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NATting a whole country?

  • From: Steven M. Bellovin
  • Date: Wed Jan 03 18:36:24 2007 
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.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb