[tor] Approaching ISPs

Cooper Quintin cooperq at eff.org
Mon Jan 23 19:01:22 UTC 2017


Let me reccomend Monkey Brains as an ISP that might be willing to host
an exit node as well.

On 01/23/2017 11:00 AM, mark burdett wrote:
> There are some tor exit nodes running on Hurricane Electric, operated by
> three different people (one of whom works at Naval Research Lab),
> according to https://torstatus.blutmagie.de/ 
> 
> I guess this makes Hurricane less ideal than another ISP with no nodes.
> 
> No details at
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/GoodBadISPs
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/ISPCorrespondence
> except mention of "cheap he.net <http://he.net> bandwidth" in a note
> about another ISP
> 
> --mark B.
> 
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 9:58 AM, Patrick O'Doherty <p at trickod.com
> <mailto:p at trickod.com>> wrote:
> 
>     A very quick search across the archive shows few results for HE
>     specifically.
> 
>     The most promising is from 2013 with someone claiming that "My colo
>     provider Hurricane Electric understands Tor"
>     https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2013-March/001956.html
>     <https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2013-March/001956.html>
>     which doesn't seem to be the case in our situation.
> 
>     Patrick O'Doherty:
>     > This might be an interesting thread to cc the tor-relays list
>     about. I'd
>     > search for HE in the archives first though.
>     >
>     > The HE policies in question for others to view
>     >  * TOS https://he.net/tos.html
>     >  * AUP https://he.net/aup.html
>     >
>     > Things like AUP section 2.2 "No customer shall do anything that could
>     > get any portion of Hurricane Electric's IP space ... put on
>     blacklists"
>     > are things we can't possibly comply with given the nature of the Exit.
>     >
>     > Ben Kochie:
>     >> Patrick and I approached HE about running an exit via their
>     network.  We
>     >> were up front and honest.
>     >>
>     >> They came back with a non-answer reply of "Have you read our terms of
>     >> service?"
>     >>
>     >> Of course we can't promise anything, and given the overly broad
>     terms, HE
>     >> is not an option.
>     >>
>     >> How have we approached vendors in the past?
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
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