On 31 Oct 2018, at 01:53, Ralph Seichter m16+tor@monksofcool.net wrote:
- Isaac Grover:
You are correct in that I won't maintain the exit flag without ports 80 and 443 open, *and* I lose my eligibility for a free t-shirt, *but* I am not likely to attract attention at my home either. =)
No exit flag means your relay will not be used as an exit, just as a regular relay. You can therefore get rid of all exit rules because they won't make any difference.
That's not quite true.
The Exit flag means "useful for general exiting". Clients build preemptive circuits to Exit-flagged relays. When a client has an available circuit for exiting, it will use that circuit.
The Exit policy means "allows exiting to these ports". If a client doesn't have a circuit to an exit that supports the port it wants, it randomly chooses an exit that allows that port.
So you may see a small amount of traffic over those ports.
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