Re: [tor-relays] VPS

2013-10-21 Thread mick
On Sun, 20 Oct 2013 12:40:52 -0800 I beatthebasta...@inbox.com allegedly wrote: Mick, Is Serverstack.nl particularly pro-tor exit nodes? By the front page it would seem so. Robert Heh! I hadn't seen that before. (Though take a look at serverstack.com for a more, erm, normally corporate

Re: [tor-relays] rm /var/lib/tor/keys/* before changing exit policy?

2013-10-21 Thread Lunar
Martin Kepplinger: Really quick not too important question. When switching a relay to become an exit node or the other way round, does it make sense to delete /var/lib/tor/keys/* beforehand and start it over this way? Why would you want to do that? Updates to a relay's exit policy are spread

Re: [tor-relays] rm /var/lib/tor/keys/* before changing exit policy?

2013-10-21 Thread Martin Kepplinger
Lunar: Martin Kepplinger: Really quick not too important question. When switching a relay to become an exit node or the other way round, does it make sense to delete /var/lib/tor/keys/* beforehand and start it over this way? Why would you want to do that? Updates to a relay's exit policy

Re: [tor-relays] rm /var/lib/tor/keys/* before changing exit policy?

2013-10-21 Thread irregulator
On 10/21/2013 01:52 PM, Martin Kepplinger wrote: Lunar: Martin Kepplinger: Really quick not too important question. When switching a relay to become an exit node or the other way round, does it make sense to delete /var/lib/tor/keys/* beforehand and start it over this way? Why would you

Re: [tor-relays] rm /var/lib/tor/keys/* before changing exit policy?

2013-10-21 Thread BarkerJr
You shouldn't really worry about these things. If the network is better off with an exit who doesn't have the guard flag, the authorities should remove the guard flag, which will cause a gradual migration away from you as a guard, rather than failed circuits as nodes keep attempting to connect to

Re: [tor-relays] minimum ram

2013-10-21 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I: To see if it was possible just now I set up an obfsproxy bridge as best I could but it failed to download properly. Can you be more specific about what this means? What exactly happened? The instructions say set up Tor then the obfsproxy

Re: [tor-relays] Relay security, re: local network

2013-10-21 Thread Nicolas Braud-Santoni
On 01/10/2013 03:34, The Doctor wrote: That reminds me of a question I've been meaning to ask lately... Has anyone tried running Tor on top of OSv (http://osv.io/)? As I understand it, OSv is an ultra-small OS which is Linux API-compatible and designed for running a single app only atop a