[193582] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ticketmaster.com 403 Forbidden
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ethan E. Dee)
Mon Feb  6 12:27:55 2017
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From: "Ethan E. Dee" <edee@globalvision.net>
To: Ken Matlock <matlockken@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 12:24:30 -0500
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Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>, Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
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I'm interested to see if any one has beat this.
On 02/06/2017 12:22 PM, Ken Matlock wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto:edee@globalvision.net>> wrote:
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>     So their policy says, if an ISP has one scalper, we'll block their
>     entire subnet and not tell them why?
>
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>     On 02/06/2017 11:49 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
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>         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’s ancient history, saying so might induce them to
>         remove the block.
>
>         --srs
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>         On 06/02/17, 8:45 AM, "nanog-bounces@nanog.org
>         <mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org> on behalf of
>         mike.lyon@gmail.com <mailto:mike.lyon@gmail.com>"
>         <nanog-bounces@nanog.org <mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org> on
>         behalf of mike.lyon@gmail.com <mailto: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.net <mailto:edee@globalvision.net>> 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 call them individually.
>              >
>              >> On 02/06/2017 11:09 AM, Niels Bakker wrote:
>              >> * Charles.Manser@charter.com
>         <mailto:Charles.Manser@charter.com> (Manser, Charles J) [Mon
>         06 Feb 2017, 16:21 CET]:
>              >>> It seems that browsing to ticketmaster.com
>         <http://ticketmaster.com> or any of the associated IP
>         addresses results in a 403 Forbidden for our customers today.
>         Is anyone else having this issue?
>              >>
>              >>
>         http://help.ticketmaster.com/why-am-i-getting-a-blocked-forbidden-or-403-error-message/
>         <http://help.ticketmaster.com/why-am-i-getting-a-blocked-forbidden-or-403-error-message/>
>              >>
>              >>
>              >>    -- Niels.
>              >
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