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Re: NATting a whole country?
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 06:41:04 +0100 (CET)
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
According to http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-TechBit-Wikipedia-Block.html all of Qatar appears on the net as a single IP address. I don't know if it's NAT or a proxy that you need to use to get out to the world, but whatever the exact cause, it had a predictable consequence -- the entire country was barred from editing Wikipedia, due to abuse by (presumably) a few people.
I think I read at Wikipedia that this is their proxy-servers IP address (or proxy server farm probably).
Also, the only thing that was stopped was anonymous editing, editing after login and anonymous reading wasn't stopped.
-- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike () swm pp se
Current thread:
- NATting a whole country? Steven M. Bellovin (Jan 03)
- Re: NATting a whole country? Gadi Evron (Jan 03)
- Re: NATting a whole country? Iljitsch van Beijnum (Jan 03)
- Re: NATting a whole country? Joseph S D Yao (Jan 03)
- Re: NATting a whole country? Vassili Tchersky (Jan 03)
- Re: NATting a whole country? Steven M. Bellovin (Jan 03)
- Re: NATting a whole country? Michael . Dillon (Jan 04)
- Re: NATting a whole country? Iljitsch van Beijnum (Jan 04)
- Re: NATting a whole country? Joseph S D Yao (Jan 03)
- Re: NATting a whole country? Mikael Abrahamsson (Jan 03)
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- Re: NATting a whole country? Fergie (Jan 03)
- Re: NATting a whole country? Chris L. Morrow (Jan 03)
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