[tor-relays] Newbie question

[Chuck Bevitt]

Thanks for confirming what I suspected. So far, I've been running for a month without an IP change or any feedback from my ISP (Time Warner Road Runner). However, I'm planning to get one of the consumer anonymising VPN services - sort of a virtual ISP - and run my Tor box through that. They can give me a static IP address and I won't have to worry about my ISP objecting to any of the traffic.

Chuck Bevitt

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On Feb 2, 2013, at 5:14 AM, Andreas Krey <a.krey at gmx.de> wrote:

> On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:56:48 +0000, Chuck Bevitt wrote:
>> I'm running an exit node using my home ISP (yes, I've read the warnings). My question is: what happens when my ISP changes my IPAddress? Will existing connections to my node be lost and will the node reestablish itself?
> 
> When your address changes, all circuits and exit connections currently
> active on your node will die, and furthermore, your exit will still
> be in the consensus with it's previous address for some time, causing
> entry nodes to try to build paths through your node using the old
> address. This will a) obviously fail and b) annoy the pour soul that
> got your old address.  (This goes for non-exit nodes as well.)
> 
> If your address changes daily, as is usual on DSL in some parts of the
> world, it's not the best place to run a relay (IMHO).
> 
> Andreas
> 
> -- 
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> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800
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