On 10/21/2013 01:52 PM, Martin Kepplinger wrote: > Lunar: >> Martin Kepplinger: >>> Really quick not too important question. When switching a relay to >>> become an exit node or the other way round, does it make sense to delete >>> /var/lib/tor/keys/* beforehand and start it over this way? >> >> Why would you want to do that? Updates to a relay's exit policy are >> spread to clients through the consensus and can be done at any moments. >> > Because, say, i change from guard to (possible) exit. it maybe stays an > entry node for those who "have" it and doesn't serve as an exit as much > as it could. The tor net is probably more in need of exits that guards. > And I don't know if similar mechanisms exist in a non-guard case. It's > just speculation.
A relay may serve both as guard and as exit. There is no problem with that. Just update your exit policy in torrc and restart tor (or send a SIGHUP signal to tor process). _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays