[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 nusenu):

 Replying to [comment:2 egypcio]:
 > 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.

 again: for this very reason we only put `ORPort 443` there where it
 **works out of the box**, the above reasoning might apply to other
 platforms but this ticket is specifically about the NetBSD wiki page, not
 something else

 > 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, ...

 I don't think that these other ports you list here are more likely to be
 allowed by restricted firewalls than port 443

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