[93947] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NATting a whole country?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris L. Morrow)
Wed Jan 3 22:16:20 2007
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 03:14:53 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Chris L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com>
In-reply-to: <20070103.154438.725.79984@webmail18.lax.untd.com>
To: Fergie <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Cc: smb@cs.columbia.edu, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Fergie wrote:
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> - -- "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
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> >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.
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> Sweet. :-)
i can't wait for the: "uhm, that ip is being synflooded, perhaps we should
just null route it?" call.... :( we've seen this more than 1 time with
cable operators :( it's always fun!
