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Actually same ASN. I missed the typo in the title when I posted it.

Is anyone on the Brave side available to look into this? If not, are there other ways to reach support to see if this can be resolved?

Do you see the issue on another network?

Thank you for responding, Evan123. As soon as I disable the Hurricane Electric IPv6, I am able to use Brave search again. It is only over the IPv6 tunnel that search is blocked.

Same behavior for me. I’m using the Hurricane Electric Tunnelbroker service connected through tserv1.den1.he.net . I have a /48 as well as the /64 provided. These are configured at my router and if my clients use IPv6 they cannot access search.brave.com . Multiple browsers, devices.

I am seeing this same issue with my home internet connection, which is a smaller rural WISP that has Hurricane Electric as an upstream provider. I am connecting using IPv4. The issue repeats on any device using my connection, including an Android phone, Linux Laptop (Debian 13.6) and Linux Desktop…

Additional information for troubleshooting from the Brave browser session: Request URL: https://search.brave.com/ Request method: GET Status code: 429 Too Many Requests Remote address: []:443 Referrer policy: strict-origin-when-cross-origin Response headers: alt-svc: h3=“:443”; ma=86400 cont…

I am also seeing this issue on my Hurricane Electric tunnel, then tried to move to Route64, and also had connectivity issues there. 403 - Request blocked. We can’t connect to the server for this app or website at this time. There might be too much traffic or a configuration error. Try again later, …

"Your request has been refused by the server" on search.brave.com and all searches

Brave Search

289wk September 23, 2026, 5:07pm 2

@Mattches

“Your request has been refused by the server.”

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