Hi Daniel
One thing first: If you want to actively participate on this mailing list on a regular basis, it would be best if you switched your mailing-list-setting from digest to the actual mails (you can then either configure your inbox to put everything containing [tor-relays] into its own folder, or use a seperate email-address). This way, the Subject-lines are preserved when you answer, so it's easier to group the right messages together, automatically.
Regarding relay vs. exit:
Yes, there's a difference. I assume you're familiar with the basic workings of Tor (otherwise, read https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#Torisdifferent and check out https://www.eff.org/pages/tor-and-https). An exit is a special kind of relay, as it is the one where your traffic leaves the Tor network and gets sent to the actual destination. This means that the destination sees the exit as the source of this traffic. So when somebody sends bad or illegal traffic, e.g. a hacker or someone downloading a movie, it looks like your exit is doing these things. Depending on the competence of your local law enforcement agencies, this could mean your computer (or all your computers in your home) might get seized, and you'll be a suspect. Therefore, it is not advisable to run an exit from home (since then you'll get all your computers taken away), or put anything else on the same server. Also, lawyers will file abuse complaints against your exit, which you'll have to deal with.
It's perfectly fine to simply run a "normal" relay (you'll then be the middle hop), especially if you're running Tor on a system that's not online 24/7.
Nice to see your relay is running now! Though I must admit that I have no idea what these "connection speed" notices mean. Probably nothing important, or they'd be warnings.
Am 04.09.2016 um 06:52 schrieb daniel boone:
Ok, 1st on to MATT "I missed your SOCKS question." Well that doesnt matter because I took you advice on the first reply you sent explaing things so I commented all again as suggested. So all is well now on that part of the torrc file. What I did do was kept the ORPort at 9001. I tried 443 but in the terminal it showed me it could not bind so it would not work. As for the question on "hope this helps" you bet and well appricated. Thank you. *What I did on the exit on lines 186-190 here is what it is set at* *"#ExitPolicy accept *:6660-6667,reject *:* # allow irc ports on IPv4 and IPv6 but no more #ExitPolicy accept *:119 # accept nntp ports on IPv4 and IPv6 as well as default exit policy #ExitPolicy accept *4:119 # accept nntp ports on IPv4 only as well as default exit policy #ExitPolicy accept6 *6:119 # accept nntp ports on IPv6 only as well as default exit policy ExitPolicy reject *:0 #no exits allowed: Minus the quotes natrually. this line is line 190* The links you sent me to look thru was interesting. Per what it says I believe port 443 for the ORPort would be best but until I get the bind issue I need to learn to do I best leave it set at 9001 for now. As for the reading on the relay ORPort 443 Exitpolicy reject *:* <stock in the box> Nickname ididnotconfig ContactInfo human@...
*{ORPort 9001 Exitpolicy reject *:* <how i set mine> Nickname danielboon ContactInfo human@...}* *back to line 190 I do have it UNCOMMENTED as you can see.* *{ExitPolicy reject *:0 #no exits allowed}* *Maybe i can comment line 190, I am not sure but u or Jen will get me right.* ................................................................................................ This part is Addressed to Jen
Regarding the exit settings: Is this relay running on a computer at your home, Daniel? *<answer is yes, my tower with a 64bit linux system duel core>*
Is there other important stuff stored/running on that computer? *<basically no important stuff. I do have some stuff but only mount the partitons when I need. Think I'm safe on that>*
If the answer to AT LEAST ONE of those two questions is yes, you should definitely set "ExitRelay 0" and "ExitPolicy reject *:*". Actually, you should set this, regardless of the answers, unless you know exactly, what it means to run an exit-relay and are willing and prepared to do this.
*<what I want to do is run a relay to help fuel the system. So is a relay and exit different?>* *and to the both of you I too will enjoying working with the group. I'm interested in many things at my age. I am self taught on all with books and just working with various OS's. Windows has been out for my many years once I got to now linux.* *As for both if you 2 are good enough to give me your names I can to that too. It is David so we can use that.*
I do have a setback here in the terminal I will post it>
*{Sep 03 23:57:39.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 0%: Starting Sep 03 23:57:47.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 80%: Connecting to the Tor network Sep 03 23:57:48.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 85%: Finishing handshake with first hop Sep 03 23:57:49.000 [notice] Guessed our IP address as 108.79.14.224 (source: 154.35.175.225). Sep 03 23:57:49.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 90%: Establishing a Tor circuit Sep 03 23:57:51.000 [notice] Tor has successfully opened a circuit. Looks like client functionality is working. Sep 03 23:57:51.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 100%: Done Sep 03 23:57:51.000 [notice] Now checking whether ORPort 108.79.14.224:9001 is reachable... (this may take up to 20 minutes -- look for log messages indicating success) Sep 03 23:59:07.000 [notice] Your network connection speed appears to have changed. Resetting timeout to 60s after 18 timeouts and 1000 buildtimes. Sep 04 00:07:45.000 [notice] Your network connection speed appears to have changed. Resetting timeout to 60s after 18 timeouts and 100 buildtimes. Sep 04 00:11:48.000 [notice] Self-testing indicates your ORPort is reachable from the outside. Excellent. Publishing server descriptor. Sep 04 00:11:49.000 [notice] Performing bandwidth self-test...done.*
*{*Sep 04 00:11:56.000 [notice] Your network connection speed appears to have changed. Resetting timeout to 60s after 18 timeouts and 104 buildtimes.}
*<what is going on with that. I did not change anything and I am not doing or using anything to set it back. Right with the MB too.}*
I'll check back in the morn. 21 hrs today is enough for my butt. C/Ya
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