[WikiEN-l] Transparent proxy blocked - again

Fri Jun 24 23:09:15 UTC 2005

> Hmm. There seems to be a clash between anonymity and usability here, as is so
> often the case with security systems.
> 
> Perhaps we could allow admins to see part of the reverse DNS, but not all of
> it. If we strip off the last two parts of the name (in this example, leaving
> just "manc-cache-5.server"), we'd get something that nine times out of ten
> would identify a proxy or not, but would not be personally identifiable.
> 
> Reasonable?

In most cases we find out pretty fast and there are/were a few editors
who I know if I block I'm going to have to kill the IP block.
personaly I can't see the point of the ipblock at all.

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geni