3 Jan
2007
3 Jan
'07
10:14 p.m.
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Fergie wrote:
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- -- "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu> 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.
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!