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Re: running a new node



cheers guys.. thanks for the tips, I removed the bridged_relay=1 and tor
is functioning how I originally expected

-a

On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 23:25 -0600, John Brooks wrote:
> There isn't really a trust issue involved. It does take some time to
> get most clients to know you (generally not more than a day, I
> believe) and the stable flag will help quite a bit. You should
> probably check your ports etc, and look at your node on one of the tor
> monitoring sites (http://torstatus.kgprog.com/) to make sure that
> everything there is okay. Mine tends to use it's full allotted
> bandwidth (250 KB/s) constantly (in the realm of 20-40gb per day), but
> it's got a good stable history, handles exit traffic, and is marked as
> guard (which is an automated process).
> 
> Check to make sure that incoming connections are working and so forth
> - that'd be my first guess.
> 
> - John
> 
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 08:54 +0200, Marco Bonetti wrote:
> On Thu, August 7, 2008 21:04, Austin wrote:
> > Hello, I started running a tor bridged relay a few days ago.
> If you set up as a bridge instead of a standard middleman only, I
> think
> it's ok: users have to known of you existence via the usual bridge
> request
> method as you don't appear in the node lists.
> 
> You've a pretty good bandwith, if you are concerned about not using it
> try
> to switch to middleman (or to exit) and do directory information
> mirroring
> too.
> 
> And thanks for adding a new node :)

> 

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