Re: [tor-relays] running a relay on a home connection

2013-12-17 Thread Mark Jamsek
On 18/12/2013 9:20 AM, I wrote: Could you expand that it little further, please? Robert You may use a dynamic dns resolver such as freedns.afraid.org, dyn.com or noip.com etc, then you can use your full dns name instead of your current IP address. ___

Re: [tor-relays] running a relay on a home connection

2013-12-17 Thread I
Could you expand that it little further, please? Robert > > You may use a dynamic dns resolver such as freedns.afraid.org, dyn.com > or noip.com etc, then you can use your full dns name instead of your > current IP address. FREE 3D EA

Re: [tor-relays] running a relay on a home connection

2013-12-17 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 11:25:15AM +0530, abhiram wrote: > I am running a tor relay on a home connection. My connection is > assigned a new ip as the lease expires every few days. So far I am > fixing this my editing my torrc file with the new address value. Are > there better ways of handing this?

Re: [tor-relays] bandwith unit

2013-12-17 Thread Kiss Gabor (Bitman)
> There are 2 applicable options in your torrc: > > RelayBandwidthRate > MaxAdvertisedBandwidth > > The former actually throttles your traffic; the latter does not. > Both may be omitted. > The lower of the two is what you should see in Globe or Atlas. > MaxAdvertisedBandwidth should not be high

Re: [tor-relays] bandwith unit

2013-12-17 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 02:10:21PM +0100, Kiss Gabor (Bitman) wrote: > Another possiblity: "Advertised Bandwith" in Globe shows not the > limit but my actual traffic. That is incidentally 1/8 of the maximum. :-) I think that's it. See also https://exonerator.torproject.org/serverdesc?desc-id=16d53

Re: [tor-relays] running a relay on a home connection

2013-12-17 Thread Luther Blissett
On Tue, 2013-12-17 at 11:25 +0530, abhiram wrote: > Hello, > > I am running a tor relay on a home connection. My connection is > assigned a new ip as the lease expires every few days. So far I am > fixing this my editing my torrc file with the new address value. Are > there better ways of handing

Re: [tor-relays] bandwith unit

2013-12-17 Thread Jobiwan Kenobi
On Dec 17, 2013, at 13:38 , Kiss Gabor (Bitman) wrote: > Dear folks, > > I'm tor relay operator since several years but newbie on this list. > > I just moved node 'traktor' from physical host to virtual machine. > So I revised all settings and checked if all works well. > I found a funny thing.

Re: [tor-relays] bandwith unit

2013-12-17 Thread Thomas Hand
Isnt it just: kb = kilobits kB = kilobytes using standard convention...? On 17 December 2013 12:38, Kiss Gabor (Bitman) wrote: > Dear folks, > > I'm tor relay operator since several years but newbie on this list. > > I just moved node 'traktor' from physical host to virtual machine. > So I re

Re: [tor-relays] bandwith unit

2013-12-17 Thread Kiss Gabor (Bitman)
> Isnt it just: > > kb = kilobits > kB = kilobytes > > using standard convention...? I thought myself too so far... Another possiblity: "Advertised Bandwith" in Globe shows not the limit but my actual traffic. That is incidentally 1/8 of the maximum. :-) Gabor -- A mug of beer, please. Shaken

[tor-relays] bandwith unit

2013-12-17 Thread Kiss Gabor (Bitman)
Dear folks, I'm tor relay operator since several years but newbie on this list. I just moved node 'traktor' from physical host to virtual machine. So I revised all settings and checked if all works well. I found a funny thing. My RelayBandwidthRate is set to 1 MB (i.e. 8 Mbps). ## Define thes

Re: [tor-relays] running a relay on a home connection

2013-12-17 Thread Thomas Hand
I don't think you need to specify an external IP in the torrc file. You can just specify 0.0.0.0:9050 for socks and 0.0.0.0:9030 for directory. Tor will identify if you have a dynamic IP and resync with the network automatically each time it changes. Also make sure it is a relay you are running and