ERROR 403: Forbidden for our subnet 77.120.117.0/24.

[Олег Искевич]

Hello.

We are using appspot as images storage. Last 4 days appspot got "ERROR 403: Forbidden" for our subnet 77.120.117.0/24.

Service is not available from our servers. How to solve this problem?

p.s.

wget http://lunimg.appspot.com/lun_ua/origin/140420741.jpg
ERROR 403: Forbidden.

wget appspot.com
ERROR 403: Forbidden.

[Vinny P]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 5:55 AM, Олег Искевич <o...@lun.ua> wrote:

We are using appspot as images storage. Last 4 days appspot got "ERROR 403: Forbidden" for our subnet 77.120.117.0/24.

Service is not available from our servers. How to solve this problem?

p.s.

wgetERROR 403: Forbidden.

 

If you visit appspot.com URLs with a web browser (not wget, but an actual web browser), what do you see as a response? Does it look similar to the picture linked here: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/JhXS6qWmID8/FYnbNOjRIz0J ?

If so, you might be attempting to connect from a banned/restricted country. A similar situation is outlined in the above link and here: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/ZPhRvtcf8l0/Kn7hilSWdkkJ . I looked up the network you listed via the RIPE WHOIS and it looks like you're connecting from a Ukraine ISP; if so, you may be seeing US sanctions: http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Documents/ukraine_eo4.pdf . 

There's really nothing that can be done in this situation - Google is a US company and is subject to export regulations. 

 

 

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-Vinny P

Technology & Media Consultant

Chicago, IL

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