[okfn-help] iptables on us1 blocking Googlebot

Tue Mar 29 09:41:07 UTC 2011

On 21 Mar 2011, at 20:21, Chris Mear <chrismear at gmail.com> wrote:

> We (One Click Orgs) have been trying to figure out for the last few
> days why Google wasn't listing anything from our site
> http://www.oneclickorgs.com/ in its results.
> 
> I had a look on the server we're on (us1.okfn.org) and it seems that
> there's a couple of iptables rules in the INPUT chain that are
> blocking 66.249.65.0/24 and 66.249.0.0/16, which (currently) include
> (some of?) Google's web crawlers (e.g. 66.249.65.1). Hence nothing's
> getting indexed.
> 
> Is this intentional?

Just checking again if anyone knows why this firewall rule is in place. Is there another list (sysadmins?) I should ping as well?

If there are no objections within the next week, I will adjust the iptables rules to carve out access for the Googlebot servers to us1.

Thanks,
Chris