[tor-relays] How to use our own TOR relay as entry node for local network hosts

2015-05-20 Thread Tor User
Hello, We have been operating a moderately successful public tor relay for a while now. Having read about how TOR works back a couple of years ago, I was more or less sold on the idea that if traffic originating on your local network uses your own TOR relay as the first hop (entry node), then

Re: [tor-relays] amount of unmeasured relays continuously rising since 2 weeks

2015-05-20 Thread micah anderson
Roger Dingledine a...@mit.edu writes: On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 09:02:27PM +, nusenu wrote: now even DocTor starts to complain https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-consensus-health/2015-May/005772.html From what I've seen, there were only two messages from DocTor about this (Mon May

Re: [tor-relays] tor network loses ~50 relays/day due to bw auth problem

2015-05-20 Thread Speak Freely
To be a bwauth you have to be a dirauth, if the bwauth draft spec I read was correct. But how do you become a dirauth? The addresses are hardcoded into Tor, so it's not like I could just spin up a dirauth in an evening and let the network do the rest. There's got to be more to it. I was

Re: [tor-relays] tor network loses ~50 relays/day due to bw auth problem

2015-05-20 Thread Tom Ritter
On Wednesday, 20 May 2015, Speak Freely when2plus2...@riseup.net wrote: To be a bwauth you have to be a dirauth, if the bwauth draft spec I read was correct. But how do you become a dirauth? The addresses are hardcoded into Tor, so it's not like I could just spin up a dirauth in an evening

Re: [tor-relays] BWauth kookiness

2015-05-20 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 06:16:36PM -0400, starlight.201...@binnacle.cx wrote: but in the last few days the BWAuths' opinion went from bw1-w Bandwidth=7382 Measured=7100 *bw2-w Bandwidth=7382 Measured=9330 bw3-w Bandwidth=7382 Measured=13700 GuardFraction=69 bw4-w Bandwidth=7382

Re: [tor-relays] BWauth kookiness

2015-05-20 Thread starlight . 2015q2
Should probably add that this relay was tuned and would be expected to show somewhat better performance than a typical relay of the same capacity, but I wouldn't expect more than a 20-30% boost from that. The local bandwidth observation was, at the time of the consensus sample published

Re: [tor-relays] tor network loses ~50 relays/day due to bw auth problem

2015-05-20 Thread Tom Ritter
Hi all, Wanted to provide an update (even if it's not as good news as I hoped to give) because I know this is a very frustrating issue for everyone. At a high level, the bwauth scripts segment the network into four segments ranked by relay speed, and measure each of these segments. They are

[tor-relays] BWauth kookiness

2015-05-20 Thread starlight . 2015q2
Some possible fallout related to the earlier discussion [tor-relays] amount of unmeasured relays continuously rising since 2 weeks https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2015-May/007003.html My relay Binnacle 4F0DB7E687FC7C0AE55C8F243DA8B0EB27FBF1F2 has 9375 Kbyte (75 Mbit) of