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Re: NATting a whole country?

  • From: Fergie
  • Date: Wed Jan 03 18:53:24 2007

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- -- "Steven M. Bellovin" <[email protected]> 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

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