198.98.51.189

OpenBSD OpenSSH 7.9

Debian Linux 10.0

Host Key

Algorithm

ecdsa-sha2-nistp256

Fingerprint

05477717326892b4239a6176e2044fe35c41ff5e45383a0f95e978aff769290c

Negotiated

Key Exchange

[email protected]

Symmetric Cipher

aes128-ctr [] aes128-ctr []

MAC

hmac-sha2-256 [] hmac-sha2-256 []

ISC BIND 9.11.5-P4

Debian Linux 10.0

Server Type

AUTHORITATIVE

R Code

REFUSED

Time Header

Version

3

Mode

4

Stratum

3

Poll

3

Precision

-24

Reference ID

-?6

Handshake

Version Selected

TLSv1_3

Cipher Selected

TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384

Certificate

Fingerprint

70ad8467ab3260370792f3fc272eb34c3d38b36d79994e91073cdb8d7f29dd2c

Subject

CN=www.uqrd6akbiki2y32n53d.net

Issuer

CN=www.db244cxb3i6dpdh67.com

Names

www.uqrd6akbiki2y32n53d.net

Fingerprint

JA3S

15af977ce25de452b96affa2addb1036

JA4S

t130200_1302_a56c5b993250

http://198.98.51.189:9030/

Status

200  OK

Body Hash

sha1:e69f2eb0b74e613673458fc429176d89c7dca94f

HTML Title

This is a Tor Exit Router

Response Body

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      This is a Tor Exit Router

Most likely you are accessing this website because you had some issue with the
traffic coming from this IP. This router is part of the [Tor Anonymity
Network](https://www.torproject.org/), which is dedicated to [providing
privacy](https://www.torproject.org/about/overview) to people who need it
most: average computer users. This router IP should be generating no other
traffic, unless it has been compromised.

[ ![How Tor works](https://www.torproject.org/images/how_tor_works_thumb.png)
](https://www.torproject.org/about/overview)

Tor sees use by [many important segments of the
population](https://www.torproject.org/about/torusers), including whistle
blowers, journalists, Chinese dissidents skirting the Great Firewall and
oppressive censorship, abuse victims, stalker targets, the US military, and
law enforcement, just to name a few. While Tor is not designed for malicious
computer users, it is true that they can use the network for malicious ends.
In reality however, the actual amount of
[abuse](https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq-abuse) is quite low. This is
largely because criminals and hackers have significantly better access to
privacy and anonymity than do the regular users whom they prey upon. Criminals
can and do [build, sell, and
trade](http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/08/web_fraud_20_tools.html)
far larger and [more powerful
networks](http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/08/web_fraud_20_distributing_your.html)
than Tor on a daily basis. Thus, in the mind of this operator, the social need
for easily accessible censorship-resistant private, anonymous communication
trumps the risk of unskilled bad actors, who are almost always more easily
uncovered by traditional police work than by extensive monitoring and
surveillance anyway.

In terms of applicable law, the best way to understand Tor is to consider it a
network of routers operating as common carriers, much like the Internet
backbone. However, unlike the Internet backbone routers, Tor routers
explicitly do not contain identifiable routing information about the source of
a packet, and no single Tor node can determine both the origin and destination
of a given transmission.

As such, there is little the operator of this router can do to help you track
the connection further. This router maintains no logs of any of the Tor
traffic, so there is little that can be done to trace either legitimate or
illegitimate traffic (or to filter one from the other). Attempts to seize this
router will accomplish nothing.

Furthermore, this machine also serves as a carrier of email, which means that
its contents are further protected under the ECPA. [18 USC
2707](http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2707) explicitly allows for
civil remedies ($1000/account _**plus**_ legal fees) in the event of a seizure
executed without good faith or probable cause (it should be clear at this
point that traffic with an originating IP address of 198.98.51.189 should not
constitute probable cause to seize the machine). Similar considerations exist
for 1st amendment content on this machine.

If you are a representative of a company who feels that this router is being
used to violate the DMCA, please be aware that this machine does not host or
contain any illegal content. Also be aware that network infrastructure
maintainers are not liable for the type of content that passes over their
equipment, in accordance with [DMCA "safe harbor"
provisions](http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/512). In other words,
you will have just as much luck sending a takedown notice to the Internet
backbone providers. Please consult [EFF's prepared
response](https://www.torproject.org/eff/tor-dmca-response) for more
information on this matter.

For more information, please consult the following documentation:

  1. [Tor Overview](https://www.torproject.org/about/overview)
  2. [Tor Abuse FAQ](https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq-abuse)
  3. [Tor Legal FAQ](https://www.torproject.org/eff/tor-legal-faq)

That being said, if you still have a complaint about the router, you may email
the [maintainer](mailto:[email protected]). If complaints are related to a
particular service that is being abused, I will consider removing that service
from my exit policy, which would prevent my router from allowing that traffic
to exit through it. I can only do this on an IP+destination port basis,
however. Common P2P ports are already blocked.

You also have the option of blocking this IP address and others on the Tor
network if you so desire. The Tor project provides a [web
service](https://check.torproject.org/cgi-bin/TorBulkExitList.py) to fetch a
list of all IP addresses of Tor exit nodes that allow exiting to a specified
IP:port combination, and an official
[DNSRBL](https://www.torproject.org/tordnsel/dist/) is also available to
determine if a given IP address is actually a Tor exit server. Please be
considerate when using these options. It would be unfortunate to deny all Tor
users access to your site indefinitely simply because of a few bad apples.