Re: cygwin.com fine, but cant reach x.cygwin.com (connection refused) is there an alternate?

Brian Inglis via Cygwin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.cygwin
Organization Systematic Software
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2025-12-03 10:10, Bruce Dobrin via Cygwin wrote:
> I cant reach x.cygwin.com (connection refused)
> is there an alternate? Cygwin.com ( no x. )seems fine.

Alternative should be Cygwin/X link in left navbar of Cygwin home page
- also timed out.

Servers were migrated and upgraded on the weekend.
Was a vhost dropped?

$ curl -v https://x.cygwin.com
* Host x.cygwin.com:443 was resolved.
* IPv6: 2620:52:3:1:0:246e:9693:128c
* IPv4: 8.43.85.97
*   Trying [2620:52:3:1:0:246e:9693:128c]:443...
*   Trying 8.43.85.97:443...
* connect to 2620:52:3:1:0:246e:9693:128c port 443 from :: port 53555 failed: 
Connection timed out
* connect to 8.43.85.97 port 443 from 0.0.0.0 port 53556 failed: Connection 
timed out
* Failed to connect to x.cygwin.com port 443 after 21291 ms: Could not connect 
to server
* closing connection #0
curl: (28) Failed to connect to x.cygwin.com port 443 after 21291 ms: Could not 
connect to server
$ host -t any x.cygwin.com
socket.c:2908: setsockopt(20, IPV6_RECVTCLASS) failed: Invalid argument
x.cygwin.com is an alias for server2.sourceware.org.
server2.sourceware.org has address 8.43.85.97
server2.sourceware.org has IPv6 address 2620:52:3:1:0:246e:9693:128c
server2.sourceware.org has RRSIG record AAAA 13 3 172800 20251224064400 
20251128202227 64003 sourceware.org. 
+uvkNpPCjwC+VUCCXeOFJG0AlEAD/ROlVyjc8PikolErS9PArCaiGPe4 
3yLhuLd2iWEbep0+IcFW3XUEsVpjnA==
server2.sourceware.org has RRSIG record A 13 3 172800 20251224064400 
20251128202227 64003 sourceware.org. 
tQJrwPcEH7hmETzVIANRPeGQtztXaXDSJrHVsA5Va3mXji0vViGSHNUu 
IRq54VZTxKwjCoB9WbbBDAM32wyD/g==
$ host -t any cygwin.com
socket.c:2908: setsockopt(20, IPV6_RECVTCLASS) failed: Invalid argument
cygwin.com has address 38.145.34.32

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