[tor-relays] Middle relay IP blocking

[Gary C. New]

As an at-Home, Middle-Relay operator, I experienced similar issues. Initially, I attempted to solve the problem by using dnsmasq + nginx to reverse proxy the blacklisted sites through a dedicated vpn, which worked... with some issues.
As the issues increased, I decided to secure a new IP Address and pivot to an at-Home, Bridge operator, which has been trouble free and much more amenable to at-Home operation.
Thanks for running a Tor Relay... or Bridge. 

    On Thursday, August 3, 2023, 1:58:08 PM MDT, telekobold <torproject-ml at telekobold.de> wrote:  
 
 Hi,

On 03.08.23 14:22, Logforme wrote:

> My "solution" for now is to use my phone's internet sharing when I have 
> to contact these sites. Since it only is a few sites which I contact 
> rarely this works, but as more and more sites outsource their security 
> to third parties I expect this to be a growing problem. Eventually I 
> might no longer be able to run a relay.

instead of turning down your relay, you could change it to a cloud hoster.

I e.g. would suggest the German provider Hetzner [*] - you have 
20TB/month free traffic for only a few euros. Since the IP address of 
your relay is publicly known anyway, it also doesn't matter as much as 
with a bridge if the relay is running at a cloud provider (e.g. 
regarding the situation in Turkmenistan). The disadvantage is, of 
course, less diversity in the number of networks in which the relays are 
distributed.

Kind regards
telekobold

[*] https://www.hetzner.com/
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