Thanks for confirming what I suspected. So far, I've been running for a month without an IP change or any feedback from my ISP (Time Warner Road Runner). However, I'm planning to get one of the consumer anonymising VPN services - sort of a virtual ISP - and run my Tor box through that. They can give me a static IP address and I won't have to worry about my ISP objecting to any of the traffic. Chuck Bevitt Sent from my iPad On Feb 2, 2013, at 5:14 AM, Andreas Krey <a.krey@gmx.de> wrote:

On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:56:48 +0000, Chuck Bevitt wrote:

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I'm running an exit node using my home ISP (yes, I've read the warnings). My question is: what happens when my ISP changes my IPAddress? Will existing connections to my node be lost and will the node reestablish itself?

When your address changes, all circuits and exit connections currently active on your node will die, and furthermore, your exit will still be in the consensus with it's previous address for some time, causing entry nodes to try to build paths through your node using the old address. This will a) obviously fail and b) annoy the pour soul that got your old address. (This goes for non-exit nodes as well.)

If your address changes daily, as is usual on DSL in some parts of the world, it's not the best place to run a relay (IMHO).

Andreas

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On Sunday, February 03, 2013 21:37:16 Chuck Bevitt wrote:

Thanks for confirming what I suspected. So far, I've been running for a month without an IP change or any feedback from my ISP (Time Warner Road Runner). However, I'm planning to get one of the consumer anonymising VPN services - sort of a virtual ISP - and run my Tor box through that. They can give me a static IP address and I won't have to worry about my ISP objecting to any of the traffic.

I've been running a middle node on a home Road Runner connection for years. No problem. I started with an exit node but changed a few days later when I found out I couldn't edit Wikipedia or get on some IRC servers. I would not run a bridge on a Road Runner connection. If I had a connection that changed IP address once a day, which was typical in Germany when I was there, I would run a bridge. cmeclax