AdvTor

Anon Mus my.green.lantern at googlemail.com
Sat Oct 9 14:27:15 UTC 2010


Geoff Down wrote:
> On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 13:37 +0200, "Olaf Selke" <olaf.selke at blutmagie.de>
> wrote:
>   
>> On 09.10.2010 11:38, Anon Mus wrote:
>>     
>>> Prior to end August 2010, if this kind of message was received I just
>>> used to close the circuit and try again. Usually it would resolve by the
>>> 3rd try. I tested these exits to see if they could resolve other urls,
>>> they did so with ease, no errors.
>>>
>>> But at the end August every time I closed the circuit I got one of the
>>> "blutmagie,blutmagie2,blutmagie3,blutmagie4" exits again and these could
>>> not resolve the DNS of webcrawler.com. So I did a little investigation
>>> and found that ALL these were not resolving this DNS but simple (web
>>> based) one hop proxies put on at the end of tor (globally) could resolve
>>> this dns.
>>>       
>> hi there,
>>
>> please let me know if there's something wrong with blutmagie's dns
>> resolution. "dig webcrawler.com" works perfectly from shell.
>>
>> By the way: My employer Telefonica O2 is shutting down the local office
>> end of Q1 2011. Besides my job this might lead to the loss of the
>> special deal for hosting blutmagie exit node. I doubt to get 200 TB
>> traffic each month for free somewhere else.
>>
>> http://www.thelocal.de/money/20101008-30361.html
>>
>> regards Olaf - blutmagie operator
>>     
>
> Sorry to hear about the loss of your job.
>  I think the OP has not considered that Webcrawler may be blocking some
>  Tor exits after experiencing abuse - the heaviest used exits would be
>  the ones likely to show up.
> Privoxy's error messages can't be relied on IMO. It would be useful if
> tor-resolve had a 'choose exit' option.
> GD
>
>   
Wouldn't that show as "connection refused" message?
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