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Re: The Persistence of Sects

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Post by gpvos » Mon, Apr 13, 2015, 2:53 PM UTC

gpvos wrote: post #10

jloughry wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you run a Tor relay? If your IP address is listed as being such, you'll see that message on lots of web sites. Apple's support site (although not their store, interestingly) and phdcomics.com are other places I've run into it. If you have a static IP address on your home router, don't ever start a Tor relay at home, or you'll poison it, evidently, forever. :-(

I have run a Tor relay in the past, yes. Although I have been getting this error only recently. And indeed phdcomics.com gives the same error. Interestingly, I get support.apple.com in Russian!?

It was a Tor relay, not an exit node, so I'm still curious why it would have to be blacklisted. And I guess I cannot rule out completely that either my home computer or - more likely - someone I granted access to my wifi has been part of a botnet.

Re: The Persistence of Sects

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Post by jloughry » Wed, Apr 15, 2015, 6:03 PM UTC

nitrogen wrote: post #8

jloughry wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you run a Tor relay? If your IP address is listed as being such, you'll see that message on lots of web sites. Apple's support site (although not their store, interestingly) and phdcomics.com are other places I've run into it. If you have a static IP address on your home router, don't ever start a Tor relay at home, or you'll poison it, evidently, forever. :-(

Is it a relay, exit node, or both that will get one blacklisted?

I've never run a Tor exit node, only relays. There's very little information available about what's happening. I've tried to get my router's IP address off the blacklist without success; entries don't seem to age off, at least not in the space of months. (For a few days I had the Tor relay running behind NAT forwarding on the router's IP address; later I got another static IP address for the relay machine's own use but the damage had already been done; now my router's IP address is blacklisted and I can't undo it---every machine on my home network behind that NAT is affected by the blacklist.

Re: The Persistence of Sects

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Post by jloughry » Wed, Apr 15, 2015, 6:07 PM UTC

gpvos wrote: post #11

gpvos wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have run a Tor relay in the past, yes. Although I have been getting this error only recently. And indeed phdcomics.com gives the same error. Interestingly, I get support.apple.com in Russian!?

It was a Tor relay, not an exit node, so I'm still curious why it would have to be blacklisted. And I guess I cannot rule out completely that either my home computer or - more likely - someone I granted access to my wifi has been part of a botnet.

I'm positive that no machine in my home network has ever been part of a botnet; the only explanation that stands up to scrutiny is the Tor relay that was running for a few days as a NAT forwarded service through my router's static IP address.

I wish the faceless entity behind this widespread blacklist service could be identified so I could ask them.