Mr Gigpusher

ISPs don't allocate IPs sequentially so if you ban a range it can be anywhere in that ISPs region - the wider the range ban the more potential users impacted

The IPs belong to Exponential-E who look to be more a Microsoft house than AWS so chances are the IPs are either Front Door (load balancer) or some firewall (Palo Alto or the likes). As for the number of VMs, or Web App instances or Function apps etc behind it know way to know. They may limit the scaling to keep costs down and would explain some of the issues faced.

I wonder if they could be external IPs of a WAF or other Firewall or something rather than a load balancer as tracert dies when it hits them. Looking up the hosting provider I am going to guess it's cloud based and using scale sets but no easy way to see what's behind the point of entry. Certainly looked round robin as I hit 4 different IPs on the morning all in the 31. range - looking on my hosts file from previous sales days 167. range was definitely used in the past as that's what I had saved. All very interesting if not definitive 🙂

Good luck 🙂

My number is shared with a very annoying telemarketing telephone number in the US 🙂

Same - covid virgin too! Bit breathless and cough/sore throat so far. Being back at work is paining me more 😀

Pushing it in this heat I would think!

A soon as the dog sitter arrives @gigpusherand I are on the road!! Woo hoo!!

2013 was like that. Shit it down Thu night and by Friday afternoon was scorchio. Wore trainers Sat/Sun 🙂

Good shout - thanks for the reminder 🙂

In the queue at ped gate C (hopefully basking in the sunshine) 😀

You'll still be walking the dogs 😉

Wishing the last day at work goes quickly and uneventfully 😀

I’ll try but my wife isn’t so keen on meeting strangers on the internet 😉

22-23 ideal but anything dry will do just nicely 🙂