Interesting Ali Express web server behavior...

Mon Dec 11 07:28:16 UTC 2023

No, in this case, I was using HE uplink from the Cabinet in FMT2 for testing using my AS1734 space 192.159.10.0/24 as source address.

Owen

> On Dec 9, 2023, at 23:51, Mike Lyon <mike.lyon at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I notice a weird issue like this with Alibaba when i try to use my Comcast connection. Turn my wifi off and now it works flawlessly.
> 
> Are you using your comcast connection?
> 
> -Mike
> 
>> On Dec 9, 2023, at 21:17, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr> wrote:
>> 
>> On Sat, Dec 09, 2023 at 09:55:31PM -0800,
>> Owen DeLong via NANOG <nanog at nanog.org> wrote
>> a message of 1136 lines which said:
>> 
>>> But why would AliExpress be redirecting to DDN space? Is this
>>> legitimate? Ali hoping to get away with squatting, or something
>>> else?
>> 
>> No idea. The IP address does not reply to HTTP requests, anyway. A
>> practical joke?
>> 
>> Note that this redirection takes places only when there is no
>> User-Agent field. If you say 'User-Agent: Mozilla', you get a proper
>> redirection, in my case to https://fr.aliexpress.com/.