On 3/6/20, William Pate <willpate@pm.me> wrote:

This constantly trips me up. In my modem settings, I'm offered these options for port forwarding. I know I need to open 9001, but what do I enter into the external port fields? https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/attachments/20200306/19f4c...

Tor advertises its ORPort to tor network via descriptor mechanism, the port is in the log output. For default tor config and simple forwarding firewall, enter the same port, typically 9001. Sorry you had to potentially sit idle on your project for almost three days waiting for it to even post to begin get any reply from others. The Tor Project censors running these lists... in part to placate snowbunnies and warriors, to manage image, to demur from some differing pov's and even some facts, to avoid journalist and open critique, etc... seem maybe have some issue with say letting people freely read and information freely timely flow. For example... Were your post to have been noting an attack or security exploit involving tor relays, a whole lot of tor users around the world could have got hurt in the intervening time below. That's really bad. And is the result of such needless "moderation" program Tor Project over everyone, instead of say only over the very rare incorrigible verbally abusive asshole repeatedly going directly into other people. Whereas a few spams now and then, other normal and typical fare, some fire, noise, convo, good args, parts above, etc all lists have from time to time, no big deal, silly to censor them. Tor has big budget to fund that program to click post approve 24x7, they did not even implement that. So relays might need consider non-tpo-list comms to be timely safe. " X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 09 Mar 2020 07:39:43 +0000 ... Received: from protonmail by torproject for tor-relays Fri 6 Mar 2020 16:25:18 +0000 Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2020 16:25:08 +0000 Subject: [tor-relays] Port Forwarding Question From: William Pate <willpate@pm.me> " Have fun with your tor project :)