-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I was looking at my server's stats at https://torstatus.kgprog.com and noticed that it has an exit policy that I didn't put in my config file. For example...
reject 0.0.0.0/8:* reject 169.254.0.0/16:* reject 127.0.0.0/8:* reject 192.168.0.0/16:* reject 10.0.0.0/8:* reject 172.16.0.0/12:* reject 75.63.1.109:* reject *:25 reject *:119 reject *:135-139 reject *:445 reject *:465 reject *:563 reject *:587 reject *:1214 reject *:4661-4666 reject *:6346-6429 reject *:6699 reject *:6881-6999 accept *:* The only part of that I have in my config file is [accept *:*]. Is the rest some kind of defaults? I noticed one of the defaults is [reject *:587] which I'm wondering why that would be in the defaults. That ports is used for sending secure email. Port 25 I can understand but 587?! I use that port for gmail. I have two gmail accounts. One is this one which is tied to my real name. The other isn't and I use with Thunderbird and the torbutton addon. I've noticed that sometimes I can't send email and sometimes I can. It all depends on the current circuit. After seeing the defaults exit policy I can see why I've been having the issues with my email. The point of this email?! I wish to understand the rational of having the defaults block ports used for secure encrypted protocoles. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFINk83vsn/sQCIOqQRAn8nAKCHtbwbJgzK5LWyKdVOY7YaxgV1uwCeN78A WSa9RDSj0/XcXGlqy2KhUnA= =PtV5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----