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How to increase the Advertised Bandwidth of Tor onion router (OR)?
Advertised bandwidth as reported by atlas and globe is really what is
observed as of far. Your relay has only been up for four days, and as your
relay proves its reliability and speed, advertised ...
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Can I exit from a specific country or node?
Yes: edit the file: ThisPC\Desktop\Tor Browser\Browser\TorBrowser\Data\Tor\torrc or wherever you put Tor.
at the end put: ExitNodes {GB}
Then the last node will always be in the United Kindom, ...
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Does running the Tor browser turn me into a (exit) relay?
When you download the Tor Browser it acts purely as a client. Your software won't run as an exit node or a relay unless you tell it otherwise. So by downloading the Tor Browser from https://torproject....
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Does running the Tor browser turn me into a (exit) relay?
Neither make you a relay of any sort, they will both act as clients only by default and neither have options to turn them into relays of any sort. You would need to go out of your way to manually ...
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What does the heartbeat line in my torrc mean?
Those logs mean that you have transmitted 159 GB and received 157 GB as a total during the 5 days, which means you have sent only 31 GB in the period between the 2 log messages.
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Tor no longer works on sites that want to block it
Yes - the surrounding details about this are desribed in the General FAQ
You should hide the list of Tor relays, so people can't block the exits.
There are a few reasons we don't:
We can't help but ...
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Does running Orbot mean I am running a Tor exit relay?
No. By default, Orbot will not run a relay/exit/bridge. You may have seen one of the circuits Orbot built, which show the path your data will go through when using Tor.
Unless you have changed your ...
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Need a step by step to run a relay on Windows
You're running Windows. Not many people try to run relays on Windows, so the process isn't as well documented.
[If you, future reader, are running Linux, then this guide (https://trac.torproject.org/...
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Accessing Tor hidden services over a single hop circuit
I think you want to check out the configure option for tor2web mode, which should do pretty much what you want. No special second instance running a tor relay would be necessary
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What circuits connect to the introduction and rendezvous point?
Introduction and Rendezvous points are only used for Hidden Services. The Introduction point is chosen by the Hidden Service and published with the HSDir servers handling the Hidden Service. When a ...
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Can Tor nodes know their position in the circuit?
I will add that these statements are within the confines of the protocol. As you mentioned in your question/comment, a single node could use outside resources to determine entry and exit points. ...
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How do you specify a specific ExitNode?
You can't specify a single node using its IP address. You can specify an address range, which equates to a network, using CIDR notation, as specified in the Tor FAQ. (It's not that obvious, but note ...
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How long does it take for an IP to be removed from the exit nodes list?
It takes about 1 day for an IP address to be removed from the most recent exit list, but that directory contains exit lists published in the past 3 days. So, that's 4 days for an IP address to ...
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How feasible is that Directories grant you only compromised nodes to build the circuit from?
thanks for the question. First off, the "directories" you speak of are called "directory authorities" inside Tor. Their job is indeed to compile a list of all running Tor relays and make it available ...
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Can I exit from a specific country or node?
On Windows
Right-click the Tor icon. It's a purple-and-green globe icon that you'll either find on your desktop or in the Start menu.
If you haven't done so yet, first run Tor so that the ...
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Can I exit from a specific country or node?
I find that lower case works fine and I also don't need to use StrictNodes. For example I simply add ExitNodes {jp} to my torrc to make the receiver always think the sender is from Japan.
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In what ways can private relays be used?
By definition bridge relays are Tor relays that aren't listed in the main Tor directory. So if you set:
BridgeRelay 1
PublishServerDescriptor 0
this will cause your relay to not publish anywhere. ...
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Can exit relays be selected as middle or guard nodes?
It is true in the current case, but the bandwidth authorities make a scarcity calculation which depending on result decides whether exit relays can be used as guards/middle relays. If exit bandwidth ...
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If I select specific country exit nodes, why is IP not dynamic anymore?
It is possible that this small country only has one exit node. Or only one exit node with an exit policy that allows what you're doing.
By choosing a country with only one exit, you restrict your ...
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Where does tor look for directory servers?
Found it.tor creates a directory .tor in the home directory (on Linux).
$ ls ~/.tor
cached-certs cached-microdesc-consensus cached-microdescs cached-microdescs.new lock state
$ grep -Rn 193.11....
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"Trustworthy" exit nodes
This idea will not work, if the service or application has a requirement for security in it's communications then it MUST provide it itself, there is no alternative.
This is the same as one of the ...
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Can I opt to be not middle relay?
No, and it will never be implemented: it would break the whole relay idea of Tor. Every relay - regardless of it's further roles - is a "regular node", i.e. the middle one. If it's allowed to go ...
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How is tor traffic exempt from censorship/a country's DNS servers?
Yes, that's possible.
Note that no serious censorship is done through DNS (alone) though, it's trivially easy to defeat, even without Tor.
Exit relays should be censorship free, so people shouldn't ...
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IPv6 Exit Policy Summary none defined
nope. tor uses both IPv4 and IPv6 if one of them is not prohibited explicitly
UPDATE:
To reject IPv6 on all levels add this to your torrc:
ExitPolicy reject6 *:* - it will disable any exit traffic ...
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Diverse doubts about Tor relays
But can I configure the "ORPort" field with any other port?
Yes. This is arbitrary, 443 can be useful for some users behind weak censorship or firewalls but ultimately the choice of port is entirely ...
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I want tor to use the same exit node
It's a very simple two-liner in your torrc config:
StrictNodes 1
ExitNodes {hash-id-of-your-desired-exit}
It works like that:
StrictNodes tells Tor that it have to obey the node restrictions you ...
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