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Administration => WXForum Bugs/Suggestions => Topic started by: broadstairs on April 04, 2022, 07:56:46 AM

Title: Strange topic notification
Post by: broadstairs on April 04, 2022, 07:56:46 AM

I just had a forum notification but instead of having the correct www.wxforum.net in the link it had an IP address which I did not notice immediately until Firefox gave me a warning message. The topic referred to was valid and showed correctly  when I visited the forum.

Stuart

I just checked again and the IP was correct for the forum and the certificate showed as the correct one for the forum, so unlikely to be a hack but perhaps a glitch as subsequent notifications are fine.

Title: Re: Strange topic notification
Post by: saratogaWX on April 04, 2022, 11:55:25 AM

Thanks for the heads-up, Stuart.  Would you mind forwarding the message with headers intact to admin at wxforum.net?
Thanks,
Ken

Title: Re: Strange topic notification
Post by: broadstairs on April 04, 2022, 01:03:56 PM

Sent an email with text file attached containing the full email source of the (now) 2 suspect emails created on behalf of the same user.

Stuart

Title: Re: Strange topic notification
Post by: saratogaWX on April 04, 2022, 02:19:25 PM

Thanks, Stuart!  I've received the two messages.  Very strange.. it's almost as if the hostname lookup temporarily returned the IP address instead.  I'll take a look.

Title: Re: Strange topic notification
Post by: broadstairs on April 06, 2022, 05:28:57 PM

Ken I had anther notification this evening same user same thread and same IP address instead of URL.

Stuart