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Ask HN: ISP can't connect to some Apple services. How to figure out the problem?

I have a broadband connection from a national ISP. Since a few weeks, I'm not being able to connect to developer.apple.com or sign in to the App Store/Mac App Store/iTunes. I am able to browse apple.com perfectly and the App Stores work fine (everything shows up fine) until I try to download anything, which just makes the downloading circle spin momentarily in iOS and hangs App Store.app on OS...

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Actually this lets you do more than what iTunes lets you. iOS 8.3 has already prevented tools like iFunBox (which also uses this IIRC) to access the app sandbox directory.
Unfortunately iOS 9's new 'rootless' feature is going to break a lot of stuff in this.