[tor-relays] Middle relay IP blocking

[telekobold]

Hi,

On 03.08.23 14:22, Logforme wrote:

> My "solution" for now is to use my phone's internet sharing when I have 
> to contact these sites. Since it only is a few sites which I contact 
> rarely this works, but as more and more sites outsource their security 
> to third parties I expect this to be a growing problem. Eventually I 
> might no longer be able to run a relay.

instead of turning down your relay, you could change it to a cloud hoster.

I e.g. would suggest the German provider Hetzner [*] - you have 
20TB/month free traffic for only a few euros. Since the IP address of 
your relay is publicly known anyway, it also doesn't matter as much as 
with a bridge if the relay is running at a cloud provider (e.g. 
regarding the situation in Turkmenistan). The disadvantage is, of 
course, less diversity in the number of networks in which the relays are 
distributed.

Kind regards
telekobold

[*] https://www.hetzner.com/