Re: [tor-relays] Handling abuse - like to get your help please

2016-06-17 Thread SuperSluether
I only got 1 abuse complaint, but I also only ran a Tor node for about a month with a reduced exit policy. I explained that I was running a Tor exit node, told them I blocked the offending address, and then linked to the Tor Project website for more info. They thanked me for my time, and marked

Re: [tor-relays] Handling abuse - like to get your help please

2016-06-17 Thread Geoff Down
On Fri, Jun 17, 2016, at 09:30 PM, Michael Armbruster wrote: > Hi Paul, > > assuming the default HTTP port, it was an attack to the port 80. > Furthermore, the cryptic looking signs (%XX, whereas X is 0-9 or A-F), > are url escaped characters. Unescaping them leads to something like this: > >

Re: [tor-relays] Handling abuse - like to get your help please

2016-06-17 Thread s7r
Hello, Thanks for running an exit relay. That is just an automated email message. You do not want to reply to every single automated message you receive, firstly because these replies go into a black hole and they are not read by any humans, so your effort may be useless. Generally, you should on

Re: [tor-relays] Handling abuse - like to get your help please

2016-06-17 Thread Michael Armbruster
On 2016-06-17 at 22:12, pa011 wrote: > Thank you Michael, solving that obviously easy question :-) > > So what was this "attac" then about, on which way, how can I see that ? > > Nice weekend to all > > Paul > > > Am 17.06.2016 um 21:53 schrieb Michael Armbruster: >> On 2016-06-17 at 21:51, pa

Re: [tor-relays] Handling abuse - like to get your help please

2016-06-17 Thread pa011
Thank you Michael, solving that obviously easy question :-) So what was this "attac" then about, on which way, how can I see that ? Nice weekend to all Paul Am 17.06.2016 um 21:53 schrieb Michael Armbruster: > On 2016-06-17 at 21:51, pa011 wrote: >> Thank you both ! >> >> @ Michael: that’s exa

Re: [tor-relays] Handling abuse - like to get your help please

2016-06-17 Thread Michael Armbruster
On 2016-06-17 at 21:51, pa011 wrote: > Thank you both ! > > @ Michael: that’s exactly what I did so far and in the past > @ Moritz: I will try my best - yes it was an automated response with > just an name in Germany and no IP given, that I could possibly block > > "HTTP/1.1 404 293..." are the

Re: [tor-relays] Handling abuse - like to get your help please

2016-06-17 Thread pa011
Thank you both ! @ Michael: that’s exactly what I did so far and in the past @ Moritz: I will try my best - yes it was an automated response with just an name in Germany and no IP given, that I could possibly block "HTTP/1.1 404 293..." are these the ports the traffic went trough ? Am 17.06.

Re: [tor-relays] Handling abuse - like to get your help please

2016-06-17 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 06/17/2016 09:35 PM, pa011 wrote: > As I am new to this business could somebody please give me a hint how to > best handle such an abuse complain - possibly stop it? You can explain Tor, offer to block that destination from your exit, and offer your help so they can treat Tor users differently

Re: [tor-relays] Handling abuse - like to get your help please

2016-06-17 Thread Michael Canning
Hello, I generally respond using the templates on this page: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TheOnionRouter/TorAbuseTemplates. Generally the abuser has already stopped or is connected to a new exit node by the time you get a message. Hope that helps!-- Michael CanningPresident - Ca

[tor-relays] Handling abuse - like to get your help please

2016-06-17 Thread pa011
As I am new to this business could somebody please give me a hint how to best handle such an abuse complain - possibly stop it? Thanks, Regards and a nice weekend. we have detected abuse from the IP address xxx.xxx.xxx,xxx, which according to a whois lookup is on your network. We would appreciat

Re: [tor-relays] Why are you using torproject's RPMs?

2016-06-17 Thread D.S. Ljungmark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 17/06/16 13:25, nusenu wrote: >> Because my OS vendor has no Tor packages. > > The torproject provides RPM packages for Fedora and RedHat/CentOS. > Fedora has tor packages, on CentOS EPEL is available. > > So you are using torproject RPMs on

Re: [tor-relays] Why are you using torproject's RPMs?

2016-06-17 Thread nusenu
> Because my OS vendor has no Tor packages. The torproject provides RPM packages for Fedora and RedHat/CentOS. Fedora has tor packages, on CentOS EPEL is available. So you are using torproject RPMs on non-Fedora/CentOS? (if you don't mind: On what OS are you using the torproject RPMs?) signatu

Re: [tor-relays] Why are you using torproject's RPMs?

2016-06-17 Thread D.S. Ljungmark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 16/06/16 23:08, nusenu wrote: > (forwarding a question from tor-dev since here are probably more > ops that might want to answer the question bellow) > https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2016-June/011073.html > > Dear tor-relay oper