[WikiEN-l] Transparent proxy blocked - again

Fri Jun 24 16:53:20 UTC 2005

Jake Waskett (jake at waskett.org) [050625 00:46]:

> An admin called RickK has blocked 62.252.192.8 (for what seems to me to be a 
> really poor reason: Autoblocked because your IP address has been recently 
> used by "Abortion". The reason given for Abortion's block is: "troll, 
> offensive user name".)
> As can be readily seen from a reverse DNS query, this IP address is a 
> transparent proxy server, use of which is forced upon NTL users (a large UK 
> telco).
> manc-cache-5.server.ntli.net

Trouble is that admins can't actually see what IP a username is coming
from. So there's no indication until someone calls it to their attention.

Nice to see RickK blocking again though ;-)

- d.