I am surprised to see that a spammer is spoofing his IP address. I got some
spam from 200.90.74.226 - 226 is out of range for IPs and so isn't even a
valid IP address. I confirmed that the number is not a wiki username and the
apache log shows the same IP. It appears maybe the spammer's
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Al alj62...@yahoo.com wrote:
226 is out of range for IPs and so isn't even a valid IP address.
I don't think that's correct. The max is 255, not 225.
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The IP address belongs to CANTV Servicios which I have seen a LOT of spam
from recently
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Al alj62...@yahoo.com wrote:
I am surprised to see that a spammer is spoofing his IP address. I got
some spam from 200.90.74.226 - 226 is out of range for IPs and so isn't
To: alj62...@yahoo.com; mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Off topic: Wiki spammer is using spoofed IP
addresses???
The IP address belongs to CANTV Servicios which I have seen a LOT of spam
from recently
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Al alj62...@yahoo.com
address instead of allowing the real IP to be
recorded, not sure how we can defend against that sort of thing at present.
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 16:25:42 -0400
From: phoenixoverr...@gmail.com
To: alj62...@yahoo.com; mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Off topic: Wiki
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Arcane 21 arc...@live.com wrote:
Spammers might be using something similar to the IPfuck Firefox/Chrome
extension, which fakes an IP address instead of allowing the real IP to be
recorded, not sure how we can defend against that sort of thing at present.
On Oct 24, 2014 4:34 PM, Arcane 21 arc...@live.com wrote:
Spammers might be using something similar to the IPfuck Firefox/Chrome
extension, which fakes an IP address instead of allowing the real IP to be
recorded, not sure how we can defend against that sort of thing at present.
you're doing
topic: Wiki spammer is using spoofed IP
addresses???
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Al alj62...@yahoo.com wrote:
226 is out of range for IPs and so isn't even a valid IP address.
I don't think that's correct. The max is 255, not 225
