[tor-relays] dir port on non exit

[TorGate]

i have one exit and two nonexit.


TorGate
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> Am 02.08.2018 um 21:04 schrieb Matt Traudt <pastly at torproject.org>:
> 
> On 8/2/18 15:02, Roger Dingledine wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 02, 2018 at 08:53:44PM +0200, TorGate wrote:
>>> Hi again,
>>> is the dir port on a nonexit node a god ide ?
>> 
>> Having a separate DirPort open matters less and less these days.
>> 
>> In the past it used to be the signal for clients about whether you
>> are providing cached directory information. Now every relay does that
>> by default, and clients fetch it via the encrypted ORPort connection,
>> so your DirPort will go mostly unused these days.
>> 
>> So, "feel free if it's easy, but also feel free not to."
>> 
>> Thanks for running a relay!
>> --Roger
> 
> Also, you won't set DirPortFrontPage since you aren't an exit. (This is
> the only way I could come up with why asking about DirPort in the
> context of exit vs non-exit made sense)
> 
> Hope that helps
> 
> Matt
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