PayPal blocked by Alien Vault pfBlockerNG - How to get around
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Hello, I've run into an interesting issue involving pfBlockerNG and a particular IPv4 block list called, "Alien Vault" https://reputation.alienvault.com/reputation.generic
It's a very good block list and I don't want to disable it unless that's the only way, however right now some CDN IP addresses have fallen onto the block list. I think PayPal was having issues last week and because of that, their IP addresses or rather one particular CDN (Fastly) has been blocked. This means that sometimes it works (not routed through Fastly) to resolve but mostly it doesn't resolve when routed through one of these blocked IPs. I've notified Fastly and they say they're aware of the issue however I'm not sure how long it's going to take to resolve it. Since PayPal has a lot of IP addresses, it's not really feasible for me to white list all of those IP addresses or even discover all of them--or is it?
Could someone tell me how to solve this issue short of just turning off the block list?
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I don't ever remember that particular list blocking anything legit but I suppose it could
be possible.