you did the right thing: shutting down the exits as soon as any potential pressure comes up! Especially if someone mentiones 'police' its time to retreat and shut them all down.
> On 3 Jan 2021, at 4:07 PM, s7r <s...@sky-ip.org> wrote: > > Olaf Grimm wrote: >> Here is the original of mail (in copy) from my provider >> Mail copy: >> "Hello, >> Unfortunately your traffic type is full of unwanted events not >> compatible with our company ethic. >> Since the first date of activity we've received many abuse reports >> regarding bruteforce, layer7 attacks, hacking and many others. >> Currently there is a police investigation regarding one of the 2 servers >> related to hacking activity against an european country security. The >> access and content is in interpol custody and we have a restriction on >> reactivation. >> Kind regards, >> George Oprea >> 24/7 Technical Support >> Zetservers.com /Romania" >> --> >> My answer: >> Thank you for your information. >> Good luck. I change my other servers to less trouble. (Change Exits to >> Relay) >> Olaf > > Is there anyone left in the interpol that doesn't know what Tor is and how it > works? Seriously, it's year 2021. > > This Technical support person appears to have no clue that the traffic is > only blindly forwarded, there's nothing on the server itself that generates > the "abusive traffic". Nothing illegal can be found on them (if it's just Tor > installed and configured as an exit relay). > > To be honest, I don't get these hosting providers that are so scared of brute > force and layer 7 attacks. These small hosting companies behave like back in > the 2000's when everything was so scary, when an IP address usually meant one > person or one physical address to bust the door. > > Rather than changing from Exits to middles, try to explain to this small > hosting company what Tor is and how it works. There are plenty of Tor exits > in Romania, because it has very good internet, show them some AS number > examples from the same country so they will grow some courage that they are > not the only ones. Also tell them that there are many thousands of servers > worldwide, most of them within the European Union which RO is part of. And > leave the Exits to Exits ;) > > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
