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

[Dmytro Vorobiov]

Hello fuumind,

I've started a bootstrap node on 443 port, it should be added to nodes
list soon.

    Dmytro

On 22/12/16 13:06, fuumind wrote:
> 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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