Ask HN: Why can't I access healthcare.gov from outside the US?

Re:Ask HN: Why can't I access healthcare.gov from outside th... by jongibbins on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @07:23AM (#6887254)

I think the site may be down. Visiting http://www.healthcare.gov gives me an upside down IIS7 logo! http://www.healthcare.gov/welcome.png

(I'm in the UK)

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Re:Ask HN: Why can't I access healthcare.gov from outside th... by caw on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @07:36AM (#6887303)

In the US -- getting the main page of the site. So either it's a CDN thing, they brought the site back up since the original post, or it is indeed region locked.

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Re:Ask HN: Why can't I access healthcare.gov from outside th... by llamataboot on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @08:39AM (#6887539)

I can access via a proxy, but not from a European IP address. Seems strange to not even show an error page and just block entire regions from accessing the site.

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Re:Ask HN: Why can't I access healthcare.gov from outside th... by jongibbins on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @07:48AM (#6887360)

On further inspection it looks like it's just diverting to show my localhost:80 here.

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