--- On Mon, 8/10/09, Martin Fick <[email protected]> wrote: > --- On Mon, 8/10/09, Scott Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Next, the conversation took a turn > > I was told that having *any* ports "open facing the > > Internet" was a violation of Comcast's Acceptable Use > > Policy (AUP) for residential accounts. > > Seems like another good argument in favor of > implementing a mechanism for relays to work behind > firewalls, you would not need to have any open ports.
> ... so let's not complain about the price of gas > here. ;) (unless it is to propose ways to make > tor use less gas...) Which give me another idea. What if directory servers were used to publish a "secret port knocking handshake" for relays? This would allow relays to go unnoticed on port scans. Obviously this would not be a technique to hide tor relays, but only to hide open ports from ISPs. As long as they do not specifically target tor relay operators, this might be effective? -Martin
