Amazon's EC2 IP ranges are essentially unusable for SMTP since they have been blacklisted. I have to use another host to handle outbound SMTP traffic.
As for traffic to Twitter, most likely you'd want to use an elastic IP address to get whitelisted. Sincerely, Anthony Eden On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Terry Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > A little off-topic: > > Have Twitter detected abuse coming from Amazon EC2 IP address ranges? > > I'm not building a Twitter app, but I'm very curious to know what the > reputation of Amazon's IP blocks is like. I imagine Amazon have plenty of > EC2 instances running code written by evildoers. I wonder what they're like > at reacting to reports of abuse etc. This also includes people using them > for SMTP (of course). > > Terry > -- GMU/IT d- s: a32 C++(++++)$ UL@ P--- L+(++) !E W+++$ !N o? K? w--- !O M++ V PS+ PE Y PGP t+ !5 X- R tv b++ DI+ D++ G- e++ h---- r+++ y++++** http://anthony.mp
