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Re: What is the proper mailing list for server issues?
On 2017-04-21 09:06, Gluszczak, Glenn wrote:
> On 4/21/2017 2:35 AM, Greywolf wrote:
> Agree, it's nothing to do with Cygwin.com.
> Check for a firewall on your local machine. Check your home router to
> see if it has a firewall with restrictions.
> Perhaps you're passing through a proxy server or firewall at the ISP?
> Try traceroute or wget to analyze what site you're really attaching to.
>> I am having a server issue that neither I nor my ISP seem to be able
>> to resolve with regards to connecting to Cygwin.com -- namely, only
>> from my house, I get a 403 Forbidden.
Check your and Cygwin.com's IPs locally and from a web site providing
DNS lookups and compare with whois lookups.
> This is _your_ problem. Something has caused you to not be able to
> reach cygwin.com properly. What IP address does cygwin.com resolve
> to?
> Does using the IP address directly work for you?
> $ ping cygwin.com
> Pinging cygwin.com [209.132.180.131] with 32 bytes of data:
>> I've been round with my ISP and they are unable to reproduce the
>> issue; the response I get from here is "contact your ISP". So who do
>> I contact about this? Not being able to automagically fetch the
>> mirror list is annoying, and not being able to reach the site to see
>> about updates and such is similarly so.
> Understandable but nothing we can do from here.
403 is a server response e.g. folder without {index,default,home}.htm{,l}
or it could maybe result from a net block DNS BL or RBL provider hit,
although my checks of eddie.starwolf.com on a few return no hits.
Try {wget,curl,lynx} and different browsers against combinations of
http{,s}://{,www.}{cygwin.com,sourceware.org/cygwin}/{,index.html}
(echo above to see the 16 urls) and see what results you get.
Then contact sourceware.org support sourcemaster at sourceware dot org
to see what their server logs say.
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