[tor-relays] dir port on non exit

[Matthew Glennon]

I have an exit page set on my nonexit guard just for easy identification by
sysadmins investigating why their users are connecting to it. I don't have
a specifically identifiable reverse hostname.

On Thu, Aug 2, 2018, 15:11 TorGate <torgate at linux-hus.dk> wrote:

> is a blank page enoth.
> or is this a god ide to use the exit page and change it to non exit
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> TorGate
> torgate(at)linux-hus.dk
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> Am 02.08.2018 um 21:08 schrieb TorGate <torgate at linux-hus.dk>:
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> i have one exit and two nonexit.
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> TorGate
> torgate(at)linux-hus.dk
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> Am 02.08.2018 um 21:04 schrieb Matt Traudt <pastly at torproject.org>:
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> On 8/2/18 15:02, Roger Dingledine wrote:
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> On Thu, Aug 02, 2018 at 08:53:44PM +0200, TorGate wrote:
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> Hi again,
> is the dir port on a nonexit node a god ide ?
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> Having a separate DirPort open matters less and less these days.
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> 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.
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> So, "feel free if it's easy, but also feel free not to."
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> Thanks for running a relay!
> --Roger
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> 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)
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> Hope that helps
>
> Matt
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