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[tor-relays] Questions about running an exit relay



Hi dear list,

I hope I am in the correct place for my questions regarding my tor setup.

I am currently running a guard/middle relay on a vServer.

The relay runs inside a docker container, exposing OrPort and DirPort externally and ControlPort and MetricsPort internally.

On the same machine, but in different docker networks (except for prometheus for metrics), multiple other containers providing my personal infrastructure are running. All of them run behind caddy, which only forwards requests coming to specific subdomains on a specific domain.

First of all: Is this already a bad idea? Do you seperate tor relays and personal infrastructure physically or in VMs instead of containers?

Now, as netcup is my provider and they seem to tolerate exit nodes, I am thinking about allowing exits. I assume this would increase visibility of my server and maybe attract more attention. Knowing the IP address of the tor node, it could be possible to find other domains pointing to it (the PTR record however points to an irrelevant entry) and maybe find the subdomains leading to (still login-protected) infra.

Do you think this is a reason not to open the relay for exits?

I only have a single IPv4 address to use, additional addresses would imply additional costs. However, I do have a /64 block of IPv6 addresses. For IPv6, i could separate the tor address from the address used personally and therefore make it impossible to reach anything except tor over the designated address and covert any other domains, as they won't be associated with the tor address.

Do you think this would be needed/enough? In this case, I would restrict the relay to IPv6-only exits.

I am sorry if I could have found more information in the docs, but everything that I did find did not answer my questions enough.

Kind regards.

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