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by gpvos 4087 days ago
Interesting, I get:

    The requested URL was rejected. If you think this is an error, please contact the webmaster.

    Your support ID is: 13078553747997112974
Anyone know what could cause this? I have been getting this from one other web site (the web comic www.sinfest.net) when accessing it from home, but not from work.
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jloughry 4087 days ago
Do you run a Tor relay? If your IP address is listed as being such, you'll see that message on lots of web sites. Apple's support site (although not their store, interestingly) and phdcomics.com are other places I've run into it. If you have a static IP address on your home router, don't ever start a Tor relay at home, or you'll poison it, evidently, forever. :-(
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gpvos 4086 days ago
I have run a Tor relay in the past, yes. Although I have been getting this error only recently. And indeed phdcomics.com gives the same error. Interestingly, I get support.apple.com in Russian!?
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gpvos 4086 days ago
It was a Tor relay, not an exit node, so I'm still curious why it would have to be blacklisted. And I guess I cannot rule out completely that either my home computer or - more likely - someone I granted access to my wifi has been part of a botnet.
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jloughry 4084 days ago
I'm positive that no machine in my home network has ever been part of a botnet; the only explanation that stands up to scrutiny is the Tor relay that was running for a few days as a NAT forwarded service through my router's static IP address.

I wish the faceless entity behind this widespread blacklist service could be identified so I could ask them.

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nitrogen 4086 days ago
Is it a relay, exit node, or both that will get one blacklisted?
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jloughry 4084 days ago
I've never run a Tor exit node, only relays. There's very little information available about what's happening. I've tried to get my router's IP address off the blacklist without success; entries don't seem to age off, at least not in the space of months. (For a few days I had the Tor relay running behind NAT forwarding on the router's IP address; later I got another static IP address for the relay machine's own use but the damage had already been done; now my router's IP address is blacklisted and I can't undo it---every machine on my home network behind that NAT is affected by the blacklist.
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th0br0 4087 days ago
Did you check whether your work IP is blacklisted? See http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/2359542
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