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@@ -163,18 +163,30 @@ the outside. This may take several minutes. The log entries will keep
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you informed of its progress.</p>
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<p>When it decides that it's reachable, it will upload a "server
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-descriptor" to the directories. This will let other clients know
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+descriptor" to the directories. This will let clients know
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what address, ports, keys, etc your server is using. You can <a
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href="http://belegost.seul.org/">load the directory manually</a> and
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look through it to find the nickname you configured, to make sure it's
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there. You may need to wait a few seconds to give enough time for it to
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make a fresh directory.</p>
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-<li>Once you are convinced it's working, <b>Register your server.</b>
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+<hr />
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+<a id="three"></a>
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+<h2><a class="anchor" href="#three">Step Three: Register your nickname</a></h2>
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+<br />
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+
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+<p>
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+Once you are convinced it's working, you should register your server.
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+This reserves your nickname so nobody else can take it, and lets us
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+contact you if you need to upgrade or something goes wrong.
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+</p>
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+
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+<p>
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Send mail to <a
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href="mailto:tor-ops@freehaven.net">tor-ops@freehaven.net</a> with a
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subject of '[New Server] <your server's nickname>' and
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include the following information in the message:
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+</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Your server's nickname</li>
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<li>The fingerprint for your server's key (the contents of the
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@@ -186,17 +198,14 @@ look in /var/lib/tor or ~/.tor)
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<li>Who you are, so we know whom to contact if a problem arises</li>
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<li>What kind of connectivity the new server will have</li>
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</ul>
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-Registering your server reserves your nickname so nobody else can take it,
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-and lets us contact you if you need to upgrade or something goes wrong.
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-</li>
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<hr />
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-<a id="three"></a>
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-<h2><a class="anchor" href="#three">Step Three: Once it's working</a></h2>
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+<a id="four"></a>
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+<h2><a class="anchor" href="#four">Step Four: Once it's working</a></h2>
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<br />
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<p>
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-Optionally, we recommend the following steps as well:
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+We recommend the following steps as well:
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</p>
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<p>
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@@ -239,7 +248,8 @@ users are stuck behind firewalls that only let them browse the
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web, and this change will let them reach your Tor server. Win32
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servers can simply change their ORPort and DirPort directly
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in their torrc and restart Tor. OS X or Unix servers can't bind
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-directly to these ports, so they will need to set up some sort of <a
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+directly to these ports (since they don't run as root), so they will
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+need to set up some sort of <a
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href="http://wiki.noreply.org/wiki/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#ServerForFirewalledClients">
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port forwarding</a> so connections can reach their Tor server. If you are
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using ports 80 and 443 already but still want to help out, other useful
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Roger Dingledine