API providing threat analysis of any given IP address

Re:API providing threat analysis of any given IP address by icelancer on Saturday August 06, 2016 @05:57PM (#12240090)

Not your fault - not talking about your service specifically! My IP was banned by several other companies (I assume from a list that was purchased from a third party) like Hulu/Netflix because I was simply relaying non-exit traffic.

TOR and people who speak for the service often say that it's safe to run a non-exit relay. It isn't. It's tracked and punished. I know from first-hand experience.

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Re:API providing threat analysis of any given IP address by driverdan on Sunday August 07, 2016 @12:44AM (#12241091)

I've been running Tor relays from home for about a year. Only sites I've found to block me are Monoprice and Apple's support forums. Hulu and Netflix are fine.

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Re:API providing threat analysis of any given IP address by javajosh on Saturday August 06, 2016 @11:44PM (#12240964)

Does Tor use it's own port? If so, how hard would it be to switch it to use something like 80, 23, or even 8080?

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Re:API providing threat analysis of any given IP address by aianus on Saturday August 06, 2016 @11:51PM (#12240973)

The IP of a Tor relay is publicly distributed, that's how other nodes know to connect to it.

You can see for yourself: https://atlas.torproject.org

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Re:API providing threat analysis of any given IP address by phaedrix on Sunday August 07, 2016 @10:41AM (#12242196)

Although at a guess, most of these services probably do the simplest thing possible and go by an open port.

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