Greetings Sovereign Comrades.
I just put a new Server One on the network with no issues thanks to the ease of navigating the Stat9 system. I disabled Clearnet at the get-go / before connecting, and after connecting at 8333, I noticed that I had 0 inbound connections and 10 outbound connections. This made me think something was wrong (though I learned better later that the outbounds is what I needed for sync.). So because I didn’t “really” know what I was doing, I stopped Knots and re-enabled Clearnet.
I was browsing the TOR logs and I noticed that “I” had configured an address of 0.0.0.0 with a port number and a warning about strangers using it as a proxy. That was the end of today’s involvement with TOR. I’m back on Clearnet, but now that I know that 0 in and 10 out is not necessarily a bad thing, I would like to use system-wide TOR. I gather it may not be as easy to set up TOR as to just flip a switch in the settings. Can anyone direct me to some comprehensive info on running TOR system wide. Take you time, I’ve only begun downloading the blockchain 
Thanks in advance!
Tor runs on StartOS by default. On StartOS v0.3.5.1 the server runs tor in the background and all services are enabled only for remote access via tor.
Some services reach out over clearnet because this is faster, easier or better in some way. Such services typically have an option to force them not to do this and instead reach out via tor and eventually an exit node back onto clearnet.
An example of this is Bitcoin. While peers can only connect to you over Tor, your instance of Bitcoin reaches out to clearnet peers on the network to download blocks… because this is faster.
Everything you’ve done is fine.
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