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"Kenneth" <kdw### [at] gmail com> wrote:
> Maybe unrelated, but for several months now, when I try to connect to the
> newsgroups here with my usual link...
> https://news.povray.org/groups/
>
> I sometimes get a warning page instead, something like "We're having trouble
> connecting to that https site" or "This site does not have an https webpage,
> continue to http site instead?" -- along with a tremendous slow-down in
> connecting to the 'net in general. But by simply refreshing the page, the proper
> https site does comes up. That's strange.
>
> Trying to find some solution or explanation for the slow-down itself, I've
> lately been researching Cloudflare (the global DNS provider)-- and the odd
> problems it is causing with some websites and servers. It's all too technical
> for me to understand, but I wonder: Do the POV-ray newsgroups use the Cloudflare
> service?
>
> Or maybe my internet provider does, I don't know. But I have a gut feeling that
> something about Cloudflare's workings might be the culprit here.
It looks like the IP address of
new.povray.org is
203.29.75.35
( https://www.nslookup.io/domains/news.povray.org/webservers/ )
so maybe try using that directly and see if it works better for you.
Chris Cason will have to provide details about how all the rest of it works.
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