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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 to bypass sites that blocks tor?
As far as I know this is not possible
All tor relay UP addresses are publicly available, including exit ones. Any webmasters that choose to block them can, in fact Tor Project operates a dedicated ...
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How to use tor exit node and VPN to break through GFW in China?
I'm not familiar with Tor, but I suppose you just want to go through the GFW in China with a VPS server.(Hong Kong Server is ok)
Most people in China nowadays use SS(shadowsocks)/SSR/V2ray to get ...
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Running parallel Tor servers with different exit IPs with nodejs app
I want to monitor a website without making it a priori evident that it is being monitored
Problems:
The set of exits isn't (very) large, you'll repeat after a given time scale.
The exits are ...
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Use only specifics exit nodes for a site
It's not implemented in original Tor as far as I know. The only way to achive this functionality is using the Stem-controlled circuit built by hand.
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how to figure out how many relays are there in your tor URL?
First about your single relay concern, I'm guessing you're referring to Single Onion Services (shamelessly stolen from cacahuatl's answer to this post and loosely edited), which are applied
where ...
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ExitPolicy reject *:* some traffic seems to sneak throu anyway?
Your router appears to be performing an incredibly naive form of traffic identification.
I'd guess that it's simply looking at the content of /etc/services or equivalent and matching a service to it'...
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Tor Browser Bundle Single-Hop
Simply replacing the tor binary included with the Tor Browser with the one that you have built would work, e.g.:
cp ~/tor-0.2.9.10/src/or/tor ~/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Tor/tor
Will mean ...
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How to specify ExitNodes in Linux?
GeoIP needs to be installed for Tor to be able to determine in what country a exit relay is.
You can install it using sudo apt install tor-geoipdb.
From the logs:
We've been configured to use (or ...
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Exitnodes: safe?
Yes, this will compromise your privacy and anonymity.
It would be trivial for anyone observing traffic to discover that you're configured to use a single exit node. You're likely to be the only ...
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Configuring my tor to be a relay
A relay could be used by anyone, anywhere in the world. They don't have to be physically near you.
You can get relay statistics from https://atlas.torproject.org/
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Difficulties right off the bat
What the heck is a relay & an Exit relay?
Read about it at: https://www.eff.org/torchallenge/what-is-tor.html
This is the simplest description of what is tor relay I could find.
How can I ...
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Does TOR client (Expert Bundle) work as an exit node by default?
By default it used not to, but nowdays - especially as IPv6 support was introduced - the manual about torrc and ExitPolicy in precise - states it a bit unclear with default exit policies. So - now the ...
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censorship and tbb exit nodes.
To the exit node the exit node's local ISP filters may apply - like to any other network client in that place: yes, from the point of ISP an exit node is a client. In your example a censorship of ...
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How safe are Tor exit nodes.... really?
If you are only a Tor client (e.g. you're using Tor Browser to browse the web), you are not an exit node, or any node at all, and you are fine. Nobody will be able to tell where your traffic is going, ...
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How safe are Tor exit nodes.... really?
well nobody will be able to tell you "How safe are they exactly", especially as long as you don't describe exactly what you mean with "see a user's traffic".
but to make it easily understandable and ...
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Do tor exit nodes see the URL you're connecting to?
The Tor-Network works trough Onion Routing which encrypts your Message with your Target Address, so no one can read the original message on the way to the Exit Relay.
But since the Exit Relay is the ...
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Financial Cost of Running an exit node
I would definitely recommend asking the person making the claim for the calculations underlying it. I suppose, if you had an all-open exit policy, and were in a location where traffic was fully-...
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Are contents of a hidden service secure if the service is HTTP?
I'll tackle the easy question first:
is it more secure to use HTTPS on a hidden service than pure-HTTP?
https provides one thing for onion services that http does not. It provides proof that the ...
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ExitNodes not making any circuits
I uncommented the following line
Log debug file /var/log/tor/debug.log
in /etc/tor/torrc and restarted the tor service.
I then read the following 268 lines in to the debug.log file:
[warn] Failed ...
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Can Tor connection be intercepted/tampered by exit nodes?
Yes, the exit node can inspect and tamper with the TCP traffic as it leaves the network. It's impossible for Tor to provide integrity for this traffic. You should always use secure protocols like TLS/...
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Avoiding exit-nodes with ISP-/country-based blocks of a site?
Can specific exit-nodes be "turned off"?
Can groups of exit nodes be "turned off" based on top-domain and/or on location (ie. country)?
You can add an ExcludeNodes to your torrc config file.
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Looking for up to date tutorial on running multiple tor exit nodes on one machine
It's probably easiest to use systemd. Take a look at the service configuration file located at /lib/systemd/system/[email protected]. , '%i' is a placeholder which will be replaced with the name of the ...
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