In reply to Dr Who Fan's message of 21 Nov 2025:

SETI website is loading nice and fast. Hurry up and read or post you item(s) there before it disappears again.

Not for me, i'm still forbidden.

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Grant
Darwin NT.

Not for me, i'm still forbidden.

Sounds like possible Cloudflare servers are blocking you.

Out of curiosity, have you tried clearing the browser cache and deleting cookies for all the *(.)berkeley(.)edu sites, including this site to see if it will let you back in?

In reply to Dr Who Fan's message of 22 Nov 2025:

Not for me, i'm still forbidden.

Sounds like possible Cloudflare servers are blocking you.

Out of curiosity, have you tried clearing the browser cache and deleting cookies for all the *(.)berkeley(.)edu sites, including this site to see if it will let you back in?

Two different browsers on two different systems.
Can actually access Seti now on a 3rd system, but no joy on the other two.
Time to go cookie hunting.

Edit- not cookies, but related to the saved URL.
The ones that were forbidden, with no mention of HTTP or HTTPS in the saved address were resolving to HTTP. Changed the favourite link address to explicitly HTTPS and no problems.

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Grant
Darwin NT.

It's still up nearly 14 hours later! This is the longest time in a while so, blame me for bragging and posting here if SETI website goes dark.within the next hour.

Eric posted the following on https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=86149&postid=2152880#2152880

We've been DDOSed the last month or so by assorted web cralwers that have been ignoring the robots.txt directive. I'm made blocking such things a bit more proactive. Hopefully we can stay up more than 10 minutes at a time now.

In reply to Grumpy Swede's message of 22 Nov 2025:

Eric posted the following on https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=86149&postid=2152880#2152880

We've been DDOSed the last month or so by assorted web cralwers that have been ignoring the robots.txt directive. I'm made blocking such things a bit more proactive. Hopefully we can stay up more than 10 minutes at a time now.

That seems to be becoming a bigger and bigger problem- most likely crawling for AI/ML data.
Another web site i often use had several issues about 6 months back- getting slammed with AI/ML bots, and they had to up their Cloudflare plan and put in other blocks to kill off that load.

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Grant
Darwin NT.