On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Jan Weiher <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 15.11.2011 07:52, schrieb Runa A. Sandvik: >> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Mike Damm <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Monday, November 14, 2011 9:30 PM, "Runa A. Sandvik" >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Hi everyone, >>>> >>>> The Tor Cloud project gives you a user-friendly way of deploying bridges >>>> to help users access an uncensored Internet. By setting up a bridge, you >>>> donate bandwidth to the Tor network and help improve the safety and >>>> speed at which users can access the Internet. >>>> >>>> Setting up a Tor bridge on Amazon EC2 is simple and will only take you a >>>> couple of minutes. The images have been configured with automatic >>>> package updates and port forwarding, so you do not have to worry about >>>> Tor not working or the server not getting security updates. >>> >>> https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#MultipleRelays says: >>> "Great. If you want to run several relays to donate more to the network, >>> we're happy with that. But please don't run more than a few dozen on the >>> same network, since part of the goal of the Tor network is dispersal and >>> diversity." >>> >>> I'm curious to know if 'MyFamily' is properly set on these instances, or >>> if Tor plans to bucket all instances within EC2 as part of the same >>> family? >>> >>> Assuming this is a non-issue... looks very awesome! >> >> A bridge should not specify the ‘MyFamily’ option. You won't run a >> middle relay or an exit relay in the cloud, so this shouldn't be an >> issue. >> > > As far as I understand, this is correct if you only run bridges (because > a circuit never uses two bridges), but what if someone (like me) runs a > bridge and a normal relay as well? IMHO you don't want to use a relay > which is operated by the same operator as your bridge? Please correct > me, if I'm wrong.
Yes, you should set the MyFamily option in the Tor configuration file if you run both a bridge and a relay. -- Runa A. Sandvik _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
