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Error 1006 – The owner of this website has banned your IP address

12 points by garyfirestorm ↗ HN
I dont get it. I visited this site sometime back since it had an interesting article on webscrapping. Now I try to go back to it, I get this cloudfare error stating that my (home) IP has been banned. I did NOT perform any webscraping on that site or any other site (on the internet) for the matter of fact.

I do perform webscraping on my company's intranet sites for genuine reason of pulling information and adding it to excel etc. my company runs legacy sites which are not exactly userfriendly and no one has ever complained to me in last 5-6 yrs of me pulling data internally for work purposes.

I don't understand why I have been banned from visiting a website of a company thru my home IP

edit - funny enough the site in question provides webscraping and data extraction API

more edits - grammar and more clarification

7 comments

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ohiovr
Fortunately MAC addresses are 64bit. I've not run out of them yet.
Genbox
For Ethernet, MAC addresses are 48 bits long.
egberts1
Probably confused an IPv6 with a MAC or something.

But nonetheless, it was good for a chuckle.

salawat
IP's are still swapped around like hotcakes.

People (and especially law enforcement) need to understand an IP address is not static or 1:1 with a person. So what likely happened is there is an ip range ban configured somewhere in cloudflare from when the IP you now have was in the hands of domeone doing something malicious.

So it sucks, but it is what it is.

cyanydeez
They can understand, but legally, there's no framework to negotiate that understanding.

When Charles Schwab had my newly received ip blocked with mysterious error codes, neither my ISP nor the first level support for Schwab knew anything.

The only way to fix it was my own generic understanding that my new ISP likely bought a IP block that was blacklisted.

Took escalation to Schwab's IT 2nd level to fix it.

But it's not really about knowing but the framework to rectify.

matt_heimer
You don't perform web scraping that you know of... many of the bots and scraping services pay for access to residential IPs that they get access to because some proxy client that was bundled into software you installed. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29285988

Are you using a VPN? Site owners can block VPN IPs.

Does your IP change, it could be flagged because of the previous owner.

If not those, have you checked your IP in the various online blacklists? For example, you could be blocked due to IP reputation https://developers.cloudflare.com/firewall/recipes/block-ip-.... You'd need to go to https://www.projecthoneypot.org/search_ip.php and check your IP.

Try contacting the site owner.

garyfirestorm
They don’t have any information on my IP. Also my (home) IP has been static for at least a year or two. I do have Mozilla VPN, but I can access that site with VPN. It’s just that I can’t access it with my normal IP. Strangely.