I thought it was slow enough, but apparently
not.) Strangely, though, my IP address does not show up in
Special:Ipblocklist. How do I go about verifying that is what happened, and
perform appropriate apologies and grovelling to get re-instated? Thanks for
any advice. -- Amillar 19:16 15 Jul 2003 (UTC)
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He was later much more specific on [[User talk:Amillar]]:

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The IP I'm having trouble connecting from is 216.99.203.72. Just to verify,
I resolve www.wikipedia.org as 130.94.122.199, to which I can ping and
traceroute but not open port 80. Thanks. -- Amillar 15:15 21 Jul 2003 (UTC)
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I thought this sounded easy enough to fix, since I had seen a list of such
bots in the /apache/conf directory on larousse. But after some grepping, I
couldn't find any IP address in his block listed, or his domain name
(aracnet). I'm out of ideas, does anyone else know what's going on?

-- Tim Starling