On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 12:53:48AM +0000, Paritesh Boyeyoko wrote:
On a related note, just out of interest why was the decision taken that the default exit policy for an out-of-the-box relay allows any exits at all?
Out of the box, relays don't allow exit at all.
A relay admin has to explicitly choose to run an exit relay, and should be aware of what that might mean for ISP policy compliance.
Considering that
a) the majority of people running Tor would be TBB users (and therefore clients) and
Clients aren't running relays at all. TBB and similar client installs are non-relay.
b) running exits can lead to unwanted grief
I would have thought that the default exit policy would be reject *:* for
That's correct, the default is reject *.
(can't think of a better word) "safety" reasons. If someone wants to run an exit, it is then a deliberate action on their part, as opposed to a default setting.
That's correct, it takes a deliberate action on the part of the administrator to become a relay; and another deliberate action to become an exit relay.
-andy