From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net>
To: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Development <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Abnormally Large Tor node accepting only Bitcoin traffic
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 12:16:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANEZrP10sFWiBv=yi0YaPszzxrygfRhwTP8fdqKapSL1yucfow@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAS2fgRVUbEM=7KQt-Haue=+sgAFu=HrfDdS0hhatNawci_eZQ@mail.gmail.com>
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> As I pointed out above, — it isn't really. Without the exit flag, I
> believe no tor node will select it to exit 8333 unless manually
> configured. (someone following tor more closely than I could correct
> if I'm wrong here)
>
The "exit" flag doesn't mean what you would expect it to mean. The reason
such a node won't get much traffic is that Tor speculatively builds
circuits at startup on the assumption they'll be used for web browsing.
Thus if you don't exit web traffic you won't get much in the way of traffic
at least not until bitcoinj based wallets start shipping Tor mode.
There's a perfectly reasonable explanation for why someone would run such a
node. In fact I run a Tor exit that only allows port 8333 too: it's a way
to contribute exit bandwidth without much risk of getting raided by the
cops.
Occam's razor and all ....
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-28 10:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-28 2:12 Jeremy
2014-07-28 2:17 ` Jeremy
2014-07-28 2:29 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-07-28 2:40 ` Peter Todd
2014-07-28 2:45 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-07-28 2:49 ` Michael Wozniak
2014-07-28 2:54 ` mbde
2014-07-28 3:44 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-07-28 7:41 ` Drak
2014-07-28 10:16 ` Mike Hearn [this message]
2014-07-28 11:28 ` Peter Todd
2014-07-28 12:31 ` Robert McKay
2014-07-28 14:08 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-07-28 16:13 ` s7r
2014-07-28 11:37 ` s7r
2014-07-28 3:13 ` Robert McKay
2014-07-28 3:07 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-07-28 3:12 Anatole Shaw
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