Comment by tourmalinetaco
1 day ago
I don’t think you understand what’s going on here. They misconfigured their CF and made it impossible for actual users to access their website. That boilerplate text means nothing. I submitted no words, no SQL, and no malformed data, merely a simple access request across multiple browsers.
If this amount of traffic across a small handful of users was enough to trigger a DoS, we should be getting proof-of-work captchas, not “you have been blocked” pages.
The site does work, including on Firefox for Android, for me in Denmark.
Perhaps there's an unreasonable geoblock configured.
Perhaps. I replied saying it worked for me on iOS from Australia. An aggressive US geoblock?
Blocked for me in Sweden though, seems unlikely they'd have one nordic but not another.
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Can confirm, I run my own stats on my own blog (no CF) and it's decidedly not easy to get dangerous amounts of traffic from HN.