Re: [tor-relays] Reasons to avoid being a guard?

[Andrea]

On 9/16/2016 5:11 PM, jensm1 wrote:
> I am curious about possible reasons, why one wouldn't want to become
> guard. Are there any risks or disadvantages that come with the guard flag?

For me it wouldn't make any difference. I just noticed that my relay
never got the guard flag and I am assuming that the reason is the
bandwidth limitation.

~Andrea



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Re: [tor-relays] Reasons to avoid being a guard?

[Ivan Markin]

jensm1:
> I am curious about possible reasons, why one wouldn't want to become
> guard. Are there any risks or disadvantages that come with the guard flag?

Probably because having clients connecting directly to this relay is not
OK. E.g. some hostile ISP/upstream so one may decide not to endanger
users by running a Guard relay there.
Just a guess.

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Re: [tor-relays] Reasons to avoid being a guard? (was: Middle relay)

[jensm1]

I am curious about possible reasons, why one wouldn't want to become 
guard. Are there any risks or disadvantages that come with the guard flag?



Am 16.09.2016 um 16:32 schrieb Ivan Markin:

Marcel Krzystek:

Add the following to your .torrc file:

ExitPolicy reject *:*

It's non-exit, not a "middle-only" relay. Jim probably doesn't want to
become a Guard. I'm not aware of such option.

btw, we've recently discussed in #19625 [1] possibility of setting
"peering policy". If this would be implemented one can restrict
connections only to relays in consensus (but not bridges?).

[1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/19625
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Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay

[Andrea]

On 9/16/2016 4:22 PM, Jim Electro House wrote:
> Hi to all!
> I'm running a non-exit relay and I'd like to configure it to run _only_
> as a middle relay. Do you know which conf should I add on my torrc file?

My relay never got the guard flag. Usually fast relays only get that
flag. I donate a part of my internet connection to tor but not much.
This seems to be the solution why mine never became a guard.

If you are limiting the bandwidth it should never get the guard flag.

~Andrea



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Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay

[Ivan Markin]

Marcel Krzystek:
> Add the following to your .torrc file:
> 
> ExitPolicy reject *:*

It's non-exit, not a "middle-only" relay. Jim probably doesn't want to
become a Guard. I'm not aware of such option.

btw, we've recently discussed in #19625 [1] possibility of setting
"peering policy". If this would be implemented one can restrict
connections only to relays in consensus (but not bridges?).

[1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/19625
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Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay

[Tristan]

It takes time to get the guard flag. See the relay life cycle for more
details: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay

On Sep 16, 2016 9:29 AM, "Jim Electro House" 
wrote:

> I saw one relay not being a guard one, only middle.. :/
>
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 5:27 PM, Matt Traudt  wrote:
>
>> ExitRelay 0
>> and/or
>> ExitPolicy reject *:*
>>
>> to prevent being an exit.
>>
>> I don't know that you can prevent yourself from getting the Guard flag
>> and being a guard.
>>
>> https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en
>> https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-relay-debian.html.en
>>
>> Matt
>>
>> On 9/16/16 10:22, Jim Electro House wrote:
>> > Hi to all!
>> > I'm running a non-exit relay and I'd like to configure it to run *only*
>> as
>> > a middle relay. Do you know which conf should I add on my torrc file?
>> >
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Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay

[Jim Electro House]

I saw one relay not being a guard one, only middle.. :/

On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 5:27 PM, Matt Traudt  wrote:

> ExitRelay 0
> and/or
> ExitPolicy reject *:*
>
> to prevent being an exit.
>
> I don't know that you can prevent yourself from getting the Guard flag
> and being a guard.
>
> https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en
> https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-relay-debian.html.en
>
> Matt
>
> On 9/16/16 10:22, Jim Electro House wrote:
> > Hi to all!
> > I'm running a non-exit relay and I'd like to configure it to run *only*
> as
> > a middle relay. Do you know which conf should I add on my torrc file?
> >
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Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay

[Matt Traudt]

ExitRelay 0
and/or
ExitPolicy reject *:*

to prevent being an exit.

I don't know that you can prevent yourself from getting the Guard flag
and being a guard.

https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en
https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-relay-debian.html.en

Matt

On 9/16/16 10:22, Jim Electro House wrote:
> Hi to all!
> I'm running a non-exit relay and I'd like to configure it to run *only* as
> a middle relay. Do you know which conf should I add on my torrc file?
> 
> 
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Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay

[Marcel Krzystek]

Add the following to your .torrc file:

ExitPolicy reject *:*



On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 8:22 AM, Jim Electro House <
torelectroho...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi to all!
> I'm running a non-exit relay and I'd like to configure it to run *only*
> as a middle relay. Do you know which conf should I add on my torrc file?
>
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