On Saturday 02 Nov 2013 13:21:39 Moritz Bartl wrote: > On 11/02/2013 01:15 PM, Paritesh Boyeyoko wrote: > > Publication of sample exit policies? Would that encourage exit node > > operators to run restricted exit policies, and save themselves loads of > > bandwidth and DMCA headache? > > Is there a forum where one can put up a sticky post with sample exit > > policies so that operators can simply cut and paste them into their > > setups? > There's > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/ReducedExitPolicy , > but you probably know that one?
Thanks, yes I've seen that one. :) I'm just finding it difficult to accept that there's little to be done. As far as I can see, the only way BitTorrent content distibution can work across Tor is because exits are allowing accept *:* as their exit policy - torrent clients are typically on non-standard ports. The effect of this is that Tor gets a bad rep for copyright abuse right alongside BitTorrent, and people shy away from running exits due to the hassle involved. Observation: the URI you linked above is accessed from this page https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki//doc/TorExitGuidelines but you must go halfway down the page, under "Handling abuse complaints" to get to it. Perhaps on this page https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-relay-debian.html.en running an exit should be given its own section on this page, since running an exit is rather more involved than running a middle relay? Perhaps make the reduced exit policy more prominent so that people are more aware of it? Question: why not ship the reduced ExitPolicy as part of the default torrc, but commented out, and with reject *:* as the default ExitPolicy? That way, an exit node operator simply has to uncomment the lines they need, or at least use it as a guide if they want a less cluttered torrc. Best, -- Parity parity....@gmail.com _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
