Receiving a 403 error attempting to download anything from Elrepo using Rocky 9

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I am attempting to retrieve packages from Elrepo but for unknown reasons I am receiving a 403 Forbidden message from their server. I am running Rocky 9 as a VPS instance provided by Vultr. My only guess is that they may have restricted access through this particular cloud service?? Which makes no sense at all. I am not receiving this error on my laptop which i use to access my VPC.

Connecting to elrepo.org (elrepo.org)|69.195.83.87|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2022-11-05 23:25:35 ERROR 403: Forbidden.
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I just want to get the wireguard kernel module. I just tried to compile it from source instead but all of the development tools are provided by elrepo as well. How frustrating. Looks like I might have to grab all the tools from somewhere else unless there’s a fix for this. Perhaps I should contact elrepo or vultr or both and theyll have some insight.
Has anyone else encountered this issue?
WTH is going on?

edit: i just noticed that the request was made using https when elrepo only supports http. (why?) so theres the reason i guess. any more insight is welcome. how do i force dnf to use http instead?

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You can use one of the mirrors to get elrepo’s packages.

If you wish to retrieve them from elrepo.org, try sending your IP address to contact@elrepo.org to find out if yours is being blocked.

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By the way, if you are running Rocky 9, you don’t need the kmod package. Wireguard is natively supported in the EL9 kernel.

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