Middle nodes don't know the type of traffic. If they have any way to find out, that is a bug that needs to be fixed. End-of.
2013/10/27 Nelson <[email protected]>: > Tor Exit Relay have the ability to filter traffic by allowing the > operator make choices based on personal preferences for personal, legal > (ex: country of origin) and for other reasons. > > Non-exit Relays do not have the ability to set "Relay Policies" > (torcc??), and why would they, considering that all this traffic is > encrypted anyway, as I understand it, and one would not ever know what > type of traffic it is, or its origin, based on the bandwidth graph. I > checked my smoothwall firewall logs it does not seem to show the traffic > flowing on my relay, I guess this would be obvious because it's Tor > traffic; unless I'm not filtering the logs correctly. > > Running a Tor relay seems straightforward and one could just fire-it-up > and easily contribute to the network. But my curiosity gets the best of me. > > I was looking to add additional URL Filter rules for my smoothwall as a > more centralized way of controlling what gets to the LAN for my users. > While checking for additional blocklists I came upon P2P rules and I > started to compare the new blocklists with my old ones and then I > stumbled upon PeerBlock which has been around for a while. > > On Windows 7, PeerBlock seemed to provide two things I was looking to > test on a TOR Relay: > > 1. Real Time Traffic Logging (ip's and ports logged) > 2. The ability to filter traffic. > > Apparently I am able to do both with PeerBlock, although I'm sure there > are more suitable and capable tools available out there that do this, > but I'm not aware of or have used any of these tools. > > In peerblock I can create new custom lists and completely block specific > ip ranges (ex: warez, torrents etc.), and I am able to see what traffic > is allowed or blocked based on policies created. > > 1. What problems, if any, arise from using peerblock and Tor together? > 2. Why do we not have the ability to at least set our own policy for the > type of traffic on a relay just like an Exit Relay? > > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
