On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Rob van der Hoeven <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks,
Hi, > Bridges serve as "unknown" entry points to the TOR network. For this, > part of the TOR network nodes are reserved and unlisted. This is not > good for the performance of the network, and because the network is > relatively small i think the unlisted-nodes strategy will only be a > short term solution. Roger wrote a good blog post about strategies for getting more bridge addresses: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/strategies-getting-more-bridge-addresses (you may have seen this already, it was written three months ago). > At the moment i'm working on my own FreedomBox. From this work i got the > following idea: Why not use the DNAT function of a router to forward TOR > traffic to a TOR node? This way you don't need unlisted nodes anymore. A > router-bridge does not have to be a full TOR node.... > > Unfortunately the standard DNAT functionality of most routers only > support DNAT from the internet to internal addresses. So you need > modified firmware to make this work. Maybe a (slightly modified?) > version of OpenWRT will work. Have you heard about the Torouter project? We are currently working on two versions; the DreamPlug for technical users who don't mind doing some hacking on their own, and the Excito B3 for non-tech users. We have documented the project here: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/Torouter - Maybe this is something you'd like to help with? > Router-bridges have a second advantage over real TOR nodes. They can be > easily moved. If a router-bridge gets blocked, you can simply give the > router-bridge to a friend. You could also just change the IP address of the Tor relay (probably easier to do if it's a VPS than if you have it at home). -- Runa A. Sandvik _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
