On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 09:52:41PM -0400, Roger Dingledine wrote: > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 06:12:47PM -0700, Andy Isaacson wrote: > > That's correct, it takes a deliberate action on the part of the > > administrator to become a relay; and another deliberate action to become > > an exit relay. > > Actually, that second part isn't true. Once you decide to become a relay, > the default is to exit to most popular ports.
Whoops, thanks for the correction Roger. I guess I've been configuring exit relays for so long that I forget what it's like to configure a non-exit. :) > (If you're using Vidalia to configure your relay, it makes you choose > whether you want to be a non-exit relay or an exit relay. But just Tor > by itself, the default exit policy is in the man page.) The Vidalia behavior you describe seems like a principle of least surprise to me. > The main reason for this choice is the number of people who've told us > that they are only able to run exit relays because "it's what Tor does > when you run a relay", and their institution wouldn't let them do it if > it required a manual config change to become an exit. > > Then again, that was a long time ago, and maybe it's gotten harder to > sustain exits these days? I can easily imagine that folks who get their first warning from their ISP simply say "well, guess I can't run Tor at all then" and turn it off. -andy _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
