[tor-relays] Tor Relay Stable Flag

2018-04-11 Thread Keifer Bly
Hello, for a while now, I have been running a relay called torland at http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/router_detail.php?FP=db1af6477bb276b6ea5e72132684096eee779d30 I am a little bit bummed right now. After working on it for the past week, I finally had the stable flag, however, unannounced my rela

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Relay Stable Flag

2018-04-11 Thread Keifer Bly
hours behind. On 11 April 2018 at 08:46, Keifer Bly wrote:  I am also wondering, does how long a relay is offline for after loosing the stable flag effect how long it takes for the relay to regain it’s stable flag?  I think it is about 4 days That's the HSDir flag:

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Relay Stable Flag

2018-04-11 Thread Keifer Bly
megabytes at a time, I thought only stable relays received bigger amounts of traffic. Thank you very much. From: teor Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 3:34 PM To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Tor Relay Stable Flag On 12 Apr 2018, at 01:33, Keifer Bly wrote: Is there

[tor-relays] Tor relay software automatic updates

2018-04-14 Thread Keifer Bly
Hello I am running my tor relay “torland” on Mac OS X via this guide here https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-osx.html.en I am wondering, is there a way to configure the tor relaying software to automatically check for software updates and install them automatically if there are any? Tha

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay software automatic updates

2018-04-15 Thread Keifer Bly
Ok, do you know how I could configure this to automatically update my tor software? Thank you. Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 15, 2018, at 2:29 AM, Vasilis wrote: > > Hi, > > Keifer Bly: >> I am running my tor relay “torland” on Mac OS X via this guide here >> http

[tor-relays] Trouble with relay stability

2018-04-16 Thread Keifer Bly
Hello, due to a recent power outage at where I run my relay http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/router_detail.php?FP=db1af6477bb276b6ea5e72132684096eee779d30 Torland at, it could possibly have lost its stable flag (not sure yet). The outage is lasting about 3 hours or so. If I had the stable flag for

Re: [tor-relays] Trouble with relay stability

2018-04-16 Thread Keifer Bly
Thank you very much. And if the relay is back online before it disappears from torstatus.blutimage.de there should be nothing lost correct? Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 16, 2018, at 10:49 AM, Matt Traudt wrote: > >> On 4/16/18 13:32, Keifer Bly wrote: >> Hello, due to a rece

Re: [tor-relays] Trouble with relay stability

2018-04-16 Thread Keifer Bly
: Re: [tor-relays] Trouble with relay stability > On 17 Apr 2018, at 04:47, Keifer Bly wrote: > > Thank you very much. And if the relay is back online before it disappears > from torstatus.blutimage.de there should be nothing lost correct? You will lose the HSDir flag for 4 days. Yo

[tor-relays] Home made method of auto updating Mac OS X relating software

2018-04-20 Thread Keifer Bly
Hello List, I thought I’d share an applescript I wrote to automatically update the tor relay software and homebrew one minute after midnight every day. Here is the source code (written using AppleScript editor) do shell script "$ which brew /usr/local/bin/brew update" do shell script "$ which b

[tor-relays] Consensus Weight Definiton

2018-04-21 Thread Keifer Bly
Hello, I am wondering, could you please explain exactly what “Consensus Weight” is? I had had a good uptime, about five days, then my darn computer that I run my relay off of froze for about 40 minutes this morning and I had no choice but to reboot the tor software, setting my current uptime

Re: [tor-relays] Consensus Weight Definiton

2018-04-21 Thread Keifer Bly
possible to the network. Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 21, 2018, at 4:25 PM, teor wrote: > > Hi, > >> On 22 Apr 2018, at 08:35, Keifer Bly wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I am wondering, could you please explain exactly what “Consensus Weight” is? >> I

Re: [tor-relays] Consensus Weight Definiton

2018-04-21 Thread Keifer Bly
ou talked about using homebrew to automatically update tor. > How do you launch tor? > Des homebrew restart tor when it is updated? > > Because tor doesn't update to the new version until you restart it. > > On 22 Apr 2018, at 11:06, Keifer Bly wrote: > > Thank you. And I’m

Re: [tor-relays] Consensus Weight Definiton

2018-04-21 Thread Keifer Bly
8 at 7:22 PM, teor wrote: > > > On 22 Apr 2018, at 12:08, Keifer Bly wrote: > > > > On https://consensus-health.torproject.org/, I found this information. > I am curious, where it says stable-uptime=, the following number is in > minutes correct? > > It is in second

Re: [tor-relays] Consensus Weight Definiton

2018-04-22 Thread Keifer Bly
percentage is haha. > On Apr 21, 2018, at 11:34 PM, teor wrote: > > > >> On 22 Apr 2018, at 12:40, Keifer Bly wrote: >> >> Thank you. I am just a little confused as I seem to get the stable flag >> randomly, sometimes after 2 days, sometimes after 4

Re: [tor-relays] Consensus Weight Definiton

2018-04-22 Thread Keifer Bly
Thank you. However another thing that is confusing me a little is that based off of my research, relays without the stable flag shouldn’t recurve much traffic; mine says it’s received a few gigabytes since the downtime 1 day ago. Thank you. It is acceptable not to have the stable flag and still

Re: [tor-relays] Consensus Weight Definiton

2018-04-23 Thread Keifer Bly
, and my relay would shut down until midnight. So I never had a stable flag for months, and still had plenty of traffic. HTH, --torix ​Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email.​ ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On April 22, 2018 2:05 PM, Keifer Bly wrote: > Thank you. However another thing

[tor-relays] Question on relay allowed downtime

2018-04-24 Thread Keifer Bly
Hello, So recently I had an uptime of about 3-4 days but then I had to restart my computer to install an operating system update (the OS in question being Mac OS X High Sierra). I know I am not to worry about what flags I have as long as I am not a bad relay, but am curious, what is the allowed

Re: [tor-relays] Question on relay allowed downtime

2018-04-26 Thread Keifer Bly
5:54 AM, Vasilis wrote: > Hi, > > Keifer Bly: > > > So recently I had an uptime of about 3-4 days but then I had to restart > my computer to install an operating system update (the OS in question being > Mac OS X High Sierra). I know I am not to worry about what flags I ha

Re: [tor-relays] Relay unreachable by authorities (Was: Re: Question on relay allowed downtime)

2018-04-26 Thread Keifer Bly
used recursively. #%include /etc/torrc.d/ #%include /etc/torrc.custom Nickname torland SocksPort 0 ORPort 9002 ExitRelay 0 ControlSocket 0 ContactInfo keifer@gmail.com ExitPolicy reject *:* > On Apr 26, 2018, at 3:12 PM, teor wrote: > > > On 27 Apr 2018, at 07:47, Keife

[tor-relays] FW: Relay unreachable by authorities (Was: Re:Questiononrelay allowed downtime)

2018-04-26 Thread Keifer Bly
From: Keifer Bly Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2018 4:08 PM To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: FW: [tor-relays] Relay unreachable by authorities (Was: Re:Questiononrelay allowed downtime) From: Keifer Bly Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2018 4:01 PM To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org

Re: [tor-relays] FW: Relay unreachable by authorities (Was:Re:Questiononrelay allowed downtime)

2018-04-26 Thread Keifer Bly
:09, Keifer Bly wrote: That’s what’s strange. I have double checked the tor logs and the only  warning that appears is the “tor cannot help you if you use it wrong” warning; that’s the only one that appears. Then the problem is probably with your router or ISP. I did some research, and according

Re: [tor-relays] FW: Relay unreachable by authorities (Was:Re:Questiononrelay allowed downtime)

2018-04-26 Thread Keifer Bly
What would be your advise for not forever being stuck with an unstable relay? Thank you. Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 26, 2018, at 8:27 PM, teor wrote: > > > >> On 27 Apr 2018, at 09:42, Keifer Bly wrote: >> >> There are no warnings with the tor software

Re: [tor-relays] FW: Relay unreachable by authorities(Was:Re:Questiononrelay allowed downtime)

2018-04-26 Thread Keifer Bly
Subject: Re: [tor-relays] FW: Relay unreachable by authorities(Was:Re:Questiononrelay allowed downtime) On 27 Apr 2018, at 14:01, Keifer Bly wrote: What would be your advise for not forever being stuck with an unstable relay? Thank you. Please read people's replies before asking the same ques

Re: [tor-relays] FW: Relay unreachable byauthorities(Was:Re:Questiononrelay allowed downtime)

2018-04-26 Thread Keifer Bly
22:03 -0700, Keifer Bly wrote: My apologies. My router can produce up to 866mb per second, so it should be fast enough. I’ll just see what happens. I am running it off a wireless connection so could that have something to do with it? Again, as you were previously told, the issue isn't

Re: [tor-relays] FW: Relay unreachable byauthorities(Was:Re:Questiononrelay allowed downtime)

2018-04-26 Thread Keifer Bly
(Was:Re:Questiononrelay allowed downtime) On Thu, 2018-04-26 at 22:03 -0700, Keifer Bly wrote: My apologies. My router can produce up to 866mb per second, so it should be fast enough. I’ll just see what happens. I am running it off a wireless connection so could that have something to do with it? Again, as you were

[tor-relays] Help With Autoupdating Tor Software

2018-05-01 Thread Keifer Bly
Hello, So on Mac OS X, I am using crontab to automatically run a script I wrote for Mac OS High Sierra to automatically update the tor relaying software every day at 1am. The cron command I am using is this: 0 1 * * * /Users/oldimac/Desktop/update\ tor.scpt The script I wrote seems to work fi

Re: [tor-relays] Help With Autoupdating Tor Software

2018-05-01 Thread Keifer Bly
3:44 PM To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Help With Autoupdating Tor Software > On 2 May 2018, at 03:58, Keifer Bly wrote: > > do shell script "$ which brew > /usr/local/bin/brew update" > do shell script "$ which brew > /usr/

Re: [tor-relays] Help With Autoupdating Tor Software

2018-05-02 Thread Keifer Bly
One more question, if I were to restart my relay now, would that mean that my mid time between failures would NOT get closer to 6 days? That’s what is at now. Thanks. Sent from my iPhone > On May 2, 2018, at 2:33 AM, teor wrote: > > >>> On 2 May 2018, at 19:20, Iain Learmonth wrote: >>> >>

[tor-relays] TOR Relay Activity Reset

2018-05-08 Thread Keifer Bly
Hello, for some reason the read/write status of my relay at http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/router_detail.php?FP=db1af6477bb276b6ea5e72132684096eee779d30 has been reset to nothing (all flat lines) however the relay is still marked as “running” with it’s current uptime of 11 days 20 hours. I’d also

Re: [tor-relays] TOR Relay Activity Reset

2018-05-09 Thread Keifer Bly
ag on torland right now: https://onionite.now.sh/node/DB1AF6477BB276B6EA5E72132684096EEE779D30 --torix Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On May 8, 2018 2:34 PM, Keifer Bly wrote: Hello, for some reason the read/write status of my relay at http://torstatus.blutmag

[tor-relays] Tor Relay Bandwidth Question

2018-05-14 Thread Keifer Bly
Hello, So I have been away from the computer where my relay is running off of for a few days. I have been wanting to check how much data my relay has been receiving during this time. I check it at http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/router_detail.php?FP=db1af6477bb276b6ea5e72132684096eee779d30, but

[tor-relays] Bridge to Relay Balance Notice

2018-05-18 Thread Keifer Bly
Hello List, There are some things I have noticed, I have been getting emails from this list regarding people setting up groups of new relays. I have also noticed that according to https://metrics.torproject.org/networksize.html, there are around 6-7 thousand public relays running in the network

[tor-relays] Running a bridge remotely

2018-05-21 Thread Keifer Bly
Hello, I have been running my home computer as a public tor relay for some time now with no issues, and unfortunately do not have a data center or anywhere else to run my relay from. I have noticed that there are far fewer bridges (about 2,000) then there are relays (about 7,000). As I have bee

[tor-relays] Tor Software Update Question

2018-05-23 Thread Keifer Bly
Hello, So I just updated the tor software using command “brew upgrade tor” on macOS. It upgraded from tor 0.3.3.0 to tor 0.3.3.6. I am wondering, do I need to restart my relay after doing this? I am also wondering, I have this email address in the “ContactInfo” in my torn file for tor project

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Software Update Question

2018-05-23 Thread Keifer Bly
happening? Thanks very much. Sent from my iPhone > On May 23, 2018, at 12:46 PM, nusenu wrote: > > > > Keifer Bly: >> I am also wondering, I have this email address in the “ContactInfo” in my >> torn file for tor project to contact me regarding issues with my relay, e

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Software Update Question

2018-05-24 Thread Keifer Bly
“killall tor” to stop the process then “tor” to start it again usually works, but I wonder if there is a way to do this without loosing uptime as this does? Thank you. Sent from my iPhone > On May 24, 2018, at 4:30 AM, Ralph Seichter wrote: > >> On 24.05.18 08:17, Valter Jansons wrote: >> >>

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Software Update Question

2018-05-24 Thread Keifer Bly
> starting the new version is required, this cannot be done without > interrupting the uptime. That said, uptime is not a super important stat. It > is more important that you keep your tor daemon / system up to date than go > for high uptime numbers. > > Thanks for running relays! &

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Software Update Question

2018-05-24 Thread Keifer Bly
ut > interrupting the uptime. That said, uptime is not a super important stat. It > is more important that you keep your tor daemon / system up to date than go > for high uptime numbers. > > Thanks for running relays! > >> On May 24, 2018, at 1:01 PM, Keifer Bly wrote: &

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Software Update Question

2018-05-24 Thread Keifer Bly
What does it mean? Does it mean my relay will be unreachable? Thank you. Sent from my iPhone > On May 24, 2018, at 11:40 AM, teor wrote: > > Hi, > >> On 24 May 2018, at 11:27, Keifer Bly wrote: >> >> May 24 11:24:14.000 [warn] Bug: Non-fatal asse

[tor-relays] Running A Bridge Alongside My Relay

2018-05-26 Thread Keifer Bly
Hello, So I am considering running a bridge alongside my relay gotland, as the network could probably use some more bridges. As I have said, I do not have any other network that I can run my relay from, however, what I might do is run my obsfacted bridge on a Linux Virtual Machine through a pro

Re: [tor-relays] Running A Bridge Alongside My Relay

2018-05-26 Thread Keifer Bly
Yes but I would run it through the proxy so it would have the proxy IP address. I just noticed tor could use more bridges as there are four times as many public relays as their are bridges. Sent from my iPhone On May 26, 2018, at 12:44 PM, Logforme wrote: >> So I am considering running a brid

Re: [tor-relays] Running A Bridge Alongside My Relay

2018-05-26 Thread Keifer Bly
> > -Neel Chauhan > > === > > https://www.neelc.org/ > > On 2018-05-26 16:19, Keifer Bly wrote: > > Yes but I would run it through the proxy so it would have the proxy IP > > address. I just noticed tor could use more bridges as there are four > > times as many publ

Re: [tor-relays] Running A Bridge Alongside My Relay

2018-05-26 Thread Keifer Bly
be a pain, and also the vpn may not be the best way to run a relay, but will try it to see if it works out ok. From: Mirimir Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2018 6:56 PM To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Running A Bridge Alongside My Relay On 05/26/2018 01:30 PM, Keifer Bly

[tor-relays] Tor Guard Relay

2018-06-06 Thread Keifer Bly
Hello, I have one question. I have been running my relay “torland” at http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/router_detail.php?FP=db1af6477bb276b6ea5e72132684096eee779d30 For roughly 3 months now (I am unsure exactly how many days). While my relay is marked “fast” and “stable” currently, it has never b

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Guard Relay

2018-06-07 Thread Keifer Bly
on a broadband connection without getting > complaints from your ISP. Abuse complaints don't go to a guard node, it goes > to exits as exits connect directly to requested non-onion websites and guards > don't. > > -Neel Chauhan > > === > > https://www.neelc

[tor-relays] Spam Emails Received From This Mailing List

2018-06-08 Thread Keifer Bly
Hello fellow relay operators, My apologies as this is not related to tor relays, however, there seems to be several spammers subscribed to the relay list. Every time I am involved in a discussion on this list, I receive 3-5 emails supposedly from girls wanting to meet up (for sex). The emails i

Re: [tor-relays] Spam Emails Received From This Mailing List

2018-06-08 Thread Keifer Bly
the email but that may be tough as they contain nudity and graphically intensive language. Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 8, 2018, at 6:18 PM, Mirimir wrote: > >> On 06/08/2018 01:24 PM, Keifer Bly wrote: >> Hello fellow relay operators, >> >> My apologies as thi

Re: [tor-relays] Spam Emails Received From This Mailing List

2018-06-08 Thread Keifer Bly
List On 06/08/2018 03:48 PM, Keifer Bly wrote: > Yes, but the emails are saying that they are from the > tor-rel...@lists.tororoject.org email address. They must be spoofing the > email address it’s coming from somehow. I just thought that I’d say something > as given that they are

[tor-relays] Fwd: Tor Guard Relay

2018-06-08 Thread Keifer Bly
is in reference to is "Spam Emails Received From This Mailing List"). -- Forwarded message - From: Becky Janet Date: Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 7:48 PM Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Tor Guard Relay To: Keifer Bly first you need to trust someone to find real sex partner. So if y

Re: [tor-relays] What is the different between Tor browser and Torsource code

2018-06-10 Thread Keifer Bly
Yes, it seems like this is not something you’d need to change the source code for. On the tor browser connection screen, instead of clicking “connect” click “configure”. From here you can preconfigure the settings of a local proxy server as well as exclusively what ports you want the tor browse

Re: [tor-relays] Trying to set up a relay at home, but get no connections

2018-06-10 Thread Keifer Bly
One thought. Try making sure you are running the newest version of the tor software. I say this because I know directory authorities recently started rejecting relays running older versions of tor. Another thing I might check if possible is if your router has a limit for how many simultaneous co

[tor-relays] Tor Network Safety Precautions

2018-06-10 Thread Keifer Bly
Hello, So I am aware that the tor network has some built in safety mechanisms to protect tor users from attacks (such as from malicious tor relays, surveillance based attacks, etc). I am aware of some of tors safety mechanisms; I know that tor will automatically switch out which relays the tor

Re: [tor-relays] Fwd: Tor Guard Relay

2018-06-10 Thread Keifer Bly
Good idea. I will forward one of the emails to that email address (ab...@ioflood.com) and explain what is going on. Will contact back with results. From: Mirimir Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2018 8:52 PM To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Fwd: Tor Guard Relay On 06/10/2018 0

Re: [tor-relays] Spam Emails Received From This Mailing List

2018-06-12 Thread Keifer Bly
It seems to be coming from slightly different email addresses, so that is difficult to tell. But it happens when I am posting to the list, not any other time, but I’ll receive up to ten of them within the next few minutes. What do you all think? From: Paul Templeton Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2018

[tor-relays] FW: [#79576] Spam Emails Being Sent To TOR Relay Operators

2018-06-12 Thread Keifer Bly
Hill all, I wanted to inform that I filed a complaint about the spam emails and this is the reply I got. Cheers. From: supp...@ioflood.com Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2018 7:43 PM To: Keifer Bly Cc: ab...@ioflood.com Subject: Re: [#79576] Spam Emails Being Sent To TOR Relay Operators Hi Keifer, I

Re: [tor-relays] Spam Emails Received From This Mailing List

2018-06-15 Thread Keifer Bly
The first time I got one it just said “Hey I want to talk to you”. It did not contain any pictures or anything, so I did not know what was going on. I replied and asked if she was from the list, and I got another email back asking me for my picture, etc (which I ignored). So, given by that it kn

Re: [tor-relays] Trying to set up a relay at home, but get no connections

2018-06-15 Thread Keifer Bly
Yes, I would agree that running an obfuscated bridge would be a good idea, as the network could use some more of those. I could only find the instructions for running a vanilla (non obfuscated) bridge on the tor website, but did some research, and found a guide to running an obfuscated bridge h

Re: [tor-relays] Spam Emails Received From This Mailing List

2018-06-15 Thread Keifer Bly
Me too man! I have created a filter in my Gmail to automatically delete the pesky emails but I am still getting them anyway. I will file another abuse report to that email address. From: The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415/510] Sent: Friday, June 15, 2018 11:19 AM To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org

Re: [tor-relays] Spam Emails Received From This Mailing List

2018-06-16 Thread Keifer Bly
Hi all, I wanted to inform that via the emails that have been coming from yahoo mail addresses, I reported those yahoo email addresses to Yahoo via there spam report page at https://io.help.yahoo.com/contact/index?page=contactform&locale=en_US&token=Zh%2FBBVqXzLHlIbokbUqVWZdz8ElV6Yl7dnHn67FP9aovf

Re: [tor-relays] Spam Emails Received From This Mailing List

2018-06-16 Thread Keifer Bly
Yahoo is still alive and someone is for real using it? o.O > > 16. Juni 2018 16:55, "Keifer Bly" schrieb: > >> Hi all, I wanted to inform that via the emails that have been coming from >> yahoo mail addresses, I >> reported those yahoo email >>

[tor-relays] Prepping bridges for censorship

2018-06-21 Thread Keifer Bly
Hi, So I had a thought. It seems like a lot of the relays run off of various port numbers (of course). However if all of the relays and bridges are running off of various port numbers (ie 9001, 1, etc.), couldn’t this stop censored users (who’s isp or local firewall only allows certain por

Re: [tor-relays] Prepping bridges for censorship

2018-06-22 Thread Keifer Bly
-relays] Prepping bridges for censorship This is the reasoning I go with for using 443/80. On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 8:11 AM Martin Kepplinger wrote: Am 21.06.2018 21:48 schrieb Keifer Bly: > Hi, > > So I had a thought. It seems like a lot of the relays run off of > various port number

Re: [tor-relays] Prepping bridges for censorship

2018-06-22 Thread Keifer Bly
Yes, that’s a good point. I just thought that on observing that, it might be too easy for a censoring isp to block tor just by blocking the ports the relays usually listen on, or identify tor easily by port number even when using obfscated bridges. Good point though, thanks Sent from my iPhone

Re: [tor-relays] bridge installation help please

2018-06-25 Thread Keifer Bly
This is Debian Linux your doing this on correct? I am assuming this as most relays are run on Linux. Here are the steps I’d use to install tor on Linux: 1. Open the Linux terminal 2. Sign into the Linux root account by typing su, then press enter. Liux will then ask you for a password; type th

Re: [tor-relays] bridge installation help please

2018-06-25 Thread Keifer Bly
Is the tor software successfully launched? Try simply launching the tor software just by opening a terminal window and typing “tor” in the Debian command line. This will start the tor software. If the bridge becomes successfully useable, you will see a message which will read “Self testing indi

Re: [tor-relays] bridge installation help please

2018-06-25 Thread Keifer Bly
Try signing into the root account on your Linux. This should these issues. Let me know. From: I Sent: Monday, June 25, 2018 5:37 PM To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] bridge installation help please Keifer, thanks, Try navigating to /var/log/tor/. This is where tor wi

Re: [tor-relays] bridge installation help please

2018-06-25 Thread Keifer Bly
Ok. It could be possible your tor installation was somehow corrupted. Try completely uninstalling tor with this command As root: apt-get remove tor This should completely uninstall tor I am saying this as it could be that somehow one of your tor files was accidentally deted or moved. Doing thi

Re: [tor-relays] bridge installation help please

2018-06-25 Thread Keifer Bly
Generally, if a VPS is cheap it probably means that they don’t have much bandwidth. What you might want to consider doing is contacting the VPS provider (sending an email to their support email address, or contacting them via their contact tab on their website, and asking them how much bandwidth

Re: [tor-relays] A general question for relay operators

2018-06-27 Thread Keifer Bly
Before I started running a relay, one thing I wish I had known was that a relay has to be running for about three months and also continuously be offering 2mb/s network traffic to be used as a Guard relay. This is difficult If running a relay in the United States, as most ISPS in the US (or at l

Re: [tor-relays] A general question for relay operators

2018-06-27 Thread Keifer Bly
). From: teor Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2018 7:39 PM To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] A general question for relay operators > On 28 Jun 2018, at 11:45, Keifer Bly wrote: > > It is also a pain at times keeping the OS, especially on macOS, the newer > versi

Re: [tor-relays] A general question for relay operators

2018-06-27 Thread Keifer Bly
. From: teor Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2018 9:40 PM To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] A general question for relay operators Hi, > On 28 Jun 2018, at 13:25, Keifer Bly wrote: > > I am not saying that relays that are currently not running should be treate

Re: [tor-relays] A general question for relay operators

2018-06-27 Thread Keifer Bly
➢ Has anyone wondered why the number of nodes is so incredibly low? If by that you mean why there are fewer relays than there are tor users (clients), I’d say there are several reasons for this. Not everybody can run a relay, it requires having a router that can smoothly handle the load (or data

[tor-relays] Contact info obfscation

2018-06-29 Thread Keifer Bly
Hello, I am aware that email addresses used in the “ContactInfo: “ in a relay operator’s torrc file is publicly listed on the tor relay. However, what I am wondering, is there a way to obfuscate the email address on http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/router_detail.php?FP=db1af6477bb276b6ea5e72132684

Re: [tor-relays] Contact info obfscation

2018-06-30 Thread Keifer Bly
What I mean is tor project, the system that sends an email when it notices that a relay has been unavailable for 48 hours or the relays not working right. Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 30, 2018, at 6:02 AM, nusenu wrote: > > >> I am aware that email addresses used in the “ContactInfo: “ in a >

Re: [tor-relays] Contact info obfscation

2018-06-30 Thread Keifer Bly
Ok. So if that’s not being used anymore, what is the “ContactInfo: “ string used for? Is there still a way I can subscribe my email address to tor project for such things? Thank you. > On Jun 30, 2018, at 8:40 AM, nusenu wrote: > > > > Keifer Bly: >> What I mean is to

Re: [tor-relays] Contact info obfscation

2018-06-30 Thread Keifer Bly
@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Contact info obfscation Keifer Bly: > Ok. So if that’s not being used anymore, what is the “ContactInfo: “ > string used for? ContactInfo is not used by (past) Tor Weather implementations but it is still very much useful when people want to rea

Re: [tor-relays] Contact info obfscation

2018-06-30 Thread Keifer Bly
Terribly sorry, one last question I just thought of. Will that make it more difficult for people who legitimately want to contact the relay operator who aren’t spammers to contact me? Thank you. From: Keifer Bly Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2018 7:36 PM To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject

Re: [tor-relays] Contact info obfscation

2018-07-01 Thread Keifer Bly
How do I reload the relay without restarting it? Thank you. From: nusenu Sent: Sunday, July 1, 2018 2:07 AM To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Contact info obfscation Keifer Bly: > So I just changed my torrc file contactinfo to Keifer dot bly at > gmail d

Re: [tor-relays] Contact info obfscation

2018-07-01 Thread Keifer Bly
only email address that will hide to some degree the real email address. It also makes it very easy to filter and figure out if it's spam or not. Wdyt? On Mon, 2 Jul 2018, 9:24 , wrote: Keifer Bly: > Will doing this make it more difficult for spammers to reach my address? Yes. However,

[tor-relays] killall -hup command

2018-07-02 Thread Keifer Bly
Hello, So recently I rebooted my relay using the killall tor -hup command (while I was trying to mae some changes to my torrc file). My relays uptime was not changed at all by this, having a current uptime of about 6 days. However, I noticed today at http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/router_detai

Re: [tor-relays] killall -hup command

2018-07-03 Thread Keifer Bly
@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] killall -hup command Keifer Bly: > it raises the question of what eactly the killall -hup command does? it sends the HUP signal https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en#SIGHUP >SIGHUP >The signal instructs Tor to r

Re: [tor-relays] killall -hup command

2018-07-04 Thread Keifer Bly
r with Tor internals might be able to confirm what exactly is happening there. -MrDetonia Original Message On 3 Jul 2018, 04:28, Keifer Bly < keifer@gmail.com> wrote: Hello, So recently I rebooted my relay using the killall tor -hup command (while I was trying to mae so

Re: [tor-relays] Is a relay on mobile broadband possible inAustralia?

2018-07-05 Thread Keifer Bly
> Would anyone have had any luck running a relay via mobile broadband in > Australia? The tor relay software requires a computer (not cellphone) OS like Linux or macOS, the software will not run on a cellphone. It’s also recommended you have an at least decently fast internet connection. In

Re: [tor-relays] Is a relay on mobile broadband possible in Australia?

2018-07-05 Thread Keifer Bly
In the torrc file, type QRPort then a space then the port number you want to run your relay on. If you haven’t, make sure the port you choose is configured for port forwarding on your router (or firewall if your using one). In some brands of router, I know apple and Netgear made routers, the po

Re: [tor-relays] Is a relay on mobile broadband possible inAustralia?

2018-07-05 Thread Keifer Bly
Thanks for the info. Unfortunately running a relay with this setup is probably not the best way to go due to complications like this. Try installing the tor relay software on a computer and running the relay from there, then you shouldn’t have any hardware related issues. From: I Sent: Thursd

Re: [tor-relays] Is a relay on mobile broadband possible in Australia?

2018-07-06 Thread Keifer Bly
Indeed. Here is a snapshot of my torch configuration. As you can see, to set my relay to run on port 9002, I set it to “QRPort 9002” This is to just give you an example of roughly what the configuration should look like. QRPort followed by the wanted port number, or auto. So yes QRPort auto s

Re: [tor-relays] Is a relay on mobile broadband possible inAustralia?

2018-07-06 Thread Keifer Bly
➢ tor --verify-config -f torrc My apologies. My torrc file says “QRPort 9002” and that is the saved file, my relay is running perfectly fine. Strange. ➢ I have numerous foreign VPS running smoothly without drama. I would try running relays off of the VPS then. If these VPS services your using

Re: [tor-relays] Is a relay on mobile broadband possible inAustralia?

2018-07-06 Thread Keifer Bly
I’m not insisting anything. I said my apologies that I made a typo, which it was just that. ➢ You had better stop typing. I am just trying to help. I know it’s called the torrc file, I just accidentally pressed the wrong button on the keyboard when I was typing the reply, as I said my mistake.

Re: [tor-relays] Is a relay on mobile broadband possible inAustralia?

2018-07-06 Thread Keifer Bly
I noticed you made a typo as well. You set the subject to “Is a relay on mobile broadband possible inAustralia?”. You forgot to put a space in between the words “in” and “Australia” haha. Not getting defensive, just saying it happens. From: I Sent: Friday, July 6, 2018 8:47 AM To: tor-relays@li

Re: [tor-relays] Is a relay on mobile broadband possible inAustralia?

2018-07-06 Thread Keifer Bly
a waste of time for the hundreds of people on this list. > > T > >> On 7 Jul 2018, at 02:30, Keifer Bly wrote: >> >> I noticed you made a typo as well. You set the subject to “Is a relay on >> mobile broadband possible inAustralia?”. >> >>

[tor-relays] Thoughts on automatically updating tor software on macos High Sierra

2018-07-09 Thread Keifer Bly
Hello list, So for a while I have been struggling to find a way to automatically update the tor relay software on macOS High Sierra. What I am currently doing is running a batch file that runs the command “brew upgrade tor” continuously. However, I am attempting to find a way to do this automat

Re: [tor-relays] Thoughts on automatically updating tor software on macos High Sierra

2018-07-09 Thread Keifer Bly
rguments /Library/LaunchDaemons/upgradetor.plist StartInterval 8 code for upgradetor.plist: > brew upgrade tor > On Jul 9, 2018, at 8:45 PM, Keifer Bly wrote: > > Tried that twice now and it has not worked. It’s strange, the error terminal >

Re: [tor-relays] Thoughts on automatically updating tor software on macos High Sierra

2018-07-10 Thread Keifer Bly
to be notified when a new tor version is released? I guess but updating doesn’t matter much as a relay restart is required when tor is updated to begin with... > On Jul 9, 2018, at 9:39 PM, teor wrote: > > > On 10 Jul 2018, at 13:50, Keifer Bly <mailto:keifer@gmail.com>&g

Re: [tor-relays] Bridge bandwidth usage?

2018-07-11 Thread Keifer Bly
> In comparison how much bandwidth would a Tor bridge user per month? It would be tough to give an exact answer to that is it depends on how many people are connecting through your specific bridge. However in general the bandwidth requirements would be much less, as bridges are used for mostly are

Re: [tor-relays] Jerk spammers on tor-relays (was Re: Fwd: Tor Guard Relay)

2018-07-13 Thread Keifer Bly
getting these? Thanks. On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 10:38 PM Roger Dingledine wrote: > On Sat, Jun 09, 2018 at 06:21:16PM -0700, Keifer Bly wrote: > > However, is there a way we can ban email addresses from the relay > operators list? It seems like removing the email addresses that have be

Re: [tor-relays] Jerk spammers on tor-relays (was Re: Fwd: Tor GuardRelay)

2018-07-13 Thread Keifer Bly
Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Jerk spammers on tor-relays (was Re: Fwd: Tor GuardRelay) On 07/13/2018 03:07 PM, Keifer Bly wrote: > Dang. I stopped getting them for a while due to the SPAM filter I > configured in Gmail, however they are now coming through again. These > spammers are trying to

[tor-relays] Updating relay using killall -hup command

2018-07-18 Thread Keifer Bly
Hello, So recently I upgraded from tor 0.3.3.8 to tor 0.3.3.9, and used the killall -HUP command to restart the relay. However this did nothing,  the relay consensus says I am still running tor 0.3.3.8 days later. Is there a way I can cause the upgrade to appear without completely restarting

[tor-relays] Tor process sporadically gets hung on cloud server

2022-12-19 Thread Keifer Bly
Hi, So I have been being careful to keep tor as well as Debian up to date, however, both my middle relay "udeserveprivacy" and my bridge "gbridge", running on two different cloud services (OVH and Google Cloud respectively), the tor process gets hung and the relay become unreachable. Upon checking

[tor-relays] Confusing bridge signs...

2023-02-17 Thread Keifer Bly
Hi, So my bridge at https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/4D6E3CA2110FC36D3106C86940A1D4C8C91923AB says it has “none “, though the torrc file has it set to be distributed publicly. I'm wondering why the bridge would say that, when it obviously is being used as it's apparently blocked in

Re: [tor-relays] Confusing bridge signs...

2023-02-18 Thread Keifer Bly
34 AM wrote: > On Donnerstag, 16. Februar 2023 06:15:02 CET Keifer Bly wrote: > > > So my bridge at > > > https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/4D6E3CA2110FC36D3106C86940A1D > > 4C8C91923AB says it has “none “, > Well, then you have configured BridgeDistribution (

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