[tor-relays] do not run Tor client and OR relay together!

Sun Aug 16 17:50:08 UTC 2015

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA512

On 16.08.2015 at 17:36, starlight.2015q3 at binnacle.cx wrote:
> Anyone who has configured a Tor SOCKS5
> client to run in a 'tor' instance that also
> operates as an OR relay should isolate the
> client to a separate client-only process.
> 
> The client function disturbs relay traffic
> forwarding in a manner that lends itself to
> confirmation analysis.
> 
> See bug 16585, particularly comment 5 and onward:
> 
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/16585#comment:5
> 
> Perhaps read comment 10 first.
> 

It would be nice to have both installed as services by the deb-package
or two different deb-packages for tor-client and tor-relay.

Apart from the fact that they run the same binary they are quite
different to configure and setup.

Maybe that would help to make it easier to run relays and hidden
services on the same machine.