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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.
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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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