Remove duplication about outgoing firewalls by splitting uses cases between client and relay
Lunar

Lunar commited on 2014-07-22 18:24:08
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     <li><a href="#IsItWorking">How can I tell if Tor is working, and that my
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     connections really are anonymized?</a></li>
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     <li><a href="#Mobile">Can I use Tor on my phone or mobile device?</a></li>
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-    <li><a href="#OutboundPorts">Do I have to open all these outbound ports
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-    on my firewall?</a></li>
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+    <li><a href="#OutboundPorts">Which outbound ports must be open when
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+    using Tor as a client?</a></li>
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     <li><a href="#FTP">How do I use my browser for ftp with Tor?</a></li>
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     <li><a href="#NoDataScrubbing">Does Tor remove personal information
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     from the data my application sends?</a></li>
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     <a id="OutboundPorts"></a>
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-    <h3><a class="anchor" href="#OutboundPorts">Do I have to open all these
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-    outbound ports on my firewall?</a></h3>
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+    <h3><a class="anchor" href="#OutboundPorts">Which outbound ports must be open when
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+    using Tor as a client?</a></h3>
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     <p>
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     Tor may attempt to connect to any port that is advertised in the
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     directory as an ORPort (for making Tor connections) or a DirPort (for
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     ports too.
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     </p>
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     <p>
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-    As a client: you could probably get away with opening only those four
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+    When using Tor as a client, you could probably get away with opening only those four
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     ports. Since Tor does all its connections in the background, it will retry
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     ones that fail, and hopefully you'll never have to know that it failed, as
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     long as it finds a working one often enough. However, to get the most
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     you want to explicitly tell your Tor client which ports are reachable
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     for you.
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     </p>
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-    <p>
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-    As a relay: you must allow outgoing connections to every other relay
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-    and to anywhere your exit policy advertises that you allow. The
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-    cleanest way to do that is simply to allow all outgoing connections
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-    at your firewall. If you don't, clients will ask you to extend to
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-    those relays, and those connections will fail, leading to complex
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-    anonymity implications for the clients which we'd like to avoid.
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-    </p>
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     <a id="OutgoingFirewall"></a>
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-    <h3><a class="anchor" href="#BandwidthShaping">How should I configure
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+    <h3><a class="anchor" href="#OutgoingFirewall">How should I configure
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     my outgoing filters?</a></h3>
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     <p>
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