[tor-talk] sadly have to shut down my tor relay after less then 24 hours

Sarah Alawami marrie12 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 22 03:33:20 UTC 2016


Actually, no ip complained.  It was the VPS I am hosting this thign on. I'll keep an eye on logs I gguess when I have the time.
> On Aug 21, 2016, at 3:26 PM, Mirimir <mirimir at riseup.net> wrote:
> 
> On 08/21/2016 04:13 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
>> Well I could be nasty and reject port 443 and 80, but  that's like chopping off someone's head when they have a headache. I believe i added those ports as excepts. I can't remember now.
> 
> One approach is blocking traffic to IP ranges that complain.
> 
>>> On Aug 21, 2016, at 10:02 AM, Flipchan <flipchan at riseup.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Dont forget port 993 for imaps(imap with ssl) so You can use ssl with imap
>>> 
>>> Anthony Papillion <anthony at cajuntechie.org> skrev: (21 augusti 2016 01:39:01 CEST)
>>>> It's actually pretty easy and you definitely don't have to be a coder:
>>>> 
>>>> 1. Find your torrc file and open it in a text editor
>>>> 2. Search for 'ExitPolicy' (all one word) to find the right section
>>>> 3. Enter a list of the ports you want to allow. Example:
>>>> 
>>>> 	ExitPolicy accept *:80
>>>> 	ExitPolicy accept *:443
>>>> 	ExitPolicy accept *:110
>>>> 	ExitPolicy accept *:143
>>>> 	ExitPolicy accept *:465
>>>> 	ExitPolicy accept *:587
>>>> 	ExitPolicy reject *:*
>>>> 
>>>> Make sure all of the other ExitPolicy statements are either deleted or
>>>> commended out. The exit policy above allows ports 80 and 443 (for web
>>>> access), and ports 110, 143, 465, 587 for email access. It rejects
>>>> anything else.
>>>> 
>>>> This should stop your copyright infringement problem or at least reduce
>>>> it to almost nothing since the users would be restricted to stuff they
>>>> can get on regular websites (no torrents, USENET groups, etc).
>>>> 
>>>> Hope this helps!
>>>> 
>>>> Anthony
>>>> 
>>>> On 8/20/2016 6:29 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
>>>>> Well I'm no coder. How do I then do this? I'm going to start over
>>>> from scratch, maybe. I dont' know much about the exit policies as I'm
>>>> quite new to this tor thing lol! I wonder what is trigering this to
>>>> happen on our vps's, at least o my vps. Lol!
>>>>>> On Aug 20, 2016, at 4:23 PM, pa011 <pa011 at web.de> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Made the same experience this week within 24 hours as well on Bit
>>>> Torrent
>>>>>> Changed my Exit-policy - never had that before...
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Go on...
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> All the best 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Paul
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Am 21.08.2016 um 00:49 schrieb Anthony Papillion:
>>>>>>> On 8/20/2016 5:47 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hello to all. Sadly I have to shut down my tor relay after less
>>>>>>>> then 24 hours, as I received a copyright violation and I don't
>>>> want
>>>>>>>> any network restrictions  placed on me as I want the 150mbps
>>>>>>>> speed.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Sorry to all who were using it, but yeah there it is.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Blessings.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> That sucks! Sorry to hear about your experience. Might it be
>>>> possible
>>>>>>> to run your exit with a greatly reduced exit policy? Maybe just
>>>>>>> HTTP/HTTPS and mail?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Anthony
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
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