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Hello Maclife,

I am happymac. I haven't been on these forums in a long time, partly because I forgot my password and just remembered it, lol. I visit maclife.com almost everyday though.

I have a problem here and thought that you guys would know how to fix it best. Heres the story:

I recently thought it would be cool to try Tor.
I never really needed it for anything, but I thought it would be cool to see what all the hoopla was about and also to see if it gave me any added protection while surfing the web. I installed the Tor bundle which comes with Vidalia, Tor, Privoxy, and TorButton for Firefox.

Well the experience was no good. Web pages loaded slower that dripping honey.
I thought the heck with this, so I used the script to delete the whole bundle
(it comes with a terminal command script that you drag into the terminal, enter your password, and it wipes all the software off of your computer). Had a second look through my HD to confirm everythings gone, and it is.

Now it seems that one of the things that I have started to use more often, IRC, has banned me.
I log onto the slashnet servers to chat. But slashnet has banned me saying that i'm running a Tor exit server or something like that. Now the only thing I ever tried when I had Tor installed was surfing the web, mostly because TorButton was installed and everything was set up for me after installation. I do remember, however, that I set up Tor to be a relay as I had read that doing this helps to improve speed, but it didn't.

I think that my IP address is on some sort of blocklist or something, which is unfair I believe. So the only thing to do now is to change my IP address, but how? My IP address is 67.184.***.**
I need to change this to something else. I tried powercycling my cable modem to no avail, where you disconnect it from the power supply for a few minutes and plug it back in. I thought this was supposed to give you a different IP, but it doesn't, at least for me. I have Comcast just to let you know.
So how do I change my IP address? I kinda got used to the IRC everyday. Thanks in advance.

TL/DR: I used Tor, then deleted it from my computer. Now Slashnet IRC servers have banned me. I think i'm on some sort of blocklist. How do I change my IP address so I can use IRC again?
Thanks.

Last edited by happymac (2009-02-07 4:55 am)