Re: [tor-relays] Netflix overblocking non-exit Tor relays

2016-02-27 Thread Jamis Hartley
I seriously doubt it's hostility. The likeliest thing is they were looking to stop people from using Tor to bypass country restrictions. So when they found a public list of all the Tor nodes, they blocked them all. Not realizing that only a few of them are actually capable of proxying. For them to

Re: [tor-relays] Netflix overblocking non-exit Tor relays

2016-02-27 Thread Markus Koch
I dont think its hostility. For the normal support assistant security and/or TOR is like a black hole and they do not know anything about it or know stuff from the mainstream press which is mostly complete bullshit. I would not blame the support person, try to get a supervisor who knows what we are

[tor-relays] Network Bandwidth Fine Tuning

2016-02-27 Thread stealth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I ran the speedtest on my VPS which gave the results below: root$ speedtest-cli Retrieving speedtest.net configuration... Retrieving speedtest.net server list... Testing from ProServe B.V. (81.4.111.251)... Selecting best server based on latency... Ho

Re: [tor-relays] Netflix overblocking non-exit Tor relays

2016-02-27 Thread john saylor
hi On 02/26/16 18:42, Gero Kuehn wrote: > tl;dr: Even paying customers sharing IPs with non-exit Tor relays are now > blocked from accessing Netflix yes, this has just happened to me. i spent an hour yesterday in a chat with netflix customer service and never once was tor mentioned. i signed in

[tor-relays] Northeastern University Relays

2016-02-27 Thread nusenu
Thanks for adding relays! Maybe set a contactinfo? (Whenever a university adds an unusual amount of relays it reminds me of the CMU case though.) http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.onion-routing.ornetradar/1030 (I'm not implying they are doing anything bad) signature.asc Description: Op

Re: [tor-relays] Netflix overblocking non-exit Tor relays

2016-02-27 Thread Steven Jones
I can attest to this, several weeks ago I was running a tor relay from home and netflix dissappeared, after going through the song and dance routine with support I decided it wasnt worth the hassle, so my relay is now on a french vps. fortunately for me i own several ip's so it wasn't a real issue

Re: [tor-relays] Netflix overblocking non-exit Tor relays

2016-02-27 Thread Jonas Bergler
Yesterday I forwarded this thread to Neil Hunt - the Chief Product Officer at Netflix with the hope that he would read it and have received the following reply a few hours ago. Noted - this will go to the right technical people. > I'm hoping this is a sign Netflix will take this seriously. -- Jo

Re: [tor-relays] Netflix overblocking non-exit Tor relays

2016-02-27 Thread tor_manager
Hi everyone, apparently this is happening with a lot of relays node (My italian relay node was blocked too) https://www.reddit.com/r/netflix/comments/472kqu/netflix_started_blocking_tor_relayonly_nodes/ As Roger said we have to try to identify someone inside Netflix to pitch "our cause", on the

Re: [tor-relays] Notices.Log Message

2016-02-27 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 27 Feb 2016, at 02:20, stea...@nym.mixmin.net wrote: > > Signed PGP part > Can someone explain the message below regarding bw_accounting and > the lack of a master identity key in my notices.log file? > > [warn] Failed to unlink /var/lib/tor/bw_accounting: No such file or > directory "It's