ticketmaster.com 403 Forbidden

Mon Feb 6 17:22:42 UTC 2017

Honestly, I'm surprised they don't try and charge a 'convenience fee' while
implementing the block! ;-)

Ken

On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 10:19 AM, Ethan E. Dee <edee at globalvision.net> wrote:

> So their policy says, if an ISP has one scalper, we'll block their entire
> subnet and not tell them why?
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> On 02/06/2017 11:49 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
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>> My guess is you have or had sometime in the long distant past a scalper
>> operating on your network, using automated ticket purchase bots.
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>> If you still have that scalper around, you might want to turf him.  If
>> he’s ancient history, saying so might induce them to remove the block.
>>
>> --srs
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>> On 06/02/17, 8:45 AM, "nanog-bounces at nanog.org on behalf of
>> mike.lyon at gmail.com" <nanog-bounces at nanog.org on behalf of
>> mike.lyon at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>      Yup, i have a /22 that has the same problem. Support is useless...
>>           > On Feb 6, 2017, at 08:35, Ethan E. Dee <edee at globalvision.net>
>> wrote:
>>      >
>>      > It gives me a Forbidden error.
>>      > It has for over a year.
>>      > There support says they are not allowed to me why by their policy.
>>      > it is across an entire /19.
>>      > I gave up after the fifth time and encourage the customers to call
>> them individually.
>>      >
>>      >> On 02/06/2017 11:09 AM, Niels Bakker wrote:
>>      >> * Charles.Manser at charter.com (Manser, Charles J) [Mon 06 Feb
>> 2017, 16:21 CET]:
>>      >>> It seems that browsing to ticketmaster.com or any of the
>> associated IP addresses results in a 403 Forbidden for our customers today.
>> Is anyone else having this issue?
>>      >>
>>      >> http://help.ticketmaster.com/why-am-i-getting-a-blocked-forb
>> idden-or-403-error-message/
>>      >>
>>      >>
>>      >>    -- Niels.
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