Re: wiki.debian.org blocking virtualinternetaccess vpn

2014-12-15 Thread caedes
I think your proposal would work and indeed meet requirements, but it's up to the admin to approve. If not I'm still up for solving it with upstream so we can have a blacklist for login or editing. Cheers! On 15/12/14 14:40, Stéphane Blondon wrote: > 2014-12-15 3:02 GMT+01:00 Paul Wise : >> Unfo

Re: wiki.debian.org blocking virtualinternetaccess vpn

2014-12-15 Thread Stéphane Blondon
2014-12-15 3:02 GMT+01:00 Paul Wise : > Unfortunately the MoinMoin codebase doesn't have the option to blacklist > IPs for non-read-only actions while allowing reading. As far as I know, the write access is available only if the user (or the bot) is connected. In this case, it could be possible to

Re: wiki.debian.org blocking virtualinternetaccess vpn

2014-12-14 Thread caedes
On 15/12/14 03:02, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, 2014-12-15 at 02:51 +0100, caedes wrote: > >> I understand it can be blocked in the future... and I'm sure you thought >> about this, but a blacklist for editing only would be effective at >> protecting from spammers while allowing readers from difficul

Re: wiki.debian.org blocking virtualinternetaccess vpn

2014-12-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2014-12-15 at 02:51 +0100, caedes wrote: > I understand it can be blocked in the future... and I'm sure you thought > about this, but a blacklist for editing only would be effective at > protecting from spammers while allowing readers from difficult ip > domains (I know it's not the best s

Re: wiki.debian.org blocking virtualinternetaccess vpn

2014-12-14 Thread caedes
All right. Thank you very much for taking action so fast! I understand it can be blocked in the future... and I'm sure you thought about this, but a blacklist for editing only would be effective at protecting from spammers while allowing readers from difficult ip domains (I know it's not the best

Re: wiki.debian.org blocking virtualinternetaccess vpn

2014-12-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2014-12-14 at 21:27 +0100, caedes wrote: > I write to inform that seemingly the wiki.debian.org site is blocking > access from some or all virtualinternetaccess vpn ips. > > An example client ip is: > 109.201.152.XXX This IP range is in the wiki network blacklist due to spammers using it

wiki.debian.org blocking virtualinternetaccess vpn

2014-12-14 Thread caedes
Hi! I write to inform that seemingly the wiki.debian.org site is blocking access from some or all virtualinternetaccess vpn ips. An example client ip is: 109.201.152.XXX Access to https://wiki.debian.org/ from such ips gives "Forbidden" http response. Vitualinternetaccess is a popular vpn servi