On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 11:33 -0500, David Carlson wrote: > On 6/9/2011 10:11 AM, Jon wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 9:41 AM, David Carlson <carlson.dl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I just tried to access a few IRC channels on a couple of different IRC > >> servers (gnone.org, gimp.org, and their associates)and they all are > >> giving me this same message: > >> > >> *** Banned: Open proxy or TOR (auto-detected tor-irc.dnsbl.oftc.net; > >> pre-join gline) (2011/06/09 16.07) > >> > >> as well as being G-Lined (whatever that means) > >> > >> I think that I succeeded in attaching to irc.oftc.net so now I want to > >> ask someone there about this but I got lost in the Tor documentation and > >> I do not know what conversation to join there, so I am trying tor-talk. > >> > >> It appears that I am banned because either my IP Address or the address > >> of whichever exit node might be delivering my traffic is 'on the list' > >> > >> Originally, Pidgin was configured to use the default connection > >> configuration, but I re-configured it to use socks5 Host 127.0.0.1 port > >> 9050 and I get the same result. > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > > > > >From my IRC experience's, unfortunately on the majority of the > > published IRC networks, Tor IP address have been banned. You may get > > logged in to the server, but generally, you will get klined or even > > glined in a few minutes. ( the gline and kline are just a different > > type of network ban ) > > > > This may vary from net work to net work and I have seen some actually > > get thru and stay logged in. Obviously the Tor's channel on the IRC > > network they are on as far as I know they have no issues with the > > proxy's > > > > If your looking for a IRC network to use Tor, you may have to just go > > thru the posted listing of networks and see which ones let you in. > > > > Sometimes it is also a hit and miss. Gud luck > > _______________________________________________ > > tor-talk mailing list > > tor-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > I want to join a channel on irc.gimp.org by whatever means works, using > Tor or not. > > Further investigation has gotten me to the point that I should somehow > e-mail the administrator of irc.gimp.org and ask him/her about > alternatives. However, I have not been able to find his/her e-mail > address. It is not available on the gimp.org website. Is there a way > to use whois or some means to get that information? > > > _______________________________________________ > tor-talk mailing list > tor-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk $ whois gimp.org | egrep '^Registrant (Name|Email)' Registrant Name:Shawn Amundson Registrant Email:sta-uhwkdxch@xxxxxxx
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