[tor-relays] Amazon abuse report

[Paritesh Boyeyoko]

On Friday 01 Nov 2013 11:22:19 Nelson wrote:
> Please excuse my ignorance operating Tor relays, but if I run an exit
> node on Windows 7 and use something like Peerblock and correspoding
> block lists of P2P sites, wouldn't this be somewhat effective in
> stopping this sort of undesired traffic on Tor?
> 

In return, please excuse my ignorance regarding Windows software. :) I've 
heard of Peerblock, but have never used it.  However, if it does what it says 
on the tin, then yes it will help by blocking the IPs of well-known trackers, 
thereby denying the peer list from BitTorrent clients.

However, I'm not sure this will be particularly effective against DHT (the 
mainstay of TPB content these days); unless you have all the addresses of the 
DHT jump-off points (a client has to start *somewhere* to get DHT addresses).
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