On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 7:46 AM, Moritz Bartl <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jeremy, > > On 09/12/2014 05:02 AM, Jeremy Olexa wrote: >> My question: If I want to "try" being an exit node and add allowed >> exit ports slowly, does that help the network or not? For example, >> month 1: allow port 22, month 2: allow IRC ports, and so-on. How does >> the client path selection work in this case - is it smart enough to >> pick my exit when needed? > > Yes and no. You can slowly add more ports, but unless you allow port 80, > 443 and 6667 your relay won't get the Exit flag. [1] Tor clients > preemptively open some circuits to such exits by default, and will use > existing circuits unless none of the existing circuits allow the > destination address or port. So, if you want to help "best", you should > open at least these three ports. It is a fine strategy to then add more > and more ports over time, but the other way round is also quite > reasonable (starting with the Reduced Exit Policy and remove ports on > complaints).
That is a great idea, thanks for the background info on the Exit flag. It looks like you need 2 of those 3 ports according to the spec. > > The Reduced Exit Policy is most helpful in reducing DMCA complaints for > Bittorrent traffic: Bittorrent by default picks a random port, and it > largely reduces the probability of your exit being picked if you just > allow ~200 instead of 65534 ports. Makes sense, I'll be experimenting with the exit policy soon. Thanks, -Jeremy _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
