[WikiEN-l] Re: Why am I blocked ?

[Eric Demolli]

Thanks Jimmy.
You know I'm blocked again. As of today I considered my proxy as secure.  I
just like to know what kind of security hole was discovered. If a proxy
blocker as been implemented I think it would be fair to say exactly why an
address is blocked.
Eric Demolli

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jimmy Wales" <jwales at bomis.com>
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 7:16 PM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: Why am I blocked ?


> Tim Starling wrote:
> > Eric Demolli wrote:
> > >It was the proxy blocker. But how does it work ? I use Squid cache but
> > >there
> > >should be no way to connect on my proxy port from the Net.
> > >I've added some acl to allow only my internal network IP should I do
> > >something else ?
> > >How can I be unblocked ?
> > >
> >
> > That's all you have to do, secure the proxy and get a sysop to unblock
> > you. Your computer will be rescanned eventually, and if you've
> > configured your proxy correctly, you won't be reblocked.
>
> How hard would it be for us to have the ability to punch specific
> holes in our proxy blocker?  It seems a shame for Eric to have to
> reconfigure something because of us.  If someone were abusing his
> proxy, that might be a different matter.
>
> I know that if my home network were to get blocked for this, I'd find
> it a royal pain in the ass to have to reconfigure.
>
> --Jimbo
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