[tor-relays] Tor relay system & uptime requirements

cmeclax-sazri cmeclax-sazri at ixazon.dynip.com
Thu Feb 2 20:40:38 UTC 2012


On Thursday, February 02, 2012 10:21:14 Steve Snyder wrote:
> Tor does need exit nodes.  The graphs on Tor statistics page show that only
> a quarter of Tor nodes are running as exits.  That said, if this is on a
> residential internet connection you might not want to be an exit node.  A
> few web sites blacklist the IP addresses of Tor exit nodes because they
> don't want anonymous traffic for whatever reason.  Likely you won't
> encounter such a site in your personal surfing, but you should be aware
> that publicly announcing yourself as a Tor exit node may constrain you.

Freenode (not the website, but the IRC server) doesn't allow connections from 
Tor exit nodes, and Wikipedia doesn't allow editing through Tor.

cmeclax


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