[161177] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: cannot access some popular websites from Linode, geolocation is
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Howard)
Sun Mar 3 03:04:08 2013
In-Reply-To: <CAPKkNb5ziHsK+DnE5EJmo5S_Yh9iDBid-BVL_FKYRw_16C-V3A@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 10:03:55 +0200
From: Scott Howard <scott@doc.net.au>
To: "Constantine A. Murenin" <mureninc@gmail.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 11:58 PM, Constantine A. Murenin
<mureninc@gmail.com>wrote:
> Additionally, it seems like both yelp.com and retailmenot.com block
> the whole 173.230.144.0/20 from their web-sites, returning some
> graphical "403 Forbidden" pages instead.
>
Although I have knowledge of either of those sites, I'd put money on the
fact they they simply got sick of the repeated site scraping or similar
activity from Linode and blocked the entire range. I've spoken to many
other sites that have done exactly this, with a fairly clear inverse
relation between the cost of the hosting provider and the likelihood of
such behavioral (with Linode and Hetzner pretty much being at the top of
that list)
Scott.
