I've been chatting a bit with Andy. He's working at getting the bots under control. I was just poking around in the backend myself, looking for what may help get it back under control. AI attacks by bots can overwhelm a system. I set a switch or two to see if we can slow 'em down a bit. I've not been able to log in for a couple days, right now it's the smoothest I've seen in in a spell.

No idea if this helps, but I sometimes get blocked from accessing sites related to firearms. Never happened in town where I have a fiber account, only randomly at my rural shop where I use Starlink. Hmm. Discovered my Starlink service sometimes routes my traffic through weird locations (presumably due to volume). Turns out if you try to access an American website with firearms content but your bonifides say you are from the Netherlands you are blocked. Turned on my VPN and everything popped up fine.

On a related note - don't forget to turn your VPN off before logging into the ATF eForms site. A polite gentleman called me immediately and the gist of the conversation was 'don't do that again'. They apparently don't have an issue with random Starlink routing but know instantly when a VPN is active.

John K.