On Fri, 01 Nov 2013 11:22:19 -0700, Nelson <nel...@net2wireless.net> wrote:
> Please excuse my ignorance operating Tor relays, but if I run an exit > node on Windows 7 and use something like Peerblock and correspoding > block lists of P2P sites, wouldn't this be somewhat effective in > stopping this sort of undesired traffic on Tor? Completely aside from the ethical and censorship-related buzzsaw you're about to run into for posting this (perennial) question, I believe some actual developers on Tor have written a paper about the problems with Bittorrent et al (and I think there's a more specific one than the Why Tor Is Slow[1] paper) but I can't currently find it. Anybody know? 1. https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/roadmaps/2009-03-11-performance.pdf NB: the above paper is from 2009. Best, -Gordon M. > > > On 11/1/2013 10:48 AM, Paritesh Boyeyoko wrote: > > On Friday 01 Nov 2013 05:37:14 I wrote: > >> The advice on how to manage exit problems seems to > >> be very sound and Tor is defensible because it is being abused by > >> torrenting also. > >> > > > > ...and this is something else I don't quite understand. People who know > > about > > Tor (which obviously includes exit operators) are well aware of the stress > > that BitTorrent puts on the Tor network. > > > > The paper http://planete.inrialpes.fr/papers/TorTraffic-NSS10.pdf shows > > 54.48% > > of the traffic passing through the sample exit nodes was BiTorrent traffic. > > > > Myself and others (I'm sure) look forward to the day when the Tor network > > comprises 100,000+ 100Mb/s nodes. However, until that time comes I would > > think that exit node operators would (wrong choice of words incoming) make > > more effort to use a whitelisted exit policy, thereby starving BitTorrent > > of > > bandwidth, and forcing those users away from this "free VPN". The likes of > > Vuze (Azureus) don't help the situation by offering Tor as an option. > > > > Would it be worth putting together selection of template Exit Policies > > which > > exit node operators can cut & paste into their torrc? Or (and this is more > > a > > dev question) have an "include" directive where separate policy files can > > be > > specified (and therefore substituted), something like this: > > > > ExitPolicy include /etc/tor/mail.exit > > ExitPolicy include /etc/tor/rdp.exit > > ExitPolicy include /etc/tor/web.exit > > ExitPolicy include /etc/tor/chat.exit > > > > Combine this with a default reject *:* policy and it *may* lead to a change > > of > > culture and squeeze BitTorrent out. It may even help reduce the number of > > DMCA notices that exit operators get. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
