There was indeed a problem with our proxy database server yesterday,
which we fixed. Strongbox includes two different features that should
prevent this from cauing a problem, but some installations had a bug such
that when our server was down some members had difficulty logging in.
Kudos to cd34 for posting the workaround.
Though the server should be good to go now, anyone with affected sites may
want to grab the updated proxycheck.pl and isp.pl files. The new files can be uploaded
to cgi-bin/sblogin/. If you installation is old enough to be installed in /login/ you don't
have or need these files.
I suggest renaming the two old files before uploading the new ones, so you can
easily switch back if you have difficulty logging in with the new ones.
The new ones will also make the login process faster after themember has already
logged in once, as part of the fix was related to the local caching of country,
proxy, and ISP information.
The updated files can be found at:
http://www.bettercgi.com/tmp/proxycheck.txt
http://www.bettercgi.com/tmp/isp.txt
Rename the files to ".pl" instead of ".txt".