26 Feb
2016
26 Feb
'16
10:52 a.m.
On 26.02.2016 05:15, torserver@datakanja.de wrote:
- Next, i noticed a frequent (daily) behavior of the Tor server dropping traffic to around zero. Inspecting this, let me to understand, my provider was disconnecting me and reassigning a new IP on a daily basis, which took some time to propagate. Even worse: It did not propagate on its own, i needed to restart the tor service to reinitialise...
Instead of a Tor Relay, you can operate a Tor Bridge, perhaps with obfs4. A regularly changing IP address is less of a problem for bridges. It may even be of advantage. Once its IP address gets blacklisted by adversarial actors, you already have a new one. (Of course they could still simply block the whole /16 or whatever your ISP has)
A bridge will get a lot less traffic than a relay though. Mine is sometimes idle for weeks, some other time is get a couple GB per month.