for those not allowing exiting - reasonably safe ports

Eugen Leitl eugen at leitl.org
Thu Feb 2 09:06:00 UTC 2006


On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 10:23:32PM -0800, Greg Hewgill wrote:

> Allowing an IRC exit node just about got me shut down by my hosting
> provider. IRC is a popular avenue for abuse and will invite serious DoS
> attacks against your tor node.

I don't allow port 6667, yet get DDoSed every 2-3 months. My new
host hasn't been yet, so I'm looking forward to their reaction
when it happens.

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