Strange 403 Forbidden reply with a certain phrase in quotes - others get it too

[usonian]

15. There are also those temporary blockages.

But I thought that would be off-topic.

But strange things do happen. I can't access archive.{md, ph, is } when using iCloud Private Relay, a kind of vpn.

When I was doing admin work, users would ask me to "fix the internet" when it went down. I would check our stuff and wait it out. Usually a fiber cable cut by bulldozers somewhere in San Jose or a router programmed wrong in a data center in an unknown location.

Monitoring systems pick those up and alert staff. I worked on one and it was interesting to implement.

There's a history behind monitoring equipment and the Perl programming language. For computer geeks. Later.