Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay IP blocking

2023-08-08 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
On Tuesday, August 8, 2023, 10:24:44 AM MDT, wrote: On Dienstag, 8. August 2023 00:30:38 CEST Gary C. New via tor-relays wrote: > > In addition to network diversity, there is the fact that most individuals > > find it necessary to run an at Home internet connection 24 x 7 x 365. So... > >

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay IP blocking

2023-08-08 Thread gus
>Why is there no perfectly detailed instruction to install a relay on the >Raspberry? There are a few projects like pi-relay[1], but if you're using a Debian-like system, the installation is very straight forward. However, the main issue is not the installation. The most significant issue

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay IP blocking

2023-08-08 Thread torserver
Roger, I had the same problem with 3 financial websites blocking my IP address while running a middle relay. Exactly 5 days after stopping the relay these sites can be reached again. They probably use the same mechanism, visible in the TPRB Firefox plug-in. I run my home relay on a low energy

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay IP blocking

2023-08-08 Thread lists
On Dienstag, 8. August 2023 00:30:38 CEST Gary C. New via tor-relays wrote: > In addition to network diversity, there is the fact that most individuals > find it necessary to run an at Home internet connection 24 x 7 x 365. So... > Other than for the reasons inspired by the subject of this post,

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay IP blocking

2023-08-08 Thread Eddie
On 8/7/2023 1:28 PM, s7r wrote: li...@for-privacy.net wrote: On Samstag, 5. August 2023 08:40:42 CEST Marco Predicatori wrote: secureh...@gmail.com wrote on 8/4/23 01:46: I tried reporting a similar issue a few months ago (post wasn’t approved by moderator). I was running a relay from my

[tor-relays] short conntrack DDoS attack

2023-08-08 Thread Toralf Förster
Few days ago the throughput of my Tor relay went down to nearly zero for about 3 minutes. It turned out that the reason (maybe) was a change here in my iptables rules. Especially I switched these 2 lines: iptables -A INPUT -m conntrack --ctstate INVALID -j DROP iptables -A INPUT -m conntrack

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay IP blocking

2023-08-08 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Mon, Aug 07, 2023 at 11:28:32PM +0300, s7r wrote: > While all the above is true, a thing to remember is to make sure we don't > end up all renting too many VPS'es or dedicated servers in the same places / > same AS numbers - we need network diversity, it is a very important factor, > more AS