for those not allowing exiting - reasonably safe ports

[Glymr Darkmoon]

hm weird, i've only got those ports open on mine, but i have
rate-limited it to half my outbound traffic speed (which is 64kbit), so
i dunno. i think 3kb/s doesn't allow much in the way dos attacking
anyway. haven't had a problem yet.

On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 22:23:32 -0800, "Greg Hewgill" <ghewgill at gmail.com>
said:
> On 2/1/06, Glymr Darkmoon <glymr_darkmoon at ml1.net> wrote:
> >
> > probably one should add 6667 and 6601 and 994 for irc, irc also does not
> > do file transfers on these ports... 706 for silc as well
> 
> 
> Allowing an IRC exit node just about got me shut down by my hosting
> provider. IRC is a popular avenue for abuse and will invite serious DoS
> attacks against your tor node.
> 
> Greg Hewgill
> http://hewgill.com
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