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Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 06:41:04 +0100 (CET) From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> To: nanog@nanog.org In-Reply-To: <20070103233126.0054E765FDE@berkshire.machshav.com> Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu 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
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