Re: BDS VPNs hosting

[Anders Andersson <pipatron@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Jordi Espasa Clofent
<jespasac@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2010-12-31 13:55, andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx skrev:
> ####
> Do you allow IRC, torrents?
>
> We do not allow IRC servers, bittorrent, open proxies, or any other software
> that can degrade our network performance or allow for abuse.
> ####
>
> But after explaining to them that:
>
> * it's not an OPEN proxy because I only permit port 80 and 443 (http and
> https) and no more
>
> * I've limited the bandwidth (using BandwidthRate and AccountingMax
> directives) to assure the impossible degradation of the network performance
>
> ... they allow me to run Tor proxy. So, good for me and Tor network! For the
> moment I will stay will them.

To be honest, they can most probably use the "or allow for abuse"
clause to ban an exit node. This covers a lot of things. Running an
improperly configured email server, an unpatched old web server etc.
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