Ask HN Is Verizon blocking access to Hacker News?

1 points by blogimus 16y ago ↗ HN

I'm scratching my head at this one. I'm at home. I have Verizon DSL and today I can't get to Hacker News through my DSL connection. I can get to www.ycombinator.com, but the connection times out on news.ycombinator.com. If I VPN to work (on the same machine) then I can get news.ycombinator no problem.

Does anyone else experience this or something similar with Verizon?

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stanleydrew 16y ago ↗

Try the ip address directly? news.ycombinator.com -> 174.132.225.106. Could be a dns resolution problem.

blogimus 16y ago ↗

Good idea. I'll try it when I get back home.

bkrausz 16y ago ↗

I'm on FiOS and HN was down for me for the last hour or so, not sure if it's related. That wasn't a DNS error (I use GOOG DNS), just a connection issue.

mschaecher 16y ago ↗

I'm on Time Warner Roadrunner service and HN was down for the past hour or so for me too

gexla 16y ago ↗

Same problem here in the Philippines a while back.