On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 10:43:41 +0000, Paritesh Boyeyoko wrote: ... > This is something which has always confused/annoyed me. How can a Tor node > (unless it's exposing its SOCKS interface to the whole world) be classed as > an > "open proxy"?
The 'open proxy' is simply a tag on the IP address; it does not say that the openness actually exists at that address. > Yes, Exit Relays exit to the clear Internet but they're not exactly open to > clients for connection (unless specifically configured that way). Oh, but they are. Anybody with a tor client can use them, and if only a single tor client is run with its socks port exposed then all of the exit relays become 'open proxies' more along your definition. Andreas -- "Totally trivial. Famous last words." From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800 _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
