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I would like to run an exit relay, but I don't want to deal with almost any abuse issues. So I figured to only exit to hidden services. If my understandings are right, the exit policy and the relay part of my torrc should look like this:

ExitRelay 1
ExitPolicy reject *:*

But I would also like to relay non-exit traffic, on the same machine.

Is this possible?

Or do I have any misunderstandings, for example, am I already able to be the third hop to a hidden service even if I have ExitRelay 0 ?

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As onion services "live" within the network, you don't need to be an exit to relay onion service traffic.

See https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/onion-services for details.

Exits are "only" needed for exiting to the clearnet.

Thank you for running any relay.

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  • Thank you for answering my main question. I would still like to know that if I run an "actual" exit relay, do I relay any kind of non-exit traffic? My question might be quite unrealistic here, because exit relays are usually extremely busy just on exiting since there are relatively few of them.
    – noarch
    Commented Nov 14, 2020 at 19:11
  • As far as I know, an exit is just a normal relay which happens to have the exit flag (and so, permitting exit rules) as well.
    – silverstar
    Commented Nov 15, 2020 at 8:29

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