Re: [tor-relays] Tor and CIA leak

2017-03-08 Thread renke brausse
> Anyone have a download/torrent link for all the stuff or is this website > only atm? Torrent: https://file.wikileaks.org/torrent/WikiLeaks-Year-Zero-2017-v1.7z.torrent password was announced on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/839100031256920064 Renke signature.asc

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay funding

2016-03-08 Thread renke brausse
Hi Roman, > Sorry but reading these kinds of things is kind of demoralizing. -- I kind of understand your sentiment but > Oh I know mine are not Exit relays, so those are not special enough, nothing > to see here, move along. this is (at least for me) not true - Michael's mail was the first I

Re: [tor-relays] Help finding relay bottleneck

2015-03-23 Thread renke brausse
James, I've also raised the maximum number of open file descriptors for the debian-tor user. In /etc/security/limits.conf I added debian-tor softnofile 65000 debian-tor hardnofile 65000 I'm not sure if this worked because (even after reboot) sudo -u

Re: [tor-relays] how to monitor traffick through a bridge

2015-01-05 Thread renke brausse
Hi! Hi, I would like to know how one can monitor traffic that goes through a bridge. I have set one up and would like to know whether it is being used or not, and how much. Thanks! I use iptables to count packets/bytes - though I'm sure nicer ways exist for the task :) Renke signature.asc

Re: [tor-relays] Where to report relay warnings

2014-09-18 Thread renke brausse
Hi, Now, I have checked the FAQs but didn't found any information where to report this, so I hope you can help me out. Thank you already and kind regards it seems https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/12808 is the place to go - the relay you mentioned was added by arma a few

Re: [tor-relays] Trying Trusted Tor Traceroutes

2014-07-06 Thread renke brausse
Hi Sebestian, Just a quick update regarding the project. There are multiple GB's of data to analyse and it is still being worked on. We are also working on the public script(s) as well. is your project still on-going? I'm asking because your score board was not updated since May (except

Re: [tor-relays] Problems with domestic ISP blocking publicly listed relays

2014-01-28 Thread renke brausse
Hi Paul The first one has been Tor itself where I have noticed (using Arm to monitor) that it has been downloading far more data than uploading. A ratio of say 5:1 — it hasn’t always been this way! [..] Access to lovefim.com this weekend has now resulted in no longer able to stream and

Re: [tor-relays] Problems with domestic ISP blocking publicly listed relays

2014-01-28 Thread renke brausse
It is a standalone server, therefore no browser runs on the machine. Tor can be configured to act as proxy, not restricted to local connections. I'm not sure about the defaults but typically the SOCKS proxy is listening on [torserver]:9050. But as you're not aware of this option my idea in the

Re: [tor-relays] Scoreboard enhancements / Trying Trusted Tor Traceroutes

2014-01-26 Thread renke brausse
I am wondering why only 68 out of 283 completed the traceroute. Can someone explain please? probably because the estimated time is between 4 and 96 days: https://web.engr.illinois.edu/~das17/tor-traceroute_v1.html#q-howlong my (low-bandwith) relay is trace-routing since 4 days and completed

Re: [tor-relays] Scoreboard enhancements / Trying Trusted Tor Traceroutes

2014-01-26 Thread renke brausse
Sebastian, Do you care to elaborate ? If you need assistance we can talk via private mail as well ... I use the script intentionally with scamper restricted to 200 pps - not sure why (and what) I should elaborate ;) The needed time (even for the default of scamper with 1000 pps) is imho a