Re: [tor-relays] Does Tor work with Intel QAT acceleration

2022-04-11 Thread Thoughts
Two suggestions: 1)  Run speedtest (https://www.speedtest.net) from behind your firewall and verify your actual bandwidth (or at least get a good approximation ). 2)  Check the brand of NIC in your current machine.  Intel NICs are reportedly much more efficient than RealTek for handling

Re: [tor-relays] Relay question

2022-04-11 Thread lists
On Sunday, April 10, 2022 2:04:02 AM CEST onion...@riseup.net wrote: > > 30 new exits at Frantec. Did you follow the AUP and send Francisco a > > ticket > > _beforehand_? Reverse DNS! Exit policy Port: 465, 587! > > https://buyvm.net/acceptable-use-policy/ > > No, we did not pay attention to

Re: [tor-relays] DNS server

2022-04-11 Thread onionize
Does Cash DNS give some advantages in safety? On 2022-04-08 08:06, Thoughts wrote: > Note that any dns caching software would help, unbound is just one > popular one. dnsmasq is another. In fact, if you wanted to, you > could use the full bind package and configure it for caching and >

[tor-relays] Does Tor work with Intel QAT acceleration

2022-04-11 Thread Andreas Bollhalder
Hi all I have my first Tor relay up und running. It's currently installed on a little desktop computer with an Intel i5 9500T CPU. My Internet connection is 10Gb/s symetric. From this bandwidth, I would be able to spend a good part for supporting the Tor network. With that little machine, it

Re: [tor-relays] Relay question

2022-04-11 Thread onionize
> 30 new exits at Frantec. Did you follow the AUP and send Francisco a ticket > _beforehand_? Reverse DNS! Exit policy Port: 465, 587! > https://buyvm.net/acceptable-use-policy/ No, we did not pay attention to their AUP. We have long been using their services for proxy and there were no

Re: [tor-relays] DNS server

2022-04-11 Thread Thoughts
DNS Caching (not Cash) simple does a normal lookup for an DNS domain requested and remembers it for some period of time so that it can answer from its cache of known addresses in microseconds (instead of the hundreds of milliseconds it might take to inquire over the internet) the next time