There will be an outage starting at 2025-11-20 22:00 UTC,
which will last approximately 5 hours.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
...or run:
date -d '2025-11-20 22:00 UTC'
Reason for outage:
We will be applying all updates to servers and rebooting them.
Affected Services:
Many services will be affected, but most should only be down for a
short time as their particular resources are rebooted.
Ticket Link:
https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/12894
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matrix. Or add comments to the above ticket for more information or
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Updated status for this outage will be available at:
https://www.fedorastatus.org/
Hi,
Currently Fedora servers block access to discussion.fedoraproject.org and
ask.fedoraproject.org for IPs from Iran. (With message "Access forbidden
based on location.")
Is there a reason for this?
According to US treasury "Iran General License (No. D-2) - General License
with Respect to Certain Services, Software, and Hardware Incident to
Communications (September 23, 2022)"
Which can be found here:
https://ofac.treasury.gov/sanctions-programs-and-country-information/iran-s…https://ofac.treasury.gov/media/928096/download?inline
Operating systems such as Fedora as well as services necessary for its
operation should be exempt from US sanctions on Iran:
"(1) Fee-based or no-cost services. The exportation or reexportation,
directly or
indirectly, from the United States or by a U.S. person, wherever located,
to Iran of fee-based or
no-cost services incident to the exchange of communications over the
Internet, such as instant
messaging, chat and email, social networking, sharing of photos and movies,
web browsing,
blogging, social media platforms, collaboration platforms, video
conferencing, e-gaming, elearning platforms, automated translation, web
maps, and user authentication services, as well as cloud-based services in
support of the foregoing or of any other transaction authorized or exempt
under the ITSR."
"(2) Fee-based or no-cost software. (i) Software subject to the EAR. The
exportation,
reexportation, or provision, directly or indirectly, to Iran of fee-based
or no-cost software subject
to the Export Administration Regulations, 15 CFR parts 730 through 774
(EAR), that is incident
to, or enables services incident to, the exchange of communications over
the Internet, such as
instant messaging, chat and email, social networking, sharing of photos and
movies, web
browsing, blogging, social media platforms, collaboration platforms, video
conferencing, egaming, e-learning platforms, automated translation, web
maps, and user authentication services, as well as cloud-based services in
support of the foregoing or of any other transaction authorized or exempt
under the ITSR, provided that such software is designated EAR99 or
classified by the U.S. Department of Commerce on the Commerce Control List,
15 CFR part 774, supplement No. 1 (CCL), under export control
classification number (ECCN) 5D992.c. "
"(ii) Software that is not subject to the EAR because it is of foreign
origin and is located
outside the United States. The exportation, reexportation, or provision,
directly or indirectly, by
a U.S. person, wherever located, to Iran of fee-based or no-cost software
that is not subject to the EAR because it is of foreign origin and is
located outside the United States, that is incident to, or enables services
incident to, the exchange of communications over the Internet, such as
instant messaging, chat and email, social networking, sharing of photos and
movies, web browsing, blogging, social media platforms, collaboration
platforms, video conferencing, e-gaming, e-learning platforms, automated
translation, web maps, and user authentication services, as well as
cloud-based services in support of the foregoing or of any other
transaction authorized or exempt under the ITSR, provided that such
software would be designated EAR99 if it were located in the United States
or would meet the criteria for classification under ECCN 5D992.c if it were
subject to the EAR. "
"5.) Laptops, tablets, and personal computing devices, and peripherals for
such devices
(including but not limited to consumer* disk drives and other data storage
devices) and
accessories for such devices (including but not limited to keyboards and
mice) designated
EAR99 or classified on the CCL under ECCNs 5A992.c, 5A991.b.2, 5A991.b.4, or
4A994.b; computer operating systems and software required for effective
consumer use of
such hardware, including software updates and patches, designated EAR99 or
classified
under ECCN 5D992.c; and services necessary for the operation of such
hardware and
software."