On 01/24/2015 04:48 AM, Markus Hitter wrote:
Hello all,
after yesterday watching "State of the Onion", a speech held at 31C3 recently, I spontanuously decided to also run a Tor relay. After some back and forth it appears to be running fine on my OpenWRT based router. The only ORPort is 9001, which is also the only hole punched into the firewall, I hope I did this right.
Today I wanted to continue at Freenode IRC, like I did for years, not even using an anonymous connection. But they wouldn't let me in:
[12:02] * You are banned from this server- Your tor exit node must not allow connections to freenode (tor exit node (chat.freenode.net:8000)). Email tor-kline@freenode.net when corrected. (2015/1/24 09.41)
I understand that my router and my PC share the same IP address to the remaining internet and IRC operators try to identify users by their IP address (which isn't possible). Reading up on the matter I found two texts:
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Even if you resolve the issue with Freenode, you may find that other sites have banned your IP address. As a practical matter, it's best to dedicate a distinct IP address to a Tor node, especially an exit.