Anyone else having problems getting onto Comic Connect? 0

[Dr Chaos]

I was bidding on some books in tonight's auction and I suddenly got the following error:

 

Now I can't get back onto the site.

 

Error 1006 Ray ID: 3267c41560b6472e • 2017-01-25 00:56:32 UTC

Access denied

What happened?

The owner of this website (www.comicconnect.com) has banned your IP address (74.105.7.179).

CloudFlare Ray ID: 3267c41560b6472e • Your IP: 74.105.7.179 • Performance & security by CloudFlare

 

Anyone else having the same problem?

 

Thanks in advance.

[Diaolos]

I bought all the books. They had to shut down....

[Dr Chaos]

Well as long as the books went to a fellow boadie.

 

Seriously though is their site down or am I the only one having a problem?

[NoMan]

I just logged on. No problem.

[Diaolos]

no problems here either getting on

[Dr Chaos]

I got the books I wanted for today. Hopefully they can respond to my e-mail and fix it before tomorrow's books are gone.

[Dr Chaos]

Thanks to those that were able to get on the site for letting me know.

[Iceman399]

Its cause they had too many gifs and animations in their auction house

[BlowUpTheMoon]

You can probably get to the site via your phone if you are not using Wifi.

[Tomega]

I was bidding on some books in tonight's auction and I suddenly got the following error:

 

Now I can't get back onto the site.

 

Error 1006 Ray ID: 3267c41560b6472e • 2017-01-25 00:56:32 UTC

Access denied

What happened?

The owner of this website (www.comicconnect.com) has banned your IP address (74.105.7.179).

CloudFlare Ray ID: 3267c41560b6472e • Your IP: 74.105.7.179 • Performance & security by CloudFlare

 

Anyone else having the same problem?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

 

I am by no means an expert but ran into something similar years ago on another site. There could be a lot of things going on here, some of them bad -

 

- the site could have banned your IP. This is extremely unlikely

- it looks like you are going through Verizon but are you using a VPN client? That could possibly cause issues. Conversely it could solve your issue temporarily by masking your IP .

 

- more likely than anything else is there was too many requests coming from your IP. I am not familiar with Cloudflare but I do know there are settings for websites where they can ban an IP based on a certain number of requests within a specified time frame. This is to protect a site from DOS attacks etc.

 

- that means your IP could have exceeded the set threshold and a ban is implemented automatically. Most bans are temporary unless there was some type of history of excessive requests

 

- Comic Connect could have a threshold too low or your system or systems using that IP could be infected with some type of virus that is used for DOS. That last part is the really bad part. You may want to do a deep scan for a virus.

 

 

Try again , if it was temporary ban then you should be able to get on. I would still do a thorough , up to date virus scan.

[BlowUpTheMoon]

it looks like you are going through Verizon

 

Verizon FIOS!

[Dr Chaos]

Somehow my computer tripped their firewall / internet security.

 

When I called them they white listed my IP address so I could get back on.

 

All is good now.

 

Thanks again.