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It's possible that your access to Akamai hosted services is blocked. Depending on the politics of the country you are in, or the politics between the US and the country you are in, it's possible that

(1) Akamai or Akamai's customer (in this case VMware) has blocked access based on the originating IP or

(2) Akamai is blocked by the country you are in because that country has decided to do so

For reason (1), you will unlikely get a clear answer whether it is Akamai or Akamai's customer who have chosen to block access based on originating IP; but usually this would be to fulfill things such as US sanctions/embargo against a particular nation/state.

But whether it is reason (1) or (2), your only possible workaround is to use a VPN. If it's reason (2), certain "well-known" VPNs will also be blocked as it is a cat-and-mouse game.

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