Concerning Forum Search and 404 IP Block

[Friendless]

Posting this here due to lack of a general or website related forum.

Attempting to search the forums (as suggested) for resolving an issue I am having, I get many results, about a fourth of these results end up providing me a 404 page and a picture of a cheese burger Kitty Cat ( http://www.backtrack-linux.org/6d371...4af14e5c07.jpg ).

That's not too uncommon, the issue is that when I see this Kitty Cat, my IP appears to be blocked from the website for an ~15 minutes as I have tested this on five different sources, each time just trying to find the resolution to my problem.

This in itself makes it nearly impossible for me to find a resolution in an easy manner.

For me, this is a perfect example of a TSA pat down, security believed to be in place that harms the customers and is believed to barley provide real security. That's my perspective from a customer, I understand I can not say how badly this page gets assaulted.

This means there's either a problem with the forums that may need resolved or perhaps I can push the suggestion of a slightly more relaxed system. Otherwise, I fear that if I just make a thread for every issue I have I will get the generic " YOU SHOULD HAVE SEARCHED FIRST!!!!oneonelven ".

If needed I will attempt to find the exact URL examples from the searches that are providing the 404 Kitty Cats however the process may take some time for obvious reasons.

[Archangel-Amael]

We will look into this.
Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

[sml156]

Look's like 4Chan ?

[Friendless]

I thank you for your quick response.

I believe the issue with the forums providing 404 has to do with the links including large 'highlights'.

For example:

http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forum...ional+features

Provides a 404 for me while:

http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forum...-fs-error.html

Does not provide a 404

[Archangel-Amael]

Again thanks for bringing this up. I have passed this along to the appropriate persons.
In the mean time I would suggest that everyone use google to search. It's generally better than the built in search feature any how.

[thorin]

Friendless it seems that your first example containing an apostrophe is causing the 404. I suspect there is some security mechanism in place that incorrectly treats that as an attempted SQLi and blocks it. If you highlight words without apostrophes then it works fine.

i.e.: http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forum...ighlight=mount