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Ask HN: Cloudflare not letting me through?

2 points by SeanDav 13y ago

Right now I can only see HN via a proxy. My normal connection has been giving me an error all day - is there anything I can do to fix it. The proxy is not allowing me to use search, even though I have theoretically enabled Javascript, so I can't see if this has been asked already. Yeah, that didn't work. Try again, perhaps later? Web server is returning an unknown error There is an unknown connection issue between CloudFlare and the origin web server. As a result, the web page can not be displayed. Ray ID: [some hex stuff] Your IP address: [my IP] Error reference number: 520 CloudFlare Location: London

pallandt 13y ago
Contact CloudFlare to make them aware of the problem? London system status seems fine, so if there is indeed a problem, they might not be aware of it (https://www.cloudflare.com/system-status https://www.cloudflare.com/system-status). Try a DNS cache flush and/or use Google's nameservers (8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4) although I'd be surprised if this fixed it.
- SeanDav 13y ago
  Thanks for these ideas, I will try them out. In the meantime I have contacted Cloudflare and await their response.
  - pallandt 13y ago
    Better yet, email kogir since he graciously offered to help: (nick) at (ycombinator.com) , Nick being his first name it seems.
kogir 13y ago
If I had to guess, your IP is banned by HN, and CloudFlare interprets our closing the connection as a connection issue. Since you've not listed your IP, I can't check, but if you want help, feel free to email me.
- SeanDav 13y ago
  email sent - thanks!