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In a continuing push to reduce internet traffic from bots, spammers, and trolls, Warp from Cloudflare had been identified as a source of such traffic.

Imagine my surprise to discover it looks like iCloud Private Relay is layered on top of CloudFlare's WARP product.

Of course this wasn't before I'd already blocked that range at the firewall. (This block has since been removed.)

So if you found you couldn't get to the forums there for a bit... It may have been that.

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ddierker wrote: ↑31 Mar 2025 11:40 am In a continuing push to reduce internet traffic from bots, spammers, and trolls, Warp from Cloudflare had been identified as a source of such traffic.

Imagine my surprise to discover it looks like iCloud Private Relay is layered on top of CloudFlare's WARP product.

Of course this wasn't before I'd already blocked that range at the firewall. (This block has since been removed.)

So if you found you couldn't get to the forums there for a bit... It may have been that.

I have no idea what you just said, but the experience should be better so I thank you.

BrummerStealsHome wrote: ↑31 Mar 2025 12:23 pm

ddierker wrote: ↑31 Mar 2025 11:40 am In a continuing push to reduce internet traffic from bots, spammers, and trolls, Warp from Cloudflare had been identified as a source of such traffic.

Imagine my surprise to discover it looks like iCloud Private Relay is layered on top of CloudFlare's WARP product.

Of course this wasn't before I'd already blocked that range at the firewall. (This block has since been removed.)

So if you found you couldn't get to the forums there for a bit... It may have been that.

I have no idea what you just said, but the experience should be better so I thank you.

Make that two of us. Thanks for fixing whatever you fixed Dierker. I'll ask my 7 year old granddaughter to explain it later......

HorseTrader wrote: ↑31 Mar 2025 13:33 pm

BrummerStealsHome wrote: ↑31 Mar 2025 12:23 pm

ddierker wrote: ↑31 Mar 2025 11:40 am In a continuing push to reduce internet traffic from bots, spammers, and trolls, Warp from Cloudflare had been identified as a source of such traffic.

Imagine my surprise to discover it looks like iCloud Private Relay is layered on top of CloudFlare's WARP product.

Of course this wasn't before I'd already blocked that range at the firewall. (This block has since been removed.)

So if you found you couldn't get to the forums there for a bit... It may have been that.

I have no idea what you just said, but the experience should be better so I thank you.

Make that two of us. Thanks for fixing whatever you fixed Dierker. I'll ask my 7 year old granddaughter to explain it later......

Absolutely.

A couple days ago the forum was down Was this the reason?

Regardless, if it ends up making things better, more power to you, D^2!

I'm in the building trade, I do know that anything warped is bad.

Honestly, Im sure the geeks are thrilled with this post.

Thanks for the info. I wasn’t having problems with iCloud Relay, but when I was using a VPN. I had to add a rule to opt out of the VPN to access the forums. Is that to be expected?

— Bab

Encryption and speed benefits? Sort of like Signal?

I’ve been worried about this.

If the internet were America, he basically told the country of Belarus, alright, that's enough, you're sending us nothing but terrorists, gang members, and trouble makers, no more visitors from your country are allowed in the USA.

That's an analogy of the OP for those that don't have a clue what DDierker's talking about, btw, not a political post.

BrianButtonXP wrote: ↑31 Mar 2025 17:48 pm Thanks for the info. I wasn’t having problems with iCloud Relay, but when I was using a VPN. I had to add a rule to opt out of the VPN to access the forums. Is that to be expected?

— Bab

Yes, VPN clients are used by spammers and trolls, every time I identify an end-point coming from a VPN client that range gets blocked.