Today an Iranian user on IRC (#drupal/#drupal-support) reported that he was being blocked from accessing drupal.org.
Later another user made me aware of this FAQ by Softlayer regarding sanctions based IP blocking: http://knowledgelayer.softlayer.com/faq/softlayer-network-wide-ip-blocking

This may or may not become a larger issue. If we get further reports, we might have to find a way to deal with it.

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ciss created an issue. See original summary.

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B_man
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I have had 2 reports from users in Iran who can no longer access drupal.org.

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mlhess CreditAttribution: mlhess as a volunteer commented

It would be useful if we could get a trace route from them. Also what happens if they visit https://updates.drupal.org/ ?

And lastly, what ip address does updates.drupal.org resolve to. (Should be in the traceroute as well)

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drumm
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Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org/issues/1112 looks somewhat similar. http://www.fastly-debug.com/ may have some information.

We certainly aren't intentionally blocking any country and need more information to know what exactly is happening.

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goodboy89 CreditAttribution: goodboy89 commented
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hi...
thank you so much for your time.
i trace route for "drupal.org" and "updates.drupal.org" from Iran.
i hope it will help.

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mohammad.gh.kh CreditAttribution: mohammad.gh.kh commented

Hello
I also last about a week without using the proxy can not access the official website of Drupal. I do not know why this problem.

Thank you very much for the follow-up.
One of Drupal users in Iran

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mohaphez CreditAttribution: mohaphez commented

hi I am one of drupal user in iran
I also like other Iranian friends can not access the official website of Drupal with iran IP.
and can not download modules and read issues and ....
I hope that Drupal administrators can solve this problem Thank you Very Much!

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ha.azizi CreditAttribution: ha.azizi commented

I have this problem too and use proxy for access website.
please fix this problem.

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HamidReza CreditAttribution: HamidReza commented

Unfortunately, I also have this problem...
Please take the necessary measures to fix the problem.

tnx alot...

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isntall CreditAttribution: isntall at Drupal Association commented

Is this still an issue, for those in Iran?

Starting 2016.01.11 I can see a drop in traffic.
The traffic started to increase on 2016.01.16.
And returned to normal on 2016.01.17

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isntall CreditAttribution: isntall at Drupal Association commented
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Fixed

I'm marking this fixed, since the network issues seemed to have been resolved.

If this is not the case, please re-open the issue.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

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goodboy89 CreditAttribution: goodboy89 commented

unfortunately recently IP address of drupal.org website has been changed and so the same problem exists for us in Iran.
does changing ip address is a common decision for future ? or it was just for this time ?
thank you for your time.

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drumm
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We use a CDN, Fastly, and they do change IPs relatively frequently. We have seen side effects from other Fastly customers being blocked affecting Drupal.org in the past. We certainly aren't doing any blocking on servers we control and strive to have Drupal.org available and loading quickly everywhere.