Re: NATting a whole country?

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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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. :-)

- - ferg

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