Re: [tor-relays] High Speed Exit Relay or just a plain Relay?

2019-04-04 Thread Conrad Rockenhaus
AS19624 only has four exits, two instances run on another person's FreeBSD server, and I have two dedicated servers, with one more dedicated server sitting idle. Currently, total bandwidth contribution is 81.27 MiB/s, but note that the first relay in this AS came online on March 15th. This AS is

Re: [tor-relays] Hello

2019-04-04 Thread I
It would be nice to read short and concise messages about how to run relays the best way for privacy and security. You can run relays without sending messages. ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org

Re: [tor-relays] Hello

2019-04-04 Thread Conrad Rockenhaus
On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 2:50 PM Old Man Tor wrote: > > Sorry to hear that, that's really unfortunate and I would never want to wish > that upon anyone. I wish you a speedy recovery with hopefully no lasting side > effects. Thank you, I appreciate that. Unfortunately, I am unable to walk

Re: [tor-relays] Hello

2019-04-04 Thread Old Man Tor
Exhibit A, 'look at me' show. You previously noted your withdrawal from DeadGreyPonyIT to the list, and if I remember correctly, more than once. No need to do so again. If you want to provide a friendly, warm, and respectful response (and *gain* the respect of others here), lose the pompous

Re: [tor-relays] Hello

2019-04-04 Thread Nathaniel Suchy
Following up, I am not longer associated with Greypony IT nor Mr. Rockenhaus. If Mr. Rockenhaus decides to discuss his next Tor Exit Hosting Service do know that I am not involved with said messages. Please do not contact me requesting them to stop as I have no say or control over what Mr.

Re: [tor-relays] Hello

2019-04-04 Thread Old Man Tor
Sorry to hear that, that's really unfortunate and I would never want to wish that upon anyone. I wish you a speedy recovery with hopefully no lasting side effects. That said, it has been a GOOD amount of quiet while you've been gone. For the love of god/shiva/onions, please don't let these new

[tor-relays] Representing Megabits correctly (ex: Slow Relay)

2019-04-04 Thread grarpamp
>> 97Mb >> speeds at 11Mb/sec. >> couple of meg > be careful with > Megabit (Mb) vs. MegaByte (MB). > Here is the part with the important information: > With this option, and in other options that take arguments in bytes, > KBytes, and so on, other formats are also supported. Notably, "KBytes" >

[tor-relays] OutboundBindAddressExit

2019-04-04 Thread nusenu
Conrad Rockenhaus: >> I'm also encouraging you to use separate IP addresses for exit >> traffic [1] because that helps eliminate the impact on >> relay-to-relay communication when ISPs are ordered to BGP blackhole >> some exit IP addresses (as we have seen recently in the news). > > I've been

Re: [tor-relays] High Speed Exit Relay or just a plain Relay?

2019-04-04 Thread grarpamp
On 4/4/19, Conrad Rockenhaus wrote: > I have a FreeBSD box on a 1 Gbit/s connection. I'm trying to determine > if we need more high speed relays or high speed exit relays. The AS > it's on has no plain relays, just exit relays. That's what has me > wondering what to do.

Re: [tor-relays] Please help, my relay is unresponsive

2019-04-04 Thread digitalist00
Hello again! I've moved and Tor is now online again about 10 days. It is also accessible via Remote Desktop. And there are still the nyx notices saying Relay unresponsive (last heartbeat...). Sometimes every two minutes and sometimes every quarter of an hour. And I've lost the stable flag.

Re: [tor-relays] High Speed Exit Relay or just a plain Relay?

2019-04-04 Thread Dave Warren
On 2019-04-04 10:02, Conrad Rockenhaus wrote: Hello, I have a FreeBSD box on a 1 Gbit/s connection. I'm trying to determine if we need more high speed relays or high speed exit relays. The AS it's on has no plain relays, just exit relays. That's what has me wondering what to do. So, what is

Re: [tor-relays] High Speed Exit Relay or just a plain Relay?

2019-04-04 Thread John Ricketts
I think exit. > On Apr 4, 2019, at 11:03, Conrad Rockenhaus wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a FreeBSD box on a 1 Gbit/s connection. I'm trying to determine > if we need more high speed relays or high speed exit relays. The AS > it's on has no plain relays, just exit relays. That's what has me >

[tor-relays] High Speed Exit Relay or just a plain Relay?

2019-04-04 Thread Conrad Rockenhaus
Hello, I have a FreeBSD box on a 1 Gbit/s connection. I'm trying to determine if we need more high speed relays or high speed exit relays. The AS it's on has no plain relays, just exit relays. That's what has me wondering what to do. So, what is the general consensus - should it be an exit or

Re: [tor-relays] Hello

2019-04-04 Thread Beard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Welcome back Conrad. I too have had a stroke. Glad to see you are alright. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, April 3, 2019 9:48 PM, Conrad Rockenhaus wrote: > Hi Tor-Relays, > > I apologize that I just disappeared, I wound up with a

Re: [tor-relays] Hello

2019-04-04 Thread Tony Peck
Glad you are back and feeling OK. On 4/4/2019 at 4:48 AM, "Conrad Rockenhaus" wrote:Hi Tor-Relays, I apologize that I just disappeared, I wound up with a massive stroke last year which was more significant than the last one and was hospitalized longer for recovery and rehabilitation. Things

Re: [tor-relays] Another Slow Relay

2019-04-04 Thread ylms
Hello Ben, On 4/4/19 12:59 PM, Ben Riley wrote: > So based on a connection of about 97Mb, which means I can usually peak out > my download speeds at 11Mb/sec. Are those speeds above ok? I don't want to > drown my connection, but happy to give it a couple of meg :) just a short note from me, teor

Re: [tor-relays] Spamcop question

2019-04-04 Thread ylms
Hello all, I bundle the reply to all three helpful replies in this email. Basically the replies confirm my assumptions, I was wondering if there is single malconfiguration on my end or if the problem is a little more complex. I will watch the abuse complaints and if there will be more about spam

Re: [tor-relays] Another Slow Relay

2019-04-04 Thread Ben Riley
On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 7:06 PM teor wrote: > Hi Ben, > > > On 4 Apr 2019, at 10:58, Ben Riley wrote: > > > > I've read over a couple of other threads regarding relays being slow, > however, I can't figure out why mine is running as slow as it is. > > Have you read our wiki page about slow

Re: [tor-relays] Another Slow Relay

2019-04-04 Thread teor
Hi Ben, > On 4 Apr 2019, at 10:58, Ben Riley wrote: > > I've read over a couple of other threads regarding relays being slow, > however, I can't figure out why mine is running as slow as it is. Have you read our wiki page about slow relays?

Re: [tor-relays] Emerald Onion's new relays

2019-04-04 Thread grarpamp
On 4/4/19, Conrad Rockenhaus wrote: >> when ISPs are ordered to BGP blackhole some exit IP addresses > I've been assigning a second set of IP addresses to my servers in case > I want to run another instance of Tor. Would it be more prudent to use > that second set of IP addresses as an