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rhb:
I have discovered that my ISP is deliberately blocking access to such dubious sites as elegoo.com.

I am currently investigating alternative service as unblocking them was not an option.  They wouldn't tell me why it was blocked even though 2 supervisors confirmed they could reach it, but said they couldn't unblock them and refused to let me speak with anyone who could.

heltec.org is another address I can't reach.  I'd be very interested in what end users in the US are seeing and who their ISPs are.
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Reg :-(

ataradov:
Don't use your ISP's DNS server. This is a bad idea on many levels.

I personally use Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1, which is consistently one of the fastest in my location. But there are many other public DNS servers out there.

abeyer:
You should almost always assume that your ISP's DNS service is garbage and use something else, if you aren't already... this is usually going to give a better experience even if you aren't already having problems. That alone is often enough to get around these sort of "blocks" that are sometimes no more than choosing not to resolve the addresses.

VPNs are always an option, too.

rhb:
The block is being done via Cloudflare.  The replies from 8.8.4.4 (google DNS) resolve to Cloudflare.
Yahoo will accept mail from elegoo.com, but the routing tables forbid opening an http connection.

I *thought* it was accidental until two different customer support supervisors said it was deliberate and not subject to appeal.

Interestingly, if I do a lookup via google I can ping elegoo.com, but cannot open a port 80 connection.

The world is looking more dystopian every day :-(

It's rather scary that *any* IP adress can be blackholed by numerous actors.

bdunham7:
I use Google DNS (8.8.8.8 ) and had the same issue.  Changed to 1.1.1.1 and I was able to access www.elegoo.com.

Hmmm.

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