[tor-relays] UK Exit Node

Michael Banks c at starbs.net
Sun Jul 6 18:00:24 UTC 2014


Node's on a dedicated machine, I have a couple of RasPis kicking about, 
might spin up nodes on them too.
~Chip

On 06/07/2014 14:48, Julien ROBIN wrote:
> In effect, as Moritz said (and Roman also tried to say) it's necessary for navigation over Tor, that every Exit Possibility/Restriction are listed into your Exit Policy. If your Exit Node is not going to connect to a given website, it's fine, but the Tor Client have to know it, in order to automatically choose another Exit to reach the destination.
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> For Tor Exit Node on a residential DSL line, because I love challenges, I've done this in the past, from August 2013 to end of December 2013, with unlimited exit policy ;) on a Raspberry Pi. May be I was lucky but apart from 1 copyright infrigement (French "Hadopi" the second week), I never had any problem, and in such case the situation is not very comlicated to handle (you simply explain).
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> If you're like me you will have no problem by thinking your Internet connexion have great chance to be looked by your ISP and/or bigger instition : it's part of the challenge, and a challenge is interesting when almost no one is plucky enough to do what you're going to do ;)
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> In order to get your participation to last a long time, it's usefull to run your node on a dedicated machine, while you can focus on your hobbies and use your computer/desktop as before.
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> Best regards,
> Julien ROBIN
>
> ----- Mail original -----
> De: "Moritz Bartl" <moritz at torservers.net>
> À: tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
> Envoyé: Dimanche 6 Juillet 2014 14:41:23
> Objet: Re: [tor-relays] UK Exit Node
>
> On 07/06/2014 09:39 AM, Michael Banks wrote:
>> ‎The block lists are very limited, i.e P2P, lists of known
>> blackhats/paedophiles, unallocated IP ranges and most importantly:
>> government-owned address and anti-tor addresses
> Please do not run PeerGuardian or any other blacklist. These lists are
> part of the problem, and in no way a solution. As stated earlier in this
> thread, it will break stuff. These lists are never up to date and always
> contain false information.
>
> It is your exit, you can indeed block IPs, but please do it on the level
> of ExitPolicy.
>
> In your world maybe "government-owned addresses" are a bad thing. For me
> and many other Tor users certainly not.
>
> You're free to run an exit on a residential line, but I doubt that your
> ISP will like the abuse complaints. You will likely get kicked off your
> contract sooner or later. Also, a residential ISP will not forward abuse
> complaints or even tell you about them, so there is no way for you to
> explain yourself.
>




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