Hi everyone, and hopefully Andrew Kuntz if he is around!
I’m running into a major issue trying to access The Traditional Tune Archive (tunearch.org).
It is hands-down the best resource for clean, well-edited versions of traditional tunes, but lately, I cannot get onto the site at all without a VPN.Instead of the website, anyone trying to connect from an IP address in Israel is hitting a hard Cloudflare block page that says, "Sorry, you have been blocked."
It looks like a country-wide edge network block rather than a local computer error. I tried emailing their official support contact to report this, but the message immediately bounced back with a mail delivery error stating that the info @ tunearch . org address is unknown and unable to receive mail.Because official email channels are down, I’m posting here in the hopes of alerting Andrew to the problem.
We would love to know if this nationwide block is an intentional policy decision or just an accidental side-effect of automated security/firewall rules getting dialed up too high.If it’s just a technical oversight or an overzealous security filter, we would be incredibly grateful if the Cloudflare WAF configurations could be adjusted or if the region could be whitelisted so traditional musicians over here can use the archive again.
For reference, here is the unique Ray ID from my block screen if it helps track down the automated rule triggering it in the server logs:
Cloudflare Ray ID: a3bed45079ea2674
Thank you so much to the team for maintaining such an amazing site—we hope to be able to use it again!
Hey ShadowFrost, I checked for you: with Google Chrome browser here (that is set so that it acts as if I'm on a Windows machine) : cloudflare box - 'I'm not a robot', verification succeeds, but site not accessible after that verification.
With Mozilla Firefox browser (that just tells the truth - that I'm on a Linux system) : same check box, verification succeeds, site loads.
I don't know how much of this info is worth anything to you, but just summed up my observations.
I had similar problems in the past , but I always find a way to get past it by using other browsers and machines.
Just FYI, Andrew Kuntz is a member here, but he hasn't visited this site in almost 15 years, so I wouldn't expect him to see this.
I don't usually use the TTA, but just tried it and the verification works and the site loads without problem, on my Android tablet.
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