Tor Node Setup Notes debian

Notes Taken while setting up a Tor Relay Node.

The Debian System

# cat /etc/issue /etc/debian_version;lsb_release -c
Debian GNU/Linux 7 \n \l

7.1
Codename: wheezy

Add the TorProject repository to the apt sources.

# echo "deb http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org wheezy main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list

Add the torproject gpg key

# gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv 886DDD89
# gpg --export A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89 | apt-key add -

TorProject debian based Install

Update apt

# apt-get update

Optionally

# apt-get install deb.torproject.org-keyring

You may need to comment out the main repository, apt-get update again, and then Install Tor with apt-get

# apt-get install tor

The configuration: /etc/tor/torrc.

I did set a few more directives in torrc
but I think that at least the following should be set

SocksPort
SocksPolicy
ORPort
Address
OutboundBindAddress
Nickname
ContactInfo

TorProject torrc

To minimize the abuse complaints you may want to use a reduced exit policy eg:

ExitPolicy accept *:80                   #g0
ExitPolicy accept *:110                  #g0
ExitPolicy accept *:143                  #g0
ExitPolicy accept *:443                  #g0
ExitPolicy accept *:993                  #g0
ExitPolicy accept *:5222-5223            #g0
ExitPolicy accept *:8080                 #g0
ExitPolicy accept *:11371                #g0
ExitPolicy reject *:*                    #g0

Or use The Reduced Exit Policy recommended by the Tor Project
TorProject ReducedExitPolicy

You may want to set the BandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst.

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