Saturday, February 05, 2005

Rackspace hates Yahoo? Or Vice Versa? Hosting blocks slurp...

searchenginewatch.com
"Possibility 3: A router between all/some of Yahoo!'s spiders is blocking the traffic from a mistaken belief that the brand new IP address is still unallocated (and hence not valid).

If you look at the BOGON allocation list, it shows that 94% of the IP addresses in the 72.X.X.X range are NOT currently allocated. If the IP in question was really just recently allcoated, there may be some routers out there that are still blocking this traffic."

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