<div dir="auto">Running an Exit node from home is asking for trouble. I can't imagine why anyone would want to. Anyways, /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny can also be used to limit SSH access. I highly recommend. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best,</div><div dir="auto">Jason<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">Sent from my Android device. Please excuse my brevity and any typos that may occur.</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 16, 2020, 3:32 PM Volker Mink <<a href="mailto:volker.mink@gmx.de">volker.mink@gmx.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12.0px"><div>Not 100% accurate.</div>
<div>I was running an exit at my home connection for close to one year. I removed it because normal internet usage became absolutely anoying. Capchas and DOS-Protections nearly everywhere. No streaming-portal was running. And lots of complaints from my provider.</div>
<div>But no Cop action!</div>
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<div>And now i am running 2 exits hosted in datacenters, one in germany, one in malaysia. No problems by now.</div>
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<div>br,</div>
<div>volker</div>
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<div style="margin:0 0 10px 0"><b>Gesendet:</b> Donnerstag, 16. April 2020 um 13:32 Uhr<br>
<b>Von:</b> "NOC" <<a href="mailto:tor@afo-tm.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">tor@afo-tm.org</a>><br>
<b>An:</b> <a href="mailto:tor-relays@lists.torproject.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">tor-relays@lists.torproject.org</a><br>
<b>Betreff:</b> Re: [tor-relays] Got my first abuse</div>
<div name="quoted-content">They raid your home even if the Tor node is run in a datacenter. Sadly<br>
the police in germany is still stuck in the 90s and most of them don't<br>
know and/or care what Tor is and how it works.<br>
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On 16.04.2020 12:45, Mario Costa wrote:<br>
> Where you running an exit from home? It’s really discouraged because of what happened to you.<br>
><br>
> -m<br>
><br>
>> Il giorno 16 apr 2020, alle ore 04:50, Kolja Sagorski <<a href="mailto:hallo@koljasagorski.de" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">hallo@koljasagorski.de</a>> ha scritto:<br>
>><br>
>> I had a police house search for my exit...<br>
>> I hate the stupid German police.<br>
>><br>
>>> Am 15.04.2020 um 22:53 schrieb "<a href="mailto:lists@for-privacy.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">lists@for-privacy.net</a>" <<a href="mailto:lists@for-privacy.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">lists@for-privacy.net</a>>:<br>
>>><br>
>>> Hi,<br>
>>><br>
>>> my Family¹ has had an exit for 2 weeks and today the first abuse mail has arrived.<br>
>>><br>
>>> First of all, thanks for the templates:<br>
>>><br>
>>> <a href="https://www.torservers.net/wiki/abuse/templates" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.torservers.net/wiki/abuse/templates</a><br>
>>><br>
>>> <a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorAbuseTemplates" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorAbuseTemplates</a><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> I linked these two from the Tor-project:<br>
>>><br>
>>> - Common Boilerplate (Tor Intro)<br>
>>><br>
>>> - SSH Bruteforce Attempts<br>
>>><br>
>>> and wrote the following myself:<br>
>>> --------------------------------------<br>
>>> Another good option that we use ourselves is: fail2ban<br>
>>> And report to blacklists, which can then be loaded into the router firewalls:<br>
>>> <a href="https://www.abuseipdb.com/user/33280" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.abuseipdb.com/user/33280</a><br>
>>><br>
>>> Hope this helps!<br>
>>> --------------------------------------<br>
>>><br>
>>> I actually wanted to add that the SSH login attempts can be limited. (3-6)<br>
>>> Because the logs from the abuse mail showed 100 attempts pro IP. ;-)<br>
>>><br>
>>> _Are such notes useful or do such instructions cause even more problems?_<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> ¹<a href="https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/TorOrDie4privacyNET" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/TorOrDie4privacyNET</a><br>
>>><br>
>>> --<br>
>>> ╰_╯ Ciao Marco!<br>
>>><br>
>>> Debian GNU/Linux<br>
>>><br>
>>> It's free software and it gives you freedom!<br>
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