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RBR850 blocking certain websites
Hi, fellow Orbians! I had an older Orbi system (AX4200) and was gifted this RBR850 (AX6000) kit. It was fully installed and going about our business until I wanted to source parts to build a chic...
Amazing how people don't want to listen.
Worth reading:
Potentially related:
- Why is Akamai Blocking Me? Part 2 - Penetration Testers, Bug Bounty Hunters and Security Researchers
- Why is Akamai Blocking Me? Part 3 – Partners Performing Web Scraping Activity
Part 2 should be easy to answer (unless the recent user which got the same public IP address triggered this)
Part 3 might be caused by malware or similar.
You won't get anywhere wasting Comcast/Xfinity helpdesk resources.
kskreider wrote:
I had an older Orbi system (AX4200) and was gifted this RBR850 (AX6000) kit. It was fully installed and going about our business until I wanted to source parts to build a chicken coop. For some reason, neither Lowes nor Home Depot's site would load and appeared blocked.
Extreme unlikely we're facing a router issue here - this message does come from edgesuite.net, the Akamai Technologies content delivery network (CDN) blocking the public IP address you presenting there, this is typically the public IP address assigned to your Internet connection, and finally your router WAN/Internet port.
kskreider wrote:
I rebooted the modem and the router and pow! Home Depot and Lowes both work fine now
Very likely your ISP does dynamically assign typically changing IP addresses - so Akamai does no longer block your connection.
kskreider wrote:
So I go to watch a baseball game and MLB.tv now gives me this error:
mlb.mlb.com does not support HTTPS requests
This URL does neither connect by http nor by https. So completely unclear from where you have got that URL.
Nothing wrong with any troubleshooting and enhancements you applied to your Orbi config - good job!