On 09/10/2014 09:07 PM, Toralf Förster wrote:
This is what I get few days ago from Hetzer Support:
Guten Tag Herr Förster, [...]
Maybe worth to update https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/GoodBadISPs ?
Hetzner is already listed as both good and bad. You're invited to add your statement (it's a wiki!), but it is nearly a dupe of what is already quoted there.
========= I'm planning to setup there a dedicated server now soon (with Gentoo Linux if possible) within next days - or are there too much servers already at the ISP Hetzner ?
https://compass.torproject.org/ , enter AS24940, and select "group by AS": 6.5% advertised bandwidth, 8.5% Guard probability, 10.5% Middle probability, 2.0485% Exit probability.
When you just group by AS, Hetzner is third in bandwidth and 13th in exit probability.
Overall, I would strongly suggest a different provider, but there is no groud truth on how much bandwidth any ISP (or country) should see.
And for the following days I do want put the line "ExitPolicy reject *:*" before all subsequent liens like "ExitPolicy accept *:20-23 # FTP, SSH, telnet"
of the reduced exit policy to just look how the system behaves as a simply relay. Worth or superflous ?
It takes quite long for a relay to reach a stable state, as it will take time to be picked as Guard by enough clients. See https://blog.torproject.org/blog/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay for more details. You can of course change exit policy whenever you like, but to better be able to see the effect it takes several weeks in each phase.
Am I right, that later just commenting out that reject line enhance the Tor server from relay to "relay + exit node" ?
Yes, this should work.