Problems with irc because of tor?

Alexander W. Janssen alexander.janssen at gmail.com
Thu Nov 20 22:01:09 UTC 2008


Ted Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 22:39 +0100, Alexander W. Janssen wrote:
>> Robert Hogan wrote:
>>> Do you run a server yourself? If so, your real IP may be on the irc 
>>> server's 'tor blocklist'.
>> I don't think so, Freenode wouldn't send the error-message with
>> 127.0.0.1 then, but with his public IP-address.
>>
>> Alex.
>>
> 
> No, speaking from experience freenode sends 127.0.0.1 if you're on their
> blacklist, torified or no. They're also very slow to update; I've not
> been running my exit for some time, but for a long time I was still
> forced to use the hidden service. I'd probably still be banned if I
> hadn't had to reboot my router.

What blacklist is Freenode using then? Do they run their own?
Any chance to check if it's really that? Sounds sensible though...

Alex.

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