[tor-relays] my IP got blocked

Nagaev Boris bnagaev at gmail.com
Tue Nov 14 14:45:44 UTC 2017


On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 2:26 PM, Julien ROBIN <julien.robin28 at free.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It's not the first time I hear about Non-Exit IP blocked (but may be some
> people here are more familiar with the subject) : I don't really know what
> are the most used interfaces/websites from which those administrators are
> getting the list of IP addresses before blocking them (are they downloading
> the full consensus list like tor clients or from another website ?).
>
> May be websites proposing these lists should split them in 2 distinct lists,
> and normally show only exit nodes unless something very precise is asked by
> the user for seeing all tor relays including non exit. For lazy/angry
> administrators trying to definitely block all Tor IP addresses without
> considering giving any another time or second chance it would avoid some of
> these non exit relays blocked ? Of course ideally those administrators are
> doing some mistake and the problem is coming from them more than from
> anybody else (or may be bad users, too). But into the facts, when a mistake
> is repeatedly done, may be changing some things should be considered ? If
> possible of course (it's not always simple or quick).
>

dnsbl.info used to provide two tor-related lists: (1) all nodes and (2) exits.
Some webmasters could use the first one by mistake.
Fortunately today they provide only the list of exits:
http://www.dnsbl.info/dnsbl-list.php

-- 
Best regards,
Boris Nagaev


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