FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Under this header, you’ll find the FAQs that pertain to those who are not a member of either Marbled Fennec Networks but may still be connecting to our network and making use of resources that we host or have noticed devices and endpoints from our networks connecting to their networks.

I was able to view your webpage and now I get sent to a….rude YouTube clip?!

You probably have been soft blocked, or someone in your subnet was soft blocked. What is happening here is that our volunteers have grown tired of dealing with a select few end users and have deployed a method of soft blocking their access from our website, usually only on the IPv4 side of the stack. If you are soft blocked, your traffic will be redirected to crude and rude YouTube clip or some other nonsense.

As a private project, we reserve the right to configure our network as we see fit and sometimes this is the final stop for some end users who have pushed the limits or refused to stop abusing our platform and/or volunteers.

I know you guys once had an email server, but now I cannot see it… (Part One)
There is a fair chance that someone within your /24 or /58 was found to be trying to use us as a relay, trying to SASL login with ‘password’ or jumping ahead in the protocol and it showed up in the logs. We do not tolerate any abuse of the mail server at all and hand out subnet bans at our edge router in an effort to stop these connections and keep the log clean. If you are being prevented from delivering legitimate mail to our server, reach out to Adrian over Discord for help.

I know you guys once had an email server, but now I cannot see it… (Part Two)
You might be getting dropped by the email server if you were found to be abusing the contact emails
for our Support Center or Network Operations Center. Individuals who abuse our contact emails will
find themselves added to our blacklist and will no longer be able to get into contact with either us or the FurrIX NOC. We have only a few fwoofs working on support for our respective projects and they do not have time for dealing with non-sense emails coming in, not to mention that anything involving the NOC has to be ran by the crew over at FurrIX before being responded to.

I know you used to run your own name servers, what happened?

FurrIX took over a lot of network level operations and was split off into their own project. We no longer control the name server, they do now.

I cannot seem to reach your network or various services via TOR?

This is by design. Our routers make use of a public list to drop traffic from known TOR exit nodes. This action is automatic and is done to prevent some of the abuse of our resources that we were starting to see this year.