[tor-talk] sadly have to shut down my tor relay after less then 24 hours

Mirimir mirimir at riseup.net
Sun Aug 21 22:26:47 UTC 2016


On 08/21/2016 04:13 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
> Well I could be nasty and reject port 443 and 80, but  that's like chopping off someone's head when they have a headache. I believe i added those ports as excepts. I can't remember now.

One approach is blocking traffic to IP ranges that complain.

>> On Aug 21, 2016, at 10:02 AM, Flipchan <flipchan at riseup.net> wrote:
>>
>> Dont forget port 993 for imaps(imap with ssl) so You can use ssl with imap
>>
>> Anthony Papillion <anthony at cajuntechie.org> skrev: (21 augusti 2016 01:39:01 CEST)
>>> It's actually pretty easy and you definitely don't have to be a coder:
>>>
>>> 1. Find your torrc file and open it in a text editor
>>> 2. Search for 'ExitPolicy' (all one word) to find the right section
>>> 3. Enter a list of the ports you want to allow. Example:
>>>
>>> 	ExitPolicy accept *:80
>>> 	ExitPolicy accept *:443
>>> 	ExitPolicy accept *:110
>>> 	ExitPolicy accept *:143
>>> 	ExitPolicy accept *:465
>>> 	ExitPolicy accept *:587
>>> 	ExitPolicy reject *:*
>>>
>>> Make sure all of the other ExitPolicy statements are either deleted or
>>> commended out. The exit policy above allows ports 80 and 443 (for web
>>> access), and ports 110, 143, 465, 587 for email access. It rejects
>>> anything else.
>>>
>>> This should stop your copyright infringement problem or at least reduce
>>> it to almost nothing since the users would be restricted to stuff they
>>> can get on regular websites (no torrents, USENET groups, etc).
>>>
>>> Hope this helps!
>>>
>>> Anthony
>>>
>>> On 8/20/2016 6:29 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
>>>> Well I'm no coder. How do I then do this? I'm going to start over
>>> from scratch, maybe. I dont' know much about the exit policies as I'm
>>> quite new to this tor thing lol! I wonder what is trigering this to
>>> happen on our vps's, at least o my vps. Lol!
>>>>> On Aug 20, 2016, at 4:23 PM, pa011 <pa011 at web.de> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Made the same experience this week within 24 hours as well on Bit
>>> Torrent
>>>>> Changed my Exit-policy - never had that before...
>>>>>
>>>>> Go on...
>>>>>
>>>>> All the best 
>>>>>
>>>>> Paul
>>>>>
>>>>> Am 21.08.2016 um 00:49 schrieb Anthony Papillion:
>>>>>> On 8/20/2016 5:47 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
>>>>>>> Hello to all. Sadly I have to shut down my tor relay after less
>>>>>>> then 24 hours, as I received a copyright violation and I don't
>>> want
>>>>>>> any network restrictions  placed on me as I want the 150mbps
>>>>>>> speed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sorry to all who were using it, but yeah there it is.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Blessings.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That sucks! Sorry to hear about your experience. Might it be
>>> possible
>>>>>> to run your exit with a greatly reduced exit policy? Maybe just
>>>>>> HTTP/HTTPS and mail?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Anthony
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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