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Re: [Lynx-dev] [lynx.isc.org] You are apparently blocking Tor users (and
From: |
Thomas Dickey |
Subject: |
Re: [Lynx-dev] [lynx.isc.org] You are apparently blocking Tor users (and others), probably damaging reputation |
Date: |
Sat, 22 Nov 2014 10:17:05 -0500 (EST) |
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| From: "adce4170d57b7c20" <address@hidden>
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| Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2014 4:36:47 AM
| Subject: [Lynx-dev] [lynx.isc.org] You are apparently blocking Tor users (and
others), probably damaging reputation
|
whose reputation?
Tor users are anonymous, and such have no reputation to discuss.
| The Lynx download website (lynx.isc.org) is famous for banning many
| IP
| address from downloading releases [1].
actually, the source given doesn't support the statement (it is a random
comment).
| If you tried to get a safe copy of your great software, for example,
| from Iran, the most straightforward way is to do with Tor [2]:
|
| $ torsocks curl -LO
| http://lynx.isc.org/current/lynx2.8.8rel.2.tar.bz2
|
| However, this would result in:
| curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 403 Forbidden
lynx.isc.org blocks IP-addresses which appear in the logs for (a) break-in
attempts,
and (b) attempted DOS. On rare occasions, a user reports a problem with this,
and on investigation his/her address is unblocked.
Odds are, a Tor user was being a nuisance (and if they had reputation, it would
be lessened).
--
Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net