Re: newbee questions

[pascal levasseur <pascal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hi Pascal,
> 
> > I would like to understand why my tor server (clearstream) try to reach
> > the following servers on non usual tor ports ports (80, 443, 9001,
> > 9030) ?
> The or port can be freely configured... 80, 443 et al. are just
> the most used ones.
> 
> > server IP 	port
> > 12.30.222.10	9876
> See http://serifos.eecs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/desc.pl?q=mrspliffdoingtor
> 9876 is that server's port.
> 
> > 143.167.16.16	1731
> http://serifos.eecs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/desc.pl?q=torsheffield
> 
> > 18.244.0.188	9031	
> 9031 is the port on which the tor directory is being served.
> 
> > What impact it has on my exit policy on my firewall ?
> If you don't allow those destination ports, connections to those
> servers won't be established. Other than that, it should have
> no negative impact (somebody correct me if I'm wrong).
> 
Hello Marco,

Thanks for your quick answer.

If I understand well :

- tor administrators can use any port for their ORport and DIRport;
- as a consequence another tor server can ask my tor server to set-up a
OR or DIR link with it using any port;
- so if my tor server want to be able to answer requests from any other
tor server, I must have a totally open exit policy at my firewall.

Is this OK ?