[187699] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Softlayer / Blocking Cuba IP's ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Wicks)
Fri Feb 19 22:18:46 2016
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From: "Tony Wicks" <tony@wicks.co.nz>
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Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 16:18:15 +1300
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>Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
>Subject: Re: Softlayer / Blocking Cuba IP's ?
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I had a couple of VM's (personal mail/web hosting) with a provider who =
used Softlayer for transit. About a month ago Softlayer (without any =
notice or warning) blocked all outgoing port 25 at multipole datacentres =
for this provider. It took the hosting provider half a day to work out =
what had happened. Needless to say as much as I liked the company I had =
to move my hosts elsewhere (they did refund me to their credit). It =
seems that someone at Softlayer is extremely aggressive on their =
blocking policies to the point of making their service unusable. I would =
highly recommend the community votes with its wallet when it comes to =
these turkeys.
