Rackspace and Yahoo! resolve spider blocking
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A Rackspace representative today confirmed that a prior reported issue of Yahoo! being unable to index sites on certain Rackspace servers had now been resolved.
The problem was first reported in Rackspace hates Yahoo? Or Vice Versa? in which it was discovered that Yahoo! spiders were unable to index sites across the IP range 72.3.128.0 to 72.3.128.19.
It has since been resolved, with Yahoo!’s indexing spiders apparently blocked in transition to the sites, rather than any proactive blocking on either Yahoo! or Rackspace’s part.
