A few NTL users are proving as painful as AOL has hitherto been. NTL puts *everyone* behind huge regional proxy servers, 100k+ users all showing the same IP. This creates endless fun with blocks, as you can imagine.
However, it appears the proxy does send the user's real IP ... encoded. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:ANI#Please_do_not_block_User:62.253.96.42_.2... and the mailing list post linked from it, http://lists.horde.org/archives/imp/Week-of-Mon-20030106/028895.html and the official NTL proxy list with characteristics, http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adf/ntlproxies.html
It would involve coding for a special case, but it's a special case of the largest cable ISP and second largest overall broadband ISP in the UK ...
- d.
On 26/06/05, David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
A few NTL users are proving as painful as AOL has hitherto been. NTL puts *everyone* behind huge regional proxy servers, 100k+ users all showing the same IP. This creates endless fun with blocks, as you can imagine.
It's also worth noting that NTL proxies are semi-open. When I was on NTL, I could make use of any other NTL proxy, not only the 4 allocated to my town. I'm guessing this is the case for all NTL users.
Angela.
Angela (beesley@gmail.com) [050626 09:41]:
On 26/06/05, David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
A few NTL users are proving as painful as AOL has hitherto been. NTL puts *everyone* behind huge regional proxy servers, 100k+ users all showing the same IP. This creates endless fun with blocks, as you can imagine.
It's also worth noting that NTL proxies are semi-open. When I was on NTL, I could make use of any other NTL proxy, not only the 4 allocated to my town. I'm guessing this is the case for all NTL users.
This is the case. It's not *widely* known, but NTL users get to hear about it 'cos NTL's proxies, being NTL, are crap. So any NTL user could appear to be coming from anywhere in the UK.
- d.
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