Connection Problems with forum.dlang.org

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On Tuesday, 11 November 2014 at 18:50:15 UTC, Jonathan Marler 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 11 November 2014 at 00:59:59 UTC, Jonathan Marler 
> wrote:
>> I started having issues today connecting to forum.dlang.org 
>> from
>> the proxy server we use at work (I work at HP). I've never had
>> this problem before today.  I can connect if I use a 3rd party
>> proxy server (such as https://hide.me/en/proxy).  I captured a
>> wireshark trace and I'm just not getting any response from the
>> initial HTTP request.  I get the ACK from the request but never
>> get any response.  I've been trying it all day and it hasn't
>> worked.
>>
>> I first tried using different proxy servers and it seems that 
>> all
>> the HP proxy servers aren't working. So, my best guess is that
>> the forum.dlang.org server might be blocking or limiting 
>> packets
>> from ip addresses it gets too many requests from.
>>
>> We have a variety of proxies we can use to connect outside our
>> private network, I've tried three of them and they all can't
>> connect.  Here's there host names and ip addresses:
>>
>> 1. proxy-txn.austin.hp.com (16.85.175.70)
>> 2. proxy.houston.hp.com (16.85.88.10)
>> 3. web-proxy.corp.hp.com (16.85.175.150)
>>
>> I don't know who manages the dlang servers, but if someone sees
>> this could you grep the logs/error logs for these ip addresses
>> and see if they are being blocked in some way?  There are alot 
>> of
>> machines behind these ip addresses so maybe the server thinks 
>> it
>> might be getting DOS'd from these ip addresses, when in 
>> reality,
>> it's just alot of machines using these ip addresses as proxy
>> connections.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> P.S.  I didn't post this using my regular login because I don't
>> want to login through the 3rd party proxy server I'm connecting
>> through.
>
> I'm still having this issue, this is quite an annoyance.  Can
> someone tell me who to contact for this?  Feel free to send me 
> an
> email at johnnymarler at gmail.com
>
> I'm looking to talk to whoever manages the dlang servers.  This
> problem occurs on forum.dlang.org and wiki.dlang.org, it does 
> not
> happen when connecting to dlang.org

That would be Vladimir Panteleev <vladimir at thecybershadow.net>.