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 <[email protected]> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng >
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