Posts Tagged ‘open proxies’

Due to increasing issues with abuse, we have been forced to ban open proxies and TOR nodes from connecting to our network.

While we respect the anonymity that TOR provides, it also prevents us from being able to keep the network free of spam and usable for everyone else.

We use the Blitzed Open Proxy Monitor System to intercept and ban incoming connections from clients whose machines are running open proxies (or are connecting by means of an insecure open proxy). This service protects NationCHAT Network from most bot attacks and many

Four days ago we announced the implementation of BOPM – the open proxies monitor.

After some tests we realized that BOPM is not so efficient and we replaced it with a new tool that is more capable to handle the clones attacks.

If BOPM was checking the users for blacklisted proxies after connecting, the iauthd.pl tool is checking them before they can even establish a 100% connection to our servers.

If an open proxy is found as blacklisted in the majority of DNSBL databases, then, iauthd.pl tool will auto gline it.

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What is BOPM?

BOPM is a proxy monitor that scans all incoming connections to a server (or network depending on configuration). When a client connects BOPM scans the client for open proxies, it then determines whether they are really open by using them to connect back to the server.

Additionally, BOPM contains the ability to match hosts against a DNS blacklist such as DroneBL or your own custom list, and depending on how it is configured the BOPM can gline/zline/kill or akill the proxy from your network.
source: IRC WIKI

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