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Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 14:45:11 -0600
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Subject: Re: Access to cygwin.com is blocked to El Salvador?
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On 2025-03-14 10:17, Jon Turney via Cygwin wrote:
> On 12/03/2025 17:14, Vladimir Hidalgo via Cygwin wrote:
>> seems like access to cygwin.com is now blocked to El Salvador?
>> I had to use a VPN to download the installer.

> Apologies for the inconvenience!
> sourceware is constantly dealing with aggressive scraperbots (similar to those 
> described at [1]), and sometimes heavy handed blocks are applied to maintain 
> service for everyone else, unfortunately impacting some innocent bystanders.

> For the benefit of anyone else who might have this problem in future, I'll 
> mention that you can contact sourceware overseers e.g. on the overseers@ 
> (public) or admin-requests@ (private) mailing list on sourceware.org (as per 
> [2]), providing your IP address, and they will be able to unblock you.

> [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/1008897/
> [2] https://sourceware.org/mission.html#organization

Are there not some better processes for external Internet IP reporting, which 
are often from upstream DHCP sources; for example:

	$ curl https://api.ipify.org		# get IP V4 address
	$ curl https://ipecho.net/plain		# get IP V6 address
and/or
	$ whois `curl https://api.ipify.org`	# get netblock addresses
	$ whois `curl https://ipecho.net/plain`	# get netblock addresses

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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