Networkd
Finally starting to get some progress with my network services and configuration. Apache is now running and I finally have something on it - a mediawiki webapp. I've been struggling with irc configuration but I will eventually get it sorted out, and put a cgi:irc app on the webserver. First though I need to get SSL working on the webserver.
Learned a few useful things about tor - there is settings to stick to a specific exit node for sites which log out users when their ip address changes (eg, this one) and specific sites one can set a fixed exit node - i found this most useful for doing loop-back testing on my external accessibility of servers. if types in www.google.com.tornodename.exit (where tornodename is the name of the desired tor exit node) then one accesses google through that specific tor exit node. Sadly ip address based security is still commonly used and while this is the case tor users will have to use these things to not get shafted by these services. Sadly also this backwards attitude has resulted in many irc server networks blocking tor nodes (freenode used to permit it but now blocks tor, much to my disgust) because of stupid trolls whose technical capability lacks but tor permits them to escape ip based banning.
I don't understand why people don't just require some kind of authentication mechanism when they get trolling from tor exit nodes. Even wikipedia blocks editing and logging in from tor. Does it really make any difference if joe bloggs connects through tor to vandalise pages or through jap or from his own ip or for that matter from whichever internet cafe he happens to be nearby? ip addresses do not equal locations. even if they did, one cannot know simply by the 32 bit number whether it is the same person accessing.
*sigh*
I had a lot of trouble getting my networking behaving itself, but it's all functioning properly now. I tried to run the modem as a pppoe bridged connection but i couldn't get the pppoe connection working right and gave up, and in the process mangled a lot of my intranet computer's configurations... seems to be all fixed now.
Learned a few useful things about tor - there is settings to stick to a specific exit node for sites which log out users when their ip address changes (eg, this one) and specific sites one can set a fixed exit node - i found this most useful for doing loop-back testing on my external accessibility of servers. if types in www.google.com.tornodename.exit (where tornodename is the name of the desired tor exit node) then one accesses google through that specific tor exit node. Sadly ip address based security is still commonly used and while this is the case tor users will have to use these things to not get shafted by these services. Sadly also this backwards attitude has resulted in many irc server networks blocking tor nodes (freenode used to permit it but now blocks tor, much to my disgust) because of stupid trolls whose technical capability lacks but tor permits them to escape ip based banning.
I don't understand why people don't just require some kind of authentication mechanism when they get trolling from tor exit nodes. Even wikipedia blocks editing and logging in from tor. Does it really make any difference if joe bloggs connects through tor to vandalise pages or through jap or from his own ip or for that matter from whichever internet cafe he happens to be nearby? ip addresses do not equal locations. even if they did, one cannot know simply by the 32 bit number whether it is the same person accessing.
*sigh*
I had a lot of trouble getting my networking behaving itself, but it's all functioning properly now. I tried to run the modem as a pppoe bridged connection but i couldn't get the pppoe connection working right and gave up, and in the process mangled a lot of my intranet computer's configurations... seems to be all fixed now.
posted by Elfspice at Friday, September 29, 2006
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