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ft101 Jan 19, 2022 12:34 am

Some sites don't like you to hide. Cloudfare must have marked NordVPN IP addresses as hiding places for nefarious activity and put a block on them.

blairvanhorn Jan 19, 2022 12:37 am


Originally Posted by ft101 (Post 33915321)
Some sites don't like you to hide. Cloudfare must have marked NordVPN IP addresses as hiding places for nefarious activity and put a block on them.

Could be, strange that it's worked fine for over a year until yesterday (with many different NordVPN IP addresses). I'm hoping someone from the FT Tech Team will chime in.

Silver Fox Jan 19, 2022 4:18 am


Originally Posted by blairvanhorn (Post 33915211)
Yes, in my original post I wrote "I now need to deactivate NordVPN to be able to access FT" ... my issue is that I have been using a VPN for over a year with no problems accessing FT, and suddenly since yesterday I can't access the site with this same VPN. I'd like to understand why.

#metoo

blairvanhorn Jan 19, 2022 4:22 am


Originally Posted by Silver Fox (Post 33915575)
#metoo

Good to know I'm not alone, I guess 🤔 Thanks for posting.

rhg247 Jan 23, 2022 6:04 pm


Originally Posted by blairvanhorn (Post 33915582)
Good to know I'm not alone, I guess 🤔 Thanks for posting.

me also. very annoying.
Interesting...Switching the protocol to OpenVPN made it work again. YMMV

blairvanhorn Jan 24, 2022 9:22 am


Originally Posted by rhg247 (Post 33929333)
me also. very annoying.
Interesting...Switching the protocol to OpenVPN made it work again. YMMV

Thanks for posting; switching to OpenVPN doesn't work for me, unfortunately.

LIH Prem Jan 25, 2022 1:51 am

I'm having the same issue.

Blocking a known VPN IP address is not an effective security measure .. VPN use does not mean you're being hacked or attacked.

FT should reconfigure their cloudfare settings again.

-David

Silver Fox Jan 25, 2022 1:57 am


Originally Posted by LIH Prem (Post 33933090)
I'm having the same issue.

Blocking a known VPN IP address is not an effective security measure .. VPN use does not mean you're being hacked or attacked.

FT should reconfigure their cloudfare settings again.

-David

I think this is the issue. In a lot of people's mnds VPN = criminal activity.

blairvanhorn Jan 25, 2022 1:57 am


Originally Posted by LIH Prem (Post 33933090)
I'm having the same issue.

Blocking a known VPN IP address is not an effective security measure .. VPN use does not mean you're being hacked or attacked.

FT should reconfigure their cloudfare settings again.

-David

Absolutely agree. Very frustrating, especially considering that I’ve been using NordVPN for well over a year with no issues when accessing FlyerTalk.


Originally Posted by Silver Fox (Post 33933098)
I think this is the issue. In a lot of people's mnds VPN = criminal activity.

Ridiculous. I use a VPN mainly to access media content which is blocked in Europe, most often due to European data protection (GDPR) laws.

LIH Prem Jan 25, 2022 6:25 am

IB people, here's the cloudfare RAY ID

Error 1020

Ray ID: 6d31cfcfcfd40941 •2022-01-25 13:22:41 UTC

VFRonTop Jan 26, 2022 9:54 am

I'm also having the same issue
Ray ID: 6d3b3d37beca73f3

plunet Jan 26, 2022 12:04 pm

Whilst it might be assumed that this is some config change that cloudflare or IB have made to block NordVPN, but it could well be an IP address block on a wider range of IP addresses that has been involved in some inappropriate activity that has inadvertently included the NordVPN address range. Or something else entirely different.

As someone who has experience of IT Operations, and in support of IB techies, I cannot imagine they go around making random config changes and making configuration more complex than needed.
Having posted the rayIDs hopefully IB tech support can get to the bottom of this.

blairvanhorn Jan 27, 2022 2:17 am


Originally Posted by plunet (Post 33937775)
Whilst it might be assumed that this is some config change that cloudflare or IB have made to block NordVPN, but it could well be an IP address block on a wider range of IP addresses that has been involved in some inappropriate activity that has inadvertently included the NordVPN address range. Or something else entirely different.

As someone who has experience of IT Operations, and in support of IB techies, I cannot imagine they go around making random config changes and making configuration more complex than needed.
Having posted the rayIDs hopefully IB tech support can get to the bottom of this.

Absolutely agree, plunet

Ramz Jan 27, 2022 3:01 am

Hello getting that error code now using Nordvpn how do we fix?

rhg247 Jan 27, 2022 7:44 pm


Originally Posted by rhg247 (Post 33929333)
me also. very annoying.
Interesting...Switching the protocol to OpenVPN made it work again. YMMV

Unfortunately, this only worked for a few hours. Now I'm back to having the same problem.


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