# Non-helpful error message when IP address already exists in list

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/non-helpful-error-message-when-ip-address-already-exists-in-list/49893>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [2016 年 9 月 8 日午後 2:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/non-helpful-error-message-when-ip-address-already-exists-in-list/49893 "2016-09-08T14:56:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![jomaxro](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jomaxro/32/126216_2.png) [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)\
**Post date:** [2016 年 9 月 8 日午後 2:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/non-helpful-error-message-when-ip-address-already-exists-in-list/49893/1 "2016-09-08T14:56:23Z")

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**Update:** Turns out the IPs were already in the list, but searching for only the first byte of the address, not all 4 would have search say “no results”. The error message should instead inform you that the IP is on the list already, and searching with only the first 3 digits of the IP should work.

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Our newest moderator didn’t read the delete user dialog properly and thus did not block IPs for a few of our recent spammers. I attempted to add them manually to the screened IP’s list, and got the non-descriptive error `Sorry, an error has occurred.`.

Looking at the console, I see the following:

```plaintext
ember_jquery-c9524b48466ee05bcf3f9ddaf05405387eb17017e61e90e76628f989db37eb4e.js:3 
POST
http://discourse.stonehearth.net/admin/logs/screened_ip_addresses.json
500 (Internal Server Error)
send @ ember_jquery-c9524b48466ee05bcf3f9ddaf05405387eb17017e61e90e76628f989db37eb4e.js:3
ajax @ ember_jquery-c9524b48466ee05bcf3f9ddaf05405387eb17017e61e90e76628f989db37eb4e.js:3
e @ application-68c6d08b0bee69dc1f8870c145e27753885b9d561bcef85076110e89ccf79c6e.js:1
_ @ ember_jquery-c9524b48466ee05bcf3f9ddaf05405387eb17017e61e90e76628f989db37eb4e.js:16
h @ ember_jquery-c9524b48466ee05bcf3f9ddaf05405387eb17017e61e90e76628f989db37eb4e.js:16
a @ application-68c6d08b0bee69dc1f8870c145e27753885b9d561bcef85076110e89ccf79c6e.js:1
value @ admin-6a4dbcad6f35782f7ee229b7692cac7097982d8bfe86e3c44a9315c0850af7db.js:1
submit @ admin-6a4dbcad6f35782f7ee229b7692cac7097982d8bfe86e3c44a9315c0850af7db.js:3
send @ ember_jquery-c9524b48466ee05bcf3f9ddaf05405387eb17017e61e90e76628f989db37eb4e.js:13
r @ ember_jquery-c9524b48466ee05bcf3f9ddaf05405387eb17017e61e90e76628f989db37eb4e.js:8
triggerAction @ ember_jquery-c9524b48466ee05bcf3f9ddaf05405387eb17017e61e90e76628f989db37eb4e.js:11
sendAction @ ember_jquery-c9524b48466ee05bcf3f9ddaf05405387eb17017e61e90e76628f989db37eb4e.js:13
value @ application-68c6d08b0bee69dc1f8870c145e27753885b9d561bcef85076110e89ccf79c6e.js:16
trigger @ ember_jquery-c9524b48466ee05bcf3f9ddaf05405387eb17017e61e90e76628f989db37eb4e.js:14
r @ ember_jquery-c9524b48466ee05bcf3f9ddaf05405387eb17017e61e90e76628f989db37eb4e.js:8
handleEvent @ ember_jquery-c9524b48466ee05bcf3f9ddaf05405387eb17017e61e90e76628f989db37eb4e.js:14
handleEvent @ ember_jquery-c9524b48466ee05bcf3f9ddaf05405387eb17017e61e90e76628f989db37eb4e.js:14
run @ ember_jquery-c9524b48466ee05bcf3f9ddaf05405387eb17017e61e90e76628f989db37eb4e.js:3
join @ ember_jquery-c9524b48466ee05bcf3f9ddaf05405387eb17017e61e90e76628f989db37eb4e.js:3
u.join @ ember_jquery-c9524b48466ee05bcf3f9ddaf05405387eb17017e61e90e76628f989db37eb4e.js:8
_bubbleEvent @ ember_jquery-c9524b48466ee05bcf3f9ddaf05405387eb17017e61e90e76628f989db37eb4e.js:13
(anonymous function) @ ember_jquery-c9524b48466ee05bcf3f9ddaf05405387eb17017e61e90e76628f989db37eb4e.js:13
dispatch @ ember_jquery-c9524b48466ee05bcf3f9ddaf05405387eb17017e61e90e76628f989db37eb4e.js:2
v.handle @ ember_jquery-c9524b48466ee05bcf3f9ddaf05405387eb17017e61e90e76628f989db37eb4e.js:2

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