Neel Chauhan dijo [Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 05:38:31PM -0400]:
Do you have an alternative choice of ISP? In many countries, you often do (e.g. Europe, East Asia). In others, you usually don't (e.g. USA, small island nations). If you don't, another option is a VPN with a public IP address (that is, if you are willing to pay for one).
I do have a choice, but to be honest, it's a hassle; I want to run my relay from my home connection; our current ISP is by far the country's leading provider, and it is among the few to offer service over fiber.
I guess my nest step will be to talk to their end-user service. It's... Well, it's very very very much not fun to sit by the phone for ~30 minutes to have them repeat to me to use only a reasonably new Windows version and make sure I don't have a virus :-P But I will try.
Maybe your ISP hates Tor and doesn't want you to run a relay. Most broadband ISPs in countries which don't block Tor usually let you run a relay even if their TOS says it's not allowed, but if you don't have net neutrality in your country, an ISP can freely block consensus nodes to prevent you from being a relay. Unfortunate, but probably is true in your case. If you are willing to get political, you should push for net neutrality in your country.
Right. I will find it out. In fact, looking at the terms of service, I see this point broadly prohibits being a Tor relay:
(for a non-commercial, home kind of line, clients will not) (...) Give telecommunications services and/or carry activities such as transport or reorigintation of public switched traffic, originated in a different city or country, or give call back or bypass services.
This is in the _telephony_ part of the contract, and it relates to a very different issue, but it still resounds very much of Tor. (The same paragraph is repeated, word by word, in the Internet part of the document - Even though the language comes from the telephony world).
I'm thinking, although this bridges into a different project, whether this should be covered by the OONI tests (for which I also run a probe).