Spotware cTrader is BLOCKING me from logging in via my VPS?!

Created at 23 Dec 2023, 07:01
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firemyst

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Spotware cTrader is BLOCKING me from logging in via my VPS?!
23 Dec 2023, 07:01


Hello @Spotware,

Why is my account being blocked from logging into Spotware Desktop cTrader 4.8.30 from my VPS?

I can log in from Desktop on my local laptop, and the mobile version on my phone.

I can log in to other cTrader providers from my VPS (Pepperstone, IC Markets)

There are no 3rd party firewalls installed. It just started Friday morning 11am UTC + 8 and hasn't resolved itself since.

Changing the IP address doesn't help.

On my VPS, I can't even get to https://ct.spotware.com/, but I can view the web-based version of cTrader on Pepperstone.

Screen capture of the error in the browser when trying to access ct.spotware.com from my VPS:

 

The login screen never appears.

However, if I access ct.spotware.com from my local laptop, it loads without any issues:

 

Please help!

 

Thank you!


@firemyst
Replies

PanagiotisCharalampous
23 Dec 2023, 08:57

Hi firemyst,

Spotware does not block any VPS. You should contact your VPS provider instead.

Best regards,

Panagiotis


@PanagiotisCharalampous

firemyst
23 Dec 2023, 09:04 ( Updated at: 23 Dec 2023, 09:11 )

RE: Spotware cTrader is BLOCKING me from logging in via my VPS?!

PanagiotisCharalampous said: 

Hi firemyst,

Spotware does not block any VPS. You should contact your VPS provider instead.

Best regards,

Panagiotis

 

See first screen capture from browser showing the errors. 

How is it not an issue on Spotware's side if the browser itself is getting responses that it's timing out?

I've already spoken with the VPS provider as well. They themselves can access ct.spotware.com and the cTrader desktop from any of their other machines. I can run Pepperstone's cTrader, IC markets cTrader on the VPS, and visit any other website on from the VPS.

If it was an issue with the VPS provider, why would the browser show the error of “https://demo2.p.ctrader.com:9443/connections net:: ERR_TIMED_OUT” from the vendor-sentry.js file on https://ct.spotware.com but not https://ct.pepperstone.com/ ?

 

 

 


@firemyst

firemyst
23 Dec 2023, 16:05 ( Updated at: 23 Dec 2023, 16:13 )

RE: Spotware cTrader is BLOCKING me from logging in via my VPS?!

PanagiotisCharalampous said: 

Hi firemyst,

Spotware does not block any VPS. You should contact your VPS provider instead.

Best regards,

Panagiotis

More errors from Spotware's side in the web browser. You can see the offending code is in “vendor-spotware…js”

 

 

IC Markets and Pepperstone work fine:

 

So it seems to be specifically related to Spotware's systems.

 


@firemyst

PanagiotisCharalampous
24 Dec 2023, 06:04

Hi firemyst,

As explained, we have no reason to block a specific ip address. If the site is accessible from everywhere else, then it is probably an issue of that machine not being able to reach out to the specific uri, not the site in general.

Best regards,

Panagiotis


@PanagiotisCharalampous

firemyst
25 Dec 2023, 00:40 ( Updated at: 26 Dec 2023, 09:47 )

RE: Spotware cTrader is BLOCKING me from logging in via my VPS?!

PanagiotisCharalampous said: 

Hi firemyst,

As explained, we have no reason to block a specific ip address. If the site is accessible from everywhere else, then it is probably an issue of that machine not being able to reach out to the specific uri, not the site in general.

Best regards,

Panagiotis

You might not be doing it, but someone appears to be (AWS? A middle-man routing provider?) blocking, or not allowing, any addresses from the 77.90.x.x network.

My VPS provider responded that they can set up any number of fresh Windows 2019 Server VPS on the 77.90.x.x network, and it doesn't work anywhere:

https://gyazo.com/39e7237a672be8b5e5dcce07596ea304

However, they can set up VPS' on a London based network or elsewhere and it works fine:

https://gyazo.com/b61b565305b2cb46984e6a420ae9a80e

Also, doing a TRACERT on one of the 77.90 machines, this is what happens for them:

 

which is consistent with the errors received in the browsers (this is from Firefox this time as I've already posted errors from Chrome previously in this thread) :

 

So even if Spotware isn't blocking IP addresses themselves, there's definitely “network interference" going on that's preventing Spotware users of cTrader from reaching Spotware's cTrader servers, and I would think Spotware would want to take an interest in it to find out why network traffic from at least one network with the ID of 77.90 isn't being allowed to reach their servers.

 


@firemyst

PanagiotisCharalampous
27 Dec 2023, 08:26

RE: RE: Spotware cTrader is BLOCKING me from logging in via my VPS?!

firemyst said: 

PanagiotisCharalampous said: 

Hi firemyst,

As explained, we have no reason to block a specific ip address. If the site is accessible from everywhere else, then it is probably an issue of that machine not being able to reach out to the specific uri, not the site in general.

Best regards,

Panagiotis

You might not be doing it, but someone appears to be (AWS? A middle-man routing provider?) blocking, or not allowing, any addresses from the 77.90.x.x network.

My VPS provider responded that they can set up any number of fresh Windows 2019 Server VPS on the 77.90.x.x network, and it doesn't work anywhere:

https://gyazo.com/39e7237a672be8b5e5dcce07596ea304

However, they can set up VPS' on a London based network or elsewhere and it works fine:

https://gyazo.com/b61b565305b2cb46984e6a420ae9a80e

Also, doing a TRACERT on one of the 77.90 machines, this is what happens for them:

 

which is consistent with the errors received in the browsers (this is from Firefox this time as I've already posted errors from Chrome previously in this thread) :

 

So even if Spotware isn't blocking IP addresses themselves, there's definitely “network interference" going on that's preventing Spotware users of cTrader from reaching Spotware's cTrader servers, and I would think Spotware would want to take an interest in it to find out why network traffic from at least one network with the ID of 77.90 isn't being allowed to reach their servers.

 

Hi firemyst,

We have no other reports of such an issue so at the moment. If more users report it, we will look into this further.

Best regards,

Panagiotis


@PanagiotisCharalampous