As we all now have a big fat pile of bandwidth some of you might like to give something back to the community by way of the TOR project.

TOR will use your excess bandwidth to help freedom of speech and the free flow of information that's so lacking in oppressive regimes. For more details see https://www.torproject.org/.

Install instructions can be found at
https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-unix.html.en

My quick Linode config guide:

edit /etc/tor/torrc and set:
Nickname <any name>
RelayBandwidthRate <1500 KBs or so>
RelayBandwidthBurst <Above plus 100 KBs>
AccountingMax <Whatever bandwidth you have spare, this is traffic though your linode so in+out but linode only charges for out>
AccountingStart month 1 00:00
ContactInfo <Your email>
ExitPolicy reject *:* # no exits allowed, Linode passes on EVERY complaint so only relay for an easy life.
MaxOnionsPending 250 #Stability fix for when you can't open circuits fast enough.

Then update your iptables rules to allow TCP port 9001 in.

Please note that TOR will use about 230Meg of resident RAM so I only suggest using it on a lightly loaded Linode.

TOR, just another way for bittorrent pirates to move their crap around.

If 10% of the TOR traffic was for it's original purpose (i.e. side stepping oppressive regimes) I'd be amazed.

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Either provide enough details for people to help, or sit back and listen to the crickets chirp.
Security thru obscurity is a myth - and really really annoying.

Haven't we had this argument before?

If you're gonna be an exit node then be very careful that you don't get fingered for pirate torrents and linode are forced to take action. You should be safe as a relay node, though. This line in sednet's instruction is important

ExitPolicy reject *:* # no exits allowed, Linode passes on EVERY complaint so only relay for an easy life.

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Rgds
Stephen
(Linux user since kernel version 0.11)

Don't be so negative about everything Mr grumpy-pants.

If 10% is used for side stepping oppressive regimes that's still an extremely important contribution to the world. TOR is just too slow to download movies, If anyone is doing that they must have incredible patience.

Well I hate it when you actually make sense.

I wonder if there is any real data on the breakdown of the different types of TOR traffic.

Of course if you really believed your first statement - then you'd be all in and run an exit node. Because if everyone plays it safe, then there's too few exit nodes to be useful.

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Either provide enough details for people to help, or sit back and listen to the crickets chirp.
Security thru obscurity is a myth - and really really annoying.

Linode has a history of responding to complaints from third parties. They care about keeping their netblock clean. If I wanted to run an exit node I would not do it on a Linode. It really does take balls of steel to run an exit node.

TOR needs relays too and these don't get complaints.

Just setup a relay.... plenty of BW to burn

Indeed. Linode is actually listed as a bad ISP to use for an exit node though it's caveated somewhat. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/to ... oodBadISPs

I'd think in the US at least the only likely offenders would be DMCA so I wonder how much using the reduced exit policy options, for instance just allowing 80, would address most issues. I think I'd want to try and implement some of the other suggestions they have here though: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/to ... Guidelines