[93935] in North American Network Operators' Group
NATting a whole country?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Wed Jan 3 18:32:18 2007
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 18:31:25 -0500
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
