[tor-relays] UK Exit Node

2014-07-06 Thread Michael Banks
Any tips for UK Exit Node operators on a Residential ISP (BT)? Running a reduced exit policy, informed various teams at the ISP, running PeerGuardian on the server in question (blocking P2P/kiddyporn/hacking related IPs), have a hostname setup tor-relay.itschip.com, planning to leave the thing

Re: [tor-relays] UK Exit Node

2014-07-06 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2014-07-06 07:06, Michael Banks wrote: Any tips for UK Exit Node operators on a Residential ISP (BT)? I would be EXTREMELY careful in running an exit on a residential location. There is no way for you to prove that it was not you causing that connection but the Tor process causing that

Re: [tor-relays] UK Exit Node

2014-07-06 Thread Michael Banks
Advice taken I was debating to switch over to relay-only or not. I must note, the Tor node is on it's own address, under a residential contract. I was taking extra precaution by running PeerGuardian and specifically blocking malicious IPs, and will continue to do so while I have a relay node.

Re: [tor-relays] UK Exit Node

2014-07-06 Thread Michael Banks
‎The block lists are very limited, i.e P2P, lists of known blackhats/paedophiles, unallocated IP ranges and most importantly: government-owned address and anti-tor addresses Original Message

Re: [tor-relays] UK Exit Node

2014-07-06 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Michael Banks c...@starbs.net wrote: I was taking extra precaution by running PeerGuardian and specifically blocking malicious IPs, and will continue to do so while I have a relay node. If you are using PeerGuardian to filter Tor traffic, that is sub-optimal.

Re: [tor-relays] UK Exit Node

2014-07-06 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2014-07-06 09:14, Michael Banks wrote: Advice taken I was debating to switch over to relay-only or not. I must note, the Tor node is on it's own address, under a residential contract. Does not matter. You cannot prove that you did not routed your connection over it or that it was or was not

Re: [tor-relays] UK Exit Node

2014-07-06 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Sun, 06 Jul 2014 06:06:35 +0100 Michael Banks c...@starbs.net wrote: running PeerGuardian on the server in question (blocking P2P/kiddyporn/hacking related IPs) Thanks for notifying everyone, I hope your BadExit flag is already on its way. -- With respect, Roman signature.asc

Re: [tor-relays] UK Exit Node

2014-07-06 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 07/06/2014 09:39 AM, Michael Banks wrote: ‎The block lists are very limited, i.e P2P, lists of known blackhats/paedophiles, unallocated IP ranges and most importantly: government-owned address and anti-tor addresses Please do not run PeerGuardian or any other blacklist. These lists are part

Re: [tor-relays] Relay not making connections.

2014-07-06 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 07/05/2014 08:09 PM, Lluís wrote: After reading the documentation and related FAQs I got my TOR relay installed and configured. It is listed in Atlas with the running, V2Dir and valid flags for more than 5 days. However, it receives almost no connections and the following notice appears

Re: [tor-relays] Relay not making connections.

2014-07-06 Thread Lluís
Of Course I can, the fingerprint is: Ione B827D00F6ED51B9397CA397E91D431E8 F60C67E4 My bandwidth rate is: 250 KBytes/s Thank You, Lluís On 07/06/2014 02:46 PM, Moritz Bartl wrote: On 07/05/2014 08:09 PM, Lluís wrote: After reading the documentation and related FAQs I got my TOR relay

Re: [tor-relays] Trying Trusted Tor Traceroutes

2014-07-06 Thread renke brausse
Hi Sebestian, Just a quick update regarding the project. There are multiple GB's of data to analyse and it is still being worked on. We are also working on the public script(s) as well. is your project still on-going? I'm asking because your score board was not updated since May (except

Re: [tor-relays] UK Exit Node

2014-07-06 Thread Julien ROBIN
In effect, as Moritz said (and Roman also tried to say) it's necessary for navigation over Tor, that every Exit Possibility/Restriction are listed into your Exit Policy. If your Exit Node is not going to connect to a given website, it's fine, but the Tor Client have to know it, in order to

Re: [tor-relays] UK Exit Node

2014-07-06 Thread Michael Banks
Node's on a dedicated machine, I have a couple of RasPis kicking about, might spin up nodes on them too. ~Chip On 06/07/2014 14:48, Julien ROBIN wrote: In effect, as Moritz said (and Roman also tried to say) it's necessary for navigation over Tor, that every Exit Possibility/Restriction are

Re: [tor-relays] UK Exit Node

2014-07-06 Thread Michael Banks
It's a relay node now, so it should be fine, we'll see what happens. Google 'pglcmd debian' - I've removed most of the lists. It's essentially now only blocking known paedophiles/child porn related IPs - funnily enough, it's blocked quite a few connections to those known addresses. The

Re: [tor-relays] UK Exit Node

2014-07-06 Thread Thomas White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael, First of all thank you for running an exit. I run a large series of exits in the Netherlands (https://globe.torproject.org/#/search/query=Chandlerfilters[country]=nl) and I am a UK citizen. Having experienced many troubles, including server

Re: [tor-relays] Trying Trusted Tor Traceroutes

2014-07-06 Thread Sebastian Urbach
Dear Renke, Dear list-members, Yes, the project is alive. Thank you for asking and for your ongoing support. Yes the repo was updated but it is not ready for review yet. We are making changes for the next traceroute round and will ask for testing / testers as soon as it is ready. There

[tor-relays] Reliable way to gauge tor throttling?

2014-07-06 Thread jason
What would be a good method to determine if tor traffic is being throttled on a exit relay vs normal internet traffic? -J ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays