On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Chris Patti cpatti@gmail.com wrote:
I'm having a similar situation. Linode issued a ToS violation because my linode on which I run a relay was a source of spam.
Very strange because I had reject *.* (no exit) set in my torrc.
I have operated a non-exit relay on Linode for almost two years now with no trouble whatsoever. I'd wonder whether your vhost got hacked in some fashion, such that it *was* sending spam, but Tor had nothing to do with it. If that's what happened, you could probably turn your relay back on after confirming with their support that you'd found and fixed the problem. (Regenerate the relay's identity key, too.)
(I would not attempt to run an exit relay on Linode, and I have made a point of not running *anything else* (except key-only SSH) on my vhost that is a relay, to limit attack surface.)
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