On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 7:46 AM, Tim Starling <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 22/11/11 23:34, Chad wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Tim Starling <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>> The user's IP address was a Tor exit node. I blocked the IP address in
>>> iptables, but when I found out it was an exit node, I also disabled
>>> account creation entirely, so that we could stop the vandalism by user
>>> account locks. It remains disabled for now.
>>>
>>
>> I don't suppose we could block Tor indefinitely from write actions
>> on BZ?
>
> We can't even block Tor from write actions in MediaWiki, despite
> having an extension which is meant to do exactly that. See bug 30716.
> I haven't found any robust way to do it for Bugzilla or Apache, and we
> should probably fix our own software before we try patching someone
> else's.
>

I saw that bug this morning. The script that used to run on check.torproject.org
seems to be available[0] but I haven't tried it yet. At a quick
glance, it needs at
least one or two fixes--such as loading the exit data from an HTTP request,
rather than reading a file on the system. If it indeed works, it
should be trivial
to set this script up to run for us.

-Chad

[0] https://svn.torproject.org/svn/check/trunk/cgi-bin/TorBulkExitList.py

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