why is the traffic not more linear?

2010-05-12 Thread Michael Gomboc
Hi! Why is the traffic throughput of my tor node not more linear? Why is it jumping so much? http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/router_detail.php?FP=bb78369c1bee82a4ef391bc183a91ff552913c5c significant parts of my torrc: RelayBandwidthRate 100 KBytes # Throttle traffic to 100KB/s (800Kbps)

Re: Tor Exit Node Sponsorship - looking for partners

2010-05-12 Thread Moritz Bartl
Hi, I was asked by mail if I was interested in $5 a month. To make that one clear: Yes, I am! I want to fund a node. Depending on the number of people, amounts of money, wishes for services, I will try to find the best suitable hoster. The three posted were just examples of what I have in mind.

Re: Tor Problems on Korean Windows

2010-05-12 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Kees keesv...@gmail.com wrote: I recently installed tor on the windows machine of a Korean friend and it did not want to work. After a lot of messing about we worked out the the problem was his Korean user name in the path to the torrc file. Once we moved the

Re: Tor Exit Node Sponsorship - looking for partners

2010-05-12 Thread Anders Andersson
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Moritz Bartl t...@wiredwings.com wrote: I would also like theoretically to accept anonymous donations for a node (not for the VPN/webspace stuff of course), but the problem there is not so much accepting it (PSC, Ukash, Liberty Reserve etc), but making sure

Re: Tor Exit Node Sponsorship - looking for partners

2010-05-12 Thread Martin Fick
--- On Wed, 5/12/10, Anders Andersson pipat...@gmail.com wrote: A thought: Currently there is a Donate! section on torproject.org, that doesn't mention what the money is used for or how much money that comes in. I think a lot more people would donate if they could see that the money went

Re: Tor Exit Node Sponsorship - looking for partners

2010-05-12 Thread Moritz Bartl
A thought: Currently there is a Donate! section on torproject.org, that doesn't mention what the money is used for or how much money that comes in. If you look closely, at the bottom of the page a pie says what the money is used for. Basically, torproject donations are used for development.

Re: messages indicate strange choice by tor

2010-05-12 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Scott Bennett benn...@cs.niu.edu wrote:     I would be most interested in knowing the explanation for the decision that tor announced in the following pair of messages. Apr 14 08:55:50.861 [info] connection_or_group_set_badness(): Marking OR conn to

Network Status Reports

2010-05-12 Thread Jon
I am just curious as to why of the known mirror's that show the network status reports, why there is such a discrepancy between blutmagie reports and the others? Is blutmagie using a different config in reporting than the others? It appears blutmagie numbers are a lot lower than the other

Re: Tor Exit Node Sponsorship - looking for partners

2010-05-12 Thread andrew
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 07:11:53PM +0200, t...@wiredwings.com wrote 2.0K bytes in 45 lines about: : A thought: Currently there is a Donate! section on torproject.org, : that doesn't mention what the money is used for or how much money that : comes in. : : If you look closely, at the bottom

Re: GeoIP database comparison

2010-05-12 Thread grarpamp
Wasn't there a user driven opensource geoip database project somewhere? Sortof like DynDNS, users go to the website, it pops up their ip address, they enter their location in the DB. Thought it had some advanced stuff too, network admins could enter CIDR blocks, contact info and such.

Re: Running a stable exit node without interference (Was blutmagie quad core upgrade)

2010-05-12 Thread grarpamp
I Don't have any information about the subject but would it be possible to buy own ip-range which would stay in my possession even if I switched ISP's. I don't think it comes very cheap... I have been thinking a long time how to run a stable exit node without getting constantly in