[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.