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@ -57,30 +57,37 @@ which ports are specified in the configuration file. You can specify:
3.2. So I can just run a full onion router and join the network?
No. Users should run just an onion proxy. If you start up a full onion
router, the rest of the routers in the system won't recognize you,
so they will reject your handshake attempts.
No. Users should run just an onion proxy. If you have sufficient
bandwidth (>= 1MBit both ways) you can consider running a router,
but just to use the network you don't need to. Note that you won't
be used by clients much unless you are verified properly by the
directory administrators (see next question).
3.3. How do I join the network then?
If you just want to use the onion routing network, you can run a proxy
and you're all set. If you want to run a router, you must convince
the directory server operators (currently arma@mit.edu) that you're a
trustworthy and reliable person. From there, the operators add you to
the directory, which propagates out to the rest of the network. All
nodes will know about you within a half hour.
and you're all set. If you want to run a router, you can do so by
enabling ORPort, which will make your router get used for some things.
However, in order to get used for everything, you must become a "verified"
router. Simply convince the directory server operators (mail
tor-ops@freehaven.net) that you're a trustworthy and reliable person.
From there, the operators add you to the directory, which propagates out
to the rest of the network. All nodes will know about you within a half
hour. Once you are verified clients will pick you as entry and exit nodes.
3.4. I want to run a directory server too.
3.4. Can I just set DirPort and be a directory server?
If you are an onion router and set DirPort then you will serve the
directory to other clients. This takes some load off the authoritative
dirservers. Your node will not generate its own directory, instead
it will provide the one it fetched from an authoritative dirserver.
If you run a very reliable node, you plan to be around for a long time,
and you want to spend some time ensuring that router operators are
people we know and like, we may want you to run a directory server
too. We must manually add you to the 'dirservers' file that's part of
people we know and like, we may want you to run an authoritative directory
server too. We must manually add you to the 'dirservers' file that's part of
the distribution; users will only know about you when they upgrade to
a new version. Of course, you can always just start up your router as a
directory server too --- but users won't know to ask you for directories,
and more importantly, you'll never learn from the real directory servers
about recently joined routers.
a new version.
4. Development.