[tor-relays] is a KVM fine for a first quick test to setup a tor exit node

Jeremy Olexa jolexa at jolexa.net
Mon Sep 1 21:56:45 UTC 2014


On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster at gmx.de>
wrote:

> I do have here a Gentoo Linux and a KVM (Gentoo too) - now I'm wondering
> if I can just emerge the Gentoo Tor package here in the KVM and play with
> it or should I prepare few things before to avoid that it will be used by
> the Tor network immediately ?
>
>
HI Toralf,
A new relay node "gets basically no use the first few days"[1], furthermore
there is always the DisableNetwork[2] option. So, you should be fine doing
whatever. Have fun.

[1]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay
[2]: https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en

-Jeremy
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