Virgin Media blocking Lemmy?

3 years ago by youngerpants to c/ukcasual

Morning all. Unsure where to post this, so here I am...

Anyone here on Virgin Media having difficulty accessing Lemmy content (I'm on lemmy.world)?

Started a couple of days ago, tested with my pi-hole off so I know its not that. The only way I can access is mobile data.

Cheers.

Andi 10 points 3 years ago

Give feddit.uk a go instead. So much faster for me on VM.

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Zerimski 7 points 3 years ago

I'm on VM and not had a problem. Lemmy.world has had some issues over the last few days though, I've had to log out and log back in again a few times.

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richyawyingtmv 5 points 3 years ago

Lemmy.world has been shit the last few days. Not on VM here.

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youngerpants 4 points 3 years ago

Late response but I got to the root of the issue. Lemmy (well, lemmy.world) wasn't being cached by Quad9's DNS servers.

I tested by using different DNS servers (OpenDNS) which worked fine, then permanently resolved it by installing unbound on my pihole and using that instead.

Tl;dr it was DNS

It's always DNS

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TeaHands 4 points 3 years ago

Can't say I've noticed owt here (outside of the ddos stuff over the weekend obviously). There was a thing where everyone had to log out and back in, including on mobile apps, when lemmy.world upgraded to 0.18.2 but that was a while ago now so probs not that if it's just started.

Hmm, not sure what else to suggest really!

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ljdawson 3 points 3 years ago

For years they blocked Reddit on the underground so this ain't surprising.

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Jackthelad 2 points 3 years ago

I'm with VM and Lemmy has been fine for me.

What app are you using?

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Teknikal 1 point 3 years ago

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