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Tor is The Onion Router, software which helps to anonymize TCP connections.

Tor is The Onion Router, software which helps to anonymize TCP connections.

System and network administrators use Tor for a variety of activities related to securing the corporate network, while business executives use Tor to obtain and secure sensitive information. Tor also has a number of specialized uses in various industries.

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How can I block all traffic *except* Tor?

On a Linux system, is there a way to block all in and outbound traffic unless it passes through the Tor network. This includes any form of IP communication, not just TCP connections. For example I want UDP to be completely blocked since it cannot…
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How can I check if IP is a Tor exit node?

I have someone attacking my site and it would seem some of the IPs are Tor exit nodes. Is there somewhere I can input an IP and definitively see if it's registered as a Tor exit node?
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Mitigating a DDoS attack on a TOR server

Running a political blog over TOR network with a .onion domain name I have been getting DDoS attack, I know how to mitigate an attack on clear net where the packets coming from normal IP addresses, but the case here is different. All connections to…
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Tor relay/exit nodes under preemptible VMs

I have a paid subscription to the Google Cloud Platform, and I want to run Tor relay and exit nodes. I use Docker image quantumobject/docker-tor-exit-relay, just plug&play. In a nutshell, per the answers received: g1-micro VM configuration is the…
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Block facebook even in the case users get their hands on tor, freegate and similar applications

I've been using, happily, opendns to block facebook on my network. Then I started thinking about tricks to circumvent this block and, of course, I've read here on serverfault how to block the facebook ip address. But if someone uses tor or…
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Transparent Tor Proxy with pfSense

I'm trying to set up a transparent Tor proxy in Virtualbox using pfSense. In the end I want all traffic to be passed through Tor, whenever I connect a VM to the same internal network as the proxy. I set up a new VM for the pfSense router with 1 WAN…
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How to get TOR hidden service to work with iptables

I'm running an Arch Linux server which acts as a TOR relay and I would like it to act as a hidden service as well (I want to provide .onion access to my services, I know running a relay next to a HS is not suitable for an anonymous service). My TOR…
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Permission denied to tor hidden service directory on CentOS after service restart

I have installed tor from EPEL on a fresh installed CentOS7 (minimal). After configuring a hidden service I check and validate that the service is up and running by browsing the URL generated in hostname file from the tor browser. At this point the…
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How do i route TCP connections via TOR?

I was reading about torchat which is essentially an anonymous chat program. It sounded cool so i wanted to experiment with making my own. First i wrote a test to grab a webpage using Http. Sicne .NET doesnt support SOCKS4A/SOCKS5 i used privoxy and…
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Using squid3 with Tor

My internet connection comes with a data usage limit. So I can make best out of it only by using squid caching proxy. How can I configure squid3 to work with Tor on ubuntu.
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Apache 2.4 and TOR

I am hosting an information and forum site and have had a lot of users ask for TOR access but I am having an issue adding it, when connecting from the server IP, everything is fine, the site is fully working, when connecting via a TOR hostname the…
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Nginx - Redirect Tor exit node IP list to a special page

I download every 30 minutes the Tor exit node list https://www.dan.me.uk/torlist/ and save it to tor-ip.conf file. My hoster does not allow to install any modules for nginx so I have to use what I have. I thought to include the file into a variable…
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Why am I listed as running a "tor exit node"?

I have a Google Compute Engine CentOS 7/Plesk Onyx server instance. Suddenly this morning I see via MXtoolbox.xom notification that my IP is listed in the "SECTOOR-EXITNODES" blacklist. I looked up what a "tor exit node" is and can't even find this…
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Running TOR on Centos 6

I'm the operator of the XMPP server on darkness.su.The server runs on Centos 6. I installed TOR and configured it to provide a hidden service access to the server.It was working fine at first,but ever since an update a few months ago it started…
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Debian limit number of TCP sockets for a process (especially tor) on OpenVZ

I have a debian 7.8 server, running on OpenVZ. On this server I'm running a tor relay and some other network services (like apache and mysql). However the tor service seems to eat up all my available TCP sockets. According to the Parallels Control…
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