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 unlimited

Re: [tor-relays] Recent rejection of relays

2021-11-11 Thread mpan
1. Asking all relay operators to list their email addresses in the public relay list is largely equivalent to asking them to invite tens of thousands of spam emails into their inboxes and having to either ignore most of them or set up aggressive filtering rules which can easily bounce

Re: [tor-relays] Recent rejection of relays

2021-11-11 Thread gus
On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 03:35:26PM +, Gary C. New via tor-relays wrote: > 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

Re: [tor-relays] Recent rejection of relays

2021-11-11 Thread gus
Hi, On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 09:14:58PM +, z-relay--- via tor-relays wrote: > I'll throw in my 2 cents. > > Limitations with current approach: > > 1. Asking all relay operators to list their email addresses in the public > relay list is largely equivalent to asking them to invite tens of

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] Recent rejection of relays

2021-11-11 Thread Mick
On 11 November 2021 17:17:40 GMT, gus wrote: > >What exactly is stopping you to use this email address as your relay >contact_info? >This is a *public* mailing list. > >cheers, >Gus > +1 to the sentiment behind that query. Personally I have no requirement for anonymity about the fact that I

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

2021-11-11 Thread ronqtorrelays
> On Nov 10, 2021, at 10:29, Jonas via tor-relays > wrote: > > I could easily run thousands of [relays] across many ASes ... However, > providing proof of identity or anything which ties to my real world identity > is a non-starter. I'm in a similar situation, though it would be "dozens"

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

2021-11-11 Thread bobby stickel
Okay thanks for the response. I see that I have the not recommended flag. I try to update my node but it says that it's up to date I don't understand what else I can do https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/50C590A57693085D9601371666B389152B011FF5On Nov 10, 2021 7:42 AM, "Gary C. New via

Re: [tor-relays] Recent rejection of relays

2021-11-11 Thread z-relay--- via tor-relays
I'll throw in my 2 cents. Limitations with current approach: 1. Asking all relay operators to list their email addresses in the public relay list is largely equivalent to asking them to invite tens of thousands of spam emails into their inboxes and having to either ignore most of them or set

[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 -

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

2021-11-11 Thread Tortilla via tor-relays
> This proposal seems to come from a > desire of power and control over the network, not > actually improving "anonymity" for users That sounds more like a personal reaction to not wanting to be identified rather than a helpful statement about other people's motivations, which I'd stay away from,

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

2021-11-11 Thread Elias via tor-relays
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Thank you for your suggestions, Gary. 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. I chose this server because the bandwith is unmetered and it's

Re: [tor-relays] Recent rejection of relays

2021-11-11 Thread Tor Relays
Georg Koppen : > Hello everyone! > > Some of you might have noticed that there is a visible drop of relays on > our consensus-health website.[1] The reason for that is that we kicked > roughly 600 non-exit relays out of the network yesterday. In fact, only > a small fraction of them had the guard

Re: [tor-relays] Recent rejection of relays

2021-11-11 Thread Georg Koppen
Tor Relays: Georg Koppen : Hello everyone! Some of you might have noticed that there is a visible drop of relays on our consensus-health website.[1] The reason for that is that we kicked roughly 600 non-exit relays out of the network yesterday. In fact, only a small fraction of them had the

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:

Re: [tor-relays] Tor website

2021-11-11 Thread gus
Hello, 2019.www is an old and archived version of the website. We're migrating the manual to GitLab pages and, after that, we will redirect the old link to the new page. https://tpo.pages.torproject.net/web/docs/tor/manual/tor.1-stable.html https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/tpo/-/issues/236