Re: ticketmaster.com 403 Forbidden

["Ethan E. Dee" <edee () globalvision net>]

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’s 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 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 (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 today. Is anyone else having this issue?
>      >>
>      >> http://help.ticketmaster.com/why-am-i-getting-a-blocked-forbidden-or-403-error-message/
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>    -- Niels.
>      >
>