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Apple publishes that IP range (CIDR address block) in several KB articles on its own website for system administrators to configure firewalls/web filters. http

Apple publishes that IP range (CIDR address block) in several KB articles on its own website for system administrators to configure firewalls/web filters. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210060 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210060 https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT203609 https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT203609

bloudermilk 7y ago
That's rather beside the point. Just because I advertise my IP doesn't mean I want my service providers to disclose my activity publicly.
- black_puppydog 7y ago
  Maybe I'm misunderstanding something here, but does apple pay them for this?
  - lolc 7y ago
    The point of this thread is that maybe Apple would pay if they were asked.
    - Aissen 7y ago
      And how would you be contacting Apple, from your little 3-person startup in Paris ? You assume they have the means or contacts to do that; and IMHO the tweet is not that aggressive. It's been done before, (e.g Intel has been called out for consuming kernel.org bandwidth and git CPU power) and is the simplest way to have people from inside BigCorp get a message.
      - lolc 7y ago
        No need to argue with me. I'm only explaining the original point, not making it myself :-) But reviewing the thread I see you your question was in response to someone calling them "service providers" to Apple. So your question was entirely justified and it was me who'd lost context.
        Aissen 7y ago
        Lots of quid pro quo indeed, no harm done :-) I want to add an answer that to those saying that gives information about Apple: it only says that somehow, one team inside Apple has setup a CI (badly written script) with maybe 5k tests (from a standard set for instance) and has 9 commits per day. Or maybe they have more commits, and less tests ? Or maybe, it's a matrix of 70x70 tests. Or maybe… well, all it says is that someone is experimenting with this.
      - joatmon-snoo 7y ago
        Blacklist the IP range and throw 404s with "please contact us, we're throttling you because load".
- markdown 7y ago
  > my service providers Someone you get freebies from isn't a "service provider".

bloudermilk 7y ago

That's rather beside the point. Just because I advertise my IP doesn't mean I want my service providers to disclose my activity publicly.

black_puppydog 7y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding something here, but does apple pay them for this?
- lolc 7y ago
  The point of this thread is that maybe Apple would pay if they were asked.
  - Aissen 7y ago
    And how would you be contacting Apple, from your little 3-person startup in Paris ? You assume they have the means or contacts to do that; and IMHO the tweet is not that aggressive. It's been done before, (e.g Intel has been called out for consuming kernel.org bandwidth and git CPU power) and is the simplest way to have people from inside BigCorp get a message.
    - lolc 7y ago
      No need to argue with me. I'm only explaining the original point, not making it myself :-) But reviewing the thread I see you your question was in response to someone calling them "service providers" to Apple. So your question was entirely justified and it was me who'd lost context.
      - Aissen 7y ago
        Lots of quid pro quo indeed, no harm done :-) I want to add an answer that to those saying that gives information about Apple: it only says that somehow, one team inside Apple has setup a CI (badly written script) with maybe 5k tests (from a standard set for instance) and has 9 commits per day. Or maybe they have more commits, and less tests ? Or maybe, it's a matrix of 70x70 tests. Or maybe… well, all it says is that someone is experimenting with this.
    - joatmon-snoo 7y ago
      Blacklist the IP range and throw 404s with "please contact us, we're throttling you because load".
markdown 7y ago
> my service providers Someone you get freebies from isn't a "service provider".