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Re: RBL turf wars (was: ABOVE.NET BLOCKING ORBZ!)

  • From: Roger Marquis
  • Date: Fri Nov 16 22:34:30 2001

> >Check this out, I can't get to Orbz's website anymore (and I suspect you
> >can't either):

We can't either.  Attached is a letter from a customer forwarded
to our upstream (another above.net victim/ISP).  If Above.Net wants
to shed customers like a duck sheds water these filters will surely
have that effect.

-- 
Roger Marquis
Roble Systems Consulting
http://www.roble.com/


>I'm unable to access my primary spam filter subscription, www.orbz.org,
>thanks to some clueless filter-nazi at above.net.  Can you add a route
>to orbz (205.231.149.0) through ###### (bypassing above.net)?
>
>As you know ####### provides spam filtering services to its customers
>via orbz, orbl, ordb, and other dns subscription services.  Above.net's
>un-announced and un-approved IP filters are impacting our services,
>customers, and cash-flow.  I hope you and above.net are aware that
>these filters are causing financial hardship to ##########.
>
>Longer-term, please let me know if you decide to open a worldcom
>co-lo.  This is the second time we've been screwed by above.net (the
>first due to their blocking orbs.org) and we are preparing to move to
>sonic.net or another ISP to avoid these petty, unprofessional, and
>ongoing RBL turf battles.
>
>>traceroute to www.orbz.org (205.231.149.53), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
>> ...
>> core1-main2-oc12.sjc1.above.net (208.185.175.253)  1.548 ms !H * *
>> * * *
>> ...