Re: TOR

Philipp Kern <[email protected]> Tue, 13 Sep 2005 23:24:15 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.network.irc.blitzed.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sep 13, 2005, at 21:41 , Andy Smith wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 08:39:56PM +0100, David Leadbeater wrote:
>> On 13 Sep 2005, at 10:58, Andy Smith wrote:
>>> There is a TOR DNSBL.  Should we use it to block users coming from
>>> TOR, or is their freedom of anonymous expression worth keeping?
>> I like the approach freenode takes in giving tor users a special
>> hostname, then it is easy for a channel to block all tor if it is
>> abused.
> Any ideas how they do it?

They use the DNSBL and cloak the TOR users when they encounter a match.

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern