[193587] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ticketmaster.com 403 Forbidden
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Kulawiec)
Mon Feb 6 17:49:18 2017
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 17:09:43 -0500
From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20170206173944.GR10696@sizone.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 12:39:44PM -0500, Ken Chase wrote:
> Seems to me this random prefix-based blocking by major sites,
> then let's-use-nanog-to-fix-it, is not a great methodology.
You're correct. It's not.
> What more 'official' and formalized mechanisms can we use?
RFC 2142 stipulates role addresses for a variety of functions, many of
which were in common use and some of which were considered best practices
even before they were formalized 20 years ago. A *lot* of the traffic
here (and on other mailing lists) winds up here (and on other mailing lists)
because some incompetent/negligent operations don't support those.
---rsk
