Re: [tor-relays] Very high CPU Load and low Traffic since Sunday

2019-08-20 Thread Larry Brandt
This may be similar to my situation with my Finland exit relay [1].  I was finally forced to deal with kern overload that shut my cpu down.  I had several thousand IP's without hashed fingerprints opting to get into Tor.  A combination of hardening, banning and

Re: [tor-relays] DoS attack on Tor exit relay

2019-07-31 Thread Larry Brandt
Yes, I have fail2ban installed but the attack is focused on my ORPort 9001.  Similarly, I have an external firewall but it permits 9001 port passage. Thanks for the thoughts, though,  --potlatch On 7/31/2019 2:40 AM, TorGate wrote: You can

Re: [tor-relays] Reminder: exit nodes probably shouldn't be using Google's DNS servers

2016-02-23 Thread Larry Brandt
Same for me Tristan.  It's becoming a problem here.  My last notices.log.gz was over a meg in length.  About 40,000 pages per month on a small exit.  Most entries were dns related. Larry On 2/23/2016 5:16 PM, Tristan wrote: That link almost makes it

[tor-relays] Tor Project slandered?

2015-11-04 Thread Larry Brandt
Last night my wife and I caught an episode of 'NCSI New Orleans.' The plot involved a brainiac from DARPA with a congenital heart problem. His job, he reported to NCSI, was to decrypt the Tor network. He needed a new heart to finish what was almost done. He stated: "97% of all illegal

[tor-relays] Tor node break-in attempts

2015-10-22 Thread Larry Brandt
Hello, I need some advise on a situation new to me. I operate a VPS exit node in Romania, a VPS guard node in the Czech Republic, a middle node and bridge in the US. All are SSH public key authentication protocol 2. Over the last 5 weeks all of these servers have been under attack by IPs

Re: [tor-relays] Complaint being on a tor dnsbl..

2015-05-23 Thread Larry Brandt
Companies such as DirecTV blacklist all Tor relays.  This is very disconcerting when I go to their site to get help with my television feed.  In their defense (and this hurts), their Genie system uses some of the ports that Tor uses for ORPorts such as 9001. L Brandt

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Consensus Weight Stuck at 20 (Even on Relay with Stable Flag)

2015-05-11 Thread Larry Brandt
popped during the last days of 2014 and up until now there hasn't been any reliable fix. Apparently even deleting the ID of your tor-node didn't help according to one user. On 10.05.2015 07:05 AM, Larry Brandt wrote: yes I have experienced the same problem on my exit relay

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Consensus Weight Stuck at 20 (Even on Relay with Stable Flag)

2015-05-09 Thread Larry Brandt
yes I have experienced the same problem on my exit relay: DDC6C968B3DFD156C97FD71808758D251B66DBB2 My relay lost the stable flag due to a inadvertent shut-down a few days back. LB On 5/9/2015 1:38 PM, Neel Chauhan wrote: Hi, I have a Tor relay

[tor-relays] keeping tor relays operational

2015-03-14 Thread Larry Brandt
Sorry if this question has been answered dozens of times before. I have a middle relay that has been operational since last summer. I wish to make some alterations to my torrc file and make these changes operationally active without stopping and restarting tor. Is this possible? I

Re: [tor-relays] OT: folding@home

2014-12-27 Thread Larry Brandt
I agree completely teor.  I, of course, use a back-up computer for this donation.  It's also my tor backup.  If need be, I can tear the whole OS down and start over in an hour.  I'm a bioengineer and support Stanford's efforts 100%.  But each person has to make her own

Re: [tor-relays] OT: folding@home

2014-12-26 Thread Larry Brandt
This is a worthwhile project aimed at diseases such as cancer, Alzheimers, Parkinson's. Takes little internet bandwidth and only 600 MB memory (amd64) but is a cpu hog. Each distributed project takes 1-3 days to calculate. Works via browser ports. LB On 12/26/2014 9:55 AM, Sebastian Urbach

[tor-relays] rejected hit from China

2014-07-02 Thread Larry Brandt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Today my router blocked two hits from Chinese server 218.77.79.43:59762 to my 68.66.154.214:21. I don't listen to port 21. I don't listen to 21. Should I take some action? Is this normal or academic or...? glowworm -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-