Greetings, I was directed to this relay subscription by the owner. I've
recently started my own relay and everything has went smooth for the first few
days. Then the relay mysteriously went offline for a period of 8-9 hours.
Happened while I was sleeping I think, but any rate it came back on after I
restarted the tor daemon and rebooted the server. I'm starting to think my
firewall configurations might have been the culprit, even though I ran a very
rudimentary setup. Basically just:
-A INPUT -p tcp --dport <my SSH> -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p tcp --dport 9050 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p tcp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -j DROP
Default ACCEPT on OUTPUT
My ORPort is on 443, so I don't see how this could be interfering. I noticed my
server reboot got rid of all my rules, so I'm thinking that could've been the
issue. If so, what other ports should I add? Do I even need a firewall for the
relay? I don't do anything else with that server, so If it doesn't need a
firewall to stay secure I won't use one. One more thing, I had a flag on my
relay that said I needed to "update the descriptor." It went away after
rebooting my server as well, could that been the issue?
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