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Got a non-captcha-looped version?


It's caused by the site owner blocking cloudflare dns. There's a whole drama about it but I'll spare you the details. Switching to any other DNS provider should fix it.


My understanding is that webservers have no idea what DNS I used to resolve an IP. I understand that different resolvers could return different results, but either way I am not using CF at all, only a local bind resolver with no forward/recursive resolvers in use.


Do you have EDNS Client Subnet disabled by any chance? That's the specific thing the site's checking, what blocks cloudflare dns.


The open source version of bind does not support it according to their docs I read, but for privacy reasons I would not be using it anyways.

I still don't see how DNS would affect this though, because the domain still resolves, and it loads the CF turnstile page, it just never grants access no matter how many times I click "not a robot."

Unless maybe they had some kind of unique setup where non-ECS requests were resolved to IPs that just always gave you looping captchas intentionally... but somehow I doubt that is happening.



captcha-looped for me, both links are the same server, just different domains



never


Are you using cloudflare DNS? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317


Nope, only a local bind daemon with no forwarders.


seems to work for me... Don't know why.


this must be how blind users feel when nobody cares about them being able to use wayland-first OSes


Thank you! Works great for me.




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