[tor-relays] request at Hetzner

Christian Gagneraud chgans at gna.org
Fri Sep 12 01:01:02 UTC 2014


On 11/09/14 07:07, Toralf Förster wrote:
>
> 3 things:
>
> 1.
> =========
> This is what I get few days ago from Hetzer Support:
>
>> Guten Tag Herr Förster,
>>
>> laut Deutschem Recht sind Tor Server im Moment nicht verboten.
>> Aus diesem Grund sind Tor Server bei uns auch nicht verboten.
>> Aus Erfahrung raten wir jedoch vom Betrieb eines Tor Exit Node ab.
>> Leider wird oft ueber Tor Server Content verbreitet welcher laut >Deutschem Recht
>> nicht erlaubt ist. Dies kann Ermittlungen von Behoerden nach sich >ziehen.
>
> Maybe worth to update https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/GoodBadISPs ?

Hi,

For the sake of records, I'm running a (reduced policy) tor exit node at 
Hetzner, I use to receive quite often abuse reports, but one day I 
simply told them that I was running a tor exit node and since that day i 
haven't receive a single abuse report. I keep my finger crossed, thought....

Chris


>
>
> 2.
> =========
> I'm planning to setup there a dedicated server now soon (with Gentoo Linux if possible) within next days - or are there too much servers already at the ISP Hetzner ?
>
>
> 3.
> =========
> And for the following days I do want put the line
>
> "ExitPolicy reject *:*"
> before all subsequent liens like
> "ExitPolicy accept *:20-23     # FTP, SSH, telnet"
>
> of the reduced exit policy to just look how the system behaves as a simply relay. Worth or superflous ?
>
> Am I right, that later just commenting out that reject line enhance the Tor server from relay to "relay + exit node" ?
> Or does this mean that
>



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