NSC - Access to Members' Private Documents

The private area username and password IS NOT your individual membership name and number. if you are not sure of the private area user name or password, log in the Bluebook with your membership name and number – the private area username and password will be available there.

When you try to open a page in the Private Area, you get a pop up window asking for an NSC user name and a password. The private area is protected against (real or perceived) attacks, and when you fail to log in 8 times within any 5 minutes period, The server considers your login attempts as an attack and puts your system’s Internet Protocol (IP) address on a blacklist, and home network IP address if you use one, blocking any new connection attempts to any nsc.ca page.

You will NOT be informed that your IP has been blacklisted. You will just get connection time-outs for ever.

This also applies if you are using the NSC office network when you are connected to nsc.ca via the club’s WiFi — and getting their entire office network blacklisted really upsets the staff!

So: to avoid being locked out, if you failed to log in with the correct user name/ password after 7 attempts, wait at least 5 minutes before trying again!

If you get blacklisted, the only way to regain your connection to nsc.ca is to send an email to the nsc-webmaster, specifying your current IP Address as seen by whatismyipaddress.com. The webmaster will then forward your email to the remote server administrator so he can remove your IP from the blacklist within the next working day.