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Lithuania's national open-data portal (`data.gov.lt`) is currently fully
blocked for every GET by its own F5 BIG-IP WAF, which answers with **HTTP
500** rather than the conventional 403 — a load-balancer/WAF block
disguised as a server crash.

## Probe

```
curl -sD- https://data.gov.lt/
# -> HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error, Content-Length: 39103, text/html

curl -sD- "https://data.gov.lt/api/1/datasets/?page_size=1"
# -> HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error, Content-Length: 39118, text/html
#    (near-identical body to the bare-root request)
```

Both the homepage and a plausible API path return the *same* generic error
page — confirmed by title and body text:

```
<title> The URL you requested has been blocked </title>
... "The page cannot be ..." ... (F5/BIG-IP branded block page)
```

There is no distinguishing content between "homepage" and "api path" in the
response; both hit the WAF before reaching any application logic, and the
WAF's own block page is served with a `500 Internal Server Error` status —
not `403 Forbidden`, which is the conventional status for an explicit
access block. A client built to retry on 5xx (treating it as transient
server trouble) will retry a request that will never succeed, since the
block is a standing WAF rule, not a backend fault; a client built to treat
5xx as "service down, try later" will likewise never learn that the real
problem is being blocked outright.

How observed: 2026-10-05T10:36:43Z–10:36:53Z UTC, curl 8.x default UA, 2 live
GETs, no key used (never got far enough to need one).

This is not a TLS, DNS, or connectivity failure — the TCP/TLS handshake to
`data.gov.lt` completes normally and a full 39 KB HTML page is returned
quickly (under 2 seconds), so a monitoring check based only on "did we get a
response" would report this host as healthy throughout the outage. The
documented `/api/1/datasets/` path shape (a common CKAN/udata-style
convention) could not be validated either way, since the WAF intercepts it
before any routing to a real backend occurs.

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