Der Franzose website down?
- Thread starter ibartie
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I visited it last week and it wasn't loading. 
Thought it might be the vpn but turned it off at the time and still no go. Maybe they hate us? 
Thought it might be the vpn but turned it off at the time and still no go. Maybe they hate us? 
Not working for me at 0908 27/2/26. I have used them many times in the past and had no problems.
Working fine for me 1032 27/02/2026
Not working on Optus for me either
Just tried on Optus broadband on laptop, working and no delay or errors 10:42 QLD time 27.02.26. might be traffic related??
I am on Optus also, and no problem looking at other sites, but with Der Franzose currently I am still not able to get to their website. An Optus traffic thing to Germany?
Your IP address may be blocked, as may be some VPN addresses. You could look how far you go. The site replies to a TCP request. If they have a block you should still get to Germany.
TCP protocol tracing from Sydney via USA (initial hops are not shown as they are ISP related). The last address is www.franzose.de whose A record is 91.233.87.161.
TCP protocol tracing from Sydney via USA (initial hops are not shown as they are ISP related). The last address is www.franzose.de whose A record is 91.233.87.161.
Some mail services have been known to block some Optus e-mails in the last year or so - i.e. MS Outlook, Hotmail due to a large amount of spam originating on a subset of Optus servers and otherwise legit e-mail addresses after the Optus hack event. It's possible the same blacklisting issue could be affecting some web services from time to time. DF comes up no problem via Telstra's web services, but it must be said that some websites randomly dislike something about my browser's requests. Maybe the ad filtering or some handshake issue is not to the liking of a filtering service like Cloudflare that so many use now. Optus really is rubbish though - e-mail spam filtering that blocks good messages and lets the rubbish through, plus poor mobile reception.
It is still up and working. It has not dropped since I first posted.
Check your path for a block. If they have been attacked from an IP address they may have set their systems to block an entire range of addresses.
Check your path for a block. If they have been attacked from an IP address they may have set their systems to block an entire range of addresses.
Didn't there used to be free VPN but you couldn't choose Australia, that could fool the end website your not on your current subnet....been way too long since played with IP address masking
Not work on vpn, safari, but chrome ok. Anyone know where you would pick up the lhm tank hose that takes the 3 rilsan return lines on a D? Franzose hasn't got them. I am seeing a leak I want to sort.
I've tested access to the site on Tor browser (this has the free VPN too, you can also try Opera browser) but this didn't work either, even accessing via Germany.