Starlink IP block blacklisted?
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Finding that one of our sites (using SL) appears to be blocked on the forum. It's in the 129.222.0.0/16 subnet that appears to be flagged on the Spamhaus PBL (if used?) but otherwise reported as clean elsewhere. Haven't come across this before - can it be removed pls?
Cheers
Pops -
Hi, I dont think that someone here in the Netgate-Forum is able to help you. You have to clear this with Spamhaus or with Starlink.
Regards,
firodo -
@fireodo The PBL list appears to be for dynamic IP mail senders so i am not sure that Netgate is relying on that list to block web access. My point being, the IP reputation is otherwise fine so i suspect it is a server-side block.
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@Popolou said in Starlink IP block blacklisted?:
My point being, the IP reputation is otherwise fine so i suspect it is a server-side block.
That could be possible ...
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@Popolou Try is now - yeah 129/8 was on the blacklist.
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@johnpoz Cheers, back to normal now. Any idea what caused such a large address space to get blocked?
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@Popolou my guess is a typo.. It might of been me that added that, not sure any mod or admin can adjust the blacklist.
We get a lot of spam (a lot!).. When it comes from a IP that does not seem to be a normal sort of user IP space, it can be added to a locally maintained black list. Do you know when it started blocking? I know that I have not added that any time recent that I recall.
Anyone else that might happen across this thread - feel free to PM me if you feel an IP your coming from is mistakenly black listed. While I can check and modify the locally controlled blacklist - stuff from akismet is less easy to manage, its more of a blackbox sort of filtering and really have no control over that. But you would be amazed at how much spam still gets through. I don't think I have gone a day without deleting some spam, most days its multiple posts.. Not that long ago we had to resort to mod approved first time posts because it was just a flood of constant spam coming in. That has been removed after akismet started working again.
In trying to keep a spam free space for users to enjoy, mistakes can be made. But yeah starlink is prob not a good platform to be spamming from to be honest. But vpn/vps and hosting sites are for example. I can only assume a typo on the mask cut off more IPs than were wanted to blocked. If it was me, I do apologize for the inconvenience.
