[tor-relays] How to use our own TOR relay as entry node for local network hosts

2015-05-20 Thread Tor User
Hello, We have been operating a moderately successful public tor relay for a while now. Having read about how TOR works back a couple of years ago, I was more or less sold on the idea that if traffic originating on your local network uses your own TOR relay as the first hop (entry node), then by

Re: [tor-relays] How to use our own TOR relay as entry node for local network hosts

2015-05-20 Thread s7r
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello, On 5/20/2015 12:07 PM, Tor User wrote: > Hello, > > We have been operating a moderately successful public tor relay for > a while now. Having read about how TOR works back a couple of > years ago, I was more or less sold on the idea that i

Re: [tor-relays] How to use our own TOR relay as entry node for local network hosts

2015-05-23 Thread Tor User
Hi s7r, Thank you for your reply. There's a lot of good info in it and I'll be reconfiguring the clients. The fact that I've been doing Tor-through-Tor unawares explains a lot. It did seem odd to have polipo in the mix, but it makes sense now, that would only be if the LAN clients weren't

Re: [tor-relays] How to use our own TOR relay as entry node for local network hosts

2015-05-23 Thread s7r
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi Glad you understood what you are doing wrong. In this case, you can use your relay as a guard for the clients in your network. See in my previous email suggestion #2, and all your clients will have the desired guard. Install Tor browser on each c

Re: [tor-relays] How to use our own TOR relay as entry node for local network hosts

2015-05-23 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 5/20/15, s7r wrote: > On 5/20/2015 12:07 PM, Tor User wrote: >> If I'm wrong about this, that's great - I'd love to see some >> documentation to explain it better if you have any links handy. >> But if I'm right, how can I configure our TBB clients to actually >> MAKE them use our TOR proxy as

Re: [tor-relays] How to use our own TOR relay as entry node for local network hosts

2015-06-02 Thread teor
> Date: Sun, 24 May 2015 08:47:20 +1000 > From: Zenaan Harkness > >> 3. Disable the polipo proxy on the Tor relay in your network, you do >> not need that. Run a bridge instead of a relay. Make it a non public >> bride (PublishServerDescriptor 0) and run Tor Browser on all the >> computers in y

Re: [tor-relays] How to use our own TOR relay as entry node for local network hosts

2015-06-05 Thread Tor User
Great points raised there with your post. Thanks for the reply. I definitely don't understand everything about Tor but I'm gradually getting there. The public Tor entry guard relay ran great for over a year but we ended up taking it down for a while once I realized something was wrong with h