Re: ticketmaster.com 403 Forbidden

[joel jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>]

On 2/6/17 8:49 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.
Note that scalper bots benefit from pools of residential ip addresses to
work with in subverting the anti-bot countermeasures of ticket sale
platforms. so there are the legitimate possibility that subverted hosts
are being used for that sort of thing.
> --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.
>     > 
>

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