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Hello, this is my website and I do not know what you mean by this. If you give me technical details (like the subnet your operating out of), I can take a look at it.

My webserver is using crowdsec (https://www.crowdsec.net) to ban malicious IPs and I would guess that you are somehow unintentionally affected by this.

You can also test your IP by entering it into the crowdsec website to see if it is affected.

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There you go then. Thank you for confirming my determination of IP blocking. The archive link above may work for the users you censor.

Paying $1900/month for an IP address blocklist for a website? Yikes.

Yes, I am determined to shield my servers from malicious actors and bots that attempt to exploit it. This sometimes can lead to false positives and I am willing and cooperative in rectifying this to allow open access to real people that want to access the services I provide and make sure stuff like this won't happen again.

The security and availability of my servers is as important to me as the ability for anyone to access the public services I provide. Which is why I responded to you immediately and asked for your cooperation to help me fix the problem.

You not being cooperative helps no one. Not yourself, not other people with the same issue and not me who's trying to fix it.

Crowdsec is free btw, I do not pay anything.

The most secure shield is to drop 0.0.0.0/0. IP addresses can't be malicious - they are just numbers.

That's the price of Enterprise/Business plan. He might be using the free community version.

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