I read a few times at different places that there is a maximum of two Tor instances that can be run over one public IP address. My questions:
1) Is this statement true? 2) Is there an easy workaround maybe? 3) Just out of curiosity: what is the background for this limitation (if it is true)?
Background: I was thinking about running several things on the onion network, e.g. one or more relays (maybe on different platforms?), hidden services (like wordpress, nextcloud), private tor client/access, etc. That would be all running over one internet connection with one WAN IP address with sufficient bandwidths. I probably could set most of it up on one platform/device but I think it might be better to implement them on separated devices rather (even different physical devices).
Any comments are welcome - I'm always happy to learn :-)
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Petrarca:
I read a few times at different places that there is a maximum of two Tor instances that can be run over one public IP address. My questions:
- Is this statement true?
Yes (two tor _relay_ instances per public IPv4). You can run as many non-relay instances (i.e. tor clients or onion services) on a public IP as you wish.
- Is there an easy workaround maybe?
No.
Just out of curiosity: what is the background for this limitation (if it is true)?
Make Sybil attacks harder.
On 31 Oct 2017, at 21:32, nusenu nusenu-lists@riseup.net wrote:
Petrarca:
I read a few times at different places that there is a maximum of two Tor instances that can be run over one public IP address. My questions:
- Is this statement true?
Yes (two tor _relay_ instances per public IPv4). You can run as many non-relay instances (i.e. tor clients or onion services) on a public IP as you wish.
You can also run as many bridges as you wish.
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