[tor-relays] Tor relay making normal internet unusable

[W Howard]

Dear Roger,
Thanks for the information. I wanted to run a relay from home to support the project but I may instead contribute financially.

One of the up sides of a tor exit relay is the false traffic generated. Our meta data is now collected and I like the idea of filling it with junk traffic.

Maybe the protocol could be modified to allow ad-hoc de-listed exit nodes for burst capacity or as a way to reduces blockages.

Anyhow I am sure there are minds better than mine working at it.

For now I will consult the documentation and contribute financially.

Cheers!

On 30 August 2017 10:11:37 AM ACST, Roger Dingledine <arma at mit.edu> wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 09:33:26AM +0930, W Howard wrote:
>> I have some spare bandwidth and want to run an exit relay
>
>Is this at your home? Careful running exit relays at your home -- there
>is always some new cop who just started his job, doesn't understand the
>Internet, has never heard of Tor, and wants to prove how great he is at
>being a cop.
>
>See also the "Should I run an exit relay from my home?" question on
>https://www.torproject.org/eff/tor-legal-faq
>
>You might want to run a non-exit relay in that situation instead.
>
>> buy when I
>>do the normal internet is so slow
>
>The simple option is to turn on rate limiting so it uses a little bit
>less than your full Internet connection.
>
>The more complex option is:
>https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/tree/contrib/operator-tools/linux-tor-prio.sh
>was once a script that some people used to set the priority lower
>on their Tor traffic compared to the other traffic. You need to either
>run it on the router, or run it on the computer that generates both the
>Tor traffic and the other traffic.
>
>> and I have to fill out so many captcha
>>that it makes it unusable!
>> 
>> Any ideas why? I think google etc block by default tor exit nodes. 
>
>Yes, correct. :( That's why many people who run exit relays use a
>separate
>IP address for them.
>
>See also
>https://blog.torproject.org/blog/call-arms-helping-internet-services-accept-anonymous-users
>
>> I was thinking about spinning up a vm and running tor on that.
>
>Plausible!
>
>> When I run as a bridge I don't see much traffic. Any ideas?
>
>Many bridges don't see much traffic, especially compared to fast
>relays. See also
>https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#RelayOrBridge
>
>Thanks!
>--Roger
>
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