Nile wrote:
It takes quite a while until your node becomes more heavily used. Tor
clients take your node's uptime into account when considering whether or
not to route through it. Higher uptime indicates a more stable node,
which will get more traffic.
Thanks Nile. My node's status was
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To: or-talk@freehaven.net
Subject: Re: problems setting up a relay node on win XP
Thank-you Michael Ringo for your advice!
Michael: I've followed your advice re: opening ports on the hub
doubled-checked some other issues you highlighted. Well
Greetings!
I've used tor as a client for a long time now I'd like to give something back
to the network by running a relay server. I've been following the advice on the
tor wiki, specifically Complete Tor walkthrough for Windows users by Steve
Topletz
My advice is to open incoming port 9001 at your hardware firewall.
An account with dyndns is not needed. You do not need a fixed DNS name
-- as far as I can tell, tor doesn't need any of that. My system
doesn't.
-postponed opening any ports (explaination below)
1) opened an account with
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