Hi Folks, I run several relays, including a non-exit relay from my home rack. Recently I noticed that I can't access several major websites from my home IP. The network is otherwise clean, it's a relatively new IP since I moved recently, and the RBLs come up negative.
The only thing I can think might have triggered it is the tor relay. Googling around I have seen things like this- firewall rules that block all tor nodes. https://forum.netfort.com/netfort/topics/ids_ruleset_tue_aug_12_11_59_00_ist_2014 The sites that seem to be doing this are all hosting with these guys http://www.internetbrands.com/ http://www.corvetteforum.com/ http://www.rennlist.com/ http://www.bensbargains.net/ [... many more] I then noticed this guy https://www.dan.me.uk/dnsbl - when I hit this page from my relay-only IP, I get "I'm sorry, but I really don't see why anyone would need to use a TOR node or Anonymous Proxy server to look at my site. So i'm afraid you can't look. Stop running TOR / using an anonymous proxy and you can view my site." Even though I'm not accessing the site over tor, and even though the node at my IP is a non-exit and there is no possibility that my IP would ever access their properties over TOR. Anyway, this surprised me. In retrospect I suppose if people have access to the list of nodes (exit or not) they'll use it to set up firewall rules whether they understand what they are doing or not. If this is the way things are moving, I suppose I'll have to shut down or VPN up my home node. -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
