On 01/24/2015 04:48 AM, Markus Hitter wrote: > Hello all, > > after yesterday watching "State of the Onion", a speech held at 31C3 > recently, I spontanuously decided to also run a Tor relay. After some > back and forth it appears to be running fine on my OpenWRT based > router. The only ORPort is 9001, which is also the only hole punched > into the firewall, I hope I did this right. > > Today I wanted to continue at Freenode IRC, like I did for years, not > even using an anonymous connection. But they wouldn't let me in: > > [12:02] * You are banned from this server- Your tor exit node must > not allow connections to freenode (tor exit node > (chat.freenode.net:8000)). Email [email protected] when > corrected. (2015/1/24 09.41) > > I understand that my router and my PC share the same IP address to > the remaining internet and IRC operators try to identify users by > their IP address (which isn't possible). Reading up on the matter I > found two texts:
<SNIP> Even if you resolve the issue with Freenode, you may find that other sites have banned your IP address. As a practical matter, it's best to dedicate a distinct IP address to a Tor node, especially an exit. _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
