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Help with Teahouse/Help desk abuse

For the past two days, we've had to temporarily semi-protect the Teahouse and Help desk due to a proxy-hopping vandal. My savviest approach has been to block the proxy IPs and implement one-hour protection. We'd generally prefer to not protect those pages, since they're places for new and unregistered users to get support. Can those with more know-how suggest a better approach? List of IPs in the collapsed section below.

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108.188.145.113 14.54.233.128 49.228.177.11 119.229.16.50 58.187.25.244 14.36.196.175 182.235.231.66 77.34.250.60 119.192.208.114 112.71.247.70 76.82.175.66 118.69.162.170 79.132.13.234 124.158.125.196 42.113.126.166 187.126.28.93 23.93.101.181 81.2.17.144 27.82.8.78 184.22.106.75

Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 15:06, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

MEGA VPN

A few days ago, MEGA launched its own VPN service. See their website.

I went through all their locations, and here's what I found:

Location	IPv4	range	IPv6	range
Belgium	94.24.37.142 94.24.37.160	94.24.37.0/24	2a0b:e45:1::160	2a0b:e45::/32
Canada (East)	162.208.16.120	162.208.16.0/24	2a0b:e41:2::120	2a0b:e41::/32
Canada (West)	Appears not to be working at this time.
France	185.206.26.120 185.206.26.122	185.206.24.0/22	2a0b:e42:1::120 2a0b:e42:1::122	2a0b:e42::/32
Germany	94.24.36.91 94.24.36.122	94.24.36.0/23	2a0b:e44:1::91 2a0b:e44:1::122	2a0b:e44::/32
Japan	103.99.35.120	103.99.35.0/24	2001:df1:e7c0::99	2001:df1:e7c0::/47 (When our gateway tool tries to process this range, it jams.)
Luxembourg	89.44.168.254	89.44.168.0/23	2001:678:25c:2216::254	2001:678:25c::/48
Netherlands	185.206.24.108	185.206.24.0/22	2a0b:e40:1::108	2a0b:e40::/32
New Zealand	122.56.56.198	122.56.56.0/22	2403:9800:c020::120	???
Spain	185.206.27.114 185.206.27.120	185.206.24.0/22	2a0b:e43:1::120	2a0b:e43::/32
United States (East)	135.148.69.59	135.148.0.0/16	2604:2dc0:105:1200::120	Various
United States (West)	23.81.166.112	23.81.160.0/21	2605:fe80:2100:a108:4::112	2605:fe80::/32

(NB: according to the WHOIS, the Japanese IP is in fact from New Zealand, not Japan.)

I tried all locations multiple times over a period of several hours. I didn't find a place that has more than two IPs. But this VPN is just starting up, and compared to other VPNs, it's all quite limited. So they'll likely add more servers in the future.

- Manifestation (talk) 20:09, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

He Malcolmxl5! Thanks for blocking some of these. You didn't block 'em all, though. Does that have a specific reason? Cheers, Manifestation (talk) 18:32, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No, I got distracted. I’ll pick up the others later. Thanks for your work on these. -- Malcolmxl5 (talk) 20:09, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, no problem. Thanks again! - Manifestation (talk) 20:16, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]