https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16569
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--- Comment #24 from Colin Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2008-12-08 08:38:49 UTC
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(In reply to comment #0)
> 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.
>
Hi there, Not a techie but what would happen if millions of outraged users
reported say the virgin, O2 or even the IWF home page to the IWF as potentially
offensive. Would the response be automatically to redirect to an unnamed
Virgin, O2 or IWF URL. Would this then be akin to them mounting their own
"denial of service" attack upon themselves?
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