AOL Proxy Servers not connecting via https - resolved

Thu Sep 25 22:11:23 UTC 2003

This might be helpful to people setting up ACLs and the like:

http://webmaster.info.aol.com/proxyinfo.html

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Brian Bruns
The Summit Open Source Development Group
Open Solutions For A Closed World / Anti-Spam Resources
http://www.2mbit.com
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "mike harrison" <meuon at highertech.net>
To: <nanog at merit.edu>
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 5:10 PM
Subject: Re: AOL Proxy Servers not connecting via https - resolved

>
>
> A Clue Bat was gently swung by a friendly and clueful (semi-anonymous)
> AOL NetOps guys who contacted me from my post on Nanog. Thanks Nanog,
> and this sounds strange from me, but Thank's AOL. :)
>
> And yes, it should have been obvious on my part.. a router
> was configured with a 172.0.0.0/8 netmask.
>
>
> > ......there is what we call an RFC1918 issue. AOL was given
> > some IPs in the 172.16.x.x range by ARIN. These are valid routable IPs,
> > and we use them as IPs for the AOL user's machines (kinda like DHCP).
The
> > problem is that some people block all of 172.x.x.x thinking it's only
for
> > non-routable IPs when it's only half that range that is non-routable.
> > (172.16.0.0/20 is the routable part). That appears to be the case with
> > this one. We've asked ARIN for a different range, and they told us to go
> > away, so we are stuck with this issue. If you can ask someone who does
> > firewall and/or router ACLs in front of that website, they should be
able
> > to fix the issue.
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