Configuring a Tor relay to *not* accept torrent traffic
Hi there, :-) I am running a Tor relay on a VPS. How do I configure it to NOT accept torrent traffic? I have just received an abuse report from my hosting company. All the best, Redrover
You can't exactly filter torrent traffic since Tor filters are port based and bittorrent can run on any port. The closest thing to what you seek would be to block all ports other than 80 and 443 (which are for web traffic). This will definitelly make your exit node a little less useful to the network and still if someone uses one of this ports to bittorrent you will be in the same situation. Of course would be very rare. Also check out this: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/ReducedExitPolicy Cheers. ----- My blog: http://www.inshame.com My full signature with lots of links etc: http://bit.ly/trtsig On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Red Rover <redrover2592@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi there, :-)
I am running a Tor relay on a VPS.
How do I configure it to NOT accept torrent traffic?
I have just received an abuse report from my hosting company.
All the best,
Redrover
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Konstantinos, Thank you for the advice. :-) RedRover
Red Rover <redrover2592@gmail.com> wrote on 17.05.2012:
Hi there, :-)
I am running a Tor relay on a VPS.
How do I configure it to NOT accept torrent traffic?
I have just received an abuse report from my hosting company.
All the best,
Redrover
Hi, using a small python script I retrieved the TOP-100 trackers from www.torrentking.org and added them to torrc. I never got any DCMA report. Regards, torland
That will not help in my opinion. Some user will be able to contact the trackers through another exit node and then start connecting to peers through your tracker to download the actual data. If RIAA is faking peers and then waits for people to connect to them, then you will still be acused of illegal file sharing. You will still appear as a torrent user. You just won't appear on most tracker lists but IIRC they always accuse you after you actually connect to them for sharing and not just because you were on a tracker scrape... Cheers. ----- My blog: http://www.inshame.com My full signature with lots of links etc: http://bit.ly/trtsig On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 9:39 AM, tor-admin <tor-admin@torland.me> wrote:
Red Rover <redrover2592@gmail.com> wrote on 17.05.2012:
Hi there, :-)
I am running a Tor relay on a VPS.
How do I configure it to NOT accept torrent traffic?
I have just received an abuse report from my hosting company.
All the best,
Redrover
Hi,
using a small python script I retrieved the TOP-100 trackers from www.torrentking.org and added them to torrc. I never got any DCMA report.
Regards,
torland
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