

Other applications can change and monitor your Tor node, So they get low-level access to your Tor node.


You may wish to review the Tor documentation.īut some programs will ask you to open your Tor ControlPort Ports below 1024 are privileged ports, so to use those Tor must be run as root, by setting User=root in tor.service and User tor in torrc. If you are already using ports 80 and 443, other useful ports are 22, 110, 1. Many Tor users are stuck behind firewalls that only let them browse the web, and this change will let them reach your Tor relay. If your computer is not running a web server, and you have not set AccountingMax, consider changing your ORPort to 443 and/or your DirPort to 80. Fast relays may want to increase this value. The maximum file descriptor number that can be opened by Tor can be set with LimitNOFILE in tor.service. To reload the configuration after a change, reload tor.service. The default configuration should work fine for most Tor users. The configuration options are explained in tor(1) and the Tor website. Tor reads its configurations from the file /etc/tor/torrc by default, or if the latter is not found, from $HOME/.torrc. To check if Tor is functioning properly, visit or websites. The proxy supports remote DNS resolution: use socks5 h://localhost:9050 for DNS resolution from the exit node (instead of socks5 for a local DNS resolution). To use a program over Tor, configure it to use 127.0.0.1 or localhost as a SOCKS5 proxy, with port 9050 for plain Tor with standard settings. Alternatively, launch it with sudo -u tor /usr/bin/tor. Nyx is a command line monitor for Tor, it provides bandwidth usage, connection details and on-the-fly configuration editing. Usually, it will be used for #Web browsing.
Tor download proxy software#
This software connects out to Tor, periodically negotiating a virtual circuit through the Tor network. Users of the Tor network run an onion proxy software on their machines, which presents a SOCKS interface to its clients. Its primary goal is to enable online anonymity by protecting against traffic analysis attacks.
Tor download proxy free#
The Tor Project ( The onion routing) is an open source implementation of onion routing that provides free access to an anonymous proxy network.
