exit node only server

[Nato Welch]

This is where I get to thinking that a balancing act between client use 
and exit use should have been designed in, much like the tit-for-tat 
algorithm built into bittorrent. Sure, anybody can build their own app 
to cheat the protocol, but the majority will just install what's easiest 
to find, provided it works for them.

Having users provide exit nodes by default would certainly have improved 
availability of the lean resources we seem to be suffering from now.

--
Nato Welch
nate at asaim.com



Martin Balvers wrote:
>>On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 10:13:29PM +0100, Martin Balvers wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I was wondering if it was possible to setup a Tor server that is only
>>>used as an exit node?
>>
>>Interesting question!  Right now, you can set up a Tor server that is
>>*never* used as an exit node (i.e., a middleman server), but there
>>isn't any supported way to make sure that your server is *only* used
>>as an exit node.
>>
>>Why would you want to do this?
>>
>>yours,
>>--
>>Nick Mathewson
>>
> 
> 
> My server uses about a 100 kb/s but i guess a big part of the bandwidth is
> used for middleman or entry node activities.
> Since there are an increasing number of server ops that change their
> server from an exit node to a middleman node, the stress on the remaining
> exit nodes increases.
> 
> Maybe the latency of the network can improve if we have exclusive exit nodes.
> I have no idea if this will work. I don't know where or what the current
> bottleneck of the network is.
> I was just wondering how much traffic my server would generate if it were
> only used as an exit node.
> 
> There are times that I’m so frustrated with the Tor network that I stop
> using it because it is almost impossible to load any page.
> I guess that if we have 1000 servers instead of 100 it will all be better,
> but that will take a long time... (But then the number of users will have
> increased proportionally, so...)
> 
> Martin
> 
>