On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 12:08 PM, James Downs <e...@egon.cc> wrote: > > > On Jan 26, 2016, at 09:40, Adam Loveless <adam.lovel...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Any Google engineers that can contact me off list? Seems our address > space > > has been blacklisted by Google and we have to enter captchas for them > now. >
Blacklisting IP space is rare (blocks will expire), but sometimes if abuse is seen from a broad range of IPs they can all be blocked (to handle hosting providers that give customers lots of IPs). Is that the capture that happens in front of certain websites? I had that > happen for two totally unrelated IP blocks. They eventually cleared within > a day or two, but I think they’re having problems with the detection > systems. The detection systems are working as intended. The captcha also didn’t work right for the site I was trying to access > (hackernews). > Please send details off-list including: URL, timestamp, source IP, observed behavior, and anything unusual about your setup (like disabling cookies). Damian
