From anders.trier.olesen at gmail.com Sun Oct 17 14:57:06 2021 From: anders.trier.olesen at gmail.com (Anders Trier Olesen) Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2021 16:57:06 +0200 Subject: [tor-relays-universities] Tor exits on National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Almost a year later, I now have an update! dotsrc.org is now hosting exit nodes! https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/dotsrc We ended up getting our own AS number and IPv6 addresses. IPv4 addresses were harder to come by, but we found someone who could lend us a /24 block. Thanks to those of you reaching out. Especially this article was helpful: Operating Tor Relays at Universities: Experiences and Considerations https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.04277 Best regards Anders Trier Olesen staff at dotsrc.org On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 9:53 PM Anders Trier Olesen < anders.trier.olesen at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All! > > At dotsrc.org we are trying to run Tor exits on the Danish NREN, just > like 'Digital Society' does in Switzerland > , and 'Heart for > Internetfreedom' does in the Netherlands > . > > We have been running two Tor exit nodes for a couple of months, and we've > just been asked to shut them down by our ISP DeiC (AS1835) who runs the > Danish research network "Forskningsnettet". Their reasoning for banning Tor > exits is that other European universities don't expect bad traffic from > "Forskningsnettet". > > We're currently working with DeiC to find a solution. We would prefer if > they could just change the abuse contact for our IP range to > tor-abuse at dotsrc.org, but they are pushing for us getting our own AS > number. > > Anybody with experience running a Tor exit on a NREN? > If you have a contact person at a NREN, maybe you could ask why they > decided to allow Tor exit traffic. That answer would be helpful in our > discussions with DeiC. > Are there any other organizations running Tor exits on the European NRENs > than the two we mentioned? > > Thanks! > > Best regards > Anders Trier Olesen > staff at dotsrc.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: