[NANOG] Re: Blocked by Reddit

["Justin H. via NANOG" <nanog () lists nanog org>]

John Kristoff via NANOG wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 12:02:06 -0700
> "Justin H. via NANOG" <nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:
>
> > Anyone reading from Reddit?  We've been getting a "Blocked by Network
> > Security" page for several (presumably all) of our network blocks and
> > a ticket open with support has gotten no useful replies.
> Sorry if this isn't the response you were hoping for, but maybe a
> piling on will help highlight that yours isn't an isolated problem.
>
> I've seen this from some random address space too.  They seem to
> dislike some prefixes if they are typically associated with servers for
> instance, but are perfectly OK with Tor.  There seemed to be a change
> to their blocking about a year or two ago.  I've never been much of a
> reddit user and it seems so arbitrary that I've not bothered to open a
> ticket with them.  Instead I just stop trying to click on reddit
> links that show up in search engine results.  *shrug*
Last time around it was AWS adding what they considered non-eyeball 
networks to a global block list.  This time (at least so far) it seems 
isolated to Reddit.  It may still be an AWS issue, but I think that 
would be for Reddit to say at this point.

Justin H.

Justin
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