Re: [tor-dev] Allowing NAT for relay/exit nodes - Bootstrap file size

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 05:00:38PM -0200, Juan Berner wrote:

1. Allow NAT clients to be TOR relay nodes (even maybe exit nodes) , this would

be done using a queue system, possibly in a hidden service but not necessary, where nat relay nodes can query what tor clients want to connect to them and initiate the connection. This would allow more nodes in the TOR network.

This is how flash proxy works. Clients register themselves as needing a connection, and then proxies connect to the clients. (The problem is that many *clients* are also behind NAT, and then it doesn't work so well.)

You can run a flash proxy just by going to a web page like http://crypto.stanford.edu/flashproxy/, and there is also code to run a proxy in the background without a browser: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/7944.

David Fifield