On 22/11/11 23:34, Chad wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Tim Starling <tstarl...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> The user's IP address was a Tor exit node. I blocked the IP address in
>> iptables, but when I found out it was an exit node, I also disabled
>> account creation entirely, so that we could stop the vandalism by user
>> account locks. It remains disabled for now.
>>
> 
> I don't suppose we could block Tor indefinitely from write actions
> on BZ?

We can't even block Tor from write actions in MediaWiki, despite
having an extension which is meant to do exactly that. See bug 30716.
I haven't found any robust way to do it for Bugzilla or Apache, and we
should probably fix our own software before we try patching someone
else's.

-- Tim Starling


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