On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Jason Kinene Ssemakula <[email protected]>wrote:
> guys, i still don't understand why the server would then block the entire > orange IP range, because what happens is all our clients that happen to > use orange get blocked, and anyone else who tries to access a site off > that server also gets blocked. > > i don't believe its due to our brute force blacklister or deny system. we > have always had that in place and in any case then all our servers would > be affected, not just the one. > > unfortunately, the Orange tech guys am talking to still don't seem to get > the problem The tech guys at Orange can't do anything to fix the problem. The reason that it blocks everyone on Orange, is because Orange only has one or two public IP addresses that every Orange 3G customer is going out through. So if those one or two IPs are blocked, every single person on Orange is blocked. Every Orange 3G user doesn't have their own IP address.
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