Hello,
So trying to make a contribution - while logged - English Wikipedia
instance of Mediawiki returned a ban statut for the current IP. The reason :
The IP address that you are currently using has been blocked because
it is believed to be a web host provider. To prevent abuse, web
On 26 July 2015 at 10:26, Mathieu Stumpf psychosl...@culture-libre.org wrote:
Now a more policy concern is, why would you ban an IP when it do indeed make
webhosting? It sounds like a shoot first at anything that would remotely
look like a dirty face criminal, and then if it survive let it try
Try clearing your open proxies and request an unblock. You can direct
Nmap at your own ip to check your servers' status. I know this is hard
and complicated, but that is why there is a blanket policy blocking
sites with open proxies; they can be exploited at any time by multiple
users.
Fred
On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 5:26 AM, Mathieu Stumpf
psychosl...@culture-libre.org wrote:
While do occasionally launch a web service, this is my home IP where I
currently don't run permanently such a service. So a first technical concern
is, does this filter does have a good pattern recognition
With the question answered, this discussion is off-topic for this mailing list,
considering it is English Wikipedia policy and not anything sysadmin or
MediaWiki-technical related.
I recommend taking any follow-up questions on wiki or to IRC.
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Tyler Romeo
https://parent5446.nyc
