Please excuse my ignorance operating Tor relays, but if I run an exit node on Windows 7 and use something like Peerblock and correspoding block lists of P2P sites, wouldn't this be somewhat effective in stopping this sort of undesired traffic on Tor?
On 11/1/2013 10:48 AM, Paritesh Boyeyoko wrote: > On Friday 01 Nov 2013 05:37:14 I wrote: >> The advice on how to manage exit problems seems to >> be very sound and Tor is defensible because it is being abused by >> torrenting also. >> > > ...and this is something else I don't quite understand. People who know > about > Tor (which obviously includes exit operators) are well aware of the stress > that BitTorrent puts on the Tor network. > > The paper http://planete.inrialpes.fr/papers/TorTraffic-NSS10.pdf shows > 54.48% > of the traffic passing through the sample exit nodes was BiTorrent traffic. > > Myself and others (I'm sure) look forward to the day when the Tor network > comprises 100,000+ 100Mb/s nodes. However, until that time comes I would > think that exit node operators would (wrong choice of words incoming) make > more effort to use a whitelisted exit policy, thereby starving BitTorrent of > bandwidth, and forcing those users away from this "free VPN". The likes of > Vuze (Azureus) don't help the situation by offering Tor as an option. > > Would it be worth putting together selection of template Exit Policies which > exit node operators can cut & paste into their torrc? Or (and this is more a > dev question) have an "include" directive where separate policy files can be > specified (and therefore substituted), something like this: > > ExitPolicy include /etc/tor/mail.exit > ExitPolicy include /etc/tor/rdp.exit > ExitPolicy include /etc/tor/web.exit > ExitPolicy include /etc/tor/chat.exit > > Combine this with a default reject *:* policy and it *may* lead to a change > of > culture and squeeze BitTorrent out. It may even help reduce the number of > DMCA notices that exit operators get. > > Thoughts? > _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays