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

2016-09-16 Thread 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

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

2016-09-16 Thread 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

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

2016-09-16 Thread 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

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay

2016-09-16 Thread 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

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay

2016-09-16 Thread 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

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay

2016-09-16 Thread 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,

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay

2016-09-16 Thread 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

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay

2016-09-16 Thread 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

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay

2016-09-16 Thread 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