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Comment by magic_smoke_ee | Hacker News Reader

I can't use any of the kerbalspaceprogram.com domains because of improper discrimination against IPv6 clients triggered by CloudFlare.

    Error 1015 Ray ID: .... • xxxx-xx-xx xx:xx:xx UTC
    You are being rate limited
    What happened?
    The owner of this website (wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com) has banned you temporarily from accessing this website.

This sort of monoculture creates an Orwellian SPoF.

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I don't think it's an IPv6 problem. IPv6 clients are more static than IPv4, which is usually shared amongst many clients (at home) or at the network level (CGNAT).

It could be the address is being reused - is it home, cloud or corporate? Have you tried different browsers? Incognito mode?

I have an IPv6 block at home and have no problem accessing that site.

That isn't "triggered by Cloudflare". The operator of the web site has deliberately configured it to block your IP range, and Cloudflare is obeying those instructions.

Cloudflare owns kerbalspaceprogram?

No, wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com is a customer of Cloudflare, but the outcome is the same.

Then ask them to disable Cloudflare.

good luck with that

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