I did run a Tor exit server for a while about a year ago. It was on a 100Mb connection and I had plenty of bandwidth to spare so I figured what the heck. At the time it was a relatively heavy administrative task to setup exit policies though I understand this has changed. Our experience was that we ended up dealing with a significant amount of abuse complaints due to the traffic coming over the Tor network. This included automated attacks against servers and the trading of copy protected material. As such we stopped offering ourselves up as a Tor exit server. Tor is a really great idea, you just have to be vigilant in setting up your exit policies and be willing to deal with the fact that as with any network service there is the potential for abuse.
Kyle T. Smith On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 11:57:13 -0700, "Todd A. Jacobs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was curious to know if anyone else in the area was running a Tor > server of any kind. I'm even more curious to know if anyone is running > an exit server, and whether your ISP has given you any grief about it. > > As usual, I was noticing that Charter's ToS basically says you're really > only supposed to use your bandwidth for surfing the web--preferably to > commercial sites where they get kickbacks--and not much else. > > I'm more than a modest privacy advocate, and basically wanted to know > what my other options would be if Charter pulls its usual schtick. I > *did* check the Clearwire ToS, but they're almost as bad--even for their > so-called "commercial" links. > > I'd also be interested in a clueful but inexpensive Xen- or OpenVZ-based > virtual hosting provider, if anyone has some recommendations. I don't > think UML-based providers would be able to provide the flexibility to > run a useful Tor server, but that's just my $0.02. > > -- > Re-Interpreting Historic Miracles with SED #141: %s/water/wine/g > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
