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On October 17, 2021 at 10:34:47 PM UTC, http://www.ymca.int/ was accessible when tested on AS57293 in Azerbaijan.

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HTTP Experiment
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DNS Queries

Resolver:
149.255.152.1
Query:
IN A www.ymca.int
Engine:
system
Name
Class
TTL
Type
DATA
Answer IP Info
@
IN
A
185.227.112.179
AS15817 (Robert Meyer trading as "Mittwald CM Service GmbH & Co. KG")

TCP Connections

185.227.112.179:80: succeeded

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URL
GET https://www.ymca.int/
Response Headers
Cache-Control:
no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate
Content-Type:
text/html; charset=UTF-8
Date:
Sun, 17 Oct 2021 22:34:52 GMT
Expires:
Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Link:
<https://www.ymca.int/>; rel=shortlink
Pragma:
no-cache
Server:
Apache
Vary:
Accept-Encoding,Cookie
X-Tec-Api-Origin:
https://www.ymca.int
X-Tec-Api-Root:
https://www.ymca.int/wp-json/tribe/events/v1/
X-Tec-Api-Version:
v1
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