Re: [tor-relays] Recent rejection of relays

2021-11-10 Thread Georg Koppen
Georg Koppen: Jonas via tor-relays: Where is this criteria documented? I am not sure what criteria you mean but we have our bad-relay criteria[1] documented at our wiki and keep fingerprints we reject due to attacks we noticed there as well[2]. It seems the tor project, or its designated

Re: [tor-relays] A Simple Web of Trust for Tor Relay Operator IDs

2021-11-10 Thread Jonas via tor-relays
-- Original Message -- On Sat, October 9, 2021 at 7:10 AM, Georg Koppen wrote: Thanks for the proposal it provides good food for thought. You are right there is the MR on Gitlab now but I don't think your proposal is torspec material. Nor do I think a lot of relay operators are

Re: [tor-relays] Recent rejection of relays

2021-11-10 Thread Georg Koppen
Jonas via tor-relays: Where is this criteria documented? I am not sure what criteria you mean but we have our bad-relay criteria[1] documented at our wiki and keep fingerprints we reject due to attacks we noticed there as well[2]. It seems the tor project, or its designated volunteers,

Re: [tor-relays] Recent rejection of relays

2021-11-10 Thread Jonas via tor-relays
Where is this criteria documented? It seems the tor project, or its designated volunteers, are increasing controlling and managing the network. In the Swiss Federation and EU this turns the tor project into an "online service provider" or "online platform" and subjects one to all sorts of

Re: [tor-relays] Question about IPv6

2021-11-10 Thread tor-operator--- via tor-relays
> I have three relays running Hardened BSD hosted at Frantech. They do > not offer support for setting up IPv6. By Frantech do you mean buyvm.net ? If it works the same way as buyvm, your VM should have a single public IPv6 address. You can request a /48 or /56 prefix to be routed to that public

Re: [tor-relays] Question about IPv6

2021-11-10 Thread Jonas via tor-relays
Does the provider offer IPv6? If not, then there is no further progress possible.If they do, this is pretty accurate to get started, https://www.vultr.com/docs/configuring-ipv6-on-freebsdJonas-- Original Message --On Wed, November 10, 2021 at 12:40 AM, xplato via

Re: [tor-relays] Crashed Relay

2021-11-10 Thread David Goulet
On 02 Nov (18:20:31), sysmanager7 via tor-relays wrote: > I was notified by Uptime Robot that relay 1 of 3 had been shut down. > Unfortunately I found this out 12 hours after the fact. > guard flag is lost. > > journalctl -u tor@default > > Nov 01 01:03:18 ubuntu-s-1vcpu-2gb-nyc1-01

Re: [tor-relays] Questions about my tor node

2021-11-10 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
Bobby, I run a Tor relay on dual core 256MB devices with  a 250Gb fiber connection and they are  adequate to operate as a fast middle relay. Monitor your relay on https://metrics.torproject.org/  to verify. Respectfully, Gary— This Message Originated by the Sun. iBigBlue 63W Solar Array (~12

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

2021-11-10 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
The following are some of the more important config options that I use for such a small middle relay: # Tor: A non-exit relay should be able to handle 7000 concurrent connections                                                                   ulimit -n 65535 DirCache 0              

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

2021-11-10 Thread Elias via tor-relays
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I'm sorry that I now spam the mailing list, but I made a mistake. I'm of course NOT logging at debug level, it's just one logfile (notices.log). I logged debug when I was running the relay on the VPS because I wanted to know why it crashed all the

Re: [tor-relays] Recent rejection of relays

2021-11-10 Thread gus
Hi, At the end of the year, we will have a Tor relay operator meetup during the rC3[1]. It's an online event. Leibi will share the invitation here, when the date and time are confirmed. Please also join our matrix/IRC channel: #tor-relays:matrix.org (or #tor-relays - irc.oftc.net) And our new

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

2021-11-10 Thread Georg Koppen
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:

[tor-relays] Questions about my tor node

2021-11-10 Thread Bobby
Hello I'm running a tor node and I paid for a VPS for the express purposes of running that node. I have configured it to use almost all of the bandwidth of the VPS and then to allow bursts to use all of the bandwidth I have also set it to serve directory requests. The server also has 1GB of

[tor-relays] Question about IPv6

2021-11-10 Thread xplato via tor-relays
Greetings, I have three relays running Hardened BSD hosted at Frantech. They do not offer support for setting up IPv6. I am not sure how to accomplish this and wondered if anyone would have insight into setting this up? I have not found much in the way of instruction. A resource that provides

Re: [tor-relays] Recent rejection of relays

2021-11-10 Thread tor
What community updates and organizations are there outside this mailing list? I operate the small nullvoid family of relays and want to grow it in the near future but not miss out or misconfigure and cause problems for the rest of the team. On November 9, 2021 8:09:40 PM UTC, Georg Koppen

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

2021-11-10 Thread failing.flyaway443--- via tor-relays
I just read this research paper, maybe it's worth thinking about some kind of implementation of this approach some time in the future. It's an interesting read anyway. uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/bitstream/handle/10012/16108/Engler_Steven.pdf Regards ___

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

2021-11-10 Thread failing.flyaway443--- via tor-relays
Hi Gary, thank you for your response. I think I just worry too much. I watched my relay all the time today, I had bandwidth usage of 30MB/s at times and HTOP showed me a Load average of 0.29/0.29/0.30. I know that this is totally fine for a dual core. The relay is up and running for 3 days and 8