[tor-relays] Calling for more Exit Relays

tor-server-creator at use.startmail.com tor-server-creator at use.startmail.com
Thu Sep 3 16:29:20 UTC 2015


may relays could hard- implement some common exitting ips like those 
from torproject and tails? to take some exit-load from the network. for 
example activate exitting by gaining guard to some trustet ips or 
implement an torrc-option commonexit 0/1  

 
Am Donnerstag, 3. September 2015 07:09 schrieb Tim Wilson-Brown - teor 
<teor2345 at gmail.com>:
 
>  
>> On 3 Sep 2015, at 14:55, tor-server-creator at use.startmail.com wrote:
>>  
>> hi,
>> what do you think about high restricted exits?
>> i thought about solely accept some single ips.
>  
> In order to be assigned the Exit flag, a relay needs to exit to at 
> least a IPv4 /8 netblock, on at least two ports from 80, 443, and 
> 6667.
>  
> Clients are also unlikely to use your relay as an Exit unless it has 
> the Exit flag. (Clients preemptively build circuits to 
> general-purpose exits, and use those circuits when they need to make 
> an Exit connection.)
>  
>> like so accept:*
>> 
>> berlin.ftp.media.ccc.de <http://berlin.ftp.media.ccc.de>:           
>>      195.54.164.50
>>                                                   
>> 2001:67c:20a0:5:0:0:0:cccc
>> 
>> eff.org <http://eff.org>                           
>>          69.50.225.155
>>                                             2607:f258:102:3:0:0:0:2
>> 
>> disconnect.me <http://disconnect.me>                       
>>  54.221.221.253
>>                                         107.21.253.239
>>                                         50.19.226.59
>> 
>> startpage.com <http://startpage.com>                       
>>  212.121.101.8
>>                                         89.146.4.146
>>                                         145.131.132.79
>> 
>> tails.boum.org <http://tails.boum.org>                       
>>  204.13.164.188
>> 
>> torproject.org <http://torproject.org>                       
>>  2001:41b8:202:deb:213:21ff:fe20:1426
>>                            
>>              2620:0:6b0:b:1a1a:0:26e5:4810
>>                            
>>              2001:858:2:2:aabb:0:563b:1e28
>>                                         38.229.72.16
>>                                         82.195.75.101
>>                                         86.59.30.40
>>                                         93.95.227.222
>>                                         154.35.132.70
>> reject *.*
>> 
>> isnt it a bad idea? will i be flagged as bad exit by reducing exit 
>> like so^? wouldnt it take some load from the network while excude 
>> all complains cause this are tor-friendly ips?
>> 
>> 
>> thanks meanwhile
>> 
>> 
>>  
>> Am Freitag, 21. August 2015 02:23 schrieb s7r <s7r at sky-ip.org>:
>>  
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>>> Hello,
>>> In the last 48 hours we went under the 'psychological' threshold of
>>> 1000 Exit Relays in the consensus.
>>> Right now, Thu Aug 20 23:57:02 UTC 2015, we have:
>>> 6234 Running relays
>>> 954 Exit relays
>>> I think we can improve this balance. Let's do it!
>>> This is a call for everyone: Please run Exit relays, or if you are
>>> running a middle relay turn it into an Exit relay!
>>> I have been running high capacity Exit relays for a very long time,
>>> and I tell you it's not a headache and it will not attract any
>>> problems if you just take care of the abuse complaints.
>>> During this very long time, 98% of the abuse complaints were 
>>> automated
>>> messages which can safely be ignored (fail2ban notifications,
>>> portscans, web CMS plugins sending reports about http fetches, 
>>> etc.)
>>> and the rest were from very nice people who didn't know what Tor is
>>> and how it works, but after explaining to them they actually liked 
>>> the
>>> idea - gives you a really nice feeling. Only 2 times I have 
>>> received
>>> email from law enforcement agents (which are just normal people 
>>> like
>>> us, doing a hard job) - a complete and clear explanation was all 
>>> that
>>> it took for them to fully understand and eliminate any doubt that 
>>> the
>>> server in question is somehow interesting to them.
>>> Tor is _legal_ in all sane countries! We as a community are here 
>>> and I
>>> give you my word that me and others will personally assist, in the
>>> measure and ways we can, whoever runs into troubles because of 
>>> running
>>> an exit, which is highly unlikely.
>>> It is recommended to reject in your policy port 25 (it's not needed
>>> and it will blacklist you for spam messages if you leave it open).
>>> Allow all other ports, or use the reduced exit policy from
>>> torproject.org <http://torproject.org> if you want to allow only 
>>> what is highly necessary.
>>> Don't think any longer about it ;)
>>> - - Email me directly any time if you need technical support in 
>>> setting
>>> things up, hardening the server or need a customized setup adapted 
>>> to
>>> certain conditions.
>>> - - Email me directly any time if you have the funds needed to run 
>>> a Tor
>>> exit relay but don't know how to set it up, where to get it from or
>>> don't want to rent and run it under your real name.
>>> - - Email me directly any time if you need instructions about how 
>>> to
>>> deal with abuse complaints and short templates for replies.
>>> For live chat come on IRC, OFTC network, #tor channel.
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>  
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>  
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