It's your choice to obey the Spamhaus DROP list or not. If they are blocking things you want to talk to, that's a good indication you should ignore the DROP list. If a third party is blocking things you want to talk to based on this list, you'd have to talk to that third party. You are free to also talk to Spamhaus, but they're very stubborn. This isn't the only incident with Spamhaus listing things that should not be listed, and it isn't the only incident of someone attacking Cloudflare as a whole (see: Italy, Spain...). "Might makes right" refers to people using the list versus ignoring it. Obviously nobody but Spamhaus controls the Spamhaus list. And nobody but, say, Telstra, controls whether Telstra is blocking packets to destinations on the list. Telstra's customers may or may not have a cause of legal action if they want to communicate with someone on the list and Telstra refuses to unblock them. If /you/ have contractual obligations requiring you to honour the list, well... maybe obey the list for those customers only, and make it their problem. On 17/09/2026 22:35, Seth Mattinen via NANOG wrote:
Cloudflare has IP ranges all the way up on the Spamhaus DROP list. Cloudflare says they cannot control this.
172.70.206.0/23 (Spamhaus SBL687772) 512 addresses 172.70.214.0/23 (Spamhaus SBL687314) 512 addresses
Is Cloudflare in a "might makes right" position, or should someone be working to resolve the issues causing the SBL?
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