[Tox Support] Why no bootstrap nodes serving on port 443/80?

[Dmytro Vorobiov]

Hello fuumind,

According to wiki it takes ~700GiB of total traffic (1/2 incoming, 1/2
outgoing) per month. See wiki for more info:

https://wiki.tox.chat/users/nodes
https://wiki.tox.chat/users/runningnodes

    Dmytro

On 22/12/16 11:59, fuumind wrote:
> Thanks Simon!
> 
> How much bandwidth does running a bootstrap node consume per month?
> Does it take a lot of work to maintain one? If the parameters are
> managable I might try setting up a node as well.
> 
> /fuumind
> 
> tor 2016-12-22 klockan 11:34 +0100 skrev Simon Levermann:
>> Hello fuumind,
>>
>> one possible reason is that a lot of bootstrap nodes are hosted on
>> machines that are not exclusively tox bootstrap nodes. And a very
>> common
>> thing to have on a VPS/root server is a web server, and that usually
>> takes up ports 80/443.
>>
>> That being said, maybe I'll get around to setting up a 443 node on my
>> server (it has a second IP anyhow). But definitely not before the end
>> of
>> the year, it is vacation time for me after today.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Simon
>>
>>
>> On 22.12.2016 10:56, fuumind wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all!
>>>
>>> Is there a special reason why no bootstrap nodes are on port
>>> 443/80?
>>> Like is it more difficult / dangerous? Reason I'm asking is I
>>> currently
>>> am unable to use tox at my library because their firewall only
>>> allows
>>> 80/443 outgoing and there are no available nodes serving on those
>>> ports.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> fuumind
>>>
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