[tor-relays] FYI: ISP's and blocked Authorities

[Sebastian Urbach]

Hi Jeremy,

The operator i talked to tried ping / tracetoute. There was 100 % package 
loss. If you need more details / help i suggest we talk via private mail.

-- 
Mit freundlichen Grüssen / Sincerely yours

Sebastian Urbach

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Definition of Tor:
10% luck, 20% skill, 15% concentrated
power of will, 5% pleasure, 50% pain and
100% reason to remember the name!
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On November 15, 2014 6:23:31 PM Jeremy Olexa <jolexa at jolexa.net> wrote:

> Hi Sebastian,
>
> Is there a way to manually check this? I'm curious to why my non-exit
> relay, C1B84214, only gets fast/stable/running flags from some
> authorities but not all of them, as seen here:
> https://consensus-health.torproject.org/
>
> -Jeremy
>
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 4:37 AM, Sebastian Urbach <sebastian at urbach.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > It seems to be the case that a few ISP's are not up to date and still using
> > old IP's to block Authorities. That means if you are able to connect to just
> > 1 or 2 Authorities but not to all of them your ISP could be one of those
> > candidates.
> >
> > I saw this behaviour in one case just today. Connectivity with Gabelmoo and
> > longclaw was possible but no other Authority was reachable. Gabelmoo
> > recently changed the IP and longclaw is brand new afaik. That ISP is clearly
> > using an old list of IPs to block Tor for their VPS systems.
> >
> > What makes it even worse is that this system was going to be a Non-Exit
> > relay :-(
> >
> > I will ask the operator for more details and the good/bad ISP page will be
> > updated accordingly. If you can reach some Authorities (not all) and you are
> > not getting indexed and measured (also you can't find your system on the
> > Atlas / Tor site), this could be the reason why.
> > --
> > Mit freundlichen Grüssen / Sincerely yours
> >
> > Sebastian Urbach
> >
> > -----------------------------------------
> > Definition of TOR:
> > 10% luck, 20% skill, 15% concentrated
> > power of will, 5% pleasure, 50% pain and
> > 100% reason to remember the name!
> > -----------------------------------------
> >
> >
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