On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, Mark Foster wrote:
I take it the recently reported issue of an entire country (Dubai?) being blocked from editing Wikipedia articles due to the abuse of a single user of the single IP address behind which much of the country was NAT'd, isn't an issue of this then?
I believe that was the entire country was behind that IP since it was being used to filter web/monitor traffic, so they were not actually NATed. Personally I think NATing at this is a bad idea, you aren't gaining anything more than a (non NATing) firewall does and it breaks p2p protocols and other random apps. Charging extra money for IPs is not going to work if you are effectivly charging $5 for MSN, bitorrent or whatever to work while other companies don't apply that charge. and remember you have to remote admin Grandma's PC :) -- Simon J. Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar | eMT.