Where is the problem occurring?
Browsing (pages not loading, slowness, broken sites)
Your device
MACOS
Warren version (optional)
1.1.36
What happened?
brew install wireguard-tools was getting stuck indefinitely. Homebrew downloads the gettext, bash, and libunistring sources from ftp.gnu.org and ftpmirror.gnu.org, and these downloads never started.
Connected to the Amsterdam exit (relay warren-6da600d4fc8e27e7), no GNU/FSF servers were responding: ftp.gnu.org, ftpmirror.gnu.org, www.gnu.org, savannah.gnu.org, www.fsf.org. Neither via HTTPS nor via ping. Everything else worked normally (github.com, formulae.brew.sh).
What I have checked
- DNS is not the cause: ftp.gnu.org resolves correctly, it’s the connection that never completes.
- A traceroute traverses the transit to the outskirts of the GNU network, then no more responses.
- At the same time, ftp.gnu.org:443 responded normally from 5 other countries (check-host.net: Germany, Spain, Israel, Sweden, United Kingdom).
The exit address of this exit seems to be filtered by GNU/FSF. I don’t know if other exits are affected.
Workaround: switch exit during download, or disconnect the VPN.
How to reproduce? (optional)
connect to the Amsterdam exit, then curl -I https://ftp.gnu.org/.
How often does it happen?
Every time