Not only you, but everyone (members, guests, bots, ...) should not load any vB page for 15 minutes to have this reset!

yeah, that is why I followed dismounteds instructions about putting up a temp index.php so they can not login on the forums homepage, but if other people are on other pages, this wont help much. I will need to basically need to find another way to stop everyone except myself login access for the next 15 minutes somehow. any ideas?

See post #4, use a .htaccess to control this.

But you really will not get out of trouble until you either remove the proxyserver, or update it's configuration. You really should address this issue before even thinking of other solutions.

Okay did the .htaccess and it worked. I have now globally turned off the strike system. However overall, I will need to do what you said, either get them to change the way the proxy works, or find another option.

Thanks.

Since nobody mentioned this, I thought I might just throw this out for anyone else who gets in this situation with the login strike system: once triggered the striking system is restricting any account login (not just the one you failed to login to) from your ip address. This info is stored in the database table strikes which contains 3 fields (striketime, strikeip, username). After backing up the table and/or database (if modifying the database directly makes you anxious), you could (1) truncate the table strikes or delete from strikes where strikeip = <yourip>

i have dyslexic fingers and use this method regularly as an alternative to permanently disabling the login striking system.

How can anyone try to login using your IP? I would not spend much time in solutions to lift the block, but you should focus on he question how it is possible that others are using your IP.

Thanks man; perfect fix. :)

This information is much appreciated , as I was in a same position because of my proxy server.
I was pulling my hair for 2 days.

Thank You million times !

Had the same exact problem:

Fixed the problem myself.

My host settings somehow cause the forum to think everyone's IP is the same.

So I went to the control panel of my host and to the Mysql file. In the strike table, delete the file entries. This will let you sign in but won't solve the problem.

Then go sign into your forum , go to your Admin panel, and then and turn off the setting that makes the forum lock you out after five sign in attempts. In the Admin panel, go to Options = general settings = then select NO for this:

Use Login "Strikes" System
Setting this to no will disable the system that prevents a user (with a specific IP address) from logging into an account after entering an incorrect password 5 times.