On Thursday 20 November 2008 21:25:46 Praedor Atrebates wrote: > Now I'm really lost on this. Tor quit running (I cannot run > tor-0.2.1.7-alpha for more than a couple minutes, so it seems. It just > suddenly quits without any errors. It's running then suddenly it isn't. > > Looks like it is back to the previous version again... > > That said, tor is down/off and I STILL get the same messages for my IRC > client. It seems that simply running tor briefly is enough to bork my > IRC client from then on (at least until I reboot)? >
Do you run a server yourself? If so, your real IP may be on the irc server's 'tor blocklist'. > On Thursday 20 November 2008 16:12:42 Alexander W. Janssen wrote: > > Sebastian Hahn wrote: > > >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: "Praedor Atrebates" > > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gesendet: 20.11.08 21:10:08 An: > > >> [email protected] Betreff: Problems with irc because of tor? > > >> Why does running tor suddenly cause me to be unable to connect to > > >> freenode? I am NOT running a torified irc client. Also, where's > > >> the address 127.0.0.1 coming from? Why is my REAL IP address now > > >> invisible (apparently) and tor causing sites to think I am trying > > >> to use the <illegal> localhost IP? > > >> > > >> praedor > > > > > > Unfortunately, some service providers choose to not accept Tor users > > > as part of their userbase and block connections from exit nodes. > > > > That wasn't the question, he was wondering why he was using Tor at all > > though he told his client not to use it. > > > > Praedor: Sure you don't use a proxy in your IRC-client? Also, check - > > if you're using some flavour of UNIX - if you have some variable like > > http_proxy set. > > > > Alex.
