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    Neroxis-Map-Generator 403 FORBIDDEN

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved FAF support (client and account issues)
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    • maggeM Offline
      magge Moderator FAF Association Board
      last edited by

      To clarify: the VPN exit is located in a different country, correct? (Optionally within the EU)

      AFAIK, even VPN connections may encounter issues, as the RU state uses advanced techniques (e.g. deep packet inspection (DPI)) to analyze/interfere with network traffic.

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        Yandex_Support
        last edited by Yandex_Support

        Yes, I’ve tried German, Dutch, and US VPNs (and, just in case, a Moscow-based VPN xd)
        The issue started about two weeks ago and seems to be intermittent — very rarely, but occasionally, I’m able to create a map without encountering this error.

        I’m not very knowledgeable in this area, but it seems to me that the problem is not related to blocking or restrictions on our side.

        FYI: We bypass DPI checks using third-party tools (not VPNs), but they don’t affect the generator either.

        If I can provide any additional logs that might help resolve the issue, please let me know!

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          Yandex_Support
          last edited by

          When I visit the link https://api.github.com/repos/FAForever/Neroxis-Map-Generator/releases, I get the message:
          {"message":"API rate limit exceeded for 144.31.14.104. (But here's the good news: Authenticated requests get a higher rate limit. Check out the documentation for more details.)","documentation_url":"https://docs.github.com/rest/overview/resources-in-the-rest-api#rate-limiting"}
          The IP is Dutch, which I assume belongs to the launcher servers. So, if I understand correctly, the launcher has exceeded the GitHub API rate limit.

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          • maggeM Offline
            magge Moderator FAF Association Board
            last edited by

            Indeed, you encounter API limiting on your VPN IPs. Most likely the VPNs are already used by lot of other people and cause significant traffic. (Or it gets limited due security concerns)

            To resolve this, you need to find a higher quality VPN service, where its servers are not getting limited.

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            • Brutus5000B Offline
              Brutus5000 FAF Server Admin
              last edited by

              VPNs use one ip address for many many users. Most rate limiting techniques assumes one ip = one user. So the overall Github usage of all VPN users can cause the rate limit to trigger.

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              Not much has changed, but they live underwater
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                Yandex_Support @magge
                last edited by Yandex_Support

                @magge But my friends are getting exactly the same error with the same IP address, and he dont use VPN. Likewise, I also get the same error without using a VPN, from that same Dutch IP (144.31.14.104), which is not associated with me or my friends in any way.

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                  plum-
                  last edited by

                  • same error
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                    Vesel4aK
                    last edited by

                    +same error
                    {"message":"API rate limit exceeded for 144.31.14.104. (But here's the good news: Authenticated requests get a higher rate limit. Check out the documentation for more details.)","documentation_url":"https://docs.github.com/rest/overview/resources-in-the-rest-api#rate-limiting"}

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                      Yandex_Support
                      last edited by

                      so:

                      Without a VPN, my IP address is 123.
                      With a US VPN, my IP address is 321.
                      With another VPN, it’s 222.

                      Four of my friends, under the same conditions, have even more IP combinations.

                      However, when accessing the API
                      https://api.github.com/repos/FAForever/Neroxis-Map-Generator/releases,
                      we all get the same error:

                      {"message":"API rate limit exceeded for 144.31.14.104"}

                      We don’t know what the IP address 144.31.14.104 is, as it doesn’t belong to any of us.

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                        Yandex_Support
                        last edited by

                        The issue was on our side ( xd ) — we needed to remove the GitHub Copilot entries from the hosts file
                        thank you all!

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