having just 1 exit port - helpful?
If just 1 port would be opened at an relay, eg. 6697, would this help the Tor network or would only spammers and DDoS use that port? -- Toralf PGP C4EACDDE 0076E94E
Without 80 and 443 you will not get an exit flag. Markus
On 6. Jan 2019, at 11:42, Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de> wrote:
If just 1 port would be opened at an relay, eg. 6697, would this help the Tor network or would only spammers and DDoS use that port?
-- Toralf PGP C4EACDDE 0076E94E
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If you don't ports 443 and 80 open on your relay for at least one IPv4 /8 block, it won't get the exit flag, so it won't be used nearly as much for exiting compared with other relays with the exit flag. https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/dir-spec.txt#n2564 On 6/01/19 11:42 PM, Toralf Förster wrote:
If just 1 port would be opened at an relay, eg. 6697, would this help the Tor network or would only spammers and DDoS use that port?
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If I recall that port correct, it's used for IRC. So your exit relay would benefit people using IRC. If I recall correctly, you need ports 80 and 443 to get the exit flag so it might not work for IRC at all. That said, you still benefit the network as a middle relay helping with hidden service traffic, potentionally being a user's guard, among other things :) Cordially, Nathaniel Suchy Jan 6, 2019, 5:42 AM by toralf.foerster@gmx.de:
If just 1 port would be opened at an relay, eg. 6697, would this help the Tor network or would only spammers and DDoS use that port?
-- Toralf PGP C4EACDDE 0076E94E
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