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by javajosh 3602 days ago
Does Tor use it's own port? If so, how hard would it be to switch it to use something like 80, 23, or even 8080?
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The IP of a Tor relay is publicly distributed, that's how other nodes know to connect to it.

You can see for yourself: https://atlas.torproject.org

Although at a guess, most of these services probably do the simplest thing possible and go by an open port.