Description of the issue: Beginning yesterday morning, attempts to use Brave Search are refused. The message tells me to use different IPs, but I have been using the same IPv6 addresses for years longer than Brave has even existed. I rely on Hurricane Electric TunnelBroker because my previous ISP h…

Yep, also seeing this behavior using my Hurricane Electric tunnel. Route64 doesn’t work either. I would love an official statement from Brave about their IPv6 tunnel policy. Many of us don’t have native IPv6 support from our ISPs.

It’s certainly frustrating. Even when Reddit has gotten overly zealous about TunnelBroker, they at least have a way to sign in and still use their sevice. I had to switch my default search to another provider. It would be nice of there was somewhere to reliably track this issue to know when I can r…

Completely agree, I am also being forced to use another search right now, and I would prefer to continue using Brave Search. =\ Not to mention Route64 is fairly small, not sure why they need to block those IPs. With HE I understand the concern, but the local blocks are reserved and maybe they shou…

My Internet connection: Guest Wi-Fi + a VPN server MacOS Terminal.app window: Using command: curl -v --http1.1 https://search.brave.com I suggest testing via the command, and comparing your results with the following … Result (not all of the result, but leading portion of it as follows): $ curl …

Here’s my curl output. ❯ curl -v --http1.1 https://search.brave.com * Host search.brave.com:443 was resolved. * IPv6: 2600:9000:201e:1400:5:a6ac:6100:93a1, 2600:9000:201e:4800:5:a6ac:6100:93a1, 2600:9000:201e:6c00:5:a6ac:6100:93a1, 2600:9000:201e:8000:5:a6ac:6100:93a1, 2600:9000:201e:a000:5:a6ac:61…

@quest Please test: curl -4 -v --http1.1 https://search.brave.com We are looking at layers between device and website. Application ↓ TLS ↓ TCP ↓ IPv4 / IPv6 ↓ VPN / tunnel ↓ local network ↓ ISP / transit ↓ CDN / CloudFront ↓ origin origin is the backend resource that CloudFront r…

Can you test again? It should be working now.

Hooray! I am seeing Brave Search again. I’m looking forward to switching my default search settings back to Brave Search.

Did you only fix it for Hurricane Electric? It would be awesome if you could also fix it for Route64! I am still seeing failures. Their ASN is AS212895 AS212895 Johannes Ernst - bgp.he.net AS212895 Johannes Ernst Network Information

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Yeah my failure is definitely only IPv6 related, because I use a 6in4 tunnel. IPv4 works just fine.

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Is AS6939 blocked by Brave Search

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