[tor-relays] UK Exit Node

2014-07-06 Thread Michael Banks
Any tips for UK Exit Node operators on a Residential ISP (BT)? Running a reduced exit policy, informed various teams at the ISP, running PeerGuardian on the server in question (blocking P2P/kiddyporn/hacking related IPs), have a hostname setup tor-relay.itschip.com, planning to leave the thing

Re: [tor-relays] UK Exit Node

2014-07-06 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2014-07-06 07:06, Michael Banks wrote: Any tips for UK Exit Node operators on a Residential ISP (BT)? I would be EXTREMELY careful in running an exit on a residential location. There is no way for you to prove that it was not you causing that connection but the Tor process causing that

Re: [tor-relays] UK Exit Node

2014-07-06 Thread Michael Banks
Advice taken I was debating to switch over to relay-only or not. I must note, the Tor node is on it's own address, under a residential contract. I was taking extra precaution by running PeerGuardian and specifically blocking malicious IPs, and will continue to do so while I have a relay node.

Re: [tor-relays] UK Exit Node

2014-07-06 Thread Michael Banks
‎The block lists are very limited, i.e P2P, lists of known blackhats/paedophiles, unallocated IP ranges and most importantly: government-owned address and anti-tor addresses Original Message

Re: [tor-relays] UK Exit Node

2014-07-06 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Michael Banks c...@starbs.net wrote: I was taking extra precaution by running PeerGuardian and specifically blocking malicious IPs, and will continue to do so while I have a relay node. If you are using PeerGuardian to filter Tor traffic, that is sub-optimal.

Re: [tor-relays] UK Exit Node

2014-07-06 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2014-07-06 09:14, Michael Banks wrote: Advice taken I was debating to switch over to relay-only or not. I must note, the Tor node is on it's own address, under a residential contract. Does not matter. You cannot prove that you did not routed your connection over it or that it was or was not

Re: [tor-relays] UK Exit Node

2014-07-06 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Sun, 06 Jul 2014 06:06:35 +0100 Michael Banks c...@starbs.net wrote: running PeerGuardian on the server in question (blocking P2P/kiddyporn/hacking related IPs) Thanks for notifying everyone, I hope your BadExit flag is already on its way. -- With respect, Roman signature.asc

Re: [tor-relays] UK Exit Node

2014-07-06 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 07/06/2014 09:39 AM, Michael Banks wrote: ‎The block lists are very limited, i.e P2P, lists of known blackhats/paedophiles, unallocated IP ranges and most importantly: government-owned address and anti-tor addresses Please do not run PeerGuardian or any other blacklist. These lists are part

Re: [tor-relays] UK Exit Node

2014-07-06 Thread Julien ROBIN
computer/desktop as before. Best regards, Julien ROBIN - Mail original - De: Moritz Bartl mor...@torservers.net À: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Envoyé: Dimanche 6 Juillet 2014 14:41:23 Objet: Re: [tor-relays] UK Exit Node On 07/06/2014 09:39 AM, Michael Banks wrote: ‎The block lists

Re: [tor-relays] UK Exit Node

2014-07-06 Thread Michael Banks
@lists.torproject.org Envoyé: Dimanche 6 Juillet 2014 14:41:23 Objet: Re: [tor-relays] UK Exit Node On 07/06/2014 09:39 AM, Michael Banks wrote: ‎The block lists are very limited, i.e P2P, lists of known blackhats/paedophiles, unallocated IP ranges and most importantly: government-owned address and anti-tor

Re: [tor-relays] UK Exit Node

2014-07-06 Thread Michael Banks
It's a relay node now, so it should be fine, we'll see what happens. Google 'pglcmd debian' - I've removed most of the lists. It's essentially now only blocking known paedophiles/child porn related IPs - funnily enough, it's blocked quite a few connections to those known addresses. The

Re: [tor-relays] UK Exit Node

2014-07-06 Thread Thomas White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael, First of all thank you for running an exit. I run a large series of exits in the Netherlands (https://globe.torproject.org/#/search/query=Chandlerfilters[country]=nl) and I am a UK citizen. Having experienced many troubles, including server