On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 5:58 PM Calum Jackson wrote: > It seems every day a new mail comes in about someone getting a 403 forbidden > when trying to access the wiki through their proxy server or VPN, or even > just their home address. Now, edit-blocks would make sense, but we already > require any prospective wiki editors to email in to make an account. Why is > it that we ban entire IP ranges from even reading the wiki?
There is a combination of a few factors: The software we use doesn't differentiate between types of accesses in its blocking code. Last time we removed the block, the server got overloaded. The current admin team hasn't had time to retry that and figure out why it got overloaded. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
