[vox] Rant: the suckiness of http://www.sectoor.de/ and thier "tor blacklisting"

ME dugan at passwall.com
Sun Jul 10 12:24:10 PDT 2005


Ken Herron said:
> ME wrote:
>> Here is an update. I sent an e-mail to complain to the address listed,
>> and
>> I received an accusation that I did not read thier docs.
>>
>> I told them I was running a mail server with a valid MX record and SPFv1
>> TXT records served by DNS for the mail service, and they told me
>> "I would like you to read it again." ... "We list tor nodes which offers
>> connections to ports like smtp or irc."
>>
>> Nifty. I guess they think smtp is not mail.
>>
>> What is worse? Running a mail server is enough to get blacklisted,
>> because
>> I certainly do not run an irc server.
>>
> I think you're misunderstanding the situation. They don't list hosts
> that accept SMTP or IRC connections. They list hosts running TOR servers
> which allow TOR clients to use the server for *outgoing* SMTP or IRC
> connections (or the outgoing ports listed on the sectoor page).
>
> They also list other addresses in the same class C range as TOR servers.
> This is relevant because, had you read their page carefully and examined
> your TOR listing, you'd find that 69.55.237.254 isn't listed as an
> alleged TOR server. It's listed because it's within the same class C
> range as the alleged TOR server running on 69.55.237.39.

The service which declined the request claimed my IP address through rDNS
was 127.0.0.1 (node ban) not 127.0.0.2 (class ban.)

So far, my IP has been banned at two servers as a result, and I am sure
the number will climb.




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