[tor-relays] So long and thanks for all the abuse complaints

Tom van der Woerdt info at tvdw.eu
Mon Dec 4 11:18:32 UTC 2017


Hi James,

Have you considered running a super restrictive exit policy? I had the
same trouble you have, with EFF's restrictive exit policy. So I wrote my
own, which also blocks port 80:

ExitPolicy accept *:443
ExitPolicy accept *:6667
ExitPolicy accept *:7000
ExitPolicy accept *:5222
ExitPolicy accept *:5223
ExitPolicy accept *:110
ExitPolicy accept *:143
ExitPolicy accept *:220
ExitPolicy accept *:993
ExitPolicy accept *:995
ExitPolicy accept *:9418
ExitPolicy accept *:53
ExitPolicy reject *:*

Now I deal with maybe 1 complaint per quarter. And since 443 is still in
there, it's still contributing substantially to the network (maybe more
so than with port 80 enabled).

Consider giving it a try ;-)

Tom


Op 04/12/2017 om 11:59 schreef James:
> As a private individual, after just receiving my 4th abuse complaint in
> as many days it's time to stop running my exit node. Prior to today I'd
> receive on average 1-2 complaints a month (I had a fairly strict exit
> policy). It saddens me that I have to shut it down, especially as it's
> one of very few running on BSD, but I just don't have the time to
> constantly respond to abuse complaints to ensure I don't get shut down
> by the upstream provider. If there are any devs on this list, some kind
> of mechanism to detect and block abuse traffic on exit would go a long
> way to ensuring legitimate use of the network, that is after all why
> people run exit nodes. It's at least why I did.
> 
> Thank you to everyone else running an exit node. I hope you're able to
> keep yours going for a lot longer than I.
> 
> James
> 
> 
> 
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