Re: [tor-relays] DDoS’d offline

Christopher Sheats writes: > fyi > > https://twitter.com/EmeraldOnion/status/1189668679752900608 > > Calyx appears to have been hit also, but not offline > > https://twitter.com/calyxinstitute/status/1189693027192840192 > Thanks for letting us know. Did you experience any interesting log

[tor-relays] Tor relays Workshop in FOSSCOMM

Greetings list, a few days ago, Elias Papavasileiou did a "Setup your own Tor relay" workshop in the Greek open source conference FOSSCOMM. I attended the workshop and helped out a bit. During the workshop, a presentation was given describing how to setup a relay, and then we moved to hands-on,

Re: [tor-relays] rendezvous on non-OR circuit

ger...@bulger.co.uk writes: > What does this error message mean? Is it serious for users and what do I do > about it? > > > > “ 09:57:16 [WARN] Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit with > purpose Acting as rendevous (pending)” > > Hello Gerald, thanks for reporting this to

Re: [tor-relays] Hidden service error in log

Gary writes: > [ text/plain ] > Hello. > > I made a "hello world" hidden service and I had to following message in the > logs about exceeding launch limit. I have not seen this before. I had one > onion for a while and added a second one recently - not sure if that

Re: [tor-relays] new warn message: Duplicate rendezvous cookie in ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS.

Toralf Förster writes: > [ text/plain ] > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Today I got this for the first since I run exits: > > Oct 06 08:23:03.000 [warn] Duplicate rendezvous cookie in > ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS. > > Something I should worry

Re: [tor-relays] Guard Flag without stable Flag

Ivan Markin <t...@riseup.net> writes: > [ text/plain ] > George Kadianakis: >> I think this is OK. >> >> The patch that required Stable flag for Guard flag only got merged recently: > > Just for the record, the corresponding ticket [1] and commit [2]. >

Re: [tor-relays] Guard Flag without stable Flag

tmbates12 writes: > [ text/plain ] > My relatively new Tor relay has somehow managed to get a Guard flag without > having the Stable flag, I'm not sure if this is supposed to happen though..? > > https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/ABF5C38A93F2D7E77A226871AB0ADB052279B48F

Re: [tor-relays] obfsproxy not working on bridge relay

jchase jch...@riseup.net writes: Hi, Due to m limited bandwidth I've decided to turn my relay into a bridge. I seem to have everything right except if I restart tor I get a warning that managed proxy obfsproxy is 'closed'. I'm sure this has come up in the past but I can find it in the

Re: [tor-relays] Oniontip

Thomas White thomaswh...@riseup.net writes: My concern (which has been highlighted before by Mike Perry) is that the site lacks accountability and transparency. There is no way to verify the donations actually reach the operators. -T Also, I think that oniontip is using Onionoo to get

Re: [tor-relays] how long till the axe falls on little guard relays?

Kali Tor kalito...@yahoo.com writes: I wonder why there is a sudden decrease in number of Guard nodes? -kali- Because of the guard security changes that are currently being conducted, and specifically this section of proposal 236:

Re: [tor-relays] Obfs + Non-obfs bridges

Daniel Thill d...@acm.org writes: Can a single tor daemon instance provide both non-obfuscated and various other obfuscated transports? Right now, I have one instance that provides both obfs3 and scramblesuit. E.g., ServerTransportPlugin obfs3,scramblesuit exec /usr/local/bin/obfsproxy

Re: [tor-relays] Bridge clients don't *really* update dynamic bridge IPs from fingerprints?

Rick Huebner rhueb...@radiks.net writes: I run a bridge from a semi-static home internet account, where the address is dynamically assigned but only changes when either the ISP or my hardware router goes down and forces a reconnect, which only happens maybe once every several months. I've

Re: [tor-relays] Bridge still advertising removed pluggable transport?

Rick Huebner rhueb...@radiks.net writes: Hi. I removed the recently-deprecated obfs2 transport from my (0.2.4.22) bridge's torrc, but after restarting, it seems to still be advertising support for it. It correctly doesn't appear as a Registered server transport obfs2 line in the tor log

Re: [tor-relays] the obfsproxy bundle, and decrease in number of users to my bridges

Viking God viking...@gmx.com writes: A repost, as I didn't get any answers when I posted in another thread: Where can I download an obfsproxy bridge bundle nowadays? It seams to have disappeared. I use both win and linux(but not debian/ubuntu). I have found dual information pages about

[tor-relays] New obfsproxy release: obfsproxy-0.2.7 [bridge operators: please upgrade!]

Hello, a few days after the release of obfsproxy-0.2.6, we spotted a bug where scramblesuit would basically reject clients if they try to connect a second time after a short amount of time has passed [0]. This is a serious correctness bug and bridge operators are advised to upgrade to

Re: [tor-relays] ScrambleSuit maintenance question

Delton Barnes delton.bar...@mail.ru writes: Inexperienced Debian administrator here with a question about how to maintain the new obfsproxy/Tor for ScrambleSuit. I installed as follows: 1. Updated /etc/apt/sources.list (new lines prefixed with *): deb http://server.name.redacted/debian

Re: [tor-relays] ExtORPort notice

Delton Barnes delton.bar...@mail.ru writes: Upon upgrading obfsproxy to 0.2.6 and Tor to 0.2.5.1-alpha-dev (git-f63b394d90583b77+96972c4) for scramblesuit, I got this in the Tor log: Feb 15 04:40:03.000 [notice] We are a bridge with a pluggable transport proxy but the Extended ORPort is

[tor-relays] Make your obfsbridge faster by installing python-gmpy

Greetings, here is a tip if you are running an obfs3/scramblresuit bridge: If your bridge is feeling too slow or flooded by too many connections, you can help it by installing the python-gmpy package. If you do that, obfsproxy will use python-gmpy opportunistically to perform some crypto

[tor-relays] Enable statistics for hardcoded obfsbridges

Hello people, I'm sending you an email because your bridges are hardcoded in the pluggable transport bundles. We recently added PT-specific metrics in metrics.torproject.org Specificaally, you can see a graph of PT users here:

Re: [tor-relays] New obfsproxy transport: scramblesuit [bridge operators: please upgrade!]

Matt m...@pagan.io writes: On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 18:29:26 + Matt m...@pagan.io wrote: I installed obfsproxy through pip. Running Tor 0.2.5.1, I'm seeing this message: [warn] Managed proxy at '/usr/local/bin/obfsproxy' failed the configuration protocol and will be destroyed. That

Re: [tor-relays] New obfsproxy transport: scramblesuit [bridge operators: please upgrade!]

George Kadianakis desnac...@riseup.net writes: Greetings, a few days ago we integrated ScrambleSuit to obfsproxy. ScrambleSuit is a pluggable transport by Philipp Winter; you can find more about it at: http://www.cs.kau.se/philwint/scramblesuit/ If you are running a bridge, please consider

[tor-relays] New obfsproxy transport: scramblesuit [bridge operators: please upgrade!]

Greetings, a few days ago we integrated ScrambleSuit to obfsproxy. ScrambleSuit is a pluggable transport by Philipp Winter; you can find more about it at: http://www.cs.kau.se/philwint/scramblesuit/ If you are running a bridge, please consider upgrading your obfsproxy to the latest version

Re: [tor-relays] New obfsproxy transport: scramblesuit [bridge operators: please upgrade!]

Grozdan neutri...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:04 PM, George Kadianakis desnac...@riseup.net wrote: Greetings, a few days ago we integrated ScrambleSuit to obfsproxy. ScrambleSuit is a pluggable transport by Philipp Winter; you can find more about it at: http

Re: [tor-relays] New obfsproxy transport: scramblesuit [bridge operators: please upgrade!]

Grozdan neutri...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 6:54 PM, George Kadianakis desnac...@riseup.net wrote: Grozdan neutri...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:04 PM, George Kadianakis desnac...@riseup.net wrote: Greetings, a few days ago we integrated ScrambleSuit

Re: [tor-relays] Port for obfsproxy

dardok dar...@riseup.net writes: George Kadianakis: GDR! g...@gdr.name writes: On 07.10.2013 21:11, dardok wrote: I guess that you misunderstood the concept of obfsproxy. It is useful to obfuscate the communication between a client within a censorship zone and a tor bridge

Re: [tor-relays] obfsbridge operators: git master enables client statistics!

George Kadianakis desnac...@riseup.net writes: Greetings obfsbridge operators, tl;dr, you might want to upgrade your tor to the latest git master. Trac tickets #4773 and #5040 have been merged to tor's git repository. This means that if you run the current git master, your obfsbridge

Re: [tor-relays] Trying to set up an obfs2/3 bridge on Windows, missing something.

Asa Rossoff a...@lovetour.info writes: I think I'm suppling the ServerTransport parameters incorrectly. the log seems to indicate it is listening on the wrong ports for obfs2 and obfs3. Since it was the only compiled package I saw for Windows with obfs support, I downloaded the

[tor-relays] A call to arms for obfuscated bridges

Greetings, A year ago we asked you to run obfuscated bridges to help people in Iran [0]. Many people answered our call and we ended up having a big pool of obfuscated bridges to give to our users. Unfortunately, today, most of those bridges are down, and fresh ones are needed more than ever,