[LUGSB] Tor at sunysb.edu

[Josef Sipek]

On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 01:39:40AM -0400, Benjamin Bannier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently moved to Stony Brook from Europe. I was using Tor for web
> from time to time. However, I could not get a working circuit up here
> (Tor: "[notice] I learned some more directory information, but not
> enough to build a circuit.")
> 
> Any ideas why? Hard to imagine that the university's routing policy
> would interfere. And of course there are nodes not to far (not that it
> matters how far away they are).

You'd be surprised. The university has a rather picky firewall that does
packet inspection and if it sees something it considers bad, it blocks it
(try downloading any file via http with the .torrent extension, or watch
some commands to get to an server while others don't when you try to
connect to IRC).

Josef 'Jeff' Sipek.

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