I've had similar issues in the UK running a middle relay from my home IP. For a while I couldn't access any NHS websites or any BBC media, news, iPlayer etc.
After reporting both and explaining they were unblocked some time later - I never received a definitive explanation. So yes as already suggested, notify them off the issue and politely explain where they can find out more about Tor. I found Twitter to be a surprisingly good channel for contacting the BBC tech guys. Good luck getting it resolved, Chris On 13 Aug 2014 18:22, "Jesse Victors" <[email protected]> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA384 > > I don't know about that. The number of site that ban all Tor nodes (exits > and non-exits alike) is relatively low compared to the number of websites > that don't. The banning happens when trigger-happy sysadmins think that 1) > IP address == user, and 2) that banning all Tor nodes stops only spammers. > Neither are true, but like Thomas said they probably just downloaded a list > and banned all the nodes and didn't think about the 2.4 million Tor users. > I've run relays from my own IP address with very little problems to speak > of. Certainly you don't want to run an exit on your IP, that's a different > story. > > Christopher, from another machine/IP, send a message to the admins of that > forum and explain. Be polite, explain what error message you are seeing, > and ask if your IP could be unbanned so that you can access their > discussion forum as part of your work. You could also explain that Tor is > an anonymity layer on top of TCP, and as your machine simply passes > encrypted data through the Tor network and not out of it, it poses no risk > of spam or abuse from anyone using Tor. If you feel that it's necessary, > concisely explain what Tor is, pulling from descriptions on torproject.org. > I think if your reasonable and work with them, you have a good chance of > resolving this. If not, use a different IP for accessing the Apple forum. > You can use an SSH tunnel, VPN, or a proxy if you need to. > > - -- > Jesse V. > > > > On 08/13/2014 04:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > Don't run a relay from your own IP address. Pretty standard advice > > there sorry regardless if it's an exit or non-exit. I guess the people > > at Apple simply downloaded every Tor server IP and put no effort into > > reading the differences between types of relay because to be fair, > > they aren't paid to give a damn as long as it stops problems. > > > > You could pop an email off to their customer support, but honestly I > > wouldn't get your hopes up with Apple. > > > > -T > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iQF8BAEBCQBmBQJT651rXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w > ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQxMjgyMjhENjEyODQ1OTU1NzBCMjgwRkFB > RDk3MzY0RkMyMEJFQzgwAAoJEK2XNk/CC+yAv9AH/0escYcwLAbUgbNRKCCQ0yY5 > ugYHBnveTv6FIEPzDwPC/ZiinyQcc6IiYl+Qm6XfwavmHKkbMjDR2/OCjh53Mcop > HIP9QcBQ/81ZdJCp9YH21FPnKozkzAAI3JNgVR0/0cRp/dd8EsARIN4lEWuHCXkE > CfpCUuFNDHcv7OY3kgnd81byT034ZnoZFlJX3MJmVvpYmv+w/BIsUzd3jTEi2R6y > /+ExKwbKc3d0LzHubv3E1Y54B1mIwF+5MbLn7jUYjv55/IDKvuBYTmInj50ygv7o > AoRr+c0drDdoXahG14ltNtB9mbzMPmlStsWJ8q5AYSmqS8TJzcsXSNyT1y6QpPU= > =XjfD > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays >
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