[tor-relays] Contacting Apple About a Block IP Address

[Chris Whittleston]

I've had similar issues in the UK running a middle relay from my home IP.
For a while I couldn't access any NHS websites or any BBC media, news,
iPlayer etc.

After reporting both and explaining they were unblocked some time later - I
never received a definitive explanation. So yes as already suggested,
notify them off the issue and politely explain where they can find out more
about Tor. I found Twitter to be a surprisingly good channel for contacting
the BBC tech guys.

Good luck getting it resolved,

Chris
On 13 Aug 2014 18:22, "Jesse Victors" <jvictors at jessevictors.com> wrote:

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> I don't know about that. The number of site that ban all Tor nodes (exits
> and non-exits alike) is relatively low compared to the number of websites
> that don't. The banning happens when trigger-happy sysadmins think that 1)
> IP address == user, and 2) that banning all Tor nodes stops only spammers.
> Neither are true, but like Thomas said they probably just downloaded a list
> and banned all the nodes and didn't think about the 2.4 million Tor users.
> I've run relays from my own IP address with very little problems to speak
> of. Certainly you don't want to run an exit on your IP, that's a different
> story.
>
> Christopher, from another machine/IP, send a message to the admins of that
> forum and explain. Be polite, explain what error message you are seeing,
> and ask if your IP could be unbanned so that you can access their
> discussion forum as part of your work. You could also explain that Tor is
> an anonymity layer on top of TCP, and as your machine simply passes
> encrypted data through the Tor network and not out of it, it poses no risk
> of spam or abuse from anyone using Tor. If you feel that it's necessary,
> concisely explain what Tor is, pulling from descriptions on torproject.org.
> I think if your reasonable and work with them, you have a good chance of
> resolving this. If not, use a different IP for accessing the Apple forum.
> You can use an SSH tunnel, VPN, or a proxy if you need to.
>
> - --
> Jesse V.
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>
> On 08/13/2014 04:00 AM, tor-relays-request at lists.torproject.org wrote:
> > Don't run a relay from your own IP address. Pretty standard advice
> > there sorry regardless if it's an exit or non-exit. I guess the people
> > at Apple simply downloaded every Tor server IP and put no effort into
> > reading the differences between types of relay because to be fair,
> > they aren't paid to give a damn as long as it stops problems.
> >
> > You could pop an email off to their customer support, but honestly I
> > wouldn't get your hopes up with Apple.
> >
> > -T
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