Re: [tor-relays] Why is there a difference in the amount of data tor has sent and received?

Hi, > On 17 Oct 2018, at 18:05, Keifer Bly wrote: > > So when running my OBFS4 bridge I noticed something, tor recently popped up > with a message saying “I’ve sent 30mb and received > 104mb.” Why is there such a big difference in the amount of data my bridge > has received and sent? Please

Re: [tor-relays] "ORPort auto" versus "ORPort 9001" for a bridge

> On 17 Oct 2018, at 02:38, Toralf Förster wrote: > >> On 10/15/18 11:49 PM, teor wrote: >> The post contains conflicting advice. > > Said that, is the following a good choice for a bridge? : > > # torrc > > RunAsDaemon 1 > > SocksPort 0 > C

Re: [tor-relays] Raspberry pi 3 relay performace

> On 6 Oct 2018, at 09:05, tor_mana...@autistici.org wrote: > > I have a tor relay running on a raspberry with raspbian 9 and tor version > 3.4.8, everything is working fine for more then a year. > I noticed that the average download/upload is just 1.5 MB and the peak 3.3 MB > > The Bandwidth

Re: [tor-relays] "ORPort auto" versus "ORPort 9001" for a bridge

> On 16 Oct 2018, at 03:58, Toralf Förster wrote: > > I do wonder if the advice [1] is ok or wrong. > > [1] https://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/6370/how-to-run-an-obfs4-bridge The post contains conflicting advice. > But diversity of obfs4 ports is actually really important, so I'd argue

Re: [tor-relays] Circuit ID assignment

Hi, For those reading along, this conversation started on tor-onions: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-onions/2018-September/date.html > On 10 Oct 2018, at 08:24, nusenu wrote: > > Gabbi Fisher: >> >> >> I wanted to learn more about how Tor circuit IDs work. Correct me if I'm >>

Re: [tor-relays] Why tor new version having problem's with switching tor.exe file

ibuted with Tor Browser are also 64-bit. Is your compiled version of tor 32-bit, or 64-bit? T -- teor -- ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torp

Re: [tor-relays] Relay out of consensus after node migration

> On 21 Sep 2018, at 04:26, T0r-n0d3 wrote: > > I recently migrated my tor node to new hardware: > t0rnod3 5582BBEC12380E34D7DFB8C237939A0B317B205E > > Copying the /var/lib/tor/keys/ folder on the process. > Now my node do not handles circuits, nor it's shown in atlas and I see the >

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Relay Software Warns When Current RunningVersion Of Tor Is No Longer Recommended, But Not When A Newer Version IsAvailable?

ou want, you can watch the logs for warnings that your tor version is not recommended. T >> On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 11:13 PM teor wrote: >> >>> On 20 Sep 2018, at 07:02, Keifer Bly wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> A few days ago, I upgraded my vers

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Relay Software Warns When Current RunningVersion Of Tor Is No Longer Recommended, But Not When A Newer Version IsAvailable?

with a message > saying “WARNING: this version of tor is out of date or no longer recommended.” > > So, I am just wondering, why is it that the tor software warns when the > current version is “no longer recommended” but does not warn when an update > is available? > From: teo

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Relay Software Warns When Current Running Version Of Tor Is No Longer Recommended, But Not When A Newer Version Is Available?

On 20 Sep 2018, at 07:02, Keifer Bly wrote: > > Hello, > > A few days ago, I upgraded my version of tor from 0.3.3.9 to tor 0.3.4.8. I > noticed, however, that tor does not tell me when a new version is available. > But in the past when I was a few versions behind, it popped up with a

Re: [tor-relays] New TOR Relay

Hi, > On 18 Sep 2018, at 00:28, Kyle Levy wrote: > > Thank you for clarifying. > > I had it online and was monitoring it with ARM, and it looks like it just > went offline in the middle of the night. I hadn't changed anything. Could it > be my ISP? Thanks again for your help You asked this

Re: [tor-relays] exit policy and IPv6

> On 17 Sep 2018, at 23:44, livak wrote: > > Thanks nusenu, > > The relay is configured with the exit reduced policy. > The ORPort is 443 and the DirPort is 80. > > Since exit policy uses "*" as the IP address, IPv6 should be > allowed. Your relay's IPv6 Exit policy is: reject 1-65535 Which

[tor-relays] Tor master exits with a required protocol error

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Re: [tor-relays] Difference Between "Number of Routers" And "Number Of Descriptors"

> On 10 Sep 2018, at 12:44, Keifer Bly wrote: > > So upon checking my relay status at torstatus.blutimage.de, I saw There's a typo in that address, try: https://torstatus.blutmagie.de/ > > Number of Routers In Cache: > Number of Descriptors In Cache: > > I wanted to double check, what is

[tor-relays] Questions from Berlin (was: Re: Torservers relay family decreased?)

> On 9 Sep 2018, at 07:29, Moritz Bartl wrote: > >> On 08.09.2018 22:19, Paul wrote: >> i am glad that somebody else got notice and i agree, suspecting >> something nasty (or highly unusual) is going on. There was a discussion >> about that in Berlin in July already >>

Re: [tor-relays] Court Order

> On 9 Sep 2018, at 09:52, Conrad Rockenhaus wrote: > > Greypony received its first Court Order yesterday. Unfortunately, we have no > records to provide since it was a Tor Exit, and we don’t even have records of > who owned that relay at that IP address because we don’t keep records of the

Re: [tor-relays] Possible problem with NYX

> On 5 Sep 2018, at 02:36, Damian Johnson wrote: > > Nyx's 'should this be scrubbed' check is pretty simple [1]. > Inbound addresses are scrubbed if... > > 1. You're configured to accept user traffic (ie. you set BridgeRelay > in your torrc or have receive the Guard flag). [2] There are so

Re: [tor-relays] The Assistance and Access Bill 2018

> On 4 Sep 2018, at 21:57, Gary wrote: > >> On Tue, 4 Sep 2018, 11:20 Paul Templeton, wrote: >> But seriously - >> https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about/consultations/assistance-and-access-bill-2018 >> And - >>

Re: [tor-relays] Test bed in MyFamily?

> On 30 Aug 2018, at 16:03, Totor be wrote: > > That's what I've done, but what is the rationale if I may ask ? > Personally, I prefer not to see a relay than seeing one down, but this is > extremely subjective! MyFamily exists to protect users from end-to-end correlation. (And relay

Re: [tor-relays] 4 of Conrad Rockenhaus trial servers are in the top ten exit relays for Canada

Hi Conrad (and staff and operators), > On 28 Aug 2018, at 22:16, Conrad Rockenhaus wrote: > >> >> On Aug 27, 2018, at 8:02 PM, Jordan wrote: >> >>> ... >>> The research in this paper >>> (https://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/cache/DBLP:conf/ccs/EdmanS09.pdf) is >>> becoming more relevent and

Re: [tor-relays] The truth about Greypony

Hi, This post is off-topic, and further discussion of this issue is off-topic. Please don't feed the trolls. A reminder: This list is for "support and questions about running Tor relays". Please: * keep on topic, we are here to help each other run Tor relays * make sure each post contains

Re: [tor-relays] switching to OfflineMasterKey mode

> On 29 Aug 2018, at 05:38, nusenu wrote: > > Signed PGP part > > > Nathaniel Suchy: >> Is there a way to switch my current relays to use offline keys and >> invalidate the old keys without losing current stats? > > you can switch between the modes (OfflineMasterKey 0|1) but to get the best

[tor-relays] Avoiding Off-Topic Posts

g: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/ * avoid promoting or criticising the same providers more than once a month * deal with commercial / payment issues off-list But you should feel free to ask questions about operating relays at any time. T -- teor Please reply @torproject.org New

Re: [tor-relays] 4 of Conrad Rockenhaus trial servers are in the top ten exit relays for Canada

> On 28 Aug 2018, at 10:47, Nathaniel Suchy wrote: > > Tor will already avoid making circuits where two IP Addresses in the same /24 > are involved. If you grow beyond a /24, it's worth knowing that Tor's current path selection avoids the same /16 for IPv4, and will soon avoid the same /32 for

Re: [tor-relays] Snowflake PT

Hi David, Arlo, Here's a thread on snowflake from tor-relays: > On 24 Aug 2018, at 09:00, Mirimir wrote: > >> On 08/22/2018 08:03 PM, teor wrote: >> >>>> On 23 Aug 2018, at 11:22, Mirimir wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 08/22/2018 05:41 PM, t

Re: [tor-relays] Snowflake PT

> On 23 Aug 2018, at 11:22, Mirimir wrote: > >> On 08/22/2018 05:41 PM, teor wrote: >> >>> On 23 Aug 2018, at 10:16, Mirimir wrote: >>> >>> On 08/22/2018 04:17 PM, teor wrote: >>>> >>>> I don’t know about the current de

Re: [tor-relays] Snowflake PT

Hi, > On 23 Aug 2018, at 10:16, Mirimir wrote: > > On 08/22/2018 04:17 PM, teor wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I don’t know about the current deployment plan for Snowflake, but I >> can point you to the relevant parts of the git repository: >> >>>

Re: [tor-relays] Snowflake PT

obfuscation Snowflake uses, but you could read the code or documentation, and let us know. (Or wait for someone else to respond.) T -- teor Please reply @torproject.org New subkeys 1 July 2018 PGP C855 6CED 5D90 A0C5 29F6 4D43 450C BA7F 968F 094B -

Re: [tor-relays] Dropping packets with TCP MSS=1400 to foil GFW active probing

> On 22 Aug 2018, at 02:16, Nathaniel Suchy wrote: > > Couldn't I firewall the non-obfs port so only looback addresses may access it? For a private or hard-coded bridge, you can firewall your ORPort and set: AssumeReachable 1 Public BridgeDB bridges need an ORPort to pass bridge authority

Re: [tor-relays] Cloudflare Onions Beta and Network Stability

> On 21 Aug 2018, at 07:39, DaKnOb wrote: > > Cloudflare had a post yesterday[1] on their blog[2] that said they have about > 10,000,000 domain names using their service. So that’s a rough number of the > maximum number of websites that will be made available over Tor. Now in > reality I

Re: [tor-relays] Random Relay Reset On Mac OS + OS Support Question

ates from Apple. As an exception, we also support Tor clients on macOS versions that are supported by Tor Browser (but not Apple). https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkTeam/SupportedPlatforms#OSSupportlevels You should search Homebrew’s website for their support pol

Re: [tor-relays] Question On Running A Tor Bridge Relay

> On 8 Aug 2018, at 19:45, Tony Peck wrote: > > I have tried the manual install mentioned in this communication. I get the > error: gopath not set. The go help gopath does not help me. What should the > gopath be and where should I put it? I also use a local Charter company, > Spectrum.

Re: [tor-relays] Help us get recent cached consensuses from your relay

> teor: >> cd diff-cache; cat * | grep -a ^document-type | sort | uniq -c > On 6 Aug 2018, at 21:01, Lluís <2015@gmail.com> wrote: > > Is it safe to publish the ouput of the command here ? Yes. Your relay publishes these cached documents, so the content

[tor-relays] Help us get recent cached consensuses from your relay

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Re: [tor-relays] Bridge relay setup (was: Re: AS awareness)

> On 3 Aug 2018, at 06:26, Tony Peck wrote: > > This is my public keyfile. I know this doesn't relate to this message but I > couldn't find an actual email address to send it to. > I want to run a bridge relay but am having trouble setting it up. Try:

Re: [tor-relays] Question On Running A Tor Bridge Relay

> On 1 Aug 2018, at 19:57, Keifer Bly wrote: > > Hi All, > > So given that I am running my relay off of a home internet router (a Netgear > Orbi Router) I am considering switching to running an obfuscated bridge. I am > not sure I will do this, but have noticed that when my relay (torland at

Re: [tor-relays] NTP and tor

>> On Jul 30, 2018, at 3:49 PM, grarpamp wrote: >> >> ntpd runs fine without listener or with it blocked >> >> https://www.ntpsec.org/ >> http://openntpd.org/ >> https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntpd >> >> https://github.com/ioerror/tlsdate/ > On 1 Aug 2018, at 08:25, Michael Brodhead wrote: > >

Re: [tor-relays] DirCache on low-memory hosts

> On 1 Aug 2018, at 04:09, Michael Brodhead wrote: > > Those of you running relays on low-RAM hosts, what do you do about DirCache? > > When I first brought up my relay I noticed this message in the logs: > > [warn] Being a directory cache (default) with less than DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB > MB of

Re: [tor-relays] Moving Tor Files - Backing Up Tor Software On Macos

> On 24 Jul 2018, at 20:06, Keifer Bly wrote: > > So I am trying to backup my relay software (torrc file, relay fingerprint, > etc) using my file backup application. However, there is a problem. > > > The macos operating system only allows accessing the /usr/local/, where tor > is saved via

Re: [tor-relays] Bridge relays should upgrade to use the new bridge authority

> On 24 Jul 2018, at 12:20, arisbe wrote: > > The other issue is why these two bridges don't show up on Tor Metrics. > > Hamlet and Othello > Tor metrics just published an explanation of how they get their statistics: https://metrics.torproject.org/reproducible-metrics.html Perhaps your

Re: [tor-relays] Discounts/Free Trials on BSD instances to promote BSD relays?

> On 19 Jul 2018, at 11:34, Conrad Rockenhaus wrote: > > To the point - would it be fair to network stability to offer a week > long free trial to run a tor instance, well, that is if that's what > the user hopefully runs? Would such a model even have an affect on > increasing the number of BSD

Re: [tor-relays] Bridge relays should upgrade to use the new bridge authority

> On 19 Jul 2018, at 10:18, nusenu wrote: > >>> ... >>> Roger Dingledine: If you run a bridge relay, please upgrade -- so your bridge address can resume being given out to censored users, and so your stats can resume being included in the metrics pages. We just put out

Re: [tor-relays] Bridge relays should upgrade to use the new bridge authority

> On 19 Jul 2018, at 06:40, nusenu wrote: > > Signed PGP part > you probably want to reach out to package maintainer > that didn't update yet (like the ubuntu snap) - if you didn't do so yet Emailing package maintainers is part of our existing process:

Re: [tor-relays] Home router keeps failing.

> On 16 Jul 2018, at 19:51, Gary wrote: > > I keep having issues with my home router - it keeps failing due to the number > of connections and I would be grateful for some advice. > > ... > > When I get to (approx) 900 incoming / 600 outgoing tor connections the router > goes TITSUP. If

Re: [tor-relays] Thoughts on automatically updating tor software on macos High Sierra

> On 10 Jul 2018, at 13:50, Keifer Bly wrote: > > Tried that twice now and it has not worked. It’s strange, the error terminal > returns when trying to launch the script to upgrade tor is this > > > iMac:~ oldimac$ launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/starttorupgrade.plist >

Re: [tor-relays] Thoughts on automatically updating tor software on macos High Sierra

Hi, > On 10 Jul 2018, at 09:21, Keifer Bly wrote: > > So for a while I have been struggling to find a way to automatically update > the tor relay software on macOS High Sierra. What I am currently doing is > running a batch file that runs the command “brew upgrade tor” continuously. >

Re: [tor-relays] DNS Time Outs

> On 9 Jul 2018, at 08:55, Paul Templeton wrote: > > how often does the site https://arthuredelstein.net/exits/ update. > 'coffswifi4' was reporting 60% timeouts but I have setup a stand alone DNS > for it and would like to know if its resolved the problem. > > I think this is why it kept on

Re: [tor-relays] Is a relay on mobile broadband possible inAustralia?

y blocking a lot of usual broadband activity? > > > Yes, if you have no control at all over things such as what ports you are > allowed to use because the ISP is limiting these things, using your VPS’s > might be a better option. > > From: I > Sent: Friday, July 6, 201

Re: [tor-relays] Is a relay on mobile broadband possible in Australia?

> On 6 Jul 2018, at 19:03, I wrote: > > Teor, > >> Please run: >> tor --verify-config -f torrc >> before posting a torrc. > > That's useful to know. > > Now that I've used 'auto' for both DirPort and ORPort I still get 'unable to > prove th

Re: [tor-relays] Is a relay on mobile broadband possible in Australia?

> On 6 Jul 2018, at 18:29, Keifer Bly wrote: > > QRPort auto should work. Send a note back if it doesn’t. No, it will not, because you typed "Q" instead of "O". Please run: tor --verify-config -f torrc before posting a torrc. T ___ tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] IPv6 and bridges

> On 5 Jul 2018, at 04:17, arisbe wrote: > > Hello to you all, > > Question: Is there a point to adding IPv6 addresses to the ORPorts of my > bridges? BridgeDB has an IPv6 option: https://bridges.torproject.org/options But there seems to be a bug right now:

Re: [tor-relays] ContactInfo-Information-Sharing-Specification

> On 2 Jul 2018, at 02:27, Kay Slake wrote: > > I'd like to opt out of to relays. It's too technical for me. Thank you You can unsubscribe here: > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays T ___ tor-relays mailing list

Re: [tor-relays] Contact info obfscation

> On 1 Jul 2018, at 21:10, Keifer Bly wrote: > > How do I reload the relay without restarting it? To reload all the tor instances on your machine: killall -HUP tor To reload just one tor instance: kill -HUP `cat tor.pid` If you have "PidFile tor.pid" in your torrc. T

Re: [tor-relays] fix this please

> On 30 Jun 2018, at 09:27, I wrote: > > The installation guide https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en points > to a dead end if you choose the experimental version because it hasn't been > changed to 0.3.4.x. Here's the existing ticket:

Re: [tor-relays] Become a Fallback Directory Mirror

> On 29 Jun 2018, at 07:39, Matthias Fetzer wrote: > > Currently rofltor03 has a traffic cap. I can change it to a long > running and bandwidth (instead of traffic) capped relay tho, if that > is wanted. How often does the relay reach its traffic cap? Becoming a fallback adds about 10

Re: [tor-relays] A general question for relay operators

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Re: [tor-relays] A general question for relay operators

ts replaced with "Downtime".) After a relay has been down for a while (a week?), it disappears from Relay Search. If you want new features for relay operators, they belong in relay search. T -- teor PGP C855 6C

Re: [tor-relays] A general question for relay operators

> On 28 Jun 2018, at 11:45, Keifer Bly wrote: > > It is also a pain at times keeping the OS, especially on macOS, the newer > versions of which my not support older machines, up to date while trying to > keep the relay stable, as relay status is changed so quickly (removing relays > from

Re: [tor-relays] Is Tor-network protected from using one hop?

> On 27 Jun 2018, at 00:34, Matt Traudt wrote: > >> On 6/26/18 10:29, Nagaev Boris wrote: >>> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 5:27 PM, Matt Traudt wrote: On 6/26/18 10:16, dave levi wrote: I'm testing few things in Tor and I noticed that if im changing(from the source code) the number

Re: [tor-relays] Relay Guide - IPv6 Connectivity Testing

On 26 Jun 2018, at 02:40, nusenu wrote: >> It would also be nice if the relay, itself, performed self-checks of >> this connectivity and printed a warning log if some failure-threshold is >> reached (and possibly disabling the IPv6 ORPort). But, in reality, this >> is a hack > > I wouldn't

Re: [tor-relays] Number of connections on dir port

rces, you should disable your DirPort. Clients will still use your relay as a directory mirror via the ORPort. Your relay will keep being a useful fallback until the next fallback rebuild later in 2018. (The fallback script needs DirPorts to check if relays are working.) T -- teor PGP C85

Re: [tor-relays] I get sad when :-(

> On 24 Jun 2018, at 11:18, Paul Templeton wrote: > > I have two systems one a VPS the other bare metal and both will drop out of > the consensuses about once a day(2 to 3 hours) but are running the whole time. Hmm, that's weird. Does your provider have a reliable connection? > I have 4 bare

Re: [tor-relays] Prepping bridges for censorship

Hi, (This thread has a lot of top-posting, so I cut the context.) > On 23 Jun 2018, at 06:54, Matthew Glennon wrote: > > No - and I don't think a standard port should be chosen. Tor comes with > defaults and that's probably good enough. Keep them if you want, or customize > them to fit your

Re: [tor-relays] Bandwidth limits for Fallback Directory Mirror

> On 9 Jun 2018, at 22:12, Cristian Consonni wrote: > > Hi, > > due to the new DigitalOcean billing terms for bandwidth (see this other > thread [1]), I have limited my relay bandwidth to be sure I will stay > withing the limits: > ``` > RelayBandwidthRate 360 KB # Throttle traffic to 100KB/s

Re: [tor-relays] Trying to set up a relay at home, but get no connections

> On 12 Jun 2018, at 04:29, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > So, it seems my ISP does not want us to run relays ☹ Can you think of > any way my connection (oversized for my regular uses) can be put to > use for Tor? I guess it would not work as a bridge either, would it? Your relay will work as a bridge

Re: [tor-relays] New DNS related fields in the ContactInfo Sharing Specification

> On 1 Jun 2018, at 05:48, Iain Learmonth wrote: > > On 31/05/18 18:26, nusenu wrote: >>> RelayBandwidthRate is already included in relay descriptors as >>> bandwidth-avg: >>> https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/dir-spec.txt#n424 >>> >>> Although strictly that field is: >>> >>>

Re: [tor-relays] New DNS related fields in the ContactInfo Sharing Specification

On 31 May 2018, at 04:29, nusenu wrote: >> nusenu: >>> Due to this last sentence I'm not sure if you want to convey >>> availability (only xx% of resources are available to tor) or usage >>> (tor uses only xx% of the resources it has available)? >> >> The latter - Tor uses only xx% of the

Re: [tor-relays] Why adding more Nodes won't help?

> On 31 May 2018, at 04:02, dave` dave wrote: > > Thank you for your help! > i have maybe a better idea for my project, i saw that if i change the number > of nodes(change it to one node only) i may get block from the tor in this > link >

Re: [tor-relays] adding clients to obfs4proxy+private tor relay

> On 29 May 2018, at 03:51, Hamid Safe wrote: > > I currently do have a working private tor relay with obfs4. The single client > user is my laptop which is working fine now,but I would like to add more > clients to that relay. I thought having the private signaure and config in > client's

Re: [tor-relays] Why adding more Nodes won't help?

> On 28 May 2018, at 23:46, dave` dave wrote: > > i saw about this " RefuseUnknownExits 0 " but its not working, have any other > idea that it may work? Please copy and paste the client and exit logs from when you try to connect. Then we can help you more. T

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Software Update Question

> On 24 May 2018, at 11:48, Keifer Bly wrote: > > What does it mean? Does it mean my relay will be unreachable? Thank you. This bug happens because Tor doesn't check for relay information correctly. It's harmless on relays, and you should ignore it. T

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Software Update Question

Hi, > On 24 May 2018, at 11:27, Keifer Bly wrote: > > May 24 11:24:14.000 [warn] Bug: Non-fatal assertion info || client failed in > onion_extend_cpath at src/or/circuitbuild.c:2772. Stack trace: (on Tor > 0.3.3.6 7dd0813e783ae16e) Thanks for reporting this bug! It's a

Re: [tor-relays] Why adding more Nodes won't help?

> On 24 May 2018, at 05:00, dave` dave wrote: > > i saw that is a way to change the numbers of nodes in this site > http://thesprawl.org/research/tor-control-protocol/#creating-really-fast-one-hop-circuits > any one knows how it works, there is not enough information how

Re: [tor-relays] DirPort DOS activity against Fallback Directories

On 22 May 2018, at 04:29, Logforme wrote: >> Just looked over a sample of FallBackDir relays in Relay Search and >> it appears this excess-load abuse is directed at them in particular. >> Some fall-back directories show more than a month of excess request >> traffic, presumably

Re: [tor-relays] Running a bridge remotely

Hi, > On 21 May 2018, at 18:20, Keifer Bly wrote: > > I have been running my home computer as a public tor relay for some time now > with no issues, and unfortunately do not have a data center or anywhere else > to run my relay from. I have noticed that there are far

Re: [tor-relays] Why adding more Nodes won't help?

> On 21 May 2018, at 22:43, dave` dave wrote: > > Tor use 3 noes to enter the Tor-Network. why adding more nodes would not help > my anonymity, as more nodes i have it need to be harder to track me. No, 3 nodes is enough:

Re: [tor-relays] can dirport be disabled on fallback directory?

Hi, I didn't get your original email, it appears my spam filter is eating all your emails. (And a few other emails.) At 12:25 5/18/2018 -0400, starlight.2017q4 at binnacle.cx wrote: >Lately seeing escalating abuse traffic on the relay dirport, now up to 20k >rotating source IP addresses per

Re: [tor-relays] Help! I'm ripping my hair out trying to get Quintex on IPv6 exit

Hi, > On 19 May 2018, at 13:24, John Ricketts wrote: > > I’ve been trying to bring a relay up for testing IPv6. Relay name is > QuintexAirVPN1. Metrics website says that the OR Port is unreachable on > [2620:7:6000:::c759:df51]:80 – which isn’t where I set the ORPort

Re: [tor-relays] "NoAdvertise" needed for IPv6 DirPort ?

> On 6 May 2018, at 04:07, Toralf Förster <toralf.foers...@gmx.de> wrote: > >> On 05/05/2018 06:56 PM, nusenu wrote: >> to quote teor (2017-12-21 on tor-relays): >> "By the way, there are no IPv6 DirPorts" > > Hhm, this works: >wget http:/

Re: [tor-relays] Removal request from fallback directory mirrors list

> On 5 May 2018, at 03:59, Dmitrii Tcvetkov wrote: > > Hello, > > Because of latest Digital Ocean billing changes I request to remove > relay 774555642FDC1E1D4FDF2E0C31B7CA9501C5C9C7 from fallback directory > mirrors list. I will keep it online and updated, but in the

Re: [tor-relays] Request for removal of an exit from the consensus

> On 5 May 2018, at 06:47, Nathaniel Suchy (Lunorian) wrote: > > This is more of a message to the directory authorities. After a > discussion with Digitalocean - they will not relent on the bandwidth > policy. The server tor-exit-us-1.lunorian.is (Tor Metrics link below) > has

Re: [tor-relays] Help With Autoupdating Tor Software

> On 2 May 2018, at 19:20, Iain Learmonth <i...@torproject.org> wrote: > >> On 02/05/18 09:50, teor wrote: >> Being in the consensus is called "Running", but what it actually means is >> that a majority of directory authorities found your relay r

Re: [tor-relays] Help With Autoupdating Tor Software

> On 2 May 2018, at 18:32, Iain Learmonth wrote: > >> On 02/05/18 02:09, Keifer Bly wrote: >> My suspicion is that my posted uptime was retained because I did not >> restart the relay software while my router firmware was updating (it was >> offline for about 2 hours), but

Re: [tor-relays] Help With Autoupdating Tor Software

> On 2 May 2018, at 03:58, Keifer Bly wrote: > > do shell script "$ which brew > /usr/local/bin/brew update" > do shell script "$ which brew > /usr/local/bin/brew upgrade tor" > end > > > When the script is run, the output is this: $ which brew > sh: $: command not

Re: [tor-relays] New upcoming requirement for relays related to Ed25519 support

> On 28 Apr 2018, at 08:05, nusenu wrote: > > we want to inform you that in future*, tor directory authorities > will enforce a new security measurement that disallows relays to > drop Ed25519 support in case they ever supported it at some point. > > In practice that

Re: [tor-relays] nyx tor controller password

> sudo -u debian-tor nyx > That's it! > Thanks a lot! That's not great for security, now nyx can read your tor private keys. (It probably won't, but still…) If you add your controller to the debian-tor group, and set the appropriate options to make your cookie file group-readable, then nyx

Re: [tor-relays] Goes the ORPort into "Consensus Weight" calculation ?

> On 27 Apr 2018, at 11:49, Toralf Förster wrote: > > For family:D11D11877769B9E617537B4B46BFB92B443DE33D - running at the same IP > - I do wonder about the differences of the values 44300 versus 36800 (one is > 1 1/2 year, the other is 1/2 year old). No, the ORPort

Re: [tor-relays] FW: Relay unreachable by authorities (Was:Re:Questiononrelay allowed downtime)

e rather than a relay. > Or get a better router. > Or run your relay remotely on a cheap VPS instead. > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Apr 26, 2018, at 8:27 PM, teor <teor2...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >>> On 27 Apr 2018, at 09:42, Keifer Bly &l

Re: [tor-relays] FW: Relay unreachable by authorities (Was:Re:Questiononrelay allowed downtime)

> On 27 Apr 2018, at 09:42, Keifer Bly wrote: > > There are no warnings with the tor software regarding the maximum network > connections. Perhaps it is my router (A Netgear Orbi Wifi Router, all > wireless);. I’ve noticed that my router does sometimes drop my

Re: [tor-relays] FW: Relay unreachable by authorities (Was: Re:Questiononrelay allowed downtime)

> On 27 Apr 2018, at 09:09, Keifer Bly wrote: > > That’s what’s strange. I have double checked the tor logs and the only > warning that appears is the “tor cannot help you if you use it wrong” > warning; that’s the only one that appears. > Then the problem is probably

Re: [tor-relays] Relay unreachable by authorities (Was: Re: Question on relay allowed downtime)

> On 27 Apr 2018, at 08:23, Keifer Bly wrote: > > My apologies. The fingerprint is DB1AF6477BB276B6EA5E72132684096EEE779D30 > > Here are the contents of my torc file (the isp beeng run from is Charter > Communications, the only isp that is available where I live. You

[tor-relays] Relay unreachable by authorities (Was: Re: Question on relay allowed downtime)

> On 27 Apr 2018, at 07:47, Keifer Bly wrote: > > Thank you. I just had to restart my relay again because it disappeared from > the relay list for some reason, the software did not say that it was having > any trouble Please check the logs for warnings and notices.

Re: [tor-relays] nyx tor controller password

> On 26 Apr 2018, at 23:15, smichel0 wrote: > > I want to monitor my new tor relay (set up on a raspbian pi 3 by migrating my > former relay incl. keys) with nyx. When try to start nyx by "nyx" in the > command line "Tor controller password" is prompted. > > I can't

Re: [tor-relays] control who can connect me

> On 26 Apr 2018, at 01:33, dave` dave wrote: > > Thank you all for your answers. > so if i can't control on the access to my Exit-Relay i can control on the > access to my SSH which used to run this Exir-Relay. You asked in another thread how to build a circuit like:

Re: [tor-relays] Can i use the same ip for Tor bridge and Exit-Relay to work together?

> On 25 Apr 2018, at 22:28, dave` dave wrote: > > hi. Thank you for your answer. > i need to add this line " EnforceDistinctSubnets 0" to the "torrc" file in > the SSH? > and if the answer is "yes" its still not working. You need to change the torrc file in your Tor

Re: [tor-relays] Can i use the same ip for Tor bridge and Exit-Relay to work together?

> On 25 Apr 2018, at 18:09, dave` dave wrote: > > Im working on project in Tor and im running Exit-Relay and Tor-Bridge > together(on the same ip). for that im using VMware Ubuntu 16.04 with SSH. im > using "arm" option tor run the Tor through terminal > this is my

Re: [tor-relays] Relay conf

> On 23 Apr 2018, at 09:15, Michael Harris wrote: > > Relay configure and started, stops abruptly. Any advice would be appreciated Paste your torrc somewhere and send us the link. > /var/log/tor/log > > Last three lines: > > Tor has successfully opened a circuit.

Re: [tor-relays] Consensus Weight Definiton

> On 22 Apr 2018, at 12:40, Keifer Bly wrote: > > Thank you. I am just a little confused as I seem to get the stable flag > randomly, sometimes after 2 days, sometimes after 4 days, sometimes longer; > what I'm saying is it seems completely random. Perhaps your network

Re: [tor-relays] Consensus Weight Definiton

> On 22 Apr 2018, at 12:08, Keifer Bly <keifer@gmail.com> wrote: > > On https://consensus-health.torproject.org/, I found this information. I am > curious, where it says stable-uptime=, the following number is in minutes > correct? It is in seconds: > On 12

Re: [tor-relays] Consensus Weight Definiton

Hi, You talked about using homebrew to automatically update tor. How do you launch tor? Des homebrew restart tor when it is updated? Because tor doesn't update to the new version until you restart it. > On 22 Apr 2018, at 11:06, Keifer Bly wrote: > > Thank you. And I’m

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