Re: IP address blocking problem

[Sam Peterson <peabody@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Roadburner wrote:
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> SP> A thought occured to me, since you have only one IP, I'm guessing that
> SP> you have a dynamic IP?  Have you thought about staying offline for 48-72
> SP> hours and seeing if when you come back up you end up with a different
> SP> IP?  The DHCP lease of IPs often expire after that length of time at
> SP> which point you might end up with a new one.
> 
> I think it is the same IP I have had for the last year and a half. I'll give
> it a try. I have never had it off line that long. Good idea!!!

As an extra precaution you might want to unplug any dsl or cable modem
you use as well as any router.  This may not be necessary as I believe
the only piece of equipment that needs to be offline is whatever MAC
address recieves that particular DHCP lease (someone with more
networking knowledge want to correct me?) however, I know that cable
modems have MAC addresses and DSL modems might (again, someone with more
networking knowledge want to put me straight?) so you never know.
Better to err on the side of caution with this.  If your provider uses
PPPoE I'm not sure how that works or effects it, but I would think given
72 hours you'd almost be certain to end up with a new IP.  This is how
the dhcpd deamon on a red hat box of mine worked anyway, it had 24 hour
lease times by default.  Another thing you can try is a new network card
or router.  Given a new MAC address, you may recieve a new IP right away
and hence not have to be down for that long.

> Only 2 re-mailers have me blocked. Apparently while I operated as an exit
> node, someone abused the service and got my IP blacklisted. Only 2
> re-mailers are using black list filtering. That is not very good if I am
> a middleman of a chain. Someone's mail won't go through :(

I'm curious that remailers would even choose to black list at all, it
doesn't make a lot of sense to me.  Due to latency and reliability I
always assumed the remailer network was never a desirable vehicle of
spam, but of course I've got no data to back up that assumption (doesn't
AOL block most of the remailer network?  Heck, they block my personal IP
address because I'm not a known ISP, I have to use my ISP's smtp server
to talk to @aol.com addresses).

> One of the 2 re-mailers that has me blocked is also a Tor node operator. I just
> checked the list :) Funny huh?

Indeed.  Does he/she have contact info?  You may be able to explain the
situation to him/her.

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Sam Peterson
peabody@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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