freakofnurture wrote:
Ilmari Karonen wrote:
This sounds quite plausible. I've encountered a similar situation with 213.42.2.11 and 213.42.2.21, which are proxies used by a large ISP in the United Arab Emirates. Some customer of that ISP apparently has a proxy trojan on their computer, and so we keep getting open proxy vandalism from those IPs, which can't be blocked without major collateral damage.
I believe MediaWiki does have a list of "known" proxies that can be trusted to supply a valid X-Forwarded-For header. As the whois records for 213.216.199.14 seem legit, and the proxy appears to provide the necessary headers, I personally see no reason not to add it to the list.
So what should I tell the guy?
I have added 213.216.199.14 to the list. I recently documented Wikipedia's X-Forwarded-For setup, at:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/XFF_project
I would appreciate some help in advertising that meta page on Wikipedia, could you add links wherever it's relevant? Requests for adding proxies to the list can be made on the talk page, or to me by email.
-- Tim Starling