Can it be that VPN-Server block Electrum server by default? I had often problems when using HideMyAss VPN with electrum but mostly i could simply chose another ip, so another server and it worked again. But today this did not work and i had to disable the vpn in order to access electrum. They otherwise would not connect.

So are serverproviders, where hidemyass is renting servers from, ban electrum ip's? I wonder what's the reason for that if true.