[193581] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ticketmaster.com 403 Forbidden
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Matlock)
Mon Feb 6 12:23:37 2017
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <d7f0bc5e-5684-1891-d0d5-60a5ab663ea2@globalvision.net>
From: Ken Matlock <matlockken@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 10:22:42 -0700
To: "Ethan E. Dee" <edee@globalvision.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>, Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Honestly, I'm surprised they don't try and charge a 'convenience fee' while
implementing the block! ;-)
Ken
On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 10:19 AM, Ethan E. Dee <edee@globalvision.net> wrote=
:
> So their policy says, if an ISP has one scalper, we'll block their entire
> subnet and not tell them why?
>
>
>
> On 02/06/2017 11:49 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>
>> My guess is you have or had sometime in the long distant past a scalper
>> operating on your network, using automated ticket purchase bots.
>>
>> If you still have that scalper around, you might want to turf him. If
>> he=E2=80=99s ancient history, saying so might induce them to remove the =
block.
>>
>> --srs
>>
>> On 06/02/17, 8:45 AM, "nanog-bounces@nanog.org on behalf of
>> mike.lyon@gmail.com" <nanog-bounces@nanog.org on behalf of
>> mike.lyon@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yup, i have a /22 that has the same problem. Support is useless...
>> > On Feb 6, 2017, at 08:35, Ethan E. Dee <edee@globalvision.ne=
t>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > It gives me a Forbidden error.
>> > It has for over a year.
>> > There support says they are not allowed to me why by their policy=
.
>> > it is across an entire /19.
>> > I gave up after the fifth time and encourage the customers to cal=
l
>> them individually.
>> >
>> >> On 02/06/2017 11:09 AM, Niels Bakker wrote:
>> >> * Charles.Manser@charter.com (Manser, Charles J) [Mon 06 Feb
>> 2017, 16:21 CET]:
>> >>> It seems that browsing to ticketmaster.com or any of the
>> associated IP addresses results in a 403 Forbidden for our customers tod=
ay.
>> Is anyone else having this issue?
>> >>
>> >> http://help.ticketmaster.com/why-am-i-getting-a-blocked-forb
>> idden-or-403-error-message/
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> -- Niels.
>> >
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