perlmonks.org blocked in Iran

I talked to a Perl interested person based in Tehran, Iran.

Apparently, they cannot access perlmonks.org, even by using a strong VPN / Proxy combination that usually is enough to void the state censorship. I cannot say for sure it's because it contains the "monk" word, but this would be my first guess...

They can access it through http://216.92.34.251/, though (this is an IP I gave them based on the one my browser use from France). Shouldn't an alternate address be set for that case? Or maybe one already exists, that I could send to the person? I know I could do it myself by setting a "mirror" subdomain on one of my domain names, but maybe ops here might want to know about that. And also, I am not sure the IP is not going to change anytime soon, etc.

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Re: perlmonks.org blocked in Iran by LanX (Saint) on Sep 14, 2024 at 11:40 UTC
Several thoughts: Please make sure it's not related to the recent outage If the IP works, try configuring a name server outside Iran Perlmonks has various domain names `(www.)?perlmonks.(org\|com\|net)` but also cryptic unofficial ones via pair.com It would be better to have someone from Iran asking and testing here, your input is too much hearsay Generally I doubt the word "monks" is blocked°, determining the definite reason would come before any investment into possible solutions Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) see Wikisyntax for the Monastery} °) the regime is going nuts in many aspects, but as a matter of fact there are multiple religious minorities in Iran, like Zoroastrians, Jews and Christians. Those at least are "protected" under sharia laws (People of the Book). The latter can even sell alcohol and porc.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: perlmonks.org blocked in Iran by Smonff (Monk) on Sep 17, 2024 at 16:55 UTC
Difficult to say what happened. I asked them to try the alternate domain names, what seemed to be successful, as was the raw IP. Finally, I asked them to try again the .org domain, and they were finally able to access it! Maybe it came from the extreme set of VPN and proxies they have to use to access the “outside world”, plus the relative slowness of the network in Tehran that seems to be around 100 KB/sec. Thanks for helping anyway... 🌸	[reply]