[93937] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NATting a whole country?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fergie)
Wed Jan 3 18:49:36 2007
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 23:43:52 GMT
To: smb@cs.columbia.edu
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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- -- "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
>According to
>http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-TechBit-Wikipedia-Block.h=
tml
>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.
>
Sweet. :-)
- - ferg
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