[mythtv-users] who do i contact regarding being blocked from accessing www.mythtv.org?

[Simon Hobson]

Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca> wrote:

> I seem to be blocked from accessing www.mythtv.org:
> 
> $ traceroute -q 1 www.mythtv.org 
> traceroute to www.mythtv.org (140.211.167.216), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
> ...
> 10  corv-p2-gw.nero.net (207.98.64.27)  105.712 ms
> 11  corv-car1-gw.nero.net (207.98.64.17)  107.506 ms
> 12  mizar.mythtv.org (140.211.167.216)  120.241 ms !X
> 
> Who do I contact to find out why this is and what needs to be done to
> rectify it?

In what way blocked ?
I get identical traceroute results, and can access the website. Is it simply a case of nothing returned and your browser times out, or you get an error, or ... ?

What does wget say ?

$ wget -O /dev/null www.mythtv.org
--2017-08-08 15:12:26--  http://www.mythtv.org/
Resolving www.mythtv.org... 140.211.167.216
Connecting to www.mythtv.org|140.211.167.216|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: https://www.mythtv.org/ [following]
--2017-08-08 15:12:27--  https://www.mythtv.org/
Connecting to www.mythtv.org|140.211.167.216|:443... connected.
ERROR: cannot verify www.mythtv.org's certificate, issued by ‘CN=Let's Encrypt Authority X3,O=Let's Encrypt,C=US’:
  Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority.
To connect to www.mythtv.org insecurely, use `--no-check-certificate'.



or

$ wget -O /dev/null --no-check-certificate www.mythtv.org
--2017-08-08 15:14:05--  http://www.mythtv.org/
Resolving www.mythtv.org... 140.211.167.216
Connecting to www.mythtv.org|140.211.167.216|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: https://www.mythtv.org/ [following]
--2017-08-08 15:14:05--  https://www.mythtv.org/
Connecting to www.mythtv.org|140.211.167.216|:443... connected.
WARNING: cannot verify www.mythtv.org's certificate, issued by ‘CN=Let's Encrypt Authority X3,O=Let's Encrypt,C=US’:
  Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: ‘/dev/null’

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