[tor-talk] Banned from IRC. Is there a work-around?

Christopher Grant chrisgrantmail at gmail.com
Sat Jun 11 05:07:31 UTC 2011


Generally speaking most IRC networks block tor nodes (the only execption I
can think of is freenode, but even then you have to email them with a PGP
key etc). The easyist work around i've found is to use one of those "online
webchat" irc things (CGI:IRC, or whatever they are called), those don't
normally block tor nodes, and aren't normally blocked on irc networks. It's
not suitable for long term useage, but it does work.

- Chris

On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:15 PM, katmagic <the.magical.kat at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 11:33 -0500, David Carlson wrote:
> > On 6/9/2011 10:11 AM, Jon wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 9:41 AM, David Carlson <
> carlson.dl at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> I just tried to access a few IRC channels on a couple of different IRC
> > >> servers (gnone.org, gimp.org, and their associates)and they all are
> > >> giving me this same message:
> > >>
> > >> *** Banned: Open proxy or TOR (auto-detected tor-irc.dnsbl.oftc.net;
> > >> pre-join gline) (2011/06/09 16.07)
> > >>
> > >> as well as being G-Lined (whatever that means)
> > >>
> > >> I think that I succeeded in attaching to irc.oftc.net so now I want
> to
> > >> ask someone there about this but I got lost in the Tor documentation
> and
> > >> I do not know what conversation to join there, so I am trying
> tor-talk.
> > >>
> > >> It appears that I am banned because either my IP Address or the
> address
> > >> of whichever exit node might be delivering my traffic is 'on the list'
> > >>
> > >> Originally, Pidgin was configured to use the default connection
> > >> configuration, but I re-configured it to use socks5 Host 127.0.0.1
> port
> > >> 9050 and I get the same result.
> > >>
> > >> _______________________________________________
> > >
> > > >From my IRC experience's, unfortunately on the majority of the
> > > published IRC networks, Tor IP address have been banned. You may get
> > > logged in to the server, but generally, you will get klined or even
> > > glined in a few minutes. ( the gline and kline are just a different
> > > type of network ban )
> > >
> > > This may vary from net work to net work and I have seen some actually
> > > get thru and stay logged in. Obviously the Tor's channel on the IRC
> > > network they are on as far as I know they have no issues with the
> > > proxy's
> > >
> > > If your looking for a IRC network to use Tor, you may have to just go
> > > thru the posted listing of networks and see which ones let you in.
> > >
> > > Sometimes it is also a hit and miss.   Gud luck
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > tor-talk mailing list
> > > tor-talk at lists.torproject.org
> > > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
> > I want to join a channel on irc.gimp.org by whatever means works, using
> > Tor or not.
> >
> > Further investigation has gotten me to the point that I should somehow
> > e-mail the administrator of irc.gimp.org and ask him/her about
> > alternatives.  However, I have not been able to find his/her e-mail
> > address.  It is not available on the gimp.org website.  Is there a way
> > to use whois or some means to get that information?
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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>
> $ whois gimp.org | egrep '^Registrant (Name|Email)'
> Registrant Name:Shawn Amundson
> Registrant Email:sta-uhwkdxch at gui.org
>
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