[tor-relays] Yourserver.se - Your TOR exit node generates too many complaints

Tue Mar 10 08:22:12 UTC 2015

Hello Vincinius,

your offer sounds interesting.
Can you send me some more details in a private e-mail?

~Josef

Am 09.03.2015 um 23:41 schrieb Vinicius:
> Hi Josef,
>
> Sorry for the late reply, nice to see you going looking into, why they
> are those provider doing this kinda of "DoS" on VPS that are exits.
> I will just change temporarily to middle until i found a new VPS
> provider or an dedicated server that can do SWIP[0] to an /32(one
> already in sight, on my country). This way i think it will reduce a
> lot of hassle to the provider. We could share a dedicated if you want
> to, running muitiple tor's using virtualization, we could share the
> administration using something like tmate.io.
> What do you think?
>
> P.s. My mistake, i said they reply my response to their complaint, but
> that did not happend. i just mistaken the provider Hetzner with an
> automated response of an dmarc failure from reichster(at the time, i
> didn't notice, i was kinda hurry). For me its all german :p .
>
> [0]- https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_Whois_Project
>
> Vinicius,
>
> Thank you.
>
> On 09/03/2015 04:39 PM, Josef Stautner wrote:
>> Hello Vinicius,
>>
>>  Hetzner now also filed an abuse message to my relay running on a
>> ViralVPS dediacted server. This time with detailed logfiles. The
>> astonishing aspect is, that Hetzner seems to track every single
>> connection done.
>>  The Support opened a ticket and after some discussion about it: No
>> TOR is allowed on the network (not even a middle relay) so I had to
>> shut down the relay. The ToS agreement is alreay updated.
>>
>>  The exit relay accepted the following ports:
>>
>>      * 53
>>      * 80
>>      * 8080
>>      * 443
>>      * 8332-8333
>>      * rest was rejected
>>
>> The uptime was 9 Months and just one abuse message ever occured.
>>  Quote from the support:
>>
>>     "Hey, please don't run any Tor exit nodes. I don't want these
>> being run on my network, sorry but the hassle is not worth it for me."
>>
>>
>> After I asked about the specific problemes I got:
>>
>>     " Hi, it is simply because of activities which are done on Tor, I
>> understand that is used for a lot of good things, but I don’t want
>> any abusive activities at all associated with my network. I hope you
>> understand. Dealing with abuse complaints is not fun and trying to get
>> IP’s removed from blacklists is even less fun."
>>  It's a pain in the ass because the speed and paths were really nice.
>>
>>  ~Josef
>>
>> Am 06.03.2015 um 20:35 schrieb Vinicius:
>>
>>> Thanks @Josef for your input, i'll check this indicated providor.
>>>
>>> Right after i send this mail to the list, i received a reply of
>>> reichster providor, i will check with them what happend.
>>>
>>> On 06/03/2015 04:02 PM, Josef Stautner wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Hetzner also sent an abuse to my server located in germany. But the
>>>
>>> message was very unspecific and didn't include any information so I
>>> said
>>> that without more information I will nothing do about it.
>>> I run another exit relay from ViralVPS but on a dedicated server.
>>> If you
>>> want to give it a try: http://viralvps.com [1]
>>>
>>> ~Josef
>>>
>>> Am 06.03.2015 um 19:24 schrieb Vinicius:
>>> Hello to All,
>>>
>>> I am currently running two tor exit relays[1] in providor
>>> yourserver.se, all of them with restrict exit policy, until now i
>>> didnt have any problem with those, except with their's automated
>>> system implemented, in use by yourserver.se, but was easy to solve,
>>>
>>> that happend some month's ago.
>>>
>>> Recently i receive a couple(2 actually) of complaints comming from
>>> Hetzner[2], complaining about port's scans comming from the tor
>>> exit
>>> relay, and i did reply all of those, but now the operator Michael
>>> is
>>> telling me that it received to much complaints and i should stop
>>> the
>>> exit or they will suspend, does someone have any other vps providor
>>>
>>> that can be recommended for sure that it doesn't do that. I dont
>>> mind
>>> if the price is more than 100% higher of the currently providor.
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>> Sorry about my crappy english.
>>>
>>> [1] - https://atlas.torproject.org/#search/vinicius [2]
>>> [2] - http://www.hetzner.de/ [3]
>>>
>>> On 06/03/2015 04:07 AM, Yourserver.se wrote:
>>> [1] Hello,
>>>
>>> Your TOR exit node generates too many complaints.
>>> Please stop it or we will have to suspend that server.
>>>
>>> Thank you for understanding.
>>>
>>> Michael.
>>>
>>> Links:
>>> ------
>>> [1] http://yourserver.se [4]
>>>
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>> Links:
>> ------
>> [1] http://viralvps.com
>> [2] https://atlas.torproject.org/#search/vinicius
>> [3] http://www.hetzner.de/
>> [4] http://yourserver.se
>> [5] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
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