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

[fuumind]

Hi Dmytro!

Thanks for the links to the wiki! ~700GiB is a bit out of my league so
I guess I'll have to pass on this atm.

/fuumind

tor 2016-12-22 klockan 12:32 +0100 skrev 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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