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From: owner-nanog@merit.edu On Behalf Of Steven M. Bellovin
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.
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-----Original Message-----
From: pacnog-bounces@pacnog.org [mailto:pacnog-bounces@pacnog.org] On
Behalf Of Shain Singh
Apologies for those on the NANOG list. I thought it was an interesting
enough article to raise some discussion.
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--- Alo.Anesi@bluesky.as wrote:
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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Heh, once I had a really big argument (it lasted for weeks to months) with a guy at a university where I was running the network as to why we couldn't put all 9000 computers on one big LAN. Turns out he didn't understand what a VLAN was or why intra-campus routing was important. DOH!
On another note, I wonder what the IP address for all of .qa is. >;-)
scott
