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I can't even ping irs.gov right now. HTTPS request to www.irs.gov times out. Great government we got here :(

• steviedotboston 1y ago
  works fine for me... i really doubt the irs website is down
• holysoles 1y ago
  Dropping ICMP traffic isn't super uncommon to try to mitigate low-complexity DoS attacks, I also cannot ping irs.gov. I can get to www.irs.gov in my browser though.
  • ndriscoll 1y ago
    It's also a great way to introduce hard to debug network issues since PMTUD also relies on ICMP, and is basically mandatory for ipv6.
• latchkey 1y ago
  ICMP (ping) is often blocked and is an unreliable way to tell if a website is up. HTTPS requests timing out might as easily be something on your end, or your provider. Do you have a VPN on? A lot of government services block those.
• selectodude 1y ago
  You can't ping irs.gov. It blocks ICMP.