Re: [tor-relays] Exiting only port 8333

2014-03-23 Thread Mike Hearn
Thanks Roger, that does indeed clear things up. For background, I maintain the bitcoinj project which is a widely used Java Bitcoin implementation. We are planning on bundling the Orchid Tor client and switching on Tor by default for Bitcoin wallets that are based on this library, if we can. We'll

Re: [tor-relays] Exiting only port 8333

2014-03-23 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 09:39:05PM +0100, Mike Hearn wrote: > I would like to be an exit for port 8333 only. I have configured my relay > to do this, but I am not being listed with the relay flag and do not see > any traffic exiting my node (at least not using arm). I saw an FAQ that > says this is

Re: [tor-relays] Exiting only port 8333

2014-03-19 Thread David Serrano
On 2014-03-18 21:20:37 (+0100), Mike Hearn wrote: > > The globe page for my node shows "exit probability: 0" so I guess I'm > indeed not being sent any. I saw that in my initial "some ports allowed but no Exit flag" period too. So I guess it's actually "exit probability to 80/443/6667 destination

Re: [tor-relays] Exiting only port 8333

2014-03-18 Thread grarpamp
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Mike Hearn wrote: > +Roger, as I'm curious as to the rationale. There was a pretty big thread debate a couple years back about people only wanting to offer cleartext ports being seen as (whether falsely or not) doing it purely so they can cheaply steal content/tok

Re: [tor-relays] Exiting only port 8333

2014-03-18 Thread grarpamp
> If I'm not mistaken, you need to open two of the ports 80, 443 and 6667 > to gain the Exit flag It's in dir-spec.txt as such. Probably under some rationale of making nodes most widely beneficial. I'd think soaking up btc traffic would be useful, if exit traffic stats supported that need... is it

Re: [tor-relays] Exiting only port 8333

2014-03-18 Thread Mike Hearn
+Roger, as I'm curious as to the rationale. On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 9:12 PM, grarpamp wrote: > > If I'm not mistaken, you need to open two of the ports 80, 443 and 6667 > > to gain the Exit flag > > It's in dir-spec.txt as such. Probably under some rationale of > making nodes most widely benefic

Re: [tor-relays] Exiting only port 8333

2014-03-17 Thread David Serrano
On 2014-03-17 21:39:05 (+0100), Mike Hearn wrote: > > I would like to be an exit for port 8333 only. I have configured my relay > to do this, but I am not being listed with the relay flag and do not see > any traffic exiting my node (at least not using arm). I saw an FAQ that > says this is becaus

[tor-relays] Exiting only port 8333

2014-03-17 Thread Mike Hearn
I would like to be an exit for port 8333 only. I have configured my relay to do this, but I am not being listed with the relay flag and do not see any traffic exiting my node (at least not using arm). I saw an FAQ that says this is because you have to exit web traffic to get marked as an exit. I do