Brian Chen wrote:
2007/11/27,
Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com>om>:
That isn't going to work: Your browser will claim that it's trying to
connect to localhost in its http request. The wikimedia squids use the
hostname for access control, and the wikimedia Apaches use it to
determine which site out of the 700 some wikis you were attempting to
reach.
If it is the root cause, I have yet another question:
My friend (another site admin) lent me a ssh account on his server,
I set up the same ssh tunnel and I can connect to wikipedia without problem.
(Our servers are in the same ISP domain.)
It's a good question, and the answer is: because it isn't the root cause.
We don't block by hostname, so you can't get ERR_ACCESS_DENIED by using
the wrong one.
The real reason is because your host (220.130.167.166) was blocked along
with 54 other IPs on March 17 this year, due to its apparent involvement
in a DoS attempt.
Was this host under your control at the time?
-- Tim Starling