[RE-RE-RESOLVED] AjaxLife banned by Linden Lab

March 3rd, 2008Downtime

[19:17 GMT, 3/3/08] And we’re unblocked!

[18:54 GMT, 3/3/08] And we’re blocked again! :(

[20:15 GMT, Wednesday] And it’s unblocked again. Theory: it’s blocked between 6 and 8pm GMT.

[18:32 GMT, Wednesday] And it’s blocked again. Please, make up your mind?

[20:37 GMT] Okay, no idea what happened, but it seems to be back now… fingers crossed.

There appears to be an IP ban on AjaxLife’s login proxy (which is needed to fix issues with LL’s login server). As such, the service is down until further notice. I have no idea why Linden Lab have decided to close AjaxLife.

I have no idea if this is temporary, accidental, intentional, etc.

18 Responses to “[RE-RE-RESOLVED] AjaxLife banned by Linden Lab”

  1. Gordon Wendt Says:
    February 19th, 2008 at 7:51 pm

    Fight it Katherine, send emails to support (many emails if necessary) call them, do whatever it takes. If there’s anything I can do to help send me an email at the email I gave in my comment (I normally don’t watch my own comments after the fact). It is a sad day if LL did it purposefully, why they would block a very useful and innovative tool I don’t know, but like many it probably was accidental or automated and will hopefully be rescinded.

  2. Ralph Says:
    February 19th, 2008 at 8:02 pm

    harumph. Fingers crossed it’s accidental. 3rd party viewers are necessary. I wonder if the server was flagged for having more than one account originating from the same IP? I had to unlock my account once because of that - heaven forfend both the wife and I use SL…

  3. Katharine Berry Says:
    February 19th, 2008 at 8:04 pm

    That’s my hope/guess.

  4. Benett Carter Says:
    February 20th, 2008 at 2:11 am

    I would doubt that its intentional, unless LL has a grudge against you because Movable Life still works…and besides banning your IP would partially defeat the purpose of open source, since that would discouraging utilization of it.

  5. habacook Says:
    February 20th, 2008 at 6:27 pm

    HI there,

    seemsitdoesnt workagain… I just tried to login but get the message this Computer can not acces Second Life… With the normal Viewer I can so has to be yours then… Sorry… Great Workand Ihope you willbe abletosolve this…

  6. Katharine Berry Says:
    February 20th, 2008 at 6:33 pm

    Grr. *screams at LL*

  7. Jen Says:
    February 20th, 2008 at 7:13 pm

    just tried movable life and its coming up with the same error message now aswell. anyone know of any other way to get logged onto im’s through ie? x

  8. Katharine Berry Says:
    February 20th, 2008 at 7:14 pm

    Heh. I wonder if they broke libsl logins, or decided that they were now officially going to be against these services without telling anyone.

  9. Henning Says:
    February 20th, 2008 at 7:19 pm

    Well, it seems like they banned all libsecondlife based software. My GroupServer bot doesn’t work since the last region update (neither from the server nor from my own computer), also all libsl based applications (like the libsl sample applications) don’t seem to work.

    Probably they just banned everything libsl related - maybe due to illegal activities performed by bots - but I think it’s not really nice not to send an announcement beforehand.

  10. Katharine Berry Says:
    February 20th, 2008 at 7:23 pm

    MovableLife is just not talking to me full stop. Also they seem to have abandoned encryption of your login entirely, and are thus violating their own ToS. >.>

    I’ve established it’s a client ban - sending a standard viewer login from the same IP works correctly. I’m experimenting with removing bits of login request - they aren’t blocking on any of libsl’s identifying information, so I’m guessing the formatting’s upsetting something.

    It worked between about 22:00 GMT yesterday and 18:00 GMT today, so it’s not a bug preventing parsing login requests either. Hmm…

  11. KJ Says:
    February 21st, 2008 at 12:15 am

    *studies the list of events*

    >> Server Software Updates..
    >> AjaxLife can’t login right..
    >> Hey! Dazzle wants to brighten your life!

    Coincidental??

  12. KJ Says:
    February 21st, 2008 at 7:56 am

    okies I was logged in for a few hours (clearing cache seems to have worked - thankies *kisses*) but suddenly got DC’d and am now timing out when logging in again… which if I remember right, is what happens when you are banned..

  13. paulie Femto Says:
    February 21st, 2008 at 4:05 pm

    Ajaxlife login issues with OpenSim seem to be resolved in the latest revision of OpenSim. :)

  14. Katharine Berry Says:
    February 21st, 2008 at 5:30 pm

    Hooray. Still crashing the default OSGrid home sim though. :P

  15. Smiley Barry Says:
    March 3rd, 2008 at 7:15 pm

    Linden endorse open source, and custom viewers, but they block one of the most successful ones? Shame. Just a shame. I mean, it doesn’t hurt them or something! It just allows more to log in at more times. Or, in “simple math”: people + AjaxLife = Traffic for Linden = More popularity = More people in SL = More money for Linden.

  16. Katharine Berry Says:
    March 3rd, 2008 at 7:19 pm

    It’s unblocked now! :P

  17. Henning Says:
    March 3rd, 2008 at 7:20 pm

    I don’t really think they are banning libsecondlife applications. Today, during the rolling restart, my libsl applications stopped working but are now available again after the wave of restarts has rolled across the grid. I think they are just disabling them for the time to avoid side-effects.

  18. Day Oh Says:
    March 6th, 2008 at 10:32 pm

    http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-1585

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