Rackspace bans Yahoo! | Threadwatch.org
Rackspace bans Yahoo! | Threadwatch.org more interesting stuff on rackspace YahooHow funny is THAT? - Well, not very funny at all for anyone hosted on Rackspace i guess...Yahoo's Tim Mayer said:A customer of a hosting company like rackspace may have a customer that is being hit by our crawler and not realize who it is so they report the IP to rackspace or another provider and they block the IP at the router level. This would cause other SE to have access and for us not to have access.....
This isn't the first time that RackSpace has jacked their customers like this. I seem to recall a ban on Gbot a couple years back or maybe it was Inktomi but either way - insanely stupid way to manage a data center like that...
... the more likely case is that they are in the DFW1 data center with the 72.x.x.x IPs, and it's still being filtered as a bogon by someone. While that entire IP block has been valid for many months now, some sites have not updated their filters, and will not communicate with it.
Are your servers located in the new Dallas data center or another one of Rackspaces data centers? So far, I have only heard about this kind of problem from people hosting in the new facility.
it's possible that Yahoo/Rackspace may have just been the first public victims of brand new IP's being used.
...I'll keep you guys posted on what's happening, but for now, when you are suggesting to your clients that they get a dedicated IP address on a different Class "C", you should probably make sure that the new IP isn't so new that it's being blocked.
I doubt Rackspace is the only one using brand new IP's.
posted by Jen @ 12:35 PM
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