[tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP

[Sec INT]

Hi Alan

If you have more than one relay you add the fingerprint of any other relay you run to your torrc file - if say I ran 10 relays and exits there may be a chance that you would route through just my servers thus you would not be anonymous as I could follow you through from entry to exit. 

In short if you have more than one relay or exit add the fingerprint of the other relays exits to your torrc file 

Cheers Snap


> On 4 Dec 2016, at 19:58, Alan <tor-relay at clutterbuck.uk> wrote:
> 
> In the UK it depends what ISP your on. Virgin Media gives out static ip's
> as far as i know. BT (what i'm using) is dynamic, the ip changes every
> time the router reboots. It reboots when it detects a fault which is
> normally between 2-4 weeks on average.
> 
> These are my relays:
> 
> TheCosmos (running on home ip (raspberry pi))
> https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/38B330302F1FB79ED11A468FC9DEA8960B842B57
> 
> MilkyWay (running on Digital Ocean)
> https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/E856ABA2020AA9C483CC2D9B4C878D8D948B0887
> 
> Does anyone know what the 'Family Members' does and should my relays have
> this set?
> 
>> In Germany, it's quite usual that you have a dynamic IP and unusual that
>> you have static IP. Not just a few relays are located in Germany.  It's
>> not just a question of frustration of owners of dynamic IP relay, but also
>> a matter of bandwith waste. If Tor cannot handle dynamic IPs properly a
>> lot of bandwith is not used. And bandwith is something that the Tor
>> network can not get enough of.
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