Possible fix for when podcasts suddenly stop working

Just an FYI about a fix for a problem which a lot of other people seem to have had over the years, without a solution.
My own podcast was working fine for a year (I used iTunes 10 & 11 in Windows 7) and then suddenly I couldn't refresh it  or stream episodes anymore. iTunes 10 would display a '3253 network connection reset' error. iTunes 11 would just show '!'.
I tried different computers (Macs and PCs) in different locations with different internet connections but no luck. Other people's podcasts worked fine. And I could load my own podcast xml feed in a browser and in other podcast software. It was just iTunes that didn't work.
I emailed Apple for some help ([email protected]) and after some back-and-forth they said this:
"It appears the hosting server for you podcast is blocking HEAD requests from iTunes. Please speak with your podcast hosting provider to allow HEAD requests from iTunes."
It turns out my hosting company had recently done a server upgrade and their firewall was indeed blocking it. They changed some settings and it was fine again half an hour later.
So if you have the same issue then it might be something that the podcast owner has to fix, and not a problem on your computer.
Hope this helps somebody!

Not on mac though

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