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> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:41:58 -0600<br>> To: tor-relays@torproject.org<br>> From: rdump@river.com<br>> Subject: Re: Google cache blocking non-exit relays?<br>> <br>> At 14:41 -0400 on 2010-04-26, downie - wrote:<br>> > Hi,<br>> > has anyone else running a non-exit relay had trouble accessing Google's<br>> > cache today? I have a 'your network is making automated queries' block -<br>> > curiously only when clicking through from google.com, not from google.de<br>> > or google.fr .<br>> > GD<br>> <br>> I've seen this twice within the last year when searching Google from a<br>> browser on a system running a middleman relay.<br>> <br>> FWIW, the two instances correlated loosely in time (within days) with<br>> external warnings. The first was a "helpful" notice from one of those<br>> somewhat shady security scan companies intended to sell their external<br>> scanning services by giving us an alarming warning about a tor node<br>> existing on our network.<br>> <br>> Shortly after (modulo the standard agency "slow glass" delay), we were<br>> contacted by a law enforcement agency about the tor node. We asked them to<br>> de-prioritize whatever source of information led them to send the warning,<br>> as the source was clearly noisy/bad (the relay was a long-time node, not a<br>> new instance, and the relay's exit policy was middleman only). They<br>> understandably did not answer queries about their source.<br>> <br>> Contacts at Google have not been able to (or allowed to) shed any light on<br>> where they're getting the false details about "automated queries", though<br>> my suspicion is naive and incorrect use of tor node lists. Sadly for them,<br>> their captcha for searching anyway from such a system is also broken, so we<br>> just switch to Bing.<br>> <br>> <br>> Richard<br><br>Thank you for the illuminating answer. I should have mentioned that I am on a domestic dynamic IP, so I may be getting flak for someone else's misdeeds - and someone else may be getting flak for my misperceived ones.<br>GD<br> <br /><hr />Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. <a href='http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_1' target='_new'>Learn more.</a></body>
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