[tor-talk] Run Tor as a bridge in the Amazon Cloud

[Jan Weiher]

Am 15.11.2011 07:52, schrieb Runa A. Sandvik:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Mike Damm <mike at damm.com> wrote:
>> On Monday, November 14, 2011 9:30 PM, "Runa A. Sandvik"
>> <runa.sandvik at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> The Tor Cloud project gives you a user-friendly way of deploying bridges
>>> to help users access an uncensored Internet. By setting up a bridge, you
>>> donate bandwidth to the Tor network and help improve the safety and
>>> speed at which users can access the Internet.
>>>
>>> Setting up a Tor bridge on Amazon EC2 is simple and will only take you a
>>> couple of minutes. The images have been configured with automatic
>>> package updates and port forwarding, so you do not have to worry about
>>> Tor not working or the server not getting security updates.
>>
>> https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#MultipleRelays says:
>> "Great. If you want to run several relays to donate more to the network,
>> we're happy with that. But please don't run more than a few dozen on the
>> same network, since part of the goal of the Tor network is dispersal and
>> diversity."
>>
>> I'm curious to know if 'MyFamily' is properly set on these instances, or
>> if Tor plans to bucket all instances within EC2 as part of the same
>> family?
>>
>> Assuming this is a non-issue... looks very awesome!
> 
> A bridge should not specify the ‘MyFamily’ option. You won't run a
> middle relay or an exit relay in the cloud, so this shouldn't be an
> issue.
> 

As far as I understand, this is correct if you only run bridges (because
a circuit never uses two bridges), but what if someone (like me) runs a
bridge and a normal relay as well? IMHO you don't want to use a relay
which is operated by the same operator as your bridge? Please correct
me, if I'm wrong.

Jan