On 8/13/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Well, if s/he
actually runs an exit node, then there is something, as
the users actual home IP address is blocked. I still wouldn't call it
a ban though. Bans are on people, not on IP addresses.
It's an unfortunate situation but there is nothing we can do about it.
Sure there is. Accept the patch and give the user ipblock-exempt.
Perhaps there is some way Tor could mark packets
coming from an exit
node as having been forwarded so we could somehow tell the difference
between Tor packets and packets coming from the exit node itself.
No, there isn't a way to do this. But there is a way for Wikipedia to
know this. Here it is: when AB sends those packets while logged in as
AB, the packets are coming from the exit node itself!
Doesn't sound likely to happen, though (and would
make blocked Tor all
too easy, so I doubt the Tor people would go for it).
Actually, "the Tor people" go out of their way to make it really easy
to block traffic coming from Tor.