Ask HN: Why can't I access healthcare.gov from outside the US?
Currently living abroad. Need to access the exchange to buy health insurance. Do I really need to access it through a proxy server?
$ dig healthcare.gov +short
92.123.189.103
$ dig www.healthcare.gov +short
www.geodirector.hc.gov.akadns.net.
bh.georedirector.akadns.net.
127.0.0.1
$ wget healthcare.gov -O /dev/null
--2013-12-11 15:57:05-- http://healthcare.gov/
Resolving healthcare.gov (healthcare.gov)... 23.8.119.205, 2a02:26f0:59:38e::1ce1, 2a02:26f0:59:396::1ce1
Connecting to healthcare.gov (healthcare.gov)|23.8.119.205|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: https://healthcare.gov/ [following]
--2013-12-11 15:57:05-- https://healthcare.gov/
Connecting to healthcare.gov (healthcare.gov)|23.8.119.205|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: https://www.healthcare.gov/ [following]
--2013-12-11 15:57:06-- https://www.healthcare.gov/
Resolving www.healthcare.gov (www.healthcare.gov)... 127.0.0.1
Connecting to www.healthcare.gov (www.healthcare.gov)|127.0.0.1|:443... failed: Connection refused.(I'm in the UK)
downforeveryoneorjustme shows it's online.
Also checked on my NY based vps via Lynx and the site loads. So it must be region locked.
"It works!"
Wich to me is an insult. You can work on something much better and informative for the people that such message.
I think from what others are saying, it's redirected you to localhost:80. You must be running a default Apache config on localhost. I don't think they (healthcare.gov) are.