[tor-bugs] #27027 [Community/Relays]: TorRelayGuide/NetBSD: set ORPort to 443 where that works out of the box

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#27027: TorRelayGuide/NetBSD: set ORPort to 443 where that works out of the box
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 Reporter:  nusenu                 |          Owner:  egypcio
     Type:  enhancement            |         Status:  assigned
 Priority:  Medium                 |      Milestone:
Component:  Community/Relays       |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                 |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  bsd netbsd tdp torbsd  |  Actual Points:
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Comment (by egypcio):

 it's really not that "I don't like it". when you put things this way (and
 paste the diff with the changes) looks like you got things personal - it
 is/was not my intention, btw.

 I completely understand that having 'ORPort 443' includes more people to
 reach out the relay and so on, but if you check forums and/or mailing
 lists you can get the feedback from many people trying to bind tor (and
 many other unix daemons) to low ports and getting issues related to it;
 there's actually a note on the official torrc sample configuration about
 this king of thing.

 FreeBSD was/is one of the systems that does not allow (by default) unpriv
 users to bind sockets to low ports; and 9001 is present on the wiki page
 here for FreeBSD ;-)

 why did I use the 9001? it's the default for torrc and an unpriv user can
 bind a socket to such a port; than the relay admin can judge if the S.O.
 of choice can work on binding low ports to unpriv users - or do whatever
 it's needed to advertise the 443 (in question here).

 for DragonFly-, Net- and OpenBSD I just updated the wiki pages and
 reflected this kind of info. thanks for reporting this issue. very
 appreciated!

 PS: having other ports rather than 'just' 443 is also not a bad idea. that
 was the motivation behind the 'TRY A DIFFERENT PORT'. 22, 587, 993, 1194,
 500, 5222, 465, 6697, 636, ...

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