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

Mirimir mirimir at riseup.net
Mon Aug 22 03:58:49 UTC 2016


On 08/21/2016 09:33 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
> 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.

Well, presumably someone complained to the VPS provider, triggering
their complaint to you. So you could request a copy of the complaint.
Then contact the complainer, and ask what IP range they want blocked.

>> 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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