Re: [tor-relays] connlimit: better to use "DROP" or "REJECT --reject-with tcp-reset"?

2018-01-09 Thread teor
Hi, Still having load trouble on your relay? Try dropping rapid connection attempts. > On 9 Jan 2018, at 16:32, teor wrote: > > I've tried various ways of limiting Tor's RAM and CPU. > MaxAdvertisedBandwidth was effective, as was limiting Tor's file > descriptors and

[tor-relays] Faravahar - Scheduled Maintenance - Thursday, January 11, 2018 at 18:00:00 UTC to 22:00 UTC

2018-01-09 Thread Sina Rabbani
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Scheduled Maintenance Thursday, January 11, 2018 at 18:00:00 UTC to 22:00 UTC Dear Tor Network, I am upgrading/replacing the hardware for Faravahar, and would like to announce a maintenance window: Scheduled Start: Thursday, January 11,

Re: [tor-relays] Nyx reported speed

2018-01-09 Thread teor
> On 10 Jan 2018, at 00:19, John D. McDonnell wrote: > > If I get the chance to head to the other building where I have the other > relay connected, I'll try connecting it directly to the internet and see how > that affects the usage. (pf is set to not allow any

Re: [tor-relays] Combined relay and hidden service, good idea or not?

2018-01-09 Thread yl
On 08.01.2018 11:21, Florentin Rochet wrote: > > Yes, if the HS operator does not want to mask the HS location, then it > is all good. For that purpose, I agree that the warning message should > be changed. So assuming I just want to run SSH on some port on an .onion on the relay, what is the

Re: [tor-relays] Configuring your relay

2018-01-09 Thread tor
Attempting to limit a relay to only certain times of day, days of the week, etc., is very likely to produce a relay that doesn't really get used. I'm not sure I see the point in running a relay under those types of restrictions. ___ tor-relays mailing

Re: [tor-relays] Configuring your relay

2018-01-09 Thread Alex Xu
Quoting Tommy Collison (2018-01-09 19:55:47) > Hi there, > > I'm Tor's writer/editor. We just got a question on Twitter that I'm > stumped on, and I had a quick look through the documentation and didn't > find anything. Can anyone shed some light? > > - Can you set up a relay to provide more

[tor-relays] Configuring your relay

2018-01-09 Thread Tommy Collison
Hi there, I'm Tor's writer/editor. We just got a question on Twitter that I'm stumped on, and I had a quick look through the documentation and didn't find anything. Can anyone shed some light? - Can you set up a relay to provide more bandwidth during specified hours? (e.g. more at night, less

Re: [tor-relays] Relay not listed in atlas

2018-01-09 Thread Fabian A. Santiago
On January 9, 2018 2:29:00 PM EST, nusenu wrote: >> Working one: >> >> E911A899D51036A5D2A9DE0931A0A1E8DA4C6148 > >this one is offline since 2018-01-04 23:00 > >> Disappeared one: >> >> D122094E396DF8BA560843E7B983B0EA649B7DF9 >offline since 2018-01-02 03:00 >

Re: [tor-relays] Relay not listed in atlas

2018-01-09 Thread nusenu
> Working one: > > E911A899D51036A5D2A9DE0931A0A1E8DA4C6148 this one is offline since 2018-01-04 23:00 > Disappeared one: > > D122094E396DF8BA560843E7B983B0EA649B7DF9 offline since 2018-01-02 03:00 onionoo/atlas only shows relays that were online at some point during the last 7 days. --

Re: [tor-relays] Relay not listed in atlas

2018-01-09 Thread Fabian A. Santiago
On January 9, 2018 1:59:12 PM EST, Karsten Loesing wrote: >On 2018-01-09 19:18, Fabian A. Santiago wrote: >> On January 9, 2018 8:29:50 AM EST, "Fabian A. Santiago" > wrote: >>> One of my relays is no longer listed in atlas. I'm curious why

Re: [tor-relays] Relay not listed in atlas

2018-01-09 Thread Karsten Loesing
On 2018-01-09 19:18, Fabian A. Santiago wrote: > On January 9, 2018 8:29:50 AM EST, "Fabian A. Santiago" > wrote: >> One of my relays is no longer listed in atlas. I'm curious why and how >> can I go about examining the issue? It had been running for several >> weeks

Re: [tor-relays] Combined relay and hidden service, good idea or not?

2018-01-09 Thread Dave Warren
On 2018-01-08 16:08, Roger Dingledine wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 03:59:25PM -0700, Dave Warren wrote: Even if Tor didn't supply any relay statistics, a curious and enterprising individual could "explore" by seeing what happens to a particular onion when one launches a DoS attack against

Re: [tor-relays] Combined relay and hidden service, good idea or not?

2018-01-09 Thread Dave Warren
On 2018-01-08 19:54, Alain Wolf wrote: I think the real issue here is once more the wording "hidden service" for something which is, in your case, not intended to be hidden. I believe thats why the term "Onion Service" was introduced. Indeed. I use Onion Service when starting a conversation,

Re: [tor-relays] Relay not listed in atlas

2018-01-09 Thread Fabian A. Santiago
On January 9, 2018 8:29:50 AM EST, "Fabian A. Santiago" wrote: >One of my relays is no longer listed in atlas. I'm curious why and how >can I go about examining the issue? It had been running for several >weeks at this point seemingly fine. > >My other relay lists

Re: [tor-relays] Nyx reported speed

2018-01-09 Thread John D. McDonnell
I actually just logged into the one in my office to check on it. CPU is around 25%, RAM is ~30% free, 5111 connections. According to nyx, download is a pretty steady 500KB/s, to be expected with it limited at 500 with bursting to 600; and upload is fairly consistent around 350KB/s, a bit lower

[tor-relays] Relay not listed in atlas

2018-01-09 Thread Fabian A. Santiago
One of my relays is no longer listed in atlas. I'm curious why and how can I go about examining the issue? It had been running for several weeks at this point seemingly fine. My other relay lists it as an alleged family member but it's id is listed in a different color (yellow). Is this

Re: [tor-relays] Nyx reported speed

2018-01-09 Thread John D. McDonnell
I wondered if that might be the case. These are spare internet connections that we have for free, so we don't really want to put any resources into them as we don't actually use them. The one in my office we do have hooked up to a postal machine and cellular gateway and use for testing