purging old router information, revocation

2007-02-21 Thread James Muir
I'd like to know how directories are cleaned up after a router leaves the Tor network. I've read through the specs distributed with 0.1.2.7-alpha but I haven't been able to find a discussion on this. Maybe some readers who run onion routers have had some practical experience on this that they

Running Tor on a v-server with limited number of TCP sockets

2007-02-21 Thread Stephan Walter
Hi, I have rented a small v-server where I can spare about 400GB of bandwidth per month for Tor. Unfortunately, the number of open TCP sockets is limited to 128 and the operator is not willing to change that. (Any good reason why they wouldn't?). So what I'm doing now is running Tor as a non-exit

Re: Running Tor on a v-server with limited number of TCP sockets

2007-02-21 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
On 2/21/07, Stephan Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this a bad thing to do? (Apart from getting lots of warning messages in the log file?) Of course I don't want to cause any problems on the Tor network. From a pragmatic point of view that would also mean that you wouldn't be able to log

Re: Running Tor on a v-server with limited number of TCP sockets

2007-02-21 Thread BlueStar88
Stephan Walter schrieb: Hi, I have rented a small v-server where I can spare about 400GB of bandwidth per month for Tor. Unfortunately, the number of open TCP sockets is limited to 128 and the operator is not willing to change that. (Any good reason why they wouldn't?). So what I'm doing

Re: Running Tor on a v-server with limited number of TCP sockets

2007-02-21 Thread Stephan Walter
On 2007-02-21 21:25, Alexander W. Janssen wrote: From a pragmatic point of view that would also mean that you wouldn't be able to log in from remote if TOR gobbles up all sockets. It's not as bad as that, as the ssh daemon is listening all the time and therefor already has its socket. Gee,

Re: Running Tor on a v-server with limited number of TCP sockets

2007-02-21 Thread Stephan Walter
On 2007-02-21 21:42, BlueStar88 wrote: You should read this: http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#head-f3a370dd3c42d82a180f3f1d070f94906f4eddea I've read this wiki article, but didn't find any final answer. It says: Unfortunately, since Tor currently requires you to be able

Re: Running Tor on a v-server with limited number of TCP sockets

2007-02-21 Thread Christopher Layne
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 09:46:07PM +0100, Stephan Walter wrote: On 2007-02-21 21:25, Alexander W. Janssen wrote: From a pragmatic point of view that would also mean that you wouldn't be able to log in from remote if TOR gobbles up all sockets. It's not as bad as that, as the ssh daemon is

Re: Running Tor on a v-server with limited number of TCP sockets

2007-02-21 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Stephan Walter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On 2007-02-21 21:25, Alexander W. Janssen wrote: From a pragmatic point of view that would also mean that you wouldn't be able to log in from remote if TOR gobbles up all sockets. It's not as bad as that, as the ssh daemon is listening all

Re: Running Tor on a v-server with limited number of TCP sockets

2007-02-21 Thread Andrew Del Vecchio
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Is this a problem with the tor lookup/directory protocol? I assume the case here is that the descriptor data assumes full socket access and therefore does not have a data entry specifying the # of sockets that can be used. On one level, this is

Re: Running Tor on a v-server with limited number of TCP sockets

2007-02-21 Thread Max Berger
Am Mittwoch, den 21.02.2007, 21:05 +0100 schrieb Stephan Walter: So what I'm doing now is running Tor as a non-exit server with ulimit -c 130, limiting the number of network sockets to about 100 (The other thirty are regular files and UDP sockets). Hi, my non-exit node ran on a vServer

Re: map of tor routers

2007-02-21 Thread Bryan Fordham
http://socialistsushi.com/tormap/ very preliminary, and no real capability for looking around.

Re: map of tor routers

2007-02-21 Thread Ringo Kamens
Neat map. Thanks for all your hard work. Ringo Kamens On 2/21/07, Bryan Fordham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://socialistsushi.com/tormap/ very preliminary, and no real capability for looking around.