[tor-relays] Dealing with OVH Abuse Complaints

[Schokomilch NOC]

The problem with Belgium isn't finding a Tor friendly provider, the 
problem is that bandwidth costs a lot of money, very weird considering 
Belgium is supposed to be a developed nation (up until recently, 
residential lines had a traffic limit too, maybe they still do):

http://www.belgonet.com/ - 5GB - EUR 3
https://www.kinamo.be/en/servers/virtual - 100GB - EUR 40
https://www.combell.com/nl/servers/virtual-servers-vps - unlimited - EUR 
40
http://www.easyhost.be/nl/virtual-servers-linux/ - unlimited @ 10MBit - 
EUR 20
http://www.shift.eu/en - 1 TB @ 100MBit - EUR 15
http://www.behostings.be/francais/vps.html - unlimited - EUR 30 + EUR 50 
setup


I have to admit though, now this list looks a lot better than a few 
years ago.

On 05.10.2016 02:38 PM, Patrick DERWAEL wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was considering moving my relay to OVH and asked them about their
> policies
> 
> The answer is that Tor is tolerated on physical servers, but strictly
> forbidden on VPS
> 
> And BTW, their support is indeed terrible...
> 
> So, if someone could recommend a Tor friendly ISP in Belgium, I would
> be pretty much interested!
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 2016-10-05 10:10 GMT+02:00 Roman Mamedov <rm at romanrm.net>:
> 
>> 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
>> [1]
>> 
>> 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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> 
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> 
> Patrick Derwael
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> 4210 Burdinne
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> 
> 
> 
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