On 09/20/2013 04:17 PM, That Guy wrote:
While I know you have vastly more knowledge and experience than me and often my observations or worries are doe to me mis-understanding something but about the comment above, I have experienced issues running a non-exit relay pretty soon after it going up and though I have no idea if there is a connection, I started to get more trouble after the doubling of connections at the end of July.
Yes, unfortunately more and more sites block Tor relay IPs, regardless of whether they allow exiting (to that site) or not. All that helps here is friendly education. Whenever you notice something like that, contact the site owner or blocklist maintainer and teach them about the problem and how to properly detect Tor exits, namely
https://check.torproject.org/cgi-bin/TorBulkExitList.py https://www.torproject.org/projects/tordnsel.html.en
This is not the kind of "trouble" Gordon M. is referring to. Especially exit relays should be run on dedicated IPs, and, if possible, dedicated machines. Non-exit relays face no such "trouble", there is no known case of law enforcement asking for customer information or abuse complaints directed at a non-exit relay.