[tor-relays] Tor Relay Operators Needs

[Matthew Glennon]

Relays intending to act as Guards choose port 443 because it (and 80) are
usually reachable in the tightest of network security situations (where
traffic destined for most all other ports is blocked at the
gateway/firewall.) At least that's my reasoning for it.

On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 11:16 AM nusenu <nusenu-lists at riseup.net> wrote:

> >> Yes DirPort does not speak TLS, but since 443 is also best used
> >> for ORPort (because it is often one of the ports that are allowed to
> pass
> >> through firewalls)
> >>  - https is not possible on the same IP (when already used by the
> ORPort).
> >>
> >
> > Well... that's kind of a hack to handle ORPort going through in various
> > hosting scenarios.
>
> The ORPort selection is primarily important for the client -> guard
> connection.
> For relay <> relay connections firewalls shouldn't matter (that much)
>
>
> > I don't know what ORPort most relays use (I guess I can get
> > that from onionoo to some degree) but I do want to hope they are not all
> > riding 443 (I know I don't use 443 for my ORPort on both relays).
>
>
> Top 20 ORPorts by relay count:
>
> +---------+----------+
> | or_port | #relays  |
> +---------+----------+
> |    9001 |     3289 |
> |     443 |     2080 |
> |    9002 |       67 |
> |      80 |       62 |
> |    8443 |       53 |
> |    8080 |       52 |
> |    9090 |       35 |
> |    9100 |       31 |
> |     110 |       30 |
> |     444 |       29 |
> |   21093 |       26 |
> |    9000 |       22 |
> |     993 |       22 |
> |    9003 |       21 |
> |      21 |       18 |
> |    9010 |       15 |
> |      20 |       14 |
> |      22 |       14 |
> |     143 |       14 |
> |   19001 |       13 |
> +---------+----------+
>
>
>
>
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