[tor-relays] I.P. being Blocked?

[Zack Weinberg]

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On 08/09/2015 12:52 PM, Kurt Besig wrote:
> Without going into any detail at this point I'm wondering if
> others, running a simple middle relay, have encountered  any
> governmental harassment as a direct result of running a relay. The
> blocking of state agencies e.g, CA.SDI.gov, CA.DMV.gov?

Are you running a relay on your home network connection?  That is
discouraged for a whole bunch of reasons, one of which is that several
"this IP is a source of spam" blacklists indiscriminately list _all_
Tor relays, whether or not they are exit nodes.  This in turn causes
random websites to block non-Tor access from the same address.
California's government website maintainers are probably subscribing
to one of those blacklists, and that's probably out of ignorance
rather than malice (the blacklists in question bill themselves as
"more comprehensive" than others).

zw
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