Re: [tor-relays] Bridge clients don't *really* update dynamic bridge IPs from fingerprints?

2014-06-28 Thread George Kadianakis
Rick Huebner rhueb...@radiks.net writes: I run a bridge from a semi-static home internet account, where the address is dynamically assigned but only changes when either the ISP or my hardware router goes down and forces a reconnect, which only happens maybe once every several months. I've

Re: [tor-relays] Bridge still advertising removed pluggable transport?

2014-06-28 Thread George Kadianakis
Rick Huebner rhueb...@radiks.net writes: Hi. I removed the recently-deprecated obfs2 transport from my (0.2.4.22) bridge's torrc, but after restarting, it seems to still be advertising support for it. It correctly doesn't appear as a Registered server transport obfs2 line in the tor log

[tor-relays] BBC iPlayer blocked for UK middle relay operators?

2014-06-28 Thread Chris Whittleston
Is anyone else running a relay in the UK having issues accessing BBC iPlayer from the same connection? For the last 6 weeks or so now I've been getting messages telling me I'm 'outside the UK' when I'm in London, and my IP address clearly resolves to show that. Just wondering if the provider BBC

Re: [tor-relays] Spam

2014-06-28 Thread Jann Horn
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 10:08:51PM +0600, Roman Mamedov wrote: One workaround is to obfuscate the E-Mail you use in your contact details as I mentioned, either lightly or not, I have seen some really creative ways people obfuscate their E-Mail to avoid spam-crawlers. Which is a great thing in

Re: [tor-relays] BBC iPlayer blocked for UK middle relay operators?

2014-06-28 Thread Paul Blakeman
Chris I have had several issues that appeared whilst running a Tor network. This has happened to me too even though I switched mine (relay) off several weeks ago… I have notified BBC (via supplied contact forms 3 times) and have had no resolve Other services affected have been nhs.uk

Re: [tor-relays] BBC iPlayer blocked for UK middle relay operators?

2014-06-28 Thread Matthew Harrold
On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Paul Blakeman blakey...@mac.com wrote: Chris I have had several issues that appeared whilst running a Tor network. This has happened to me too even though I switched mine (relay) off several weeks ago… I have notified BBC (via supplied contact forms 3 times)

Re: [tor-relays] BBC iPlayer blocked for UK middle relay operators?

2014-06-28 Thread Chris Whittleston
Paul, I'm also with Virgin Media and have had a similar tech support conversation. I didn't mention I was running a Tor relay to them at the time (do you know anything about their policy regards Tor?), but they checked through all my 'Super Hub' settings including the port forwarding I have set

Re: [tor-relays] BBC iPlayer blocked for UK middle relay operators?

2014-06-28 Thread Paul Blakeman
Hi all Matthew’s advice is correct. Switching to “modem only” DOES achieve getting a dynamic IP assigned. Not too sure why the normal WAN connection is not like this… (even though assigned via DHCP) Chris - I have “harassed” the BBC 3 times but had NOTHING back from them… I’m going to ditch

Re: [tor-relays] BBC iPlayer blocked for UK middle relay operators?

2014-06-28 Thread Chris Whittleston
Paul From what I've read, Virgin issue WAN IPs based on the router MAC address, so for the super-hub which has two MAC addresses (one modem, one router) - it uses the router one. This is why you always get issued the same IP after rebooting or when the DHCP lease expires. The only way around

Re: [tor-relays] Directory Server and bandwidth accounting

2014-06-28 Thread Kali Tor
So, no way to offer DS while setting AccountingMax? -kali- On Thursday, June 26, 2014 10:02 PM, Kali Tor kalito...@yahoo.com wrote: I had not read anything about this either, until I tried to enable it and got this in my log: 10:15:43 [NOTICE] Not advertising DirPort

Re: [tor-relays] BBC iPlayer blocked for UK middle relay operators?

2014-06-28 Thread Chris Whittleston
FYI - I've just sent another email/contact form to them asking if running a Tor relay could be an issue and explaining in detail the differences between middle and exit relays etc. We shall see if this yields any more useful response from them. I'll keep you posted. On 28 June 2014 16:54, Chris

Re: [tor-relays] Circuit purposes

2014-06-28 Thread Damian Johnson
Hi Joel. Where are you getting Purpose: Ags=is_internal,need_capacity, from? Those values are build flags rather than purposes... https://stem.torproject.org/api/control.html#stem.CircBuildFlag Stem should presently document all the values tor can give - all that notice is just letting you know

Re: [tor-relays] Directory Server and bandwidth accounting

2014-06-28 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 09:51:08AM -0700, Kali Tor wrote: So, no way to offer DS while setting AccountingMax? Correct. At least in the scenario in this thread, not advertising the dirport is a good choice by Tor, since it saves all your bandwidth for 'real' Tor traffic. The key thing to

Re: [tor-relays] Circuit purposes

2014-06-28 Thread Joel Cretan
Thanks for your answer Damian. That explains the circuits' existence somewhat, though I usually also see new circuits get created after the original ones are closed. For example, in my screenshot below, there are two circuits, but they were soon closed and about 10 minutes later, three new ones

Re: [tor-relays] Circuit purposes

2014-06-28 Thread Damian Johnson
In this case, I've got two circuits constructed, with the unusual purposes shown. Any idea what it means in this context? Seems to be a parsing error. Arm's last release uses TorCtl which has been deprecated for quite some time and is probably getting confused by those entries. The next