I never had any problems accessing any Apple website via tor at all. That
includes Software Updates, discussions, developer member area and forums,
iTunes Connect, etc. Everything works just fine over Tor.
It seems that discussions.apple.com blocking Tor is new.
From 20+ years of experience in
OK, I'll get on the forum from another network and messaging an admin. I'll try
explaining what Tor is in the hopes that they will at least consider unblocking
non-exit relays (probably won't happen but it's worth trying).
Thanks.
On Aug 13, 2014, at 12:28 PM, Chris Whittleston wrote:
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I've had similar issues in the UK running a middle relay from my home IP.
For a while I couldn't access any NHS websites or any BBC media, news,
iPlayer etc.
After reporting both and explaining they were unblocked some time later - I
never received a definitive explanation. So yes as already sugge
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I don't know about that. The number of site that ban all Tor nodes (exits and
non-exits alike) is relatively low compared to the number of websites that
don't. The banning happens when trigger-happy sysadmins think that 1) IP
address == user, and
I found the same thing when I ran a middle relay on my home connection. Hulu
and Best Buy outright blocked me. I ended up having to switch to a bridge relay
and wait for my IP to change.
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Don't run a relay from your own IP address. Pretty standard advice
there sorry regardless if it's an exit or non-exit. I guess the people
at Apple simply downloaded every Tor server IP and put no effort into
reading the differences between types of rel
Hey fellow relay operators,
While searching for a solution to a problem I've been having I learned that my
IP has been blocked from accessing discussions.apple.com. The message that I
get is the same message I get whenever I attempt to access a website known to
block IP addresses operating Tor
