[irishcule]

Sorry if this is slightly off topic but can anyone tell me why I would not be able to access the netflix tech blog?

Every time I try to go to it I get a "Web page unavailable" despite sites like downforeveryoneorjustme.com telling me it is not down.

Not sure if its just my laptop as I am abroad at the moment in Italy and have no other computer to check the site.

[arca_vorago]

"abroad at the moment in Italy"

Here is the basic checklist for something like this:

check your hosts file ping the website tracert the website clear dns cache check dns server up/down temporarily disable av/firewall

If all the above indicate normal operation but it still fails, it could be blocked anywhere upstream of you.

[irishcule]

It's strange, nothing in the hosts file, any ping says it can't find the host http://techblog.netflix.com/, or even anyone of those check ip sites says the same. Asked some work colleagues here and in Ireland and it seems our company is blocking it, I guess through the firewall which unfortunately I can't disable.

[untog]

I guess it is unfortunate though not too surprising that an employer would be blocking netflix.com.

[heywire]

My employer blocks this blog as well. Not sure if they just decided to block *.netflix.com or what.

[joshuacc]

It's hosted on Blogger. Do you have problems with any other Blogger sites?

[obituary_latte]

Here's the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1YP8QP9gLA

[myth_buster]

If you are viewing from work they may block the domain for obvious reasons...