Smallnetbuilder Blocking IP's???

[Toink]

I've been tweeting @smallnetbuilder for quite sometime now it appears doing so is futile because I never got any reply - deliberately ignoring I believe...

Is this site blocking IP's from 42.xxx.xxx.xxx and all other IP's registered to PLDT Phils?

I've already contacted the ISP (PLDT) and they say the site smallnetbuilder.com is not blocked by their system, and they too could not access the site. Oddly enough, using another Philippine based ISP (Globe Telecom) the site is accessible...

What's going on?

 

[PrivateJoker]

Justin Bieber has been blocking my IP for years on twitter. Let me know if you get to the bottom of this.

 

[jdabbs]

PLDT and Globe Telecom stand out as being particularly spammy (about on par with India), so there have been a few subnet blacklistings over the years. Your current IP might be collateral damage.

 

[thiggins]

Sorry, but since Twitter killed off access for most apps, I don't check it that regularly.

I have thrown a wide block on Philippines IPs due to all of the fake forum accounts and other hassles. Sorry.

 

[Toink]

Sorry, but since Twitter killed off access for most apps, I don't check it that regularly.

I have thrown a wide block on Philippines IPs due to all of the fake forum accounts and other hassles. Sorry.

I'm guessing this blocking wont change anytime then, not even in the future...

This is such a hassle for us legitimate visitors/members. Isn't there any effective way to filter the spams instead of blocking a wide range of IP's?

I may be in the minority here... I give up...

 

[stevech]

My employer, like many Fortune 1000, blocks all email, web sites, etc., for social media and file sharing servers. Mostly based on black-lists at WebSense.com.

I can't blame them - too risky.

Some small companies don't get it about large companies' conservatism.
Like one small hosting company that sends service outage notices via social media.

 

[Toink]

My employer, like many Fortune 1000, blocks all email, web sites, etc., for social media and file sharing servers. Mostly based on black-lists at WebSense.com.

I can't blame them - too risky.

Some small companies don't get it about large companies' conservatism.
Like one small hosting company that sends service outage notices via social media.

You're right. I can't blame the owner of this site. I was just hoping a more 'reasonable' way of blocking spam is implemented - like websense as you posted.

I just feel that it's such a waste not having an opportunity to access information on this site just because spam can't be properly handled by the site admin - that blocking the entire set of IP's of an ISP is the only way to do it.

Too bad. So sad.

 

[Terry Kennedy]

I just feel that it's such a waste not having an opportunity to access information on this site just because spam can't be properly handled by the site admin - that blocking the entire set of IP's of an ISP is the only way to do it.

That's what I do as well, for email spam. If I mark a message as spam, my software checks to see if it is via one of a few providers (gmail, yahoo, hotmail, etc.) and if so, sends a copy to abuse@. Otherwise, the /24 address block it came from gets blackholed at my firewall. If no more connection attempts arrive from that host for a month, those addresses are again permitted. If I then get a second spam message from that address range, it goes on the permanent block list. Experience has shown that if I get spam from one particular address, other nearby addresses will also try sending me spam, hence the block of a whole /24.

I sympathize with the legitimate users on blocked networks. However, I'm not paying that provider, you are. Thus you have a lot more leverage with them then I do. And if they have people sending spam through them, what's more fair - having them do the work to kick the spammers off their network, or expecting thousands (or tens of thousands) of sysadmins (who often are not paid for this) to try to build rules to determine where the "bad apples" on an ISP are and filter only those?