jdavid

I am having a lot of problems trying to diagnose what the issue is. I don't work for DNALounge or know anyone that directly works there, I do love to visit their events regularly, but that has gotten more difficult over the past 6 months or so.

On my windows PC I've noticed that my external IP address can become blocked, and then I can only access the website from my Verizon Wireless IP address, either on the phone, or by hotspot connecting to my phone to access the site.

I have tried to get my Verizon Wireless IP address blocked, but it won't block it.

With my Sonic.net IP addresses, it will only block from my windows 11 PC, but not from my M1 Macbook Pro, running MacOS.

I get an IP block on my Windows 11 PC the most reliably when I click a number of DNALounge.com links in multiple tabs.

- It doesn't seem to be a cookie issue. - It doesn't seem to be a plugin issue, although I suspect grammarly might be involved. DNALounge.com does have a robots.txt file set up to block AIs, so I don't know if grammarly is triggering some sort of firewall behavior, or something else.

I am both annoyed at this, and puzzled by it, and most of all I worry that either I have malware running on my system, unauthorized code, or that somehow sonic.net home ip addresses are getting poor score with some sort of firewall service for servers trying to prevent bot nets or DDoS attacks, and honestly i might consider switching ISPs at this point as sonic does not seem worried every time i show that it's their network affected and not Verizons.

Does this affect anyone else using Sonic.net on a Windows 11 PC connected either via ethernet or WiFi? Either Directly, or through a router?

Again, for some odd reason, my mac does not trigger this.

the only 'provisional' request header that looks different is Sec-Ch-Ua-Platform: "Windows"

Has anyone ever seen such a strange intermittent or localized HTTP bug? The harder it is to track this down the more interesting the problem is to me.