Re: Newcomer - Want only act as server between servers

[Scott Bennett <bennett@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bernd,
     Welcome!
     On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:12:47 +0200 "Bernd Schmelter"
<benn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>wanting only act as server between servers. NO Client or Exitnode, but want spend
>bandwith to the project.
>
>1st Question:  Is this opinion usefull?
>
     Opinion?  I must have missed it in what you wrote.  Is such a relay
useful?  Yes, indeed.  Thank you for running it.
>
>He're my torrc:
>
>----------
>SocksPort 0
>SocksListenAddress 127.0.0.1
>Log notice file /var/log/tor/notices.log
>Log debug file /var/log/tor/debug.log
>Nickname XXXXXXXXX
>Address XXXXX.dyndns.org
>RelayBandwidthRate 625 KBytes     #download-max from ISP are 51384 kbits per sec
>RelayBandwidthBurst 1250 KBytes #upload-max to ISP are 10044 kbits per sec
>ContactInfo Random Person <benn AT chefe dot dyndns dot org>
>ExitPolicy reject *:*
>---------

     I assume you must have also defined an ORPOrt because the output below
shows everything working correctly.
>
>2nd Question: server is running now since 2houres. Is this configuration right?
>
>/var/log/tor# cat notices.log
>
>-------------
>Jul 30 00:22:39.482 [notice] Tor 0.2.0.35 opening new log file.
>Jul 30 00:22:40.640 [notice] Your Tor server's identity key fingerprint is 'XXXXX 4DXX
>XXXX....'
>Jul 30 00:22:42.490 [notice] We now have enough directory information to build circuits.
>Jul 30 00:22:47.690 [notice] Tor has successfully opened a circuit. Looks like client
>functionality is working.
>Jul 30 00:22:47.690 [notice] Now checking whether ORPort MYDYNAMICIP:9001 is
>reachable... (this may take up to 20 minutes -- look for log messages indicating
>success)
>Jul 30 00:23:06.430 [notice] Self-testing indicates your ORPort is reachable from the
>outside. Excellent. Publishing server descriptor.
>Jul 30 00:23:18.678 [notice] Performing bandwidth self-test...done.
>-------------
>
     It must be because it does appear to be working. :-)  However, you
didn't provide enough information for us to look for your relay in the
consensus or directory information to see how that looks.  I tried
searching on your email address in case you had used the same email
address in the ContactInfo, but didn't find it.


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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