Thanks Jonathan, mpan and John. I still don’t understand what happens when the authorities see that my IP is dynamic. Will they prevent the relay from becoming a guard?
I didn’t know about the DoS problem, that’s something I didn’t experience yet with my other, older relay. Maybe not being and exit helps. Cheers, -m > Il giorno 27 gen 2020, alle ore 02:57, Jonathan Marquardt <m...@parckwart.de> > ha scritto: > > On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 03:19:52PM +0100, Mario Costa wrote: >> Also, I’m wondering what will happen when the dynamic IP changes. Sooner or >> later I’ll have a power outage or restart the modem. Last time my IP changed >> it happened overnight for no evident reason. Will this relay lose its flags? >> Is a really with a dynamic IP address useful at all? > > If your IP address doesn't change every day but only every now and then then > yes, it's definitely a useful relay. > > Should the IP address change too often, your relay might loose its "guard" or > even "stable" flag but I recommend you just see what will happen. > > I have a relay (6B185DEEB249E4BA6182ECA077530C45E98A6C5F) that's also just > running at home with a dynamic IP address and it still has its "Stable" flag. > -- > OpenPGP Key: 47BC7DE83D462E8BED18AA861224DBD299A4F5F3 > https://www.parckwart.de/pgp_key > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays > Il giorno 27 gen 2020, alle ore 07:24, mpan <tor-1qnua...@mpan.pl> ha scritto: > >> Is a really with a dynamic IP address useful at all? > I’m running a node like that for over 5 years. Currently it is a guard > too. The IP address is relatively stable and the major interruptions are > due to kernel/tor upgrades or modem losing connection without the > address change. Even after those it recovers pretty fast. Unless you are > expecting to see downtime a few times a week, go ahead. The node is also > useful even if it is not having the guard flag yet. > > However, if you’re planning to run a node from your home, consider a > few things. Forget about running an exit node: you will experience a > heavy overblocking and hostility. And any node will bring some level of > harassment, because ignorance is widespread. A second thing is that from > time to time someone is trying to DoS nodes. In those 5 years I’ve seen > a few of those, so I assume the average is like once per year of > operation. Just accept the inevitable reality of running a node at home: > there will be a day or a week in which you will observe thousands > connections coming to your PC, all cores suddenly running at 100% > without no apparent reason &c. Treat it as a way to gain experience. > > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays > Il giorno 27 gen 2020, alle ore 07:46, John Csuti > <postmas...@coolcomputers.info> ha scritto: > > The stable flag refers to your fingerprint being up for long lived circuits. > Being on a dynamic up won’t change that. So in principle the stable flag > means that the server is up and reach able for most of the time no matter > what the address or IP may be. > > Thanks, > John Csuti > >> On Jan 26, 2020, at 11:37 PM, Jonathan Marquardt <m...@parckwart.de> wrote: >> > > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
