Every block I've gotten I just went through TheBrothersWisp geo location page and just had them fix their information. This includes virgin and re-issued blocks from ARIN.
I've had a couple of random issues like Hulu thinking I'm a VPN, PSN blocking a /24 because a /32 failed his password too many times, and various streaming issues of which I tell customers to complain to the streaming provider because all of the other ones work. On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 7:32 PM Jared Mauch <[email protected]> wrote: > I’ve been seeing an increasing problem with IP space not having the > ability to be used due to the behaviors of either geolocation or worse, > people blocking IP space after it’s been in-use for a period of time. > > Before I go back to someone at ARIN and say “your shiny unused 4.10 IP > space” is non-functional and am at a place where I need to > start/restart/respawn the timer, I have a few questions for people: > > 1) Do you see 23.138.114.0/24 in any feeds from a security provider that > say it can/should be blocked? If so, I’d love to hear from you to track > this down. Over the new year we had some local schools start to block this > IP space. > > 2) many companies have geolocation feeds and services that exist and pull > in data. The reputable people are easy to find, there are those that are > problematic from time-to-time (I had a few customers leave Sling due to the > issues with that service). > > 3) Have you had similar issues? How are you chasing all the issues? > We’ve seen things from everything works except uploading check images to > banks, to other financial service companies block the space our customers > are in. If we move them to another range this solves the problem. > > 4) We do IPv6, these places aren’t IPv6 modern at all, so that’s no help. > > 5) IRR+geofeed are published of course. I’m thinking that it might be > worthwhile that IP space have published placeholders when it’s well > understood, eg: ARIN 4.9 space, I can predict what our next allocation > would be, it would be great to have it be pre-warmed. > > I’ve only seen a few complaints against all our IP space over time, so I > don’t think there’s anything malicious coming from the IP space to justify > it, but it’s also possible they didn’t make it through. > > If you’re with the FKA Savvis side, can you also ping me, I’d like to see > if you can reach out to our most recent complaint source to see if we can > find who is publishing this. Same if you’re with Merit or the Michigan > Statewide Educational Network - your teachers stopped being able to post to > powerschool for their students over the new year break. They’ve fed it up > to their tech people towards the ISD. Details available off-list. > > Any insights are welcome, and as I said, I’d like to understand where the > source list is as it starts out working then gradually breaks, so someone > is publishing things and they are going out further. > > - Jared
