Re: NATting a whole country?

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