If you are not using a gateway with LoRaWAN packets you should not send data to the life community environment. That environment is for the community to implement LoRaWAN solutions, not for other traffic.
Not sure how to answer the question of “I was doing something off-piste with the live community shared servers and it stopped working, why”
If you were blocked, we won’t actually know as we aren’t staff members here - perhaps you could contact TTI directly?
You say you were using UDP and you linked to a report on the update of UDP gateway server configuration. This seems to have a high degree of correlation.
This exactly. And TTI staff is also not going to have an answer for these kind of questions.
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I’m not seeing any widespread server-side problems today, so this seems to be specific to what you’re doing.
That’s possible. The Things Stack can (temporarily) block UDP traffic for a specific gateway EUI from your IP address if there is another active connection for the same EUI. This is fully automated and not monitored by human operators.
We actually updated some configuration related to blocking UDP traffic coming from different IP addresses. This should mostly improve connectivity for gateways with LTE backhaul, but it may also have solved your issues.