Jimmy Wales wrote:
I have gotten a complaint that 207.142.131.228 is or was attempting to use a proxy at 212.185.189.154. How can that be?
It is important that we not probe third parties for open proxies under most circumstances. It might be appropriate if we are experiencing direct abuse ourselves and we're trying to track down why, but as a matter of routine, it causes us to get complaints which will get us in big trouble with our isp.
--Jimbo
The proxy checker has been switched off for three weeks. In that time I manually scanned 2 or 3 addresses which were being used by suspected sock puppets, but searching my shell command history confirms that that address wasn't one of them. So I have no idea what they're talking about. The date and time of the suspected proxy scan would be helpful in tracking this down.
-- Tim Starling