10 Dec
2023
10 Dec
'23
5:17 p.m.
Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 10, 2023, at 2:17 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> wrote:
On Sat, Dec 09, 2023 at 09:55:31PM -0800, Owen DeLong via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote a message of 1136 lines which said:
But why would AliExpress be redirecting to DDN space? Is this legitimate? Ali hoping to get away with squatting, or something else?
No idea. The IP address does not reply to HTTP requests, anyway. A practical joke?
Note that this redirection takes places only when there is no User-Agent field. If you say 'User-Agent: Mozilla', you get a proper redirection, in my case to https://fr.aliexpress.com/.
My guess would be they’re doing this to redirect unwanted / non-legitimate traffic away.