On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:44:19 -0700 Kyle Williams <kyle.kwilli...@gmail.com> top-posted:
Please stop doing that. It is terribly rude. >Got a couple of questions. > >- Have you looked deeper into the request for port 43, using tcpdump or >Wireshark? No, of course not! >- Do you KNOW that it is a WHOIS request, not OpenVPN or something else >running on the WHOIS port? I have not regarded that as an important issue. Please see http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers >- Have you logged what IP's are being connected to? Absolutely not! Please either justify your insults or else refrain from further aspersions. > >I just curious, as this seems to be really odd to me that so many WHOIS >request are going through Tor. That was my reaction as well and part of the reason I posted the earlier round of exit statistics. As I mentioned before, the responses I received prompted the change in exit policy and now the posting of relevant results from the change. >I'm almost curious enough to run a exit node now just to see what might be >going on. > I hope you have more scruples with regard to such action than you have apparently assumed that I might have. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ********************************************************************** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * *--------------------------------------------------------------------* * "A well regulated and disciplined militia, is at all times a good * * objection to the introduction of that bane of all free governments * * -- a standing army." * * -- Gov. John Hancock, New York Journal, 28 January 1790 * **********************************************************************