"Josef 'veloc1ty' Stautner" wrote:Long story short: What type of relay helps the TOR project more? Exit-Relay or Middle-relay? Is it really the "job" from TOR to provide an exit to the normal internet resources or should the focus be on hidden services? First, thank you for operating a Tor node. Second, I would like to suggest a simple solution to your question. Tor is already designed to make the best use out of any node. The most important thing is to make your node the most useful you can manage. Try to keep it stable and running. If your service provider allows you to operate an exit make your exit policy reflects this. I'm not trying to question your stance on allowing porn. What I think is important is that some random user of Tor may have stumbled onto your exit and, noticing it's usefulness, may have targeted your node using dotexit notation. I'm sure lots of users single out good exits in this opportunistic manner and for many reasons.
That aside, if you make your node as stable and useful as you can then the algorithms take over. Your node will be used in the best way possible by default. See the dir-spec and path-spec [1] for more details. The benefit of this approach is that if network conditions change your node may change it's primary role on an hourly basis. -- leeroy [1] https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
