{"slug": "ollama-blocked-redirect-to-a-different-host", "title": "Ollama: 'blocked redirect to a different host'", "summary": "A Hugging Face forum user reported that an Ollama pull of the model hf-co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8-35B-A3B-Distill-GGUF:Q8_0 failed with a \"blocked redirect to a different host\" error before resolving on its own. Forum user negdev attributed the failure to a temporary CDN switch on Hugging Face's side, noting that Ollama blocks cross-host redirects for safety, and asked whether pull speed and model loading behaved normally after the issue cleared.", "body_md": "[KottCh](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/KottCh)\n1\n \nwhile trying:\n\nollama pull hf-co /empero-ai/Qwen3.8-35B-A3B-Distill-GGUF:Q8_0\n\ngot error:\n\nblocked redirect to a different host\n\nedit: resolved after some time\n\n \n \n[negdev](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/negdev)\n2\n \nGlad to hear it eventually resolved — that redirect error usually comes from a temporary CDN switch on the HF side, and Ollama blocks cross‑host redirects for safety.\n\nIf you have a moment, could you leave a quick feedback about whether the pull speed and model loading behaved normally after the issue cleared? It helps track whether the redirect glitch had any side effects on the client.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ollama-blocked-redirect-to-a-different-host", "canonical_source": "https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/ollama-blocked-redirect-to-a-different-host/180612#post_2", "published_at": "2026-09-18 16:43:41+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-18 16:55:32.639614+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "large-language-models", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Ollama", "Hugging Face", "hf-co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8-35B-A3B-Distill-GGUF", "KottCh", "negdev"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ollama-blocked-redirect-to-a-different-host", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ollama-blocked-redirect-to-a-different-host.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ollama-blocked-redirect-to-a-different-host.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ollama-blocked-redirect-to-a-different-host.jsonld"}}