You can contact your ISP and ask for a static IP. It's possible they may charge you for one, but it's also possible they may not. My ISP for example allows me one static IP for free. I use that for my Tor relay, and it works great.
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 9:15 PM, <torser...@datakanja.de> wrote: > Hello, > > i have been running a new relay for a short time period now and would > like to bring to your attention the issues faced, that finally led me to > refrain from keeping this up any longer: > > * Documentation was ok (on torproject.org) and the installation (using > deb on ubuntu) was easy. > * It took quite some time to understand the implications (opening > ports in the router, hazarding security to my computers, as i was - > to this date - relying on the routers firewall working) - This job > of mine basically got delayed until later, when i would have > learned, what is needed in that respect. > * Next, i noticed a frequent (daily) behavior of the Tor server > dropping traffic to around zero. Inspecting this, let me to > understand, my provider was disconnecting me and reassigning a new > IP on a daily basis, which took some time to propagate. Even worse: > It did not propagate on its own, i needed to restart the tor service > to reinitialise... > * Asking in the online channel, i was guided to change my "Nickname" > torrc config to match the dyndns entry corresponding to my server. > * But this never made it to the directories, thus forcing me to > manually restart Tor on a daily basis in order to force the changing > IP address into them. > * Finally, i was told, this behavior would be disruptive to the > network, i therefore brought the service down for good, wasting the > bandwith, i was willing to spend, for the near future. :-) > * Ok, otherwise, i would have to pay additional fees to rent a server > off-site with a permanent IP, but that would be giving more, than > what was easily affordable, as my machine is running 24/7 and the > connections open anyway. Thus Tor doesnt seem to be able to absorb > the kind of bandwith, i was willing to share long time. > > This is leaving a sad taste on me, who is pretty much interested in > privacy, anonymosity, which led me to avoid the mailing lists with a > durable email-address. But just using a read-only one wouldnt allow me > to post to the list. That is why i created this one temporarily, just to > let you know about my experiences... > > NewTorKidOnTheBlock > (this was the name of my Tor relay) > > > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays >
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