Re: strange problems with some gentoo sites as seen from Russia

Dale <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 5/18/26 2:09 PM, Sam James wrote:
> Dale <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> On 5/17/26 12:33 AM, Andrey Grozin wrote:
>>> On Fri, 15 May 2026, Azamat Hackimov wrote:
>>>> Sorry for hitting an old thread.
>>>> Seems problem occurs again. I see issues with loading resources from
>>>> assets.gentoo.org like
>>>> https://assets.gentoo.org/tyrian/bootstrap.min.css give me timeout.
>>>>
>>>> Andrey, could you please share a path on resolving this issue?
>>> I use vpn (I don't use it all the time, just switch it on when I need it
>>> and switch it off afterwards)
>>>
>>> Andrey
>>>
>>
>> In case it will help.  USA user here and I use Surfshark for my VPN
>> connected only to USA servers.  I haven't been able to access any
>> Gentoo, forum, bgo etc site for several weeks now.  I'm not sure why
>> because most other sites work fine.  The email does work, as this
>> email shows.  So far, that is the only Gentoo thing that works.
>>
>> Maybe this info will provide another clue.
> Your VPN is likely being used by people to aggressively crawl or attack
> Gentoo sites. Pick a provider which doesn't allow abuse.
>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-)


I read the same thing about every VPN out there.  Odd how they all seem 
to be bad.  LOL

Oddly tho, it started working yesterday. When I finished my weekly 
updates, logged out and back in, then restarted my web browser, it 
started working.  I just checked again and it is still working.

Maybe my VPN is OK.  ;-)

Dale

:-)  :-)
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