On 1/28/09 10:18 AM, Robert Rohde wrote:
On enwiki, the secure server (i.e. secure.wikimedia.org) is currently written down as using: 66.230.192.0–66.230.239.255
It seems unlikely that the server really uses or needs such a large range.
Indeed, this is wildly incorrect. :)
Our *old* public IP address space in Tampa was 66.230.200.0/24 -- this covers the range from 66.230.200.1 to 66.230.200.255, much smaller than the range listed by Pilotguy in 2007: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Blockiptext&diff=131...
Most likely, Pilotguy did a lookup and picked out the result for the parent IP space, which would cover many other customers of our provider, rather than the specific result for our network.
Further, this range is no longer being actively routed on the internet. Our current public IP address space in Tampa is 208.80.152.0/22, which covers 208.80.152.0 to 208.80.155.255.
Note that while edits made through the secure server would list that server in their proxy forwarding headers, which would be visible in CheckUser results, it would not be visible as the final public IP unless there were a misconfiguration of our proxy whitelist.
In addition, we received a report that 66.230.230.230 is operating as a TOR exit node. Since Wikipedia policy is to prohibit anon editing and account creation from TOR nodes, it would be nice to clarify this.
This IP is not and never has been in our address range. It's probably in the same building, though. :)
-- brion