Re: Problem serving one-click installer to Syria

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 06:15, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>> M. Bashir Al-Noimi wrote:
>>> What's going on!
>>> http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ gave me the following stupid message:
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> downforeveryoneorjustme error message
>>>
>>>
>>>   Forbidden
>>>
>>> Your client does not have permission to get URL |/| from this server.
>>> (Client IP address: 213.178.224.178)
>>>
>>> You are accessing this page from a forbidden country.
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> and enterprisedb.com <http://enterprisedb.com> still unavailable!
>>>
>>> Now I wondering does postgresql forbids my country or not?, is it open
>>> source or something else?
>> I suppose we are going to have to guess your country;  this web site,
>> http://www.ip-adress.com/ip_tracer/213.178.224.178, says it is Syria.
>>
>> Certainly Postgres is available for everyone, but it seems EnterpriseDB
>> (and http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/) are not able to serve that IP
>> block, which is a problem.
>>
>> I have moved this email to the Postgres www list, and changed the
>> subject line.  We should have more information for you soon.
> 
> This is the second report of this issue this week, the previous one
> being a user in South Korea. It was fixed by Dave that time - but I'm
> detecting a pattern here :-) We don't want to get tihs stuff fixed on
> a case by case basis - can we verify that there is no generic block in
> place, please?

yeah - We really can't discriminate against some of our users in that 
way(and we are not doing that on any of our other sites). If we cannot 
get this fixed in a generic way we really need to look into alternative 
ways - at least for people being affected by that - to get to the 
one-click installer.


Stefan