Request #43174

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Free Account
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Account Name: [personal profile] kara_mckay
Style: (S2) core: public, layout: public, theme: public, user: custom
Email confirmed? Yes
cluster: 10
data version: 10
scheme: celerity-local
Media storage used: 4.886 MB (1.0%)
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Time posted:
Wed, 24 Feb 2021 04:36:38 GMT (240 weeks ago)
Status:
closed (4 points to [personal profile] jennifer)
Summary:
403 Forbidden when I click most links
Original Request:
Whenever I try to click on anything but Inbox, Help/Support, or Post, I get a 403 Forbidden. This is the second time I've had this problem in the last two months.
Diagnostics: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/88.0.4324.182 Safari/537.36
jennifer: painting of a girl with flowing red hair looking out to sea (miranda) [personal profile] jennifer - Jennifer
Answer (#114018)
Posted: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 00:10:27 GMT (240 weeks ago)
Hi there!

I'm sorry for the trouble you are experiencing. It sounds like your internet provider may sometimes be assigning IP addresses from within a network group that is being blocked by our site's network provider as a source of suspicious traffic. The reason you don't see the error when accessing the main site pages is because those are proxied through Cloudflare.

If you will look to see which IP address you are using the next time you get the error, we can investigate further. You can use a tool such as https://www.whatsmyip.org to double check that information.

Best,
--Jen

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