Check for possible accidental causes - routing issues, PMTU blackholes, and
other oddities that could be innocent mistakes - never assume malice when
stupidity will do.
I
On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 10:53 PM Robert Storey <robert.storey@???>
wrote:
> As I mentioned in the "Beta" thread, whenever I tried to access devuan.org,
> I got a message:
>
> "This webpage is not available"
>
> It was suggested to me that this might be due to heavy server load, but
> that I could download the torrent from the link that Irrwahn kindly sent
> me. That did, by the way, work, and I was able to obtain a copy of the
> Devuan beta.
>
> But even now several days later, and I cannot access devuan.org. My
> desktop computer connects to the Internet via ADSL. It finally occurred to
> me that maybe I should try accessing the site with my smart phone, which
> uses a different service provider. When doing that, devuan.org comes up
> straight away. Just to be sure it's not a glitch with my installed OS
> (which is antiX, by the way), I tried setting my desktop computer to access
> the Internet using my smart phone as a wireless hub - that worked fine.
>
> So my initial suspicion is that my ISP has suddenly started blocking
> devuan.org. Before I go complain to them about that, I do first want to
> try accessing the site via another person's DSL network with the same
> provider. I may have a chance to do that later today. I should note that a
> week ago, I had no issues connecting to devuan.org with the same ISP -
> this started about the time of the beta release.
>
> Just for everyone's interest, this is taking place in Taiwan. I'll reveal
> the name of the ISP in question after I've confirmed if it is in fact the
> ISP's fault (I don't want to make a false accusation here).
>
> cheers,
> Robert
>
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