[or-cvs] r19810: {website} clean up the RunARelayBut faq entry. immortalize mikeperry's (website/trunk/en)

[arma at seul.org]

Author: arma
Date: 2009-06-24 01:17:01 -0400 (Wed, 24 Jun 2009)
New Revision: 19810

Modified:
   website/trunk/en/faq.wml
Log:
clean up the RunARelayBut faq entry. immortalize mikeperry's
blog post.


Modified: website/trunk/en/faq.wml
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--- website/trunk/en/faq.wml	2009-06-24 05:01:31 UTC (rev 19809)
+++ website/trunk/en/faq.wml	2009-06-24 05:17:01 UTC (rev 19810)
@@ -757,36 +757,39 @@
 </p>
 
 <p>
-Each Tor relay has an exit policy that specifies what sort of outbound
-connections are allowed or refused from that relay. The exit policies are
-propagated to the client via the directory, so clients will automatically
-avoid picking exit relays that would refuse to exit to their intended
-destination. This way each relay can decide the services, hosts, and
-networks he wants to allow connections to, based on abuse potential and
-his own situation.
+Each Tor relay has an exit policy that specifies what sort of
+outbound connections are allowed or refused from that relay. The exit
+policies are propagated to the client via the directory, so clients
+will automatically avoid picking exit relays that would refuse to
+exit to their intended destination. This way each relay can decide
+the services, hosts, and networks he wants to allow connections to,
+based on abuse potential and his own situation. Read the FAQ entry on
+<a href="<page faq-abuse>#TypicalAbuses">issues you might encounter
+if you use the default exit policy</a>, and then read Mike Perry's <a
+href="https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tips-running-exit-node-minimal-harassment">tips
+for running an exit node with minimal harassment</a>.
 </p>
 
 <p>
-By default, your relay allows access to many popular
-services, but restricts some (such as port 25, see all <a
-href="https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#DefaultPorts">default
-restricted ports</a>)  due to abuse potential. You can edit your torrc
-to make your exit policy more or less restrictive. If you want to avoid
-most if not all abuse potential, set it to "reject *:*". This setting
-forces a "non-exit" operation. Nobody exits through your  node, only
-direct connections to other nodes will be established.
+The default exit policy allows access to
+many popular services (e.g. web browsing), but <a
+href="https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#DefaultPorts">restricts</a>
+some due to abuse potential (e.g. mail) and some since
+the Tor network can't handle the load (e.g. default
+file-sharing ports). You can change your exit policy
+using Vidalia's "Sharing" tab, or by manually editing your <a
+href="https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#torrc">torrc</a>
+file. If you want to avoid most if not all abuse potential, set it to
+"reject *:*". This setting means that your relay will be used for
+relaying traffic inside the Tor network, but not for connections to
+external websites or other services.
 </p>
 
 <p>
-One good way to minimize abuse complaints in general
-for exit nodes is to set the reverse DNS of your Tor
-exit IP to be something like 'tor-exit.yourhost.org'
-or 'tor-readme.yourhost.org'. You can then  place <a
-href="https://tor-svn.freehaven.net/svn/tor/trunk/contrib/tor-exit-notice.html">this
-exit notice</a> html page (<a href="http://tor-exit.fscked.org">live
-version</a>) on a  vhost for that hostname to try to educate people
-before they run off and  harass you or your ISP. This actually does cut
-down on abuse complaints quite a bit, believe it or not.
+If there are any resources that your computer can't reach (for example,
+you are behind a restrictive firewall or content filter), please
+explicitly reject them in your exit policy &mdash; otherwise Tor users
+will be impacted too.
 </p>
 
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