[tor-relays] New month, new TOR exit servers, need ELI5 pls

Markus Koch niftybunny at googlemail.com
Sun May 22 14:00:03 UTC 2016


Yes, but how many ports do I have to open to be "useful"? In an
extreme case: Would it help just to forward port 80 and 433?



2016-05-22 15:51 GMT+02:00 Random Tor Node Operator <tor at unterderbruecke.de>:
> I don't have any exit relays, but my understanding is that you should
> use torrc, and only torrc, to define which outgoing ports you want to be
> reachable.
>
> Do not block or otherwise interfere with anything which you allow in
> torrc, because that may get you the BadExit flag when discovered.
>
> A Reduced Exit Policy[1] may be what you are looking for.
>
> [1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/ReducedExitPolicy
>
>
> On 05/22/2016 03:34 PM, Markus Koch wrote:
>> If things go wrong (and with my luck they will) how many and which
>> ports do I have to forward to be useful as a exit node?
>>
>> eg: I get lots of abuse of port 22, can I close it and the TOR network
>> will for itself find out that sending me ssh traffic is a bad idea?
>
>
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