Wikiversity talk:Open Proxies

Proxy blocking <-- how is this related to all of the manual blocking that is going on here at Wikiversity? How does all this relate to w:Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/TawkerbotTorA? --JWSchmidt 07:11, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Online NMAP

 * Copied from m:Meta talk:WikiProject on open proxies:

Well, since no one else has offered, I went ahead and set one up. I've just finished configuring it for OP scanning (though I'm open to suggestions as to how to further fine-tune it), and I'm trying to keep it as utterly secure as possible. It will be running with root access; however, I've disabled loopback/localhost scans and every other dangerous exploit I could think of, and I'm going to be restricting access only to OP verified users of the MetaWikiProject and its sister projects. To request a password, please e-mail me. Details can be found here. I'll post this to enwiki too. AmiDaniel 00:51, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Infinite blocking on IP addresses
See here for some discussion related to dealing with open proxies. Adambro 15:11, 25 March 2010 (UTC)


 * I wonder if individual wikimedia projects even need to do this any more. I would imagine since blocking open proxies is suppose to be a global policy that Meta admins would simply globally block open proxies. -- dark lama  15:15, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, I'm wondering about this.
 * My understanding is that the TorBlock will now block all Tor nodes so those don't need to be blocked locally any more. It is difficult to say how many of those IPs currently blocked are or were Tor nodes but I assume a good few are. In addition to Tor nodes, there will of course be other open proxies. However, seeing thousands of IPs blocked indefinitely gives me concerns about collateral damage. Some date back to 2006 and so it is likely many will no longer be used by open proxies.
 * As you note, in addition to the TorBlock extension, we now have global blocks and so that shrinks the number of open proxies we'll need to block locally even further.
 * I don't see an obvious way of dealing with this though. We could unblock all on the assumption that many will be inactive, block globally, or blocked by TorBlock, but it is difficult to judge how many open proxies we'd be unblocking in the process. Adambro 15:29, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

See also: Notices_for_custodians -- Jtneill - Talk - c 22:36, 25 March 2010 (UTC)