It appears HTTTPS access to .appspot.com subdomains fails

Arnold Minde

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Oct 27, 2020, 6:32:45 AM10/27/20

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Hello,

It appears access to subdomains of .appspot.com for users in Tanzania using different network provides fail with "SSL handshake time out" error, which affects our api access.

For example:

https://libphonenumber.appspot.com/

Is anyone aware of whats happening?

Best Regards,

Arnold.

Arnold Minde

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Oct 27, 2020, 12:23:06 PM10/27/20

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it appears social networking services have been blocked in the country, so twitter, youtube, instagram, etc are not reachable. Some googles services like news.google.com, issuetracker.google.com seem to have been affected also. It is said it has to do with national elections that are underway on the 27th and 28th of October.

Olu

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Oct 27, 2020, 2:03:22 PM10/27/20

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So far, I have checked internally for any information to confirm that indeed Google Services to Tanzania are blocked, perhaps for reasons of national elections. I have not seen any information to confirm this, I can keep checking but then, I hope you are aware that generally, SSL Handshake Exceptions can be returned for several reasons such as network errors, network configuration issues, connectivity, firewalls, server is down, etc.

Arnold Minde

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Nov 12, 2020, 8:43:27 AM11/12/20

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Yes Olu, internet services were being restricted for the national election. They were restored on the 7th of October.

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