To many “Forbidden” messages for sites that are up and running

Same thing happening to me!?

Same thing happening to me on two sites in the last few days. Many links suddenly flagged as broken with 403 forbidden error, but the links work fine.

One possible clue: On one site that has hundreds of links, the 37 that are newly flagged as 403 all go to pages on the same website, and that website recently changed their site to https. Editing a couple of the URLs in my forbidden links from http to https got rid of the 403 error but now they are still flagged as broken with “unknown error”.

I am not sure if those pages under the same domains are the issue, i, for instance, only list main pages (hence the pure domain name only) and still get to many of these forbiddden messages.
If a site changes from http to https the plugin will always alert in the redirects section for me.

It seems though there are no updates coming anymore for this plugin, or maybe the plugin owner feels this is not the problem of his plugin but rather of some server side technology issues as many hosts try to go along with Google’s push for more secure websites overall??

I’ve had the same problem since the latest WordPress update to version 4.8 – 40 broken links in notifications since: 28 “403 Forbidden;” 8 “False Positive;” and 2 “Timeout.” I checked all of them and none were broken. After updating the plugin to version 1.11.3, I selected “Not Broken” and “Dismiss” for each. I’ll repost if they come back.

your server ip can be blocked or scan type is blocked by host.
just hit it as ignore