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Re: [tor-dev] Allowing NAT for relay/exit nodes - Bootstrap file size

Yes, but the point of flash proxies, is to use them as bridges, what I meant is to allow OR's behind NAT to be relays or even exit nodes.


2014/1/20 David Fifield <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 05:00:38PM -0200, Juan Berner wrote:
> 1) Allow NAT clients to be TOR relay nodes (even maybe exit nodes) , this would
> be done using a queue system, possibly in a hidden service but not necessary,
> where nat relay nodes can query what tor clients want to connect to them and
> initiate the connection. This would allow more nodes in the TOR network.

This is how flash proxy works. Clients register themselves as needing a
connection, and then proxies connect to the clients. (The problem is
that many *clients* are also behind NAT, and then it doesn't work so
well.)

You can run a flash proxy just by going to a web page like
http://crypto.stanford.edu/flashproxy/, and there is also code to run a
proxy in the background without a browser:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/7944.

David Fifield

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