On 9 Feb 2016, at 00:35, Wilton Gorske <wilton@riseup.net> wrote:

Hey Tim,

Just out of curiosity, if one doesn't care about the discover-ability of
their onion service, is there any other reason to not run a relay and
hidden service?

I have an onion service and relay running on separate machines, but I
was wondering if I could also run a relay on the same machine hosting
the onion service and add it as a 'family' with the other relay. I do
not mind if someone knows the location of my onion service, as I mainly
use it to force readers to use Tor, and offer end-to-end encryption by
default.

Not that I'm aware of - in fact, one of the proposals for speeding up Onion
Services involves running a service with an ORPort, and getting clients to
extend to that ORPort and make Onion Service requests.
https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/252-single-onion.txt

Tim

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