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Does cox block or limit Cloudflare's IPs located at https://www.cloudflare.com/ips on residential service?

I have been in contact with Cloudflare about recieving a 522 Timeout error upon trying to reach my site. I can reach the site perfectly via the IP it just doesn't work through cloudflare. They sent me the following;

A 522 (https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200171906-Error-522) happens when a TCP connection to the web server could not be established. To initiate a TCP connection our edge server sends out 3 SYN packets and awaits a SYN-ACK packet in return, if it doesn't receive one within 15 seconds the connection attempt will fail.

Common reasons for us to not receive the SYN-ACK in return: 
- Our connection attempt was blocked by a firewall/security plugin at the host 
- Packets are being dropped within the host's network 
- The origin server was too overloaded to respond 
- There was an issue with an upstream provider along the path

Here is what I recommend in order to ensure CloudFlare's IPs are accepted by your server: 
1. Make sure that you're not blocking CloudFlare IPs in .htaccess, iptables , or your firewall. 
2. Make sure your hosting provider isn't rate limiting or blocking IP requests from the CloudFlare IPs and ask them to whitelist the IP addresses below: 
3. Make sure that you're operating off of the most recent versions of Bad Behavior or mod_security. mod_security's core rules aren't blocking CloudFlare requests.

Here is a list of our IPs: https://www.cloudflare.com/ips

I have checked everything on my end and it all works. If anyone could shed some light I would be thankful.

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I'm not sure your question is the right question to be asking in the context of the problem as it has been explained.  Based on the info Cloudflare provided it sounds like they're having trouble contacting your website.  Based on that you may wish to ask your web hosting provider if they're blocking Cloudflare.