[Foundation-l] and what if...

Fri Dec 12 11:44:41 UTC 2008

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:33 AM, Tomasz Ganicz <polimerek at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, the story with IWF have shown that the current system of
> blocking vandals by their IP has to be changed ASAP. In fact it is
> causing a lot of problems even without action of IWF and other similar
> wachdogs. There are more and more ISPs which uses single IP for all
> their customers. Do you rember the story of blocking Quatar? Actually,
> vast majority of ISPs use dynamic IP numbers, which also causes
> serious problems with effective blocking vandals.My current ISP is
> using dynamic IP. In my office there are around 200 people using
> single IP. I guess all OTRS volunteers and checkusers knows the issue
> very well. The IP blocking is terribly old fashioned - it has been
> implemented at the time where most of the IP's represented single
> PC's. Actually very few IP numbers are "personal".

Do you have a suggestion? Not everyone uses XFF, certainly not ISPs
with dynamic IPs, how would you suggest we block anonymous users?

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