Heard back from our operations team. Apparently we've improved our communication with The Planet, and we will not be blacklisting their entire IP range, just select IPs when they come up on our abuse reports.
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 02:00, R. Moose <[email protected]> wrote: > > What is the current status of this? > > The issue arises as lots of other 'hosting' companies (such as > HostGator) also co-locate with The Planet's datacenters. > > If Twitter does blacklist a range of IP addresses, will they be > provided so that we can check to see if it is possible that any issues > caused are due to IP blacklisting? > > For example, some of my clients run sites that are with a reseller of > HostGator and their servers might be within The Planet IP range, but > we don't always know. > > For example, domain.com might be with host.com who is reselling > hostgator.com who has a server located in theplanet.com hosting > center... or not. > > > > On Jan 5, 2:05 pm, "Alex Payne" <[email protected]> wrote: >> Our operations team has informed me that we'll soon be blacklisting >> IPs originating at hosting provider The Planet >> (http://www.theplanet.com/). We've attempted to resolve a number of >> abuse complaints with them over a long period of time and have not >> received an acceptable response. If your service or application is >> hosted at The Planet, please be aware that this will impact your >> ability to talk directly to the Twitter API. >> >> -- >> Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x > -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
