Tor is a special case in DareNET's treatment of proxy servers. Tor provides anonymous access to internet services, including IRC, and protects its users' privacy from various forms of traffic analysis. Hundreds of thousands of people use Tor every day, such as journalists and bloggers, law enforcement officers, soldiers, human rights workers, corporations, citizens of repressive regimes and just ordinary citizens. DareNET recognizes this diversity and welcomes Tor users.

Unfortunately, anonymous access to internet services is frequently abused. To provide reliable access while reducing the impact of any abuse on the rest of our users, we label users sessions conducted through Tor exit nodes with 'marked' hostnames, similar to:

tor.tor-address-here.net

Additionally, the user's /WHOIS reply will be modified to show this. For example:

joeuser is This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it * Joe
joeuser using *.darenet.org Do you DARE to IRC?
joeuser has been marked: tor
joeuser has been idle 5secs, signed on Wed Nov 19 18:04:27
joeuser End of /WHOIS list. 

NOTE: Tor users can still use hostmasking (+x), in which case the 'tor' mark will be removed from their host; however, the whois entry will remain. Likewise, bans (such as those below) will still apply to them. 

Channel owners experiencing abuse from users connecting from Tor exit nodes (e.g. users evading bans, etc) can ban the entire Tor gateway by setting (for example) a ban mask similar to the following:

/mode #channel +b *!*@tor.*

Please  remember that some users have little choice about using gateways, and be considerate in your control of access. We recommend setting a "quiet" instead, for example:

/mode #channel +b $q:*!*@tor.*

We hope you enjoy the increased anonymity access to DareNET that the Tor network provides. This also solves any issues of users who ran Tor exit nodes themselves from being automatically banned from the network.