Re: [tor-relays] How to reduce tor CPU load on a single bridge?

2022-01-17 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
On Monday, January 17, 2022, 11:47:11 AM MST, David Fifield wrote: > Gary, I was wondering how you are dealing with the changing onion key issue, >and I suppose it is >[this](https://forum.torproject.net/t/tor-relays-how-to-reduce-tor-cpu-load-on-a-single-bridge/1483/13): >

Re: [tor-relays] DNS Timeouts - I think the threshold for overload needs raising

2022-01-16 Thread John Csuti via tor-relays
Update your version of tor this is an old issue that has been fixed in the latest version. Thanks, John C. > On Jan 16, 2022, at 4:17 AM, AMuse wrote: > >  > Hi all! > > I'm operating a TOR Exit on dedicated hardware. The load average is low > (0.07) and the network lo

Re: [tor-relays] Home Tor Middle Relay Blacklisted

2022-01-12 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
to implement an On-Shore configuration for Tor Blacklisted Sites. My only concern is latency, with this type of configuration, but it's better than the current forbidden situation. I appreciate the heads-up related to Tor and IPv6-only being a non-starter. It sounds like if I were to migrate

[tor-relays] Ansible role to deploy Bridges

2022-01-12 Thread Erasme - Relay Operator via tor-relays
Hi all, In the effort of deploying obfs4 bridges for the community we are sharing our Ansible role that allowed us to deploy multiple nodes: https://github.com/NewNewYorkBridges/ansible-tor-bridge For now it is only available on Debian but we will make it available for other distributions

Re: [tor-relays] Home Tor Middle Relay Blacklisted

2022-01-10 Thread zorc via tor-relays
> Fellow Tor Operators: > > After about 9 months of running Tor as a Middle Relay from my home network, > I'm beginning to experience signs of my public semi-static IPv4 address being > blacklisted with 403 Forbidden errors from Reuters and Venmo. I've confirmed > by successfu

[tor-relays] Overloaded relay - need help with how to debug using MetricsPort

2022-01-09 Thread nottryingtobelame via tor-relays
h one user was able to find a page showing at least the syntax for MetricsPort. I also reached out to network-rep...@torproject.org and have not received a reply. I found discussion about the implementation of MetricsPort on the Tor Project github but it would be nice if the Tor Project

[tor-relays] Home Tor Middle Relay Blacklisted

2022-01-09 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
Fellow Tor Operators: After about 9 months of running Tor as a Middle Relay from my home network, I'm beginning to experience signs of my public semi-static IPv4 address being blacklisted with 403 Forbidden errors from Reuters and Venmo. I've confirmed by successfully accessing both sites

Re: [tor-relays] How to reduce tor CPU load on a single bridge?

2022-01-09 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
David, Roger, et al., I just got back from holidays and really enjoyed this thread! I run my Loadbalanced Tor Relay as a Guard/Middle Relay, very similar to David's topology diagram, without the Snoflake-Server proxy. I'm using Nginx (which forks a child process per core) instead of HAProxy

Re: [tor-relays] How to reduce tor CPU load on a single bridge?

2022-01-09 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
ctfully, Gary On Wednesday, December 29, 2021, 03:32:55 AM MST, abuse--- via tor-relays wrote: Hi Gary, thanks! > As an aside... Presently, are you using a single, public address with many > ports or many, public addresses with a single port for your Tor deployments? > Have you

[tor-relays] Leaving tor

2022-01-07 Thread Jonas via tor-relays
Grüezi, I run a large number of bridges, which hopefully only the tor project can see them and confirm they are mine. I know they are used because I can see the traffic utilization over time. Hopefully they were helpful, especially to people in Russia over the past few weeks. After being

[tor-relays] Tor relay struggling with circuit creation (CPU Limit)

2022-01-06 Thread GANDI24325_TOR via tor-relays
Hi Tor relay community, I have recently made a new tor relay, and all is going well however I use NYX to mointor it and over the last day it has been giving the warning message seen below in the nyx mointor, the relay had been running fine for it's first 4 days of life but now shows

[tor-relays] TOR Metrics showing relay as down but logs show it is apparently active

2022-01-05 Thread Tor Geheimschreiber
Not sure if this is the correct list on which to ask but a new node created just over 7 days ago is now being shown on Tor Metrics (atlas.torproject.org) as being down. However local logs show heartbeat activity and some directory activity. A port scan of the IP address shows: -- cut here

[tor-relays] Some questions about the uptime requirement

2022-01-05 Thread David Hu via tor-relays
Hello Tor Relay operators, I am hosting a rather new Tor relay and my uptime is only about 13 hours, while I would like to contribute to Tor by continuing as a relay (NOT an exit one though because of frequent abuse of exit relays and my ISP won't allow it). My question is that I am going

Re: [tor-relays] Maybe the next step in russian Tor discrimination

2022-01-04 Thread Josh Lawson via tor-relays
Russian black box.  On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 04:39, <newslet...@unicorncloud.org> wrote: Hi,I've made the same experience with my node in RU.Greetings,Sebastian ElisaOn 02.01.2022 16:09, abuse--- via tor-relays wrote:> Very interesting!>> I have two VPS at different locations with justh

Re: [tor-relays] Maybe the next step in russian Tor discrimination

2022-01-04 Thread ValdikSS via tor-relays
kn?channel=3 * no chunk, no close, no size. Assume close to signal end The IP addresses of blocked Tor relays and bridges are not reachable over Chelyabinsk profitserver as well. OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature ____________

Re: [tor-relays] running a bridge

2022-01-02 Thread dmz21 via tor-relays
> comuter and forget about? Regards Carl In principle yes, because a tor bridge typically does not use much resources, but: 1. you'll need to have one or two open network ports which allow anyone from the internet to connect to your tor bridge. 2. you'll need to keep that system and the t

Re: [tor-relays] Maybe the next step in russian Tor discrimination

2022-01-02 Thread abuse--- via tor-relays
. - I tried again today and everything worked fine. I even downloaded the tor browser bundle for Windows over one of the servers just to see if it works. It does and the signature also checks out (verified on a different server outside Russia) - running tor nodes at both locations continues to work

[tor-relays] Maybe the next step in russian Tor discrimination

2022-01-02 Thread Tor Relays
. extendcircuit 0 authoritynickname getinfo circuit-status I observed that i can successfully create circuits to no more than three authorities and it seems to change to which authorities i can create circuits. The unsuccessful circuits stay in EXTENDED but never reach BUILT until Tor gives up eventually

Re: [tor-relays] [Censorship in Russia] More of my bridges got blocked

2021-12-29 Thread Space Oddity via tor-relays
t; to have bridge stats at metrics.org. > > -- > Toralf > > _______ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays ___ tor-rela

[tor-relays] [Censorship in Russia] More of my bridges got blocked

2021-12-29 Thread Space Oddity via tor-relays
Hello Tor people, just me chipping in about recent event. Today, I discovered that somewhere around Dec, 22, all three of my recently launched bridges have been censored on at least one network (MegaFon Moscow AS25159). Metrics show a drastic traffic drop in the range of Dec, 21-23 for all three

Re: [tor-relays] How to reduce tor CPU load on a single bridge?

2021-12-29 Thread abuse--- via tor-relays
Hi Gary, thanks! > As an aside... Presently, are you using a single, public address with many > ports or many, public addresses with a single port for your Tor deployments? > Have you ever considered putting all those Tor instances behind a single, > public address:port

Re: [tor-relays] How to reduce tor CPU load on a single bridge?

2021-12-28 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
Hi Kristian, Thanks for the screenshot. Nice Machine! Not everyone is as fortunate as you when it comes to resources for their Tor deployments. While a cpu affinity option isn't high on the priority list, as you point out, many operating systems do a decent job of load management

Re: [tor-relays] How to reduce tor CPU load on a single bridge?

2021-12-28 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
BTW... I just fact-checked my post-script and the cpu affinity configuration I was thinking of is for Nginx (not Tor). Tor should consider adding a cpu affinity configuration option. What happens if you configure additional Tor instances on the same machine (my Tor instances are on different

Re: [tor-relays] Incorrect "first seen" info

2021-12-28 Thread a tor op via tor-relays
of that page before the latest upgrade so it appears the change should have something to to with that somehow. This is on Debian. A tor op ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, December 27th, 2021 at 11:59 PM, nusenu wrote: > Hi, > > could you paste the Relay Search page l

Re: [tor-relays] How to reduce tor CPU load on a single bridge?

2021-12-27 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
David/Roger: Search the tor-relay mail archive for my previous responses on loadbalancing Tor Relays, which I've been successfully doing for the past 6 months with Nginx (it's possible to do with HAProxy as well). I haven't had time to implement it with a Tor Bridge, but I assume

Re: [tor-relays] [Censorship in Russia] Make HTTPS/Moat captcha more complex?

2021-12-27 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
by the garlic routers themselves? My thoughts are... What if the Tor Network distributed encrypted fingerprint-to-host databases to browsers/bridges/relays during the bootstrap process, with Directory Authorities, that operators did not have access? Such a process could be further segmented, so

Re: [tor-relays] Moving relay to other VPS

2021-12-27 Thread Murad Jabir via tor-relays
> On 26 Dec 2021, at 16:48, Bobby Stickel wrote: > > Yes In that case, this thread may be helpful https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2016-December/07.html (Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP) TLDR; There are advantages to resetting when a r

[tor-relays] Incorrect "first seen" info

2021-12-27 Thread a tor op via tor-relays
I notice that the "first seen" info on my obfs4 bridge status page on tor atlas / metrics all of a sudden is incorrect, by years. Not sure if it's something that introduced itself with latest update or what. The various graphs on traffic and users are still correct throu

Re: [tor-relays] Moving relay to other VPS

2021-12-27 Thread abuse--- via tor-relays
day now. Maybe the relays were offline too long for it to work for you? I moved everything within 48 hours. Best Regards, Kristian Dec 26, 2021, 15:48 by t...@online-hangout.com: > Yes > > On 12/25/2021 10:47 AM, Murad Jabir via tor-relays wrote: > >>> Hello I've no

Re: [tor-relays] [Censorship in Russia] Make HTTPS/Moat captcha more complex?

2021-12-27 Thread abuse--- via tor-relays
rested to play this game for an extended period of time. Even government level of funding has to show some kind of effect or the campaign will get shut down sooner or later. Dec 27, 2021, 04:42 by d...@thedave.ca: > On 2021-12-22 23:42, Gary C. New via tor-relays wrote: > >&g

Re: [tor-relays] Moving relay to other VPS

2021-12-26 Thread Murad Jabir via tor-relays
> Hello I've noticed that when swapping machines the advertised bandwidth goes > down to 0 and so does the consensus weight. Is it acting like I did a new > relay? Did the IP change ? Regards, Murad. _______ tor-relays mailing list t

Re: [tor-relays] [Censorship in Russia] Make HTTPS/Moat captcha more complex?

2021-12-25 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
Neel, I get the security vs usability considerations between centralized vs decentralized (or in the case of Tor semi-decentralized) networks. However, at a minimum, doesn't it make sense to exclude publishing address information from Tor metrics, etc, as to stop giving censorship organizations

Re: [tor-relays] General overload -> DNS timeouts

2021-12-25 Thread John Csuti via tor-relays
Well, I have to say thanks to the update to tor 0.4.6.9 the DNS overload issue is gone. My consensus Weight went down sightly due to the constant overload flag. Lets see if time will help heal that. Good work so far. Thanks, John C. On 2021-12-21 07:39 AM, nusenu wrote: bobby stickel

Re: [tor-relays] [Censorship in Russia] Make HTTPS/Moat captcha more complex?

2021-12-23 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
I know it might be a fundamental change to the Tor network, but would it be possible to obfuscate the Tor bridge/relay addresses with their respective fingerprints; similar, to the I2P network? I've often thought that this aspect of the I2P network is one that is implemented well. Perhaps

Re: [tor-relays] Bridge distribution method stuck at "none"

2021-12-20 Thread Murad Jabir via tor-relays
Neither seems to have produced any change. > > Is this normal or could I have missed something on the configuration? > > Thank you. > _______ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays _____

Re: [tor-relays] Running dedicated Tor node hosting

2021-12-20 Thread abuse--- via tor-relays
Hello, in my opinion, I am not sure if this is a good business idea. If I wanted to support the tor network "as a service", I'd donate to some of the very large relay operators that accept donations and are non-profits. That way, probably 80+% of what I donate goes directly into r

[tor-relays] Middle Relay shows Adv. Bandwidth of 0 B on Tor-Metrics

2021-12-19 Thread petrarca--- via tor-relays
My middle relay 605EE4375EE4C38215C8949F5808863749FD4F4A crashed and I had to set it up from scratch. It's up again for over 14 hours now, and all logs and other checks I did look fine - the only thing which is strange is on the Tor-Metrics page showing "Advertised Bandwidth" as zero

Re: [tor-relays] Introduction from lokodlare

2021-12-17 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
Roger, For completeness, I should amend point #3 to include configuring the Loadbalancer's Timeout to a Large Value: 3. Loadbalance using IP Transparency Mode (This was discovered while tirelessly combing through mountains of Tor debug logs), use Sticky Sessions based on Source IP Addresses

Re: [tor-relays] IPv6

2021-12-17 Thread Murad Jabir via tor-relays
pts though. You could have entered your IP on malicious site to test IPv6. Cheers, Murad. ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] General overload -> DNS timeouts

2021-12-16 Thread John Csuti via tor-relays
I agree its kinda pointless if you know the issue already... Thanks, John C. On 2021-12-16 08:41 AM, nusenu wrote: To stop confusing operators it would make sense to remove the "This relay is overloaded since" banner from Relay Search for all tor versions prior to 0.4.6.9 a

[tor-relays] [Censorship in Russia] Make HTTPS/Moat captcha more complex?

2021-12-16 Thread Space Oddity via tor-relays
to crowdsource/mass solve somehow. The other thought is an attack via email. Can we do something with it, what do you think? -- Best regards, Space Oddity. ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman

[tor-relays] IPv6

2021-12-15 Thread xplato via tor-relays
for iOS___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] Introduction from lokodlare

2021-12-14 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
Hi Roger, I've found the secret to effectively loadbalancing Tor Relay Nodes is as follows: 1. Use the same version of Tor on all Upstream Servers 2. Start/Stop all Upstream Tor Nodes at the same time to keep in sync 3. Loadbalance using IP Transparency Mode (This was discovered while tirelessly

Re: [tor-relays] Tor not starting but log inconclusive

2021-12-14 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
Are you able to start Tor manually without systemd? Anytime I encounter Tor start issues, I attempt to manually start Tor without the --quiet option to verify whether it's a torrc issue or something else. You might consider increasing the Tor logging level, too. Your existing Tor log shows

Re: [tor-relays] Introduction from ellie (at) nicecock

2021-12-14 Thread abuse--- via tor-relays
you in the future. > > >   > > > Best regards in addition to a nice day, > > > Ellie > > >   > > > P.S. I hope I am not needlessly spamming the mailing list, I just wanted to > introduce myself even as a small beginning operator. > >___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] Introduction from lokodlare

2021-12-13 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
> What part do you intent to load-balance and to what outcome? My current implementation is loadbalancing Tor Relay traffic, which provides high availability and economies of scale using existing, cost-effective, bare metal nodes. The same approach could be extrapolated to cost-effect

Re: [tor-relays] Introduction from lokodlare

2021-12-13 Thread abuse--- via tor-relays
Hi Gary, thanks for the warm welcome. I am currently not performing any load-balancing between my different Tor relays or my physical/virtual servers. Having thought about it a bit, I can only see this make sense if you intend to offer .onion services. I don't. Maybe I missed something? I

Re: [tor-relays] Introduction from lokodlare

2021-12-12 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
Welcome to tor-relays, Kristian. It's nice to meet a fellow Tor Farmer. It sounds like you are fairly seasoned with quite an extensive deployment of Tor Relays. Are you performing any loadbalancing with Tor Nodes or are they Individually, Distributed Tor Relays? I have a Single Tor Relay

Re: [tor-relays] Fw: is my tor bridge running ok ?

2021-12-12 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
On Sunday, December 12, 2021, 1:32:09 AM PST, Natus wrote: >> As for finding out if anyone is using it or not, I use: >> netstat -n |grep ESTA|wc -l >This one does not limit to tor bridge Pipe the bridge's destination port (i.e., ) through grep as well: netstat -anp | grep :

[tor-relays] bridge distribution mechanism

2021-12-12 Thread potlatch via tor-relays
Hello Tor universe, One of the bridges I recently set up shows the Bridge distribution mechanism as https: Question: Is this an issue or does it impact the functionality of the bridge? Or maybe I made a boo boo during setup. Most of my bridges report Moat as the mechanism. Just trying to learn

Re: [tor-relays] is my tor bridge running ok ?

2021-12-12 Thread xplato via tor-relays
My suggestion would be to install Nyx if I am understanding your question. Sent from ProtonMail for iOS On Sat, Dec 11, 2021 at 12:47 PM, Natus wrote: > hi > > just setup a tor bridge. how can I validate it is up and running ? > > logs look fine: > >> [notice] You can

[tor-relays] Introduction from lokodlare

2021-12-12 Thread abuse--- via tor-relays
Hello Tor relay operators, I joined this mail list recently and wanted to take the opportunity to shortly introduce myself. My name is Kristian, I am based in Europe, and I operate all nodes behind the domain lokodlare.com. “Lökodlare” is Swedish for “onion farmers”, which is pretty much what

Re: [tor-relays] Mitigating log4j exploits

2021-12-11 Thread Felix Eckhofer via tor-relays
from there. You can include a custom port as shown and many attackers do. Most exploit attempts use http(s). Nothing we can block without packet inspection. Best regards, Felix _______ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org

[tor-relays] Snowflake's package for FreeBSD available

2021-12-06 Thread Vinícius Zavam via tor-relays
the "latest" branch of pkg, try it out! the package is called "snowflake-tor" # pkg update -f # pkg install -U snowflake-tor wanna checkout the source of its port? - https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=057c0c3c0645c0b237bb2a96dda440e0426ca983 did you know abo

Re: [tor-relays] Massive CPU load on high capacity guard node

2021-11-20 Thread Elias via tor-relays
First of all, thank you very much for your response! > This is normal, HSDir flag is always gone after reboot or restart. Other flags > remain after reboot or restart. I know, it wouldn't even bother me if I lost the Guard flag. The Tor network can decide whatever it want's to use my

[tor-relays] Massive CPU load on high capacity guard node

2021-11-19 Thread Elias via tor-relays
Hello Everybody, my relay is now almost two weeks old and has the following flags: Fast, Guard, Running, Stable, V2Dir, Valid. I lost the HSDir flag because I had to restart the Tor process, my downtime was just a few seconds, maybe that's why I kept the Guard flag. I was expecting a drop

Re: [tor-relays] General overload -> DNS timeouts

2021-11-18 Thread Arlen Yaroslav via tor-relays
cs' can be used to disable the reporting of an overloaded state. E.g. place the following in your torrc: OverloadStatistics 0 May be worth considering until the reporting feature becomes a bit more mature and the issues around DNS resolution become a bit clearer. ____

Re: [tor-relays] Loss of Stable flag

2021-11-16 Thread Arlen Yaroslav via tor-relays
26, gabelmoo, dannenberg, maatuska and bastet. I also agree with you that there appear to be wider problems with the consensus health overall, but to me the issues have increased noticably in the past few months. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, November 16th, 2021 at 01:53, dg26

[tor-relays] Loss of Stable flag

2021-11-15 Thread Arlen Yaroslav via tor-relays
not aware of any issues. Would any of the directory authority operators be able to shed light on why some of the DAs are not assigning it the flag? Thanks! ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin

Re: [tor-relays] Hardware requirements for a fast Tor relay

2021-11-15 Thread Elias via tor-relays
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 >Since this is virtualization, make sure that features such as AES >acceleration are active. Yes, I have tested that. Is active. >The number of cores is not really relevant since Tor is not >multi-threaded. The EPYC 7702 can boos

Re: [tor-relays] Hardware requirements for a fast Tor relay

2021-11-12 Thread tor-operator--- via tor-relays
Elias via tor-relays wrote: > This is actually not a "real" root server, it's a KVM server (of > course). The CPU is an AMD EPYC 7702 with 2 dedicated cores per > server@3,35GHz. Since this is virtualization, make sure that features such as AES acceleration are active.

[tor-relays] Tor on cloud VPS

2021-11-12 Thread potlatch via tor-relays
Hello All, My VPS host recently moved one of my Tor exits to cloud ops (I believe AWS). Since that time the instance will not function as an exit. Torcc and keys are as before. I was operating on Ubuntu 21.04 but reloaded to 20.04. Still the same. I messed with the netplan config to no avail

Re: [tor-relays] Tor website

2021-11-12 Thread potlatch via tor-relays
Yes, thank you for the Tor docs link. But the question remains; Is there a site map or index for Tor web pages. I think, in recent months, this would encompass multiple sites (Torproject, git and more). But I rant potlatch Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message

Re: [tor-relays] Recent rejection of relays

2021-11-11 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
Gus, I have to agree with z-relay on these points. I won't even provide an obfuscated contact email in my torrc to avoid spam. I could setup a dedicated email for Tor operation, but I'd likely find my relays down prior to checking it. Case in point... When registering a domain name, I've gotten

Re: [tor-relays] Tor website

2021-11-11 Thread Elias via tor-relays
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Sorry, it was not my intention to interfere. $man tor I forgot to mention, that works too of course. Or in this case $man torrc. I already run a relay myself, after several "failed" attempts on cheap VPS now on a root server with

Re: [tor-relays] Tor website

2021-11-11 Thread Elias via tor-relays
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi potlatch, is this what you are looking for? https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/tree/src/config/torrc.sample.in https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en Both links can be found at the bottom of this site: https

Re: [tor-relays] Recent rejection of relays

2021-11-11 Thread Tor Relays
rk. > > Georg > When you don't have any evidence that these relays were doing something bad then what did they do to get rejected? ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] Hardware requirements for a fast Tor relay

2021-11-11 Thread Elias via tor-relays
d and it's a guaranteed 1GHz link. I don't think I will ever be able to relay 125MB/s, but I will try my best. If I can only reach ~50MB/s before the CPU starts to grumble I will set up a second Tor process and a second relay. I tuned my relay a bit today, using some of the tips from this co

[tor-relays] Tor website

2021-11-11 Thread potlatch via tor-relays
Hello, Does the new Tor web configuration have an overall site map or index page?  I can't find the old page with the manual for torrc.  I've had trouble finding other information over the past few weeks as well. Thanks, potlatch Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. publickey - potlatch

Re: [tor-relays] Recent rejection of relays

2021-11-11 Thread z-relay--- via tor-relays
else we'll kick you out" throws a sizable wretch into the credibility and technical soundness of the whole project. If the "adversaries" are capable of de-anonymize tor users by simply running a middle relay that by design knows neither the real sources nor the real destinations

Re: [tor-relays] A Simple Web of Trust for Tor Relay Operator IDs

2021-11-11 Thread Tortilla via tor-relays
I'd stay away from, however, seeing the time, effort and care people from the tor project and people like nusenu seem to invest, I don't think your statement is appropriate. Even if there are other attack vectors, it seems to have been shown that malicious relays are in fact used for nefarious pur

Re: [tor-relays] A Simple Web of Trust for Tor Relay Operator IDs

2021-11-10 Thread Jonas via tor-relays
are watching the discussion there. However, as they are the ones who are most affected by the proposal it's smart to find a better place for discussing its ideas. Hence this thread on tor-relays@. ---response starts here--- As a bridge operator, I stopped the plan on running relays due to the identity

Re: [tor-relays] Recent rejection of relays

2021-11-10 Thread Jonas via tor-relays
Where is this criteria documented? It seems the tor project, or its designated volunteers, are increasing controlling and managing the network. In the Swiss Federation and EU this turns the tor project into an "online service provider" or "online platform" and subje

Re: [tor-relays] Question about IPv6

2021-11-10 Thread tor-operator--- via tor-relays
public IPv6. Or do you actually need help to have it setup on Hardened BSD? _______ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] Question about IPv6

2021-11-10 Thread Jonas via tor-relays
Does the provider offer IPv6? If not, then there is no further progress possible.If they do, this is pretty accurate to get started, https://www.vultr.com/docs/configuring-ipv6-on-freebsdJonas-- Original Message --On Wed, November 10, 2021 at 12:40 AM, xplato via tor-relaystor

Re: [tor-relays] Questions about my tor node

2021-11-10 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
Bobby, I run a Tor relay on dual core 256MB devices with  a 250Gb fiber connection and they are  adequate to operate as a fast middle relay. Monitor your relay on https://metrics.torproject.org/  to verify. Respectfully, Gary— This Message Originated by the Sun. iBigBlue 63W Solar Array (~12

Re: [tor-relays] Hardware requirements for a fast Tor relay

2021-11-10 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
The following are some of the more important config options that I use for such a small middle relay: # Tor: A non-exit relay should be able to handle 7000 concurrent connections                                                                   ulimit -n 65535 DirCache 0

Re: [tor-relays] Hardware requirements for a fast Tor relay

2021-11-10 Thread Elias via tor-relays
the time, but all that happened was that my 20TB SSD was maxed out within two hours and I had to reboot to get rid of the old logfiles. My bad, please don't think I write a debug log, that's completely pointless. Why would I. I rented a pretty expensive root server because I think Tor is really

[tor-relays] Question about IPv6

2021-11-10 Thread xplato via tor-relays
instructions would be much appreciated. Kindly, Dan Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] Recent rejection of relays

2021-11-10 Thread tor
wrote: > >Finally, anyone running relays: try to get connected to the community so we >can build some trust among each other. That seems to be an essential part in >our long-term strategy to fight bad relays trying to enter our network. > _______

Re: [tor-relays] Hardware requirements for a fast Tor relay

2021-11-10 Thread failing.flyaway443--- via tor-relays
I just read this research paper, maybe it's worth thinking about some kind of implementation of this approach some time in the future. It's an interesting read anyway. uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/bitstream/handle/10012/16108/Engler_Steven.pdf Regards ___ tor

Re: [tor-relays] Hardware requirements for a fast Tor relay

2021-11-10 Thread failing.flyaway443--- via tor-relays
ards... ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] Hardware requirements for a fast Tor relay

2021-11-09 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
It's surprising that you're running into CPU issues. It's typically RAM that is exhausted first. I have 5 x Dual Core 256MB Tor Relay Nodes loadbalanced as a Single Middle Relay that never have CPU issues. It's always a matter of running out of RAM for me. The loadbalanced Tor Relay

[tor-relays] Hardware requirements for a fast Tor relay

2021-11-09 Thread failing.flyaway443--- via tor-relays
Hi everyone, about two weeks ago, I signed up for a VPS with a cloud provider and set up a Tor relay. I installed Debian 11 Bullseye, secured it, and then set up Tor 0.4.6.8 and started the relay. The VPS had the following specs: 1vCore, 2GB RAM, 40TB traffic per month on a 1Gbit/s link. I

Re: [tor-relays] General overload -> DNS timeouts

2021-11-09 Thread John Csuti via tor-relays
Hello all, I would have to agree on this it appears that the DNS failure timeout is too low. I have more then enough bandwidth to host tor exit nodes, and my own unbound full recursive relay and yet i still get the timeout message 1-1.5%. Sometimes even weird amounts such as 40-50%. I have

Re: [tor-relays] Max number of bridge under the same IP

2021-11-08 Thread Tor Relays
gus : > > > From the Tor Relay Guide: > > > > "Note: You can only run two Tor relays per public IPv4 address. If you > > want to run more than two relays you will need more IPv4 addresses." > > https://community.torproject.org/relay/relays-requirements/

[tor-relays] Max number of bridge under the same IP

2021-11-08 Thread ML Tor
Hi, hi made a new Proxmox server for my home network. I still run a bare metal Tor bridge, but now i would run more bridge in my home network. I have a public dynamic IP: what is the max number of bridge i can run (obviously on different ORPort) under the same IP address Thanks in advance

Re: [tor-relays] Crashed Relay

2021-11-07 Thread Bleedangel Tor Admin
If you upgraded tor as a package on your Linux OS recently, it may have overwritten your torrc with defaults? It’s a long shot!Sent from ProtonMail for iOS On Sat, Nov 6, 2021 at 12:52, sysmanager7 via tor-relays <tor-relays@lists.torproject.org> wrote: I was notified by Uptime

[tor-relays] General overload -> DNS timeouts

2021-11-06 Thread Intrepid Ibex via tor-relays
Hi everybody, I am new to tor (as server operator) and try to support the network by operating an exit node. Machine is running Ubuntu 20.04 - Tor 0.4.6.8. nyx is giving me a notive every 10 minutes or so: [NOTICE] General overload -> DNS timeouts (6) fraction 1.4742% is above thresh

[tor-relays] upgrade problem

2021-11-06 Thread potlatch via tor-relays
Wondering if my tor.list has a typo since I can't upgrade Tor 0.4.5.9.  I get error: Err:1 https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org stretch/main amd64 tor-geoipdb all 0.4.5.10-1~d9.stretch+1   server certificate verification failed. CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt CRLfile: none I

[tor-relays] Crashed Relay

2021-11-06 Thread sysmanager7 via tor-relays
I was notified by Uptime Robot that relay 1 of 3 had been shut down. Unfortunately I found this out 12 hours after the fact. guard flag is lost. journalctl -u tor@default Nov 01 01:03:18 ubuntu-s-1vcpu-2gb-nyc1-01 Tor[328387]: I learned some more directory information, but not enough to build

Re: [tor-relays] Relay operator section in our forum

2021-10-29 Thread HackerNCoder via tor-relays
ourse was contacted, and as it looks right now, we are not getting an onion service. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/40183#note_2740700 I looked around a little, but I can't find where there is anything on exactly why it isn't self hosted. -- HackerNCoder ________

[tor-relays] bridge question

2021-10-28 Thread potlatch via tor-relays
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Re: [tor-relays] DirectoryAuthority & FallbackDir Only at Startup?

2021-10-25 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
David Goulet or Georg Koppen: Can either of you confirm my question regarding whether the DirectoryAuthority & FallbackDir directives only evaluated at startup of a Tor instance? I need to verify the best way to configure cloned, loadbalanced Tor Relay Instances to inter

[tor-relays] DirectoryAuthority & FallbackDir Only at Startup?

2021-10-18 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
All: Are the DirectoryAuthority & FallbackDir directives only evaluated at startup of a Tor instance? I recently ran into an issue where my Tor Relay Farm went down, due to the manually configured DirectoryAuthority going down and the FallbackDir didn't seem to back it up. I

Re: [tor-relays] Overloaded state indicator on relay-search

2021-10-18 Thread Arlen Yaroslav via tor-relays
if I should raise this in the bug tracker or if you need anything else. Thanks, Arlen ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] help with exit

2021-10-18 Thread relays via tor-relays
On 10/16/21 5:56 PM, Bass Down Low via tor-relays wrote: Hi all, I am somewhat new to the project and trying to run a couple exits to help out. I noticed my relay amazinglizard F80494CE5B2441B67431FFA9CCA571D26BC4F6D8 has bee up for 4 days and not turned into an exit yet. I noticed

[tor-relays] Tor Bridge Question

2021-10-17 Thread Josh Lawson via tor-relays
I work for a bank and was informed that when I connect to my employer network, it shows I am coming from a Tor IP and sets off an alert that then leads to me being on a call with an investigative team for my employers. I was running a Tor relay, but had to shut it down because of these alerts

[tor-relays] help with exit

2021-10-17 Thread Bass Down Low via tor-relays
becoming an exit? If not, I would appreciate any help you can give. thank you very much___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] Bridge showing offline

2021-10-15 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
. iBigBlue 63W Solar Array (~12 Hour Charge) + 2 x Charmast 26800mAh Power Banks = iPhone XS Max 512GB (~2 Weeks Charged) On Thursday, October 14, 2021, 5:10:53 AM PDT, Bleedangel Tor Admin wrote: You are running 0.4.5.8, maybe updating to a newer version of tor will help? Sent from

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