NATting a whole country?

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia edu>]

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