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RE: [pacnog] FW: NATting a whole country?
At the opposite end of the spectrum, I once had someone suggest the
following:
"Why don't we just put the whole island on one big subnet?"
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From: pacnog-bounces@pacnog.org [mailto:pacnog-bounces@pacnog.org] On
Behalf Of Shain Singh
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 2:18 PM
To: pacnog@pacnog.org; ausnog@ausnog.net
Subject: [pacnog] FW: NATting a whole country?
Apologies for those on the NANOG list. I thought it was an interesting
enough article to raise some discussion.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Steven M. Bellovin
Sent: Thursday, 4 January 2007 10:31 a.m.
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: NATting a whole country?
According to
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-TechBit-Wikipedia-Block.ht
ml
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
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Shaineel Singh
MakePeace Media LTD
http://mpm.org.au/shsingh
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