On 05.10.2016 16:03, Andreas Krey wrote:
Everything to the OR port needs to pass in, esp. when you act as a guard, and fail2banning the ssh port, hmm. Everything else is closed anyway.
What I meant is that I can see a use for automation when it comes to securing a server -- not necessarily a dedicated Tor node, which, like you correctly mentioned, probably only has ports for SSH and Tor opened anyway -- from malicious inbound traffic.
Outbound traffic is a different beast. In a Tor server context, I don't see what kind of automation might be able to generate policies. Also, I don't like the idea of automated (self-)censorship on Tor exits.
-Ralph