[or-cvs] r19812: {website} recommend portforward.com. stop telling windows users to rea (website/trunk/docs/en)
arma at seul.org
arma at seul.org
Wed Jun 24 05:43:48 UTC 2009
Author: arma
Date: 2009-06-24 01:43:47 -0400 (Wed, 24 Jun 2009)
New Revision: 19812
Modified:
website/trunk/docs/en/tor-doc-relay.wml
Log:
recommend portforward.com. stop telling windows users to
read our man page.
Modified: website/trunk/docs/en/tor-doc-relay.wml
===================================================================
--- website/trunk/docs/en/tor-doc-relay.wml 2009-06-24 05:21:10 UTC (rev 19811)
+++ website/trunk/docs/en/tor-doc-relay.wml 2009-06-24 05:43:47 UTC (rev 19812)
@@ -118,10 +118,13 @@
</ul></li>
-<li> If you are using a firewall, open a hole in your firewall so
-incoming connections can reach the ports you configured (ORPort, plus
-DirPort if you enabled it). Make sure you allow all outgoing connections,
-so your relay can reach the other Tor relays.
+<li>If you are using a firewall, open a hole in your firewall
+so incoming connections can reach the ports you configured
+(ORPort, plus DirPort if you enabled it). If you have a
+hardware firewall (Linksys box, cablemodem, etc) you might like <a
+href="http://portforward.com/">portforward.com</a>. Also, make sure you
+allow all <em>outgoing</em> connections, so your relay can reach the
+other Tor relays.
</li>
<li>Restart your relay. If it <a
@@ -133,18 +136,10 @@
href="http://archives.seul.org/or/announce/">or-announce</a>
mailing list. It is very low volume, and it will keep you informed
of new stable releases. You might also consider subscribing to <a
-href="http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/">or-talk</a> (higher volume),
-where new development releases are announced.
+href="<page documentation>#MailingLists">the higher-volume Tor lists</a>
+too.
</li>
-<li>
-Have a look at the manual.
-The <a href="<page tor-manual>">manual</a> for the
-latest stable version provides a list of all the possible configuration
-options for both clients and relays.
-If you are running the development version of Tor, the manual is available
-<a href="<page tor-manual-dev>">here</a>.
-</li>
</ol>
<hr />
@@ -154,7 +149,8 @@
<p>As soon as your relay manages to connect to the network, it will
try to determine whether the ports you configured are reachable from
-the outside. This may take up to 20 minutes. Look for a
+the outside. This step is usually fast, but may take up to 20
+minutes. Look for a
<a href="https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#Logs">log
entry</a> like
<tt>Self-testing indicates your ORPort is reachable from the outside. Excellent.</tt>
@@ -164,7 +160,7 @@
</p>
<p>When it decides that it's reachable, it will upload a "server
-descriptor" to the directories. This will let clients know
+descriptor" to the directories, to let clients know
what address, ports, keys, etc your relay is using. You can <a
href="http://moria.seul.org:9032/tor/status/authority">load one of
the network statuses manually</a> and
@@ -182,19 +178,19 @@
</p>
<p>
-8. Read
-<a href="https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/OperationalSecurity">this document</a>
+6. Read
+<a href="https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/OperationalSecurity">about operational security</a>
to get ideas how you can increase the security of your relay.
</p>
<p>
-9. If you want to run more than one relay that's great, but please set <a
+7. If you want to run more than one relay that's great, but please set <a
href="https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#MultipleRelays">the
MyFamily option</a> in all your relays' configuration files.
</p>
<p>
-10. Decide about rate limiting. Cable modem, DSL, and other users
+8. Decide about rate limiting. Cable modem, DSL, and other users
who have asymmetric bandwidth (e.g. more down than up) should
rate limit to their slower bandwidth, to avoid congestion. See the <a
href="https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#LimitBandwidth">rate
@@ -202,7 +198,7 @@
</p>
<p>
-11. Back up your Tor relay's private key (stored in "keys/secret_id_key"
+9. Back up your Tor relay's private key (stored in "keys/secret_id_key"
in your DataDirectory). This is your relay's "identity," and
you need to keep it safe so nobody can read the traffic that goes
through your relay. This is the critical file to keep if you need to <a
@@ -212,7 +208,7 @@
<p>
-12. If you control the name servers for your domain, consider setting your
+10. If you control the name servers for your domain, consider setting your
reverse DNS hostname to 'anonymous-relay', 'proxy' or 'tor-proxy', so when
other people see the address in their web logs, they will more quickly
understand what's going on. Adding the <a
@@ -223,7 +219,7 @@
</p>
<p>
-13. If your computer isn't running a webserver, please consider
+11. If your computer isn't running a webserver, please consider
changing your ORPort to 443 and your DirPort to 80. Many Tor
users are stuck behind firewalls that only let them browse the
web, and this change will let them reach your Tor relay. Win32
@@ -238,7 +234,7 @@
</p>
<p>
-14. If your Tor relay provides other services on the same IP address
+12. If your Tor relay provides other services on the same IP address
— such as a public webserver — make sure that connections to the
webserver are allowed from the local host too. You need to allow these
connections because Tor clients will detect that your Tor relay is the <a
@@ -249,7 +245,7 @@
</p>
<p>
-15. (Unix only). Make a separate user to run the relay. If you
+13. (Unix only). Make a separate user to run the relay. If you
installed the OS X package or the deb or the rpm, this is already
done. Otherwise, you can do it by hand. (The Tor relay doesn't need to
be run as root, so it's good practice to not run it as root. Running
@@ -260,7 +256,7 @@
</p>
<p>
-16. (Unix only.) Your operating system probably limits the number
+14. (Unix only.) Your operating system probably limits the number
of open file descriptors per process to 1024 (or even less). If you
plan to be running a fast exit node, this is probably not enough. On
Linux, you should add a line like "toruser hard nofile 8192" to your
@@ -270,7 +266,7 @@
</p>
<p>
-17. If you installed Tor via some package or installer, it probably starts
+15. If you installed Tor via some package or installer, it probably starts
Tor for you automatically on boot. But if you installed from source,
you may find the initscripts in contrib/tor.sh or contrib/torctl useful.
</p>
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