7:02 AM
@JourneymanGeek This is crazy, bear with me. In general images hosted on i.sstatic.net do not show when I access them from home or from work (same town, same ISP); let's call it "location A". I can ssh
to a certain home router (another town, different ISP); let's call it "location B". It turned out I can access (wget
) any image from B. Now the crazy part: once an image is accesses from B, it becomes accessible from A.
In fact I think the link that started to work for me (i.e. for location A) yesterday did this also because I had accessed it from B.
I have made several images accessible for A by accessing them from B. I did this one by one and I pretty sure this is how it works, not by accident.
Because an action at B "fixes" the problem for A, I think the problem is not on A, i.e. not on my side. Now I'd like to (1) understand how this is possible and (2) have it really fixed.
Is (1) on-topic on Super User? We have some savvy users who may give some insight, but the problem is not with my computer; I just want to understand. OTOH it may be problem specific to the CDN, so I guess off-topic.
With (2) I shall go to Meta, right? I have experienced the problem also on Ask Ubuntu, so I guess the main Meta (meta.stackexchange.com) is the place to go.