Configuring Tor non-exit relay
I’m for privacy. I’m for cryptography. I do provide Tor relays for the good of all people.
Here’s how to configure a classic non-exit Tor relay on your machine. In my case I got it running on the VPS server, with 2 IP addresses and some bandwidth quota applied.
I wanted the Tor traffic to be easily recognizable from outside as different from the ‘normal’ traffic coming from my server. Second requirement was to make Tor not use my whole traffic quota up.
Here’s my config, with some notes
cyryl@serv:~$ cat /etc/tor/torrc SocksPort 0 # what port to open for local application connections SocksListenAddress 127.0.0.1 # accept connections only from localhost RunAsDaemon 1 DataDirectory /var/lib/tor ORPort 9001 #switches Tor to server mode ORListenAddress tor.cyplo.net OutboundBindAddress 91.213.195.28 #what IP address use to direct the outbound traffic Nickname cyplonet Address tor.cyplo.net ExitPolicy reject *:* # no exits allowed AccountingStart day 09:00 AccountingMax 2 GB MyFamily cyplonethome, cyplonet