[tor-relays] Dealing with OVH Abuse Complaints

[Markus Koch]

*cough* Resellers *cough*


2016-10-05 14:21 GMT+02:00 Tristan <supersluether at gmail.com>:
> Interesting seeing as how OVH is one of the biggest VPS services running Tor
> exits.
>
>
> On Oct 5, 2016 3:10 AM, "Roman Mamedov" <rm at romanrm.net> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 18:55:26 +1100
>> teor <teor2345 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Does anyone have experience running a long-lived Exit on OVH / So You
>> > Start?
>> >
>> > We've just received a threat to shut down our OVH Exit due to abuse
>> > complaints.
>> > We were responding to these automated reports (mainly SSH brute force)
>> > with template responses, offering to block the destination IP and port if
>> > the remote site wanted us to. We never received a reply.
>> >
>> > What does OVH expect its Exit operators to do with complaints?
>> > Should we have blocked each complaining IP address as soon as we
>> > received a complaint?
>>
>>
>> https://www.soyoustart.com/fr/documents_legaux/Conditions_particulieres_serveur_SoyouStart.pdf
>>
>> 6.4 Pour des raisons de sécurité, OVH se réserve la
>> possibilité de procéder à la suspension immédiate et sans
>> préavis de tout Serveur sur lequel serait proposé à titre
>> gracieux ou onéreux, un service ouvert au public de Proxy,
>> IRC, VPN, TOR, pour lequel OVH aurait connaissance
>> d'une utilisation malveillante, frauduleuse ou illicite.
>> ---
>> 6.4 For security reasons, OVH reserves the
>> chance to make the immediate suspension without
>> notice of any server on which would be proposed as
>> or without charge, a service open to the public Proxy,
>> IRC, VPN, TOR, for which OVH has knowledge
>> a malicious, fraudulent or illegal.
>> ---
>>
>> Some take this as "OVH doesn't allow Tor", I take this as "don't run exits
>> there".
>>
>> --
>> With respect,
>> Roman
>>
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