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Comment by irishcule | Hacker News Reader

Sorry if this is slightly off topic but can anyone tell me why I would not be able to access the netflix tech blog?

Every time I try to go to it I get a "Web page unavailable" despite sites like downforeveryoneorjustme.com telling me it is not down.

Not sure if its just my laptop as I am abroad at the moment in Italy and have no other computer to check the site.

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"abroad at the moment in Italy"

Here is the basic checklist for something like this:

check your hosts file ping the website tracert the website clear dns cache check dns server up/down temporarily disable av/firewall

If all the above indicate normal operation but it still fails, it could be blocked anywhere upstream of you.

It's strange, nothing in the hosts file, any ping says it can't find the host http://techblog.netflix.com/, or even anyone of those check ip sites says the same. Asked some work colleagues here and in Ireland and it seems our company is blocking it, I guess through the firewall which unfortunately I can't disable.

I guess it is unfortunate though not too surprising that an employer would be blocking netflix.com.

My employer blocks this blog as well. Not sure if they just decided to block *.netflix.com or what.

It's hosted on Blogger. Do you have problems with any other Blogger sites?

Here's the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1YP8QP9gLA

If you are viewing from work they may block the domain for obvious reasons...

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