Re: [tor-relays] Hardware requirements for a fast Tor relay

2021-11-09 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
It's surprising that you're running into CPU issues. It's typically RAM that is exhausted first. I have 5 x Dual Core 256MB Tor Relay Nodes loadbalanced as a Single Middle Relay that never have CPU issues. It's always a matter of running out of RAM for me. The loadbalanced Tor Relay maintai

[tor-relays] Recent rejection of relays

2021-11-09 Thread Georg Koppen
Hello everyone! Some of you might have noticed that there is a visible drop of relays on our consensus-health website.[1] The reason for that is that we kicked roughly 600 non-exit relays out of the network yesterday. In fact, only a small fraction of them had the guard flag, so the vast major

Re: [tor-relays] General overload -> DNS timeouts

2021-11-09 Thread nusenu
Anders Trier Olesen: The Tor relay guide should recommend running your recursive resolver (unbound) on a different IP than your exit: https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/exit/ yes, that is a good idea, here is a PR for it: https://github.com/torproject/community/pull/169/files --

[tor-relays] Hardware requirements for a fast Tor relay

2021-11-09 Thread failing.flyaway443--- via tor-relays
Hi everyone, about two weeks ago, I signed up for a VPS with a cloud provider and set up a Tor relay. I installed Debian 11 Bullseye, secured it, and then set up Tor 0.4.6.8 and started the relay. The VPS had the following specs: 1vCore, 2GB RAM, 40TB traffic per month on a 1Gbit/s link. I throt

[tor-relays] metrics: add `IPv6 Exit Address` in addition to `Exit Address`

2021-11-09 Thread s7r
Hello, Currently we have Exit Address for relays that use a different IPv4 address for `Exit` connections vs their ORPort IPv4 address. Similarly, one relay *could* listen on a certain IPv6 address ORPort but use a different IPv6 address for v6 exiting. Wouldn't it be useful to add this data

Re: [tor-relays] General overload -> DNS timeouts

2021-11-09 Thread John Csuti via tor-relays
Hello all, I would have to agree on this it appears that the DNS failure timeout is too low. I have more then enough bandwidth to host tor exit nodes, and my own unbound full recursive relay and yet i still get the timeout message 1-1.5%. Sometimes even weird amounts such as 40-50%. I have be