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📣 manasamanasas

How can I book vaccine slot in India for my mother. I am in USA


I am hoping to book a vaccine slot for second dose for my mother. https://www.cowin.gov.in/ seems to be blocked in USA.

should I try to get an indian IP address?

  👤 schoen Accepted Answer ✓
Maybe get an Indian VPS instance and use ssh -D to create a SOCKS proxy so that your connections will come out there.

You can learn more about this with

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ssh+socks+proxy

(hopefully the block doesn't extend to VPS services)

👤 nycdatasci
I saw on twitter that some users speculated that this error was due to increased load. This site seems to confirm that it's actually a country block: https://admin.cowin.gov.in/

As schoen mentions, an India-based IP would likely get around this.

👤 boruto
Ask your friend in India to book for it. Very low effort question.