[tor-relays] Running an exit node from home

[teor]

> On 31 Oct 2018, at 01:53, Ralph Seichter <m16+tor at monksofcool.net> wrote:
> 
> * Isaac Grover:
> 
>> You are correct in that I won't maintain the exit flag without ports
>> 80 and 443 open, *and* I lose my eligibility for a free t-shirt, *but*
>> I am not likely to attract attention at my home either.  =)
> 
> No exit flag means your relay will not be used as an exit, just as a
> regular relay. You can therefore get rid of all exit rules because they
> won't make any difference.

That's not quite true.

The Exit flag means "useful for general exiting". Clients build preemptive
circuits to Exit-flagged relays. When a client has an available circuit for
exiting, it will use that circuit.

The Exit policy means "allows exiting to these ports". If a client doesn't
have a circuit to an exit that supports the port it wants, it randomly
chooses an exit that allows that port.

So you may see a small amount of traffic over those ports.

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