cleanfeed and wikipedia

[Chris Edwards]

Ian Batten wrote:

| Well, if _that_ is the reason, it's a bit more complex.  I've got a BT
| residential connection at home, which I presume is processed with Cleanfeed,
| and it's quite happy to show me the Wikipedia page on the album with the
| original cover.

Well, I can view the Wikipedia page from a number of places, but NOT my 
home residential connection, which is Virgin (...) cable.  The remote side 
FINs the connection having returned zero bytes of data.

For accessing legit Wikipedia content, tcptraceroute to en.wikipedia.org 
(resolving to 91.198.174.2) shows about 5 extra hops inside Virgin's 
network, which are not present for other web sites...


James Fidell wrote:

| as a result UK ISPs who use cleanfeed are proxying traffic to 
| wikipedia's European servers. Wikipedia edits made by UK users therefore 
| appear to originate from a very small set of IP addresses, breaking 
| wikipedia's security model somewhat.

Presumably one answer might be for the ISP proxy server to spoof my IP to 
Wikipedia, in addition to spoofing Wikipedia's IP to me.