https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16569
Summary: Contributions from major UK ISPs being assigned to the
same two IP addresses
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: General/Unknown
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It seems that all customers of Virgin Media are being assigned the IP address
62.30.249.131 when they edit Wikipedia. Similarly, all customers of Be
Unlimited are being assigned the IP address 89.167.221.3.
This produces all the usual problems associated with shared IP addresses on a
much exaggerated scale.
I strongly suspect the problem lies with MediaWiki. That the same thing has
happened with both these major ISPs at the same time suggests that the error
does not lie with their configuration. Additionally, customers of these ISPs
are not all on a shared IP address at all. My IP address is currently
87.194.147.203, as far as everyone except Wikimedia is concerned, yet I am
affected by autoblocks and direct blocks on 89.167.221.3. Other users are
reporting the same thing.
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