Re: NATting a whole country?
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- "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. :-) - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.2 (Build 4075) wj8DBQFFnD+tq1pz9mNUZTMRAo6kAJ9bk/vMGK/uUAZp8mMjbYYCBh0ZTACePN0s ybCrkk82NcUJalY6qrwpY8I= =vAih -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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!
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