Re: [tor-relays] new relays

2013-08-30 Thread Niles Rogoff
I think that's part of the joke On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 12:32 AM, Andrea Shepard wrote: > On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 12:27:22AM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > > On 8/30/13, Andrea Shepard wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 11:08:34AM -0500, Jon Gardner wrote: > > >> Then why have exit policies? Exit n

Re: [tor-relays] new relays

2013-08-30 Thread grarpamp
On 8/30/13, Andrea Shepard wrote: > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 11:08:34AM -0500, Jon Gardner wrote: >> Then why have exit policies? Exit nodes regularly block "unwelcome" >> traffic >> like bittorrent, and there's only a slight functional difference between >> that >> and using a filter in front of t

Re: [tor-relays] new relays

2013-08-30 Thread Andrea Shepard
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 12:27:22AM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > On 8/30/13, Andrea Shepard wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 11:08:34AM -0500, Jon Gardner wrote: > >> Then why have exit policies? Exit nodes regularly block "unwelcome" > >> traffic > >> like bittorrent, and there's only a slight funct

Re: [tor-relays] Overload data for Exit vs Non-Exit (and Guard vs Middle)?

2013-08-30 Thread Vincent Yu
On 08/31/2013 09:25 AM, Mike Perry wrote: > People with Munin setups: it would be especially useful if you could > post links/graph images for connection counts, bandwidth, and CPU load > since 8/19. I have Munin data for three servers (each running two Tor instances): https://v-yu.com/servers/muni

Re: [tor-relays] A bit more evidence on circuit creation storms

2013-08-30 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Since I originally started keeping an eye on these on my Raspberry Pi relay (read: slow, resource-limited), I've got to wonder if the circuit creation storms I was seeing months ago weren't normal network phenomena but some kind of test run. We are

[tor-relays] Overload data for Exit vs Non-Exit (and Guard vs Middle)?

2013-08-30 Thread Mike Perry
To try to get to the bottom of the recent influx of clients to the Tor network, it might be useful to compare load characteristics since 8/19 for nodes with different types of flags. People with Munin setups: it would be especially useful if you could post links/graph images for connection counts,

Re: [tor-relays] huge increase in relay traffic

2013-08-30 Thread mett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 16:27:12 +0100 mick wrote: > I'm currently seeing more than a doubling of connections (from a mean > of c. 2000 established connections to just over 5000) on my relay at > 0xbaddad. The log is full of the (expected) messages: > "Y

Re: [tor-relays] new relays

2013-08-30 Thread Andrea Shepard
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 11:08:34AM -0500, Jon Gardner wrote: > Then why have exit policies? Exit nodes regularly block "unwelcome" traffic > like bittorrent, and there's only a slight functional difference between that > and using a filter in front of the node to block things like porn There's a c

[tor-relays] jump in connections

2013-08-30 Thread That Guy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This new Guy has absolutely seen a huge increase in connections but don't have much history to go by but it seems to have doubled several times in a very short span. interested to sit back & hope to see some of the guru's weigh in. -BEGIN PGP SIGNA

Re: [tor-relays] A bit more evidence on circuit creation storms

2013-08-30 Thread Troy Arnold
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 04:25:27PM -0400, t...@t-3.net wrote: > > Also see a repeat of the odd log message with the 154.x net address > someone else described with the huge hexidecimal string (40 hex > chars, + sign, 40 more, on and on). Just FYI, these messages were popping up pretty regularly i

Re: [tor-relays] A bit more evidence on circuit creation storms

2013-08-30 Thread David Carlson
On 8/29/2013 11:09 PM, Andreas Krey wrote: > On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 19:35:37 +, Gordon Morehouse wrote: > ... >> Aug 29 18:19:14.000 [notice] Your network connection speed appears to >> have changed. Resetting timeout to 60s after 18 timeouts and 172 >> buildtimes. > Random data point: I had these

Re: [tor-relays] legal issues past and present

2013-08-30 Thread David Carlson
On 8/30/2013 1:04 PM, Andy Isaacson wrote: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:38:26AM -0400, That Guy wrote: >>> I run an exit node off of a residential Verizon connection and I >>> haven't seen a single threat, legal or otherwise so far, I dunno >>> why you're having so much trouble. >> Thank you for

Re: [tor-relays] legal issues past and present

2013-08-30 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 30.08.2013 22:26, David Carlson wrote: > I have recently seen several e-commerce websites blocking all traffic > coming from IP addresses that are known to be used by Tor relays, > including non-exit relays. That means _all_ traffic, including > legitimate traffic. In my personal experience, A

Re: [tor-relays] A bit more evidence on circuit creation storms

2013-08-30 Thread tor
I added a second core to my server and it's still getting "Your computer is too slow..." error messages. Top shows cpu for the Tor process hanging around 60-75%, which is where it was before. Top's system total is hanging around "Cpu(s) 25.9%". That plus the VM manager's graph suggest that t

Re: [tor-relays] huge increase in relay traffic

2013-08-30 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/30/2013 12:28 PM, Stracci wrote: > I can also confirm that I'm seeing that message on all 4 of my > exit's too. (as well as nearly double the amount of connections). I see it on my nodes also, as recently as 0801 GMT on 29 August 2013. This jus

Re: [tor-relays] legal issues past and present

2013-08-30 Thread Andy Isaacson
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:38:26AM -0400, That Guy wrote: > > I run an exit node off of a residential Verizon connection and I > > haven't seen a single threat, legal or otherwise so far, I dunno > > why you're having so much trouble. > > Thank you for the reply but I have not either. My commen

Re: [tor-relays] huge increase in relay traffic

2013-08-30 Thread Yoriz
I am new here. Just started my first Tor exit ("privshield") one day ago, so I guess it is still "warming up"?! At the last heartbeat it only had 14 circuits open. For what it's worth: the same 504 gateway time out with a ridiculously long URL of hexdigits is in my logs: Aug 29 23:19:59.000 [wa

Re: [tor-relays] huge increase in relay traffic

2013-08-30 Thread Andy Isaacson
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 04:27:12PM +0100, mick wrote: > I'm currently seeing more than a doubling of connections (from a mean of > c. 2000 established connections to just over 5000) on my relay at > 0xbaddad. The log is full of the (expected) messages: > "Your computer is too slow to handle this ma

Re: [tor-relays] huge increase in relay traffic

2013-08-30 Thread tor
Our relay is a few weeks old and I think it is still in the process of ramping up its utilization to its configured max. Because of that, I find it hard to judge what may be excessive on it. The last log on our server had it at 13,110 circuits open. Yesterday it hit 10,000 once but seemed to be

Re: [tor-relays] huge increase in relay traffic

2013-08-30 Thread tor
Right after I finished sending my first reply to this thread, messages about too many circuit requests became visible in the logs. We'll see if adding cores helps ... On Friday 30/08/2013 at 12:38 pm, Stracci wrote: I can also confirm that I'm seeing that message on all 4 of my exit's

Re: [tor-relays] huge increase in relay traffic

2013-08-30 Thread Stracci
I can also confirm that I'm seeing that message on all 4 of my exit's too. (as well as nearly double the amount of connections). -Stracci - Original Message - From: "mick" To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 9:27:12 AM Subject: [tor-relays] huge increase in

Re: [tor-relays] huge increase in relay traffic

2013-08-30 Thread Logforme
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I'm currently seeing more than a doubling of connections (from a mean of > c. 2000 established connections to just over 5000) on my relay at > 0xbaddad. The log is full of the (expected) messages: > "Your computer is too slow to handle this many ci

[tor-relays] huge increase in relay traffic

2013-08-30 Thread mick
I'm currently seeing more than a doubling of connections (from a mean of c. 2000 established connections to just over 5000) on my relay at 0xbaddad. The log is full of the (expected) messages: "Your computer is too slow to handle this many circuit creation requests!" I guess this is related to the

[tor-relays] legal issues past and present

2013-08-30 Thread That Guy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I run an exit node off of a residential Verizon connection and I > haven't seen a single threat, legal or otherwise so far, I dunno > why you're having so much trouble. Thank you for the reply but I have not either. My comments come from reading

Re: [tor-relays] ExitPolicy reject *:* ships commented out?

2013-08-30 Thread David Carlson
On 8/29/2013 9:17 PM, Gordon Morehouse wrote: > Bryan Carey: > > It's possible. One should always review all configuration files > > before making their node operational. You can't assume that it will > > be configured in a particular manner. > > > I mean, who would have thought the TBB would ship