Re: Automated threat messages force limitation of Exit Policy (Softlayer)

2010-06-30 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Moritz Bartl (t...@wiredwings.com): Please get back to us in a week or so with info on your abuse complaint rate with the new policy. I'll update https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tips-running-exit-node-minimal-harassment with the policy if it does in fact drastically reduce your

Re: Automated threat messages force limitation of Exit Policy (Softlayer)

2010-06-30 Thread Moritz Bartl
Hi Mike, Ok, I've updated https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tips-running-exit-node-minimal-harassment with this information. Let me know if there is anything else you think might be helpful, too. Thanks. Will do. A blog would be great. Another option besides publishing the actual complaints

Re: Automated threat messages force limitation of Exit Policy (Softlayer)

2010-06-29 Thread Moritz Bartl
I also allow 465 and 563. Those are used by authenticated SMTPS and NNTPS. Thanks. I have added them to the exit policy. Please get back to us in a week or so with info on your abuse complaint rate with the new policy. I'll update

Re: Automated threat messages force limitation of Exit Policy (Softlayer)

2010-06-29 Thread Ted Smith
On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 19:36 -0700, Mike Perry wrote: (Though I suspect the SWIP will also help greatly. I am beginning to believe that these abuse-bot companies deliberately pick on new hosters who do not have their own IP allocation specified to bully them off the net). As in, MediaSentry

Re: Automated threat messages force limitation of Exit Policy (Softlayer)

2010-06-29 Thread Michael Holstein
As in, MediaSentry doesn't want Tor to exist (for obvious reasons), so it DMCA-DoS's new exit nodes? No, they pick on everyone pretty much equally .. easy to do when you're just using a script to scrape a tracker and complain. I've investigated many of the complaints over the years, and

Re: Automated threat messages force limitation of Exit Policy (Softlayer)

2010-06-27 Thread Moritz Bartl
Hi, On 27.06.2010 04:17, Mondior Folimun wrote: I also allow 465 and 563. Those are used by authenticated SMTPS and NNTPS. There's also the chat ports: 1863 (MSN), 5190 (aim), 5050 (yahoo), 5222- 5223 (xmpp/gchat). Those haven't given me any problems either. Thanks. I have added them to the

Re: Automated threat messages force limitation of Exit Policy (Softlayer)

2010-06-27 Thread Bill Weiss
Mondior Folimun(mfoli...@elitemail.org)@Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 04:17:15AM +0200: On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:49 +0200, Moritz Bartl t...@wiredwings.com wrote: Hi, Out of curiosity, what exit policy are you now using? Perhaps we want to standardize on a policy that is effective at reducing

Re: Automated threat messages force limitation of Exit Policy (Softlayer)

2010-06-27 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Moritz Bartl (t...@wiredwings.com): On 27.06.2010 04:17, Mondior Folimun wrote: I also allow 465 and 563. Those are used by authenticated SMTPS and NNTPS. There's also the chat ports: 1863 (MSN), 5190 (aim), 5050 (yahoo), 5222- 5223 (xmpp/gchat). Those haven't given me any

Re: Automated threat messages force limitation of Exit Policy (Softlayer)

2010-06-26 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Moritz Bartl (t...@wiredwings.com): BayTSP/MediaSentry/etc have heard all the excuses, including when they tagged my printer as serving up movies; they don't care. I fully expect they don't even read the responses, just check that a response was received. The response is

Re: Automated threat messages force limitation of Exit Policy (Softlayer)

2010-06-26 Thread Moritz Bartl
Hi, On 27.06.2010 03:00, Mike Perry wrote: Can you post a copy of your counter-notification? Did they say in specific why they believe it doesn't meet the requirements? Also, are you familiar with chillingeffects? They catalog DMCA-related correspondence and provide some legal FAQs for

Re: Automated threat messages force limitation of Exit Policy (Softlayer)

2010-06-26 Thread Mondior Folimun
On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:49 +0200, Moritz Bartl t...@wiredwings.com wrote: Hi, Out of curiosity, what exit policy are you now using? Perhaps we want to standardize on a policy that is effective at reducing these complaints. At the moment, I allow ports

Re: Automated threat messages force limitation of Exit Policy (Softlayer)

2010-06-23 Thread Moritz Bartl
Hi, Out of curiosity, what exit policy are you now using? Perhaps we want to standardize on a policy that is effective at reducing these complaints. At the moment, I allow ports 20-22,53,79-81,110,143,443,706,873,993, 995,8008,8080,. Feel free to suggest others. If you've filed the

Re: Automated threat messages force limitation of Exit Policy (Softlayer)

2010-06-23 Thread Jon
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 5:49 AM, Moritz Bartl t...@wiredwings.com wrote: Hi, Out of curiosity, what exit policy are you now using? Perhaps we want to standardize on a policy that is effective at reducing these complaints. At the moment, I allow ports 20-22,53,79-81,110,143,443,706,873,993,

Re: Automated threat messages force limitation of Exit Policy (Softlayer)

2010-06-23 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Jon torance...@gmail.com wrote:  I don't know if this will help or not, but in the states, my ISP provider calls me when they get a complaint. They tell me what the complaint was about, I get the ports the issues came thru and what they were. All except the

Re: Automated threat messages force limitation of Exit Policy (Softlayer)

2010-06-23 Thread Michael Holstein
If you can get SoftLayer to do SWIP on the IP address/range assigned to you, that will offload their complaint person and let you handle everything automatically. Agreed. Having the whois info for your TOR box come to you as an ORG-ABUSE will offload a lot of this from Softlayer. BayTSP,

Re: Automated threat messages force limitation of Exit Policy (Softlayer)

2010-06-23 Thread Moritz Bartl
Hi, BayTSP/MediaSentry/etc have heard all the excuses, including when they tagged my printer as serving up movies; they don't care. I fully expect they don't even read the responses, just check that a response was received. The response is probably then catalogued for some future court

Automated threat messages force limitation of Exit Policy (Softlayer)

2010-06-22 Thread Moritz Bartl
Hi, After running our 300MBit/s Tor node for less than a week, the US data center Softlayer has forced me to limit our exit policy to well-known ports after receiving 25 automated Torrent DMCA complaints this weekend and again more than 20 in the last two days. I hope that now that the policy is

Re: Automated threat messages force limitation of Exit Policy (Softlayer)

2010-06-22 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Moritz Bartl (t...@wiredwings.com): After running our 300MBit/s Tor node for less than a week, the US data center Softlayer has forced me to limit our exit policy to well-known ports after receiving 25 automated Torrent DMCA complaints this weekend and again more than 20 in the

Re: Automated threat messages force limitation of Exit Policy (Softlayer)

2010-06-22 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 02:20:16 +0200 Moritz Bartl t...@wiredwings.com wrote: All these complaints list pretty much the same Torrents, have been issued by MediaSentry or BayTSP, and each offers to get back to them on changing email addresses and through a web form. For each single abuse case, I