dal1.tbrelay.org

Network operations page for one host. It is published so that anyone who meets this address in a log can tell what answers on it, how it is run, and who to write to.

The host

Name	dal1.tbrelay.org
Address	199.71.214.85
Network	AS40676, Psychz Networks, announced from 199.71.214.0/24
Location	Dallas, Texas, United States, on dedicated hardware
Operator	A private operator. We hold the account for this address, and for the hardware it runs on, with Psychz Networks, who can match this page to it.
Role	HTTP relay. It takes requests from our own service's clients over TLS and fetches the web resources those requests name.

How the name is built

tbrelay.org is a namespace for our own hosts rather than a website. A label is a city code and an index, so this host is dal1, the first one in the city named above.

What runs here, and what does not

An HTTP server on ports 80 and 443. Port 80 redirects to 443, and the certificate is issued by Let's Encrypt and renewed automatically.
No mail is sent or received here. No mail transfer agent is installed and nothing listens on ports 25, 465 or 587, so nothing on this host accepts mail, and nothing on it sends any. Mail that claims to come from this address did not come from here.
No file hosting, no public accounts and no anonymous upload. Besides this page, the only thing reachable on the address is SSH on port 22, which takes keys only and is how the host is administered. The relay answers on the address rather than on this name, and it relays nothing for a request that does not carry a session token we issued.
Traffic you see from this address comes from this host, and one operator with the contact below is answerable for it.

Reporting abuse

abuse@tbrelay.org and postmaster@tbrelay.org both reach a person. They are mailboxes on the domain, handled off this host, which sends and receives no mail itself. A copyright notice can go to the same address.

A report is easiest to act on when it carries the address you saw, a timestamp with its timezone, the protocol and port, and a few lines of the log the entry came from. We read every report. Where one holds up and names the destination the traffic reached, we block this host from reaching it.

One limit worth stating before you write: the relay's access log and the system journal on this host are kept for no longer than 48 hours, often less, unless the law requires specific records to be held longer. A report about anything older cannot be matched against a log here, so send it while it is fresh. What you send us is kept while we are dealing with it.