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author | Roger Dingledine <arma@torproject.org> | 2004-12-17 01:16:22 +0000 |
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committer | Roger Dingledine <arma@torproject.org> | 2004-12-17 01:16:22 +0000 |
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add even more detail to running-a-server section
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diff --git a/doc/tor-doc.html b/doc/tor-doc.html index b51d1ace80..835f0f6a46 100644 --- a/doc/tor-doc.html +++ b/doc/tor-doc.html @@ -221,14 +221,34 @@ service url</a>).</p> <h2>Configuring a server</h2> <p>We're looking for people with reasonably reliable Internet connections, -that have at least 20 kilobytes/s each way. If you have more bandwidth -to offer, that's even better.</p> - -<p>If your server is behind a NAT and it doesn't know its own IP (e.g. -it has an IP of 192.168.x.y), then we can't use it as a server yet. -(If you want to do dyndns DNS voodoo to get around this, feel free.) And -if it frequently has a lot of packet loss or really high latency, we -also can't handle it as a server yet. Otherwise, please help out! +that have at least 20 kilobytes/s each way. If you frequently have a +lot of packet loss or really high latency, we can't handle your server +yet. Otherwise, please help out! +</p> + +<p>Other things to note: +<ul> +<li>Tor has built-in support for rate limiting; see BandwidthRate +and BandwidthBurst config options. Further, if you have +lots of capacity but don't want to spend that many bytes per +month, check out the Accounting and Hibernation features. See <a +href="http://wiki.noreply.org/wiki/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ">the FAQ</a> +for details.</li> +<li>It's fine if the server goes offline sometimes. The directories +notice this quickly and stop advertising the server. Just try to make +sure it's not too often, since connections through the server when it +disconnects will break.</li> +<li>We can handle servers with dynamic IPs just fine, as long as the +server itself knows its IP. If your server is behind a NAT and it doesn't +know its own IP (e.g. it has an IP of 192.168.x.y), then we can't use it +as a server yet. (If you want to set your Address config option to dyndns +DNS voodoo and port forward to get around this, feel free. If you write a +howto, <a href="mailto:tor-volunteer@freehaven.net">even better</a>.)</li> +<li>Your server will passively estimate and publish its recent capacity. +Client paths are chosen weighted by this capacity, so high-bandwidth +servers will attract more paths than low-bandwidth ones. That's why +having even low-bandwidth servers is useful too.</li> +</ul> </p> <p>To set up a Tor server, do the following steps after installing Tor. |