Roger Dingledine <a...@mit.edu> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 05:30:37PM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: > > Consider another case. Users have often complained that running a tor > > relay results in their IP addresses being blocked by all manner of services > > around the Internet. The providers of those services say they have suffered > > attacks originating from tor relays. The project's response was to create > > an automatically, frequently updated list of IP addresses of exit relays and > > make that list available for download by anyone wishing to block traffic > > from > > tor exits, while allowing traffic from all other relays. That list of > > addresses suffers the same problem of not including alternative IP addresses > > for those relays. Even worse, troublesome connections from those > > alternative > > addresses *can* be traced back, in some cases, to the exit relay. Once > > those > > services have identified the offending traffic as coming from a machine they > > had been promised by the tor project would be in the downloadable list of > > exit relay addresses, they may decide that they had been deceived by the tor > > project, which could lead to many bad things in the future. > > I think we might have to agree to disagree about a lot of these topics, > but I wanted to correct this one. > > The bulk exit list: > https://check.torproject.org/cgi-bin/TorBulkExitList.py > along with TorDNSEL is designed to handle exactly this situation, and > it does it pretty well. > Okay, I'll take your word for it, but I'm curious to know the source of the addresses collected if tor doesn't report them.
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