Re: [tor-relays] Directory authorities not giving weight to a relay

2024-06-03 Thread Frank Lý via tor-relays
u used to participate in the `tor-relays` mailing list. Frank May 30, 2024, 11:23 PM by tor-relays@lists.torproject.org: > Greetings everyone! > > Almost three months ago I have set up my first node. Everything seemed to be > going great at first and as documented in the tor lifecycle blog post.

Re: [tor-relays] Relay migration

2024-06-04 Thread Frank Lý via tor-relays
Keep the same Tor identity keys. Frank Jun 4, 2024, 9:56 AM by tor-relays@lists.torproject.org: > Hello everyone. > I have to move somewhere else a a (middle) relay I have been running for a few > years. It will be down for 2-4 weeks, then be back online in a different &

[tor-relays] router_do_orport_reachability_checks()

2021-08-30 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
All: Does anyone here know the procedure of the  router_do_orport_reachability_checks() function? I've increased logging of my Tor Relay to info and taken several packet-captures, but can't seem to identify connections initiated by my Tor Relay when verifying my ORPort reachability. I just see

Re: [tor-relays] router_do_orport_reachability_checks()

2021-09-10 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
All: After enabling Tor debug logging, we were able to verify the procedure of the  router_do_orport_reachability_checks() function. The router_do_orport_reachability_checks() function creates a circuit using a random Guard and Middle Relay with the Exit Relay always being itself. This can

Re: [tor-relays] Overloaded state indicator on relay-search

2021-09-24 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
Hi All! Curious... What are the magic numbers (i.e., max timeout, reoccurrence, etc) that earn a relay overloaded status? I'm trying to tune my portion of the Tor network and finding that sweet spot has proven elusive. Thanks! Gary On Friday, September 24, 2021, 3:48:18 AM MDT, Silvia

[tor-relays] help with exit

2021-10-17 Thread Bass Down Low via tor-relays
becoming an exit? If not, I would appreciate any help you can give. thank you very much___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] Bridge showing offline

2021-10-15 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
. iBigBlue 63W Solar Array (~12 Hour Charge) + 2 x Charmast 26800mAh Power Banks = iPhone XS Max 512GB (~2 Weeks Charged) On Thursday, October 14, 2021, 5:10:53 AM PDT, Bleedangel Tor Admin wrote: You are running 0.4.5.8, maybe updating to a newer version of tor will help? Sent from

Re: [tor-relays] Tor automatic restart

2021-10-11 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
Keifer, When you say, "periodically go down once a month" do you mean the Tor service dies, becomes defunct, circuits bleed off, Internet connectivity issues, power goes out, etc? Anything in the torlog that might provide a clue? From your metrics, you can definitely tell your relay

[tor-relays] DirectoryAuthority & FallbackDir Only at Startup?

2021-10-18 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
All: Are the DirectoryAuthority & FallbackDir directives only evaluated at startup of a Tor instance? I recently ran into an issue where my Tor Relay Farm went down, due to the manually configured DirectoryAuthority going down and the FallbackDir didn't seem to back it up. I

Re: [tor-relays] Overloaded state indicator on relay-search

2021-09-28 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
David, This is exactly the type of information I was hoping for. You should make this an article and link it to the overloaded support page. I guess I assumed that Tor preformed external timeout monitoring apposed to relay reported resource monitoring. It's interesting that you mention

Re: [tor-relays] Overloaded state indicator on relay-search

2021-10-07 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
, October 6, 2021, 12:48:31 AM PDT, Bleedangel Tor Admin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 This is much more informational. Great job! As someone with mystery "overloaded" problems, i'd recommend / request / beg for the following: 1) When the relay is overloaded

Re: [tor-relays] Overloaded state indicator on relay-search

2021-10-05 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
David Goulet: Will you confirm whether the Advertised Bandwidth metric is also client initiated (I'm assuming to the Directory Authority)? I have a 250Mb pipe and have seen a maximum Advertised Bandwidth rate of 4MB/s with my Tor relay. I know resource constraint must be factored

Re: [tor-relays] Overloaded state indicator on relay-search

2021-10-05 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
Georg, Thank you for the reference that confirms the Advertised Bandwidth is from the Tor client. I still don't understand why my Tor nodes aren't able to initiate a 10 second burst higher than 4MB/s. An Internet Speed Test is able to sustain a burst near my advertised 250Mb/s up and down. Am

Re: [tor-relays] Overloaded state indicator on relay-search

2021-10-06 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
, 2:33:23 PM MDT, Silvia/Hiro wrote: On 10/4/21 1:36 PM, David Goulet wrote: > On 02 Oct (01:29:56), torix via tor-relays wrote: >> My relays (Aramis) marked overloaded don't make any sense either.  Two of >> the ones marked with orange are the two with the lowest traffic I hav

Re: [tor-relays] Overloaded state indicator on relay-search

2021-09-27 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
George, The referenced support article provides recommendations as to what might be causing the overloaded state, but it doesn't provide the metric(s) for how Tor decides whether a relay is overloaded. I'm trying to ascertain the later. I would assume the overloaded state metric(S

Re: [tor-relays] Overloaded state indicator on relay-search

2021-09-25 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
server and extra-info descriptors. If you download the server one you would be able to verify that there is a "overload-general" field in there. If there isn't we have a bug :). Please let me know if this happens again. Cheers, -hiro On 9/24/21 2:39 PM, friendlyexitnode via tor-relays wr

Re: [tor-relays] Introduction from lokodlare

2021-12-17 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
Roger, For completeness, I should amend point #3 to include configuring the Loadbalancer's Timeout to a Large Value: 3. Loadbalance using IP Transparency Mode (This was discovered while tirelessly combing through mountains of Tor debug logs), use Sticky Sessions based on Source IP Addresses

Re: [tor-relays] [Censorship in Russia] Make HTTPS/Moat captcha more complex?

2021-12-27 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
by the garlic routers themselves? My thoughts are... What if the Tor Network distributed encrypted fingerprint-to-host databases to browsers/bridges/relays during the bootstrap process, with Directory Authorities, that operators did not have access? Such a process could be further segmented, so

Re: [tor-relays] How to reduce tor CPU load on a single bridge?

2021-12-27 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
David/Roger: Search the tor-relay mail archive for my previous responses on loadbalancing Tor Relays, which I've been successfully doing for the past 6 months with Nginx (it's possible to do with HAProxy as well). I haven't had time to implement it with a Tor Bridge, but I assume

Re: [tor-relays] [Censorship in Russia] Make HTTPS/Moat captcha more complex?

2021-12-25 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
Neel, I get the security vs usability considerations between centralized vs decentralized (or in the case of Tor semi-decentralized) networks. However, at a minimum, doesn't it make sense to exclude publishing address information from Tor metrics, etc, as to stop giving censorship organizations

Re: [tor-relays] [Censorship in Russia] Make HTTPS/Moat captcha more complex?

2021-12-23 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
I know it might be a fundamental change to the Tor network, but would it be possible to obfuscate the Tor bridge/relay addresses with their respective fingerprints; similar, to the I2P network? I've often thought that this aspect of the I2P network is one that is implemented well. Perhaps

Re: [tor-relays] How to reduce tor CPU load on a single bridge?

2021-12-28 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
BTW... I just fact-checked my post-script and the cpu affinity configuration I was thinking of is for Nginx (not Tor). Tor should consider adding a cpu affinity configuration option. What happens if you configure additional Tor instances on the same machine (my Tor instances are on different

Re: [tor-relays] How to reduce tor CPU load on a single bridge?

2021-12-28 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
Hi Kristian, Thanks for the screenshot. Nice Machine! Not everyone is as fortunate as you when it comes to resources for their Tor deployments. While a cpu affinity option isn't high on the priority list, as you point out, many operating systems do a decent job of load management

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] Hardware requirements for a fast Tor relay

2021-11-10 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
The following are some of the more important config options that I use for such a small middle relay: # Tor: A non-exit relay should be able to handle 7000 concurrent connections                                                                   ulimit -n 65535 DirCache 0

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

2021-11-10 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
Bobby, I run a Tor relay on dual core 256MB devices with  a 250Gb fiber connection and they are  adequate to operate as a fast middle relay. Monitor your relay on https://metrics.torproject.org/  to verify. Respectfully, Gary— This Message Originated by the Sun. iBigBlue 63W Solar Array (~12

Re: [tor-relays] DirectoryAuthority & FallbackDir Only at Startup?

2021-10-25 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
David Goulet or Georg Koppen: Can either of you confirm my question regarding whether the DirectoryAuthority & FallbackDir directives only evaluated at startup of a Tor instance? I need to verify the best way to configure cloned, loadbalanced Tor Relay Instances to inter

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

2021-11-09 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
It's surprising that you're running into CPU issues. It's typically RAM that is exhausted first. I have 5 x Dual Core 256MB Tor Relay Nodes loadbalanced as a Single Middle Relay that never have CPU issues. It's always a matter of running out of RAM for me. The loadbalanced Tor Relay

Re: [tor-relays] Fw: is my tor bridge running ok ?

2021-12-12 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
On Sunday, December 12, 2021, 1:32:09 AM PST, Natus wrote: >> As for finding out if anyone is using it or not, I use: >> netstat -n |grep ESTA|wc -l >This one does not limit to tor bridge Pipe the bridge's destination port (i.e., ) through grep as well: netstat -anp | grep :

Re: [tor-relays] Introduction from lokodlare

2021-12-12 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
Welcome to tor-relays, Kristian. It's nice to meet a fellow Tor Farmer. It sounds like you are fairly seasoned with quite an extensive deployment of Tor Relays. Are you performing any loadbalancing with Tor Nodes or are they Individually, Distributed Tor Relays? I have a Single Tor Relay

Re: [tor-relays] Introduction from lokodlare

2021-12-13 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
> What part do you intent to load-balance and to what outcome? My current implementation is loadbalancing Tor Relay traffic, which provides high availability and economies of scale using existing, cost-effective, bare metal nodes. The same approach could be extrapolated to cost-effect

Re: [tor-relays] Introduction from lokodlare

2021-12-14 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
Hi Roger, I've found the secret to effectively loadbalancing Tor Relay Nodes is as follows: 1. Use the same version of Tor on all Upstream Servers 2. Start/Stop all Upstream Tor Nodes at the same time to keep in sync 3. Loadbalance using IP Transparency Mode (This was discovered while tirelessly

Re: [tor-relays] Tor not starting but log inconclusive

2021-12-14 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
Are you able to start Tor manually without systemd? Anytime I encounter Tor start issues, I attempt to manually start Tor without the --quiet option to verify whether it's a torrc issue or something else. You might consider increasing the Tor logging level, too. Your existing Tor log shows

Re: [tor-relays] How to reduce tor CPU load on a single bridge?

2022-01-09 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
ctfully, Gary On Wednesday, December 29, 2021, 03:32:55 AM MST, abuse--- via tor-relays wrote: Hi Gary, thanks! > As an aside... Presently, are you using a single, public address with many > ports or many, public addresses with a single port for your Tor deployments? > Have you

Re: [tor-relays] How to reduce tor CPU load on a single bridge?

2022-01-09 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
David, Roger, et al., I just got back from holidays and really enjoyed this thread! I run my Loadbalanced Tor Relay as a Guard/Middle Relay, very similar to David's topology diagram, without the Snoflake-Server proxy. I'm using Nginx (which forks a child process per core) instead of HAProxy

[tor-relays] Home Tor Middle Relay Blacklisted

2022-01-09 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
Fellow Tor Operators: After about 9 months of running Tor as a Middle Relay from my home network, I'm beginning to experience signs of my public semi-static IPv4 address being blacklisted with 403 Forbidden errors from Reuters and Venmo. I've confirmed by successfully accessing both sites

[tor-relays] Ansible role to deploy Bridges

2022-01-12 Thread Erasme - Relay Operator via tor-relays
Hi all, In the effort of deploying obfs4 bridges for the community we are sharing our Ansible role that allowed us to deploy multiple nodes: https://github.com/NewNewYorkBridges/ansible-tor-bridge For now it is only available on Debian but we will make it available for other distributions

Re: [tor-relays] Home Tor Middle Relay Blacklisted

2022-01-12 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
to implement an On-Shore configuration for Tor Blacklisted Sites. My only concern is latency, with this type of configuration, but it's better than the current forbidden situation. I appreciate the heads-up related to Tor and IPv6-only being a non-starter. It sounds like if I were to migrate

Re: [tor-relays] How to reduce tor CPU load on a single bridge?

2022-03-05 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
Georg, >> Are there any "Issues" submitted for a similar change to Concensus Weight >> and Relay Probability to Tor Metrics on Onionoo? It appears these values are >> still only being reported for a Single Tor Node. > Hrm, good question. I don't think so an

Re: [tor-relays] How to reduce tor CPU load on a single bridge?

2022-03-05 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
David, I see that the metrics change has been reverted. If/When the metrics change is implemented, will loadbalanced Tor Relay Nodes need to be uniquely named or will they all be able to use the same nickname? I'm glad to hear your loadbalanced Snowflake Relay continues to work well. Thanks

Re: [tor-relays] How to reduce tor CPU load on a single bridge?

2022-03-05 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
David, > When I made my own combined graphs, I relied on different instances having different nicknames. I don't know an easy way to distinguish the descriptors of different instances otherwise. Please let me know what the Tor Metrics Team decides, if/when they reimplement the change. &g

Re: [tor-relays] Moving Bridges

2022-03-11 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
Toralf, It's to allow a Tor Relay to continue to build on an established reputation and avoid the ramp-up cycle of a new Tor Relay. Respectfully, Gary— This Message Originated by the Sun. iBigBlue 63W Solar Array (~12 Hour Charge) + 2 x Charmast 26800mAh Power Banks = iPhone XS Max 512GB (~2

Re: [tor-relays] Moving Bridges

2022-03-09 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
Eddie, You should be able to copy the donor tor directory (preserving user, group, permissions) to the transplant server (including keys) and be back online with the same fingerprint (new ip address). I recommend using the same version of tor and ensure the transplanted tor directory's user

Re: [tor-relays] Moving Bridges

2022-03-11 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
, 2:52:30 PM MST, li...@for-privacy.net wrote: On Friday, March 11, 2022 9:39:14 PM CET Gary C. New via tor-relays wrote: > It's to allow a Tor Relay to continue to build on an established reputation > and avoid the ramp-up cycle of a new Tor Relay. Respectfully, Bridges don't have a r

Re: [tor-relays] How to reduce tor CPU load on a single bridge?

2022-03-03 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
David, Has Tor Metrics implemented your RFC related to Written Bytes per Second and Read Bytes per Second on Onionoo? As of the 27th of February, I've noticed a change in reporting that accurately reflects the aggregate of my Tor Relay Nodes opposed to the previously reported Single Tor Node

Re: [tor-relays] How to reduce tor CPU load on a single bridge?

2022-03-03 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
Georg, Yes! That is precisely it! Please know that the change appears to be working with my loadbalanced Tor Relay deployment as well. Are there any "Issues" submitted for a similar change to Concensus Weight and Relay Probability to Tor Metrics on Onionoo? It appears these values

Re: [tor-relays] Which is the most useful: relay or bridge

2022-03-21 Thread KA relay OP via tor-relays
Hi, IMHO, this is not a good idea. Tor relay IPs are public, so they are likely to be blocked as part of censorship in some countries. This will greatly reduce the usefulness of the bridge running on the same IP. Running both at the same time on the same public IP does not add much value

Re: [tor-relays] How to reduce tor CPU load on a single bridge?

2022-01-29 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
David, On Thursday, January 27, 2022, 1:03:25 AM MST, David Fifield wrote: >> It's nice to see that the Snowflake daemon offers a native configuration >> option for LimitNOFile. I ran into a similar issue with my initial >> loadbalanced Tor Relay Nodes that was solve

Re: [tor-relays] How to reduce tor CPU load on a single bridge?

2022-01-29 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
David, > Making secret_onion_key and secret_onion_key_ntor read-only does not quite >work, because tor first renames them to secret_onion_key.old and >secret_onion_key_ntor.old before writing new files. (Making the *.old files >read-only does not work either, because the `tor_rena

Re: [tor-relays] How to reduce tor CPU load on a single bridge?

2022-01-31 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
gt; file over them. It does result in an hourly `BUG` stack trace, but otherwise >> it seems effective. >> I did a test with two tor instances. The rot1 instance had the directory >> hack to prevent onion key rotation. The rot2 had nothing to prevent onion >> key rotati

Re: [tor-relays] How to reduce tor CPU load on a single bridge?

2022-01-30 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
Heartbeat reporting? >> > I don't know if it's wrong, exactly. It's reporting something different >> > than what ExtORPort is providing. The proximate connections to tor are >> > indeed all IPv4. >> I see. Perhaps IPv6 connections are less prolific and require m

Re: [tor-relays] How to reduce tor CPU load on a single bridge?

2022-02-08 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
David, Excellent Documentation and References! I hope the proposed RFC's (auth, key, and metrics) for loadbalanced Tor topologies are seriously considered and implemented by Tor Core and Tor Metrics. Great Work! Respectfully, Gary— This Message Originated by the Sun. iBigBlue 63W Solar Array

[tor-relays] ExitNodes Directive Evaluated Dynamicly or Bootstrap Only?

2022-02-06 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
512GB (~2 Weeks Charged)___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] How to reduce tor CPU load on a single bridge?

2022-01-27 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
63W Solar Array (~12 Hour Charge) + 2 x Charmast 26800mAh Power Banks = iPhone XS Max 512GB (~2 Weeks Charged) _______ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] How to reduce tor CPU load on a single bridge?

2022-01-27 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
artbeat logs. It looks like the load is fairly >balanced, with each of the four tor instances having sent between 400 and 500 >GB since being started. Your Heartbeat logs continue to appear to be in good health. When keys are rotated, the Heartbeat logs will be a key indicator i

Re: [tor-relays] How to reduce tor CPU load on a single bridge?

2022-01-17 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
On Monday, January 17, 2022, 11:47:11 AM MST, David Fifield wrote: > Gary, I was wondering how you are dealing with the changing onion key issue, >and I suppose it is >[this](https://forum.torproject.net/t/tor-relays-how-to-reduce-tor-cpu-load-on-a-single-bridge/1483/13): >

Re: [tor-relays] How to reduce tor CPU load on a single bridge?

2022-01-26 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
David, > I'd like to see more of your HAProxy configuration. Do you not have to use >transparent proxy mode with Snowflake instances as you do with Tor Relay >instances? I hadn't realized HAProxy had a client timeout. Thank you for that >tidbit. And thank you for referencing my comm

Re: [tor-relays] How to reduce tor CPU load on a single bridge?

2022-01-26 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
7:00. You can read about >it here: >  >https://bugs.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/40095#note_2772325 It's nice to see that the Snowflake daemon offers a native configuration option for LimitNOFile. I ran into a similar issue with my initial loadbalance

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

2022-04-12 Thread Alex Xu (Hello71) via tor-relays
oking for. Otherwise I would prefer > a Ryzen like the 5750GE. > > Andreas If you don't already have a QAT device, I would not suggest getting one specifically for Tor. In particular, Tor doesn't spend very much time actually doing AES. It's mostly overhead from cell processing, TCP, small

[tor-relays] Tor 0.4.5.8 died: Caught signal 7

2022-04-20 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
All: I'm having an issue with a Tor Node catching signal 7 and exiting in high-load situations. T= 1650367869 Tor 0.4.5.8 died: Caught signal 7 /opt/sbin/tor(+0x1af500)[0x2a1af500] /opt/sbin/tor(hs_intro_received_introduce1+0x0

Re: [tor-relays] [Workshop] Sysadmin 101 for (new) relay operators - June 4th @ 1900 UTC

2022-05-24 Thread Alex Xu (Hello71) via tor-relays
vigate to. Thanks, Alex. ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] FreeBSD 13.1: clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC_FAST) ~ 50 % performance gain

2022-06-21 Thread Alex Xu (Hello71) via tor-relays
y=clock_gettime, FreeBSD 13.1 has CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, which it says is an alias of CLOCK_MONOTONIC_FAST for compatibility with other systems. I suppose Tor could add #if !defined(CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE) && defined(CLOCK_MONOTONIC_FAST) #define CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE CLOCK_MONOTONIC_FAST, but I'm

Re: [tor-relays] Identifying a relay

2022-06-16 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
wrote: Have a question about how a server I connect to can tell I am running a guard/middle relay.  All I can think of is that they check the published list of tor nodes against the IP.  Or (maybe, but unlikely) portscan the IP and probe any open ports to determine the service.  Are there any

[tor-relays] (No Subject)

2022-06-14 Thread Admin Platinum Host via tor-relays
Hi there, I currently own a Tor Relay that has been running since 2022-05-24. A day ago it restarted, which was a bit strange. Recently I found that the Relay has changed to a Guard Relay, which I am pleased about. I was wondering why the restart occurred as the VPS Server has been online

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Exit: Complaints of IP being used for "spam" despite exit policy

2022-05-04 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
: Hi, A day or two ago, my Tor exit host, Psychz Networks, has sent me complaints about my IPs being used to send "spam" despite me having blocked Port 25 (and 465/587) in the exit policy. Psychz threatened to block Port 25 even when my exit policy explicitly blocks 25/465/587. The

Re: [tor-relays] List number of circuits per connection

2022-10-20 Thread Alex Xu (Hello71) via tor-relays
t's closer to 1M circuits open. > All these circuit creations put a strain on the CPU, sometime pegging it > at 100% (4 core i5-4670K CPU @ 3.40GHz). Worse, it seems to eat memory. > Normally the tor process uses about 3GB (out of 8GB) but I have seen it > quickly shoot up

Re: [tor-relays] How to reduce tor CPU load on a single bridge?

2022-12-09 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
configuration is set to "none?" BTW... I have the loadbalanced OBFS4 configuration up and running, and am able to manually confirm loadbalanced OBFS4 connections are successfull. nginx => obfs4proxy => tor I believe it's time to enable a DistributionMethod. Thank you for the clarifications. Res

Re: [tor-relays] inet_csk_bind_conflict

2022-12-11 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
e > kernel when the port is already bound versus when it is not bound. It's > not as simple as filling in blanks in a 5-tuple in otherwise identical > code paths. > Anyway, it is not true that all connections go to the same (IP, port). > (There would be no need to use a load balancer

Re: [tor-relays] How to reduce tor CPU load on a single bridge?

2022-12-11 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
10, 2022, 8:01:15 AM MST, David Fifield wrote: On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 05:19:43AM +, Gary C. New via tor-relays wrote: >> I'm in the process of trying to cross-compile snowflake for OpenWRT and >> Entware. Are there any other dependencies to compile snowflake other than Go?

Re: [tor-relays] How to reduce tor CPU load on a single bridge?

2022-12-11 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
On Saturday, December 10, 2022, 8:01:15 AM MST, David Fifield wrote: On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 05:19:43AM +, Gary C. New via tor-relays wrote: >> I'm in the process of trying to cross-compile snowflake for OpenWRT and >> Entware. Are there any other dependencies to compile sno

Re: [tor-relays] How to reduce tor CPU load on a single bridge?

2022-12-10 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
ridges don't require a DistributionMethod as your > loadbalanced Snowflake configuration is set to "none?" That's correct. Default bridges are not distributed by rdsys, they are distributed in the configuration of Tor Browser itself. See extensions.torlauncher.default

[tor-relays] Status of Bug #7349 - Obfsbridges should be able to "disable" their ORPort?

2022-12-10 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
All: What is the status of Bug #7349 - Obfsbridges should be able to "disable" their ORPort? https://bugs.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/7349 I recently setup a loadbalanced OBFS4 bridge and would prefer not to expose the ORPort to the World. I've noticed that some of the tas

Re: [tor-relays] How to reduce tor CPU load on a single bridge?

2022-12-16 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
On Tuesday, December 13, 2022, 07:35:23 PM MST, David Fifield wrote: On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 07:29:45PM +, Gary C. New via tor-relays wrote: >> On Tuesday, December 13, 2022, 10:11:41 AM PST, David Fifield >> wrote: >> >> Am I correct in assuming extor-static-cook

Re: [tor-relays] Status of Bug #7349 - Obfsbridges should be able to "disable" their ORPort?

2022-12-18 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
On Friday, December 16, 2022, 8:07:46 AM PST, meskio wrote: Quoting Gary C. New via tor-relays (2022-12-10 04:20:48) >> What is the status of Bug #7349 - Obfsbridges should be able to "disable" >> their ORPort? >> https://bugs.torproject.org/tpo/core/

[tor-relays] Are HTTPTunnelPort and SocksPort Disabled in Bridge Mode?

2022-12-13 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
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Re: [tor-relays] Multiple ServerTransportListenAddr OBFS2|3|4 Configuration

2022-12-14 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
nsport names force the >> corresponding protocol? > It does force the use of the protocol you specified, or at least it > should and if it doesn't, that's a bug to report. You can quickly > check this by connecting to an obfs4 bridge while saying it's obfs3: > tor won't bootstrap

Re: [tor-relays] Are HTTPTunnelPort and SocksPort Disabled in Bridge Mode?

2022-12-13 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
All: Please disregard. It was human error. Failed testing of the HTTPTunnelPort and SocksPort was initially attempted through Tor Browser (which is not permitted). The HTTPTunnelPort and SocksPort testing was successful through a normal browser (i.e., Firefox, Chrome, etc). In short

Re: [tor-relays] How to reduce tor CPU load on a single bridge?

2022-12-13 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
On Tuesday, December 13, 2022, 10:11:41 AM PST, David Fifield wrote: > The Snowflake proxy is not a pluggable transport. You just > run it as a > normal command-line program. There is no torrc involved, and the proxy > does not interact with a tor process at all

Re: [tor-relays] How to reduce tor CPU load on a single bridge?

2022-12-08 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
David, I finally have time to migrate my loadbalanced Tor relay to a loadbalanced Tor obfs4proxy configuration. In the process, I've been reviewing this thread and was hoping you could help with one clarification regarding your loadbalanced Tor snowflake configuration? I noticed that you

Re: [tor-relays] How to reduce tor CPU load on a single bridge?

2022-12-13 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
On Monday, December 12, 2022, 08:31:43 AM MST, David Fifield wrote: On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 04:25:06AM +, Gary C. New via tor-relays wrote: >> I was successfully able to get Snowflake cross-compiled and installed for >> OpenWRT and Entware as a package. > Thanks, nice w

[tor-relays] Multiple ServerTransportListenAddr OBFS2|3|4 Configuration

2022-12-14 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
All: I noticed that the obfs2, obfs3, and obfs4 transport names seem to be hardcoded into tor. I have been able to configure the torrc to register each of the transports for multiple ServerTransportListenAddr: # cat torrc ORPort xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:443 NoListen ORPort 192.168.0.31:9001

Re: [tor-relays] Help Turkmens to bypass Internet censorship: run an obfs4 bridge!

2023-03-22 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
Gus, Is there a preferred Bridge Distribution Mechanism? Within the last couple of months, I've added several obfs4 bridges (latest version) to the Tor network, which seem to meet the requested criteria, but they still don't appear to be receiving traffic. I originally set the Bridge

Re: [tor-relays] Confusing bridge signs...

2023-03-08 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
ServerTransportListenAddr obfs4 0.0.0.0:8081 ExtOrPort auto Log notice file /var/log/tor/notices.log ExitPolicy reject *:* AccountingMax 50 GB ContactInfo keiferdodderblyyatgmaildoddercom Strangely, nothing whatsoever is being written to the notices.log file, upon checking it it is completely empty, nothing there. I

Re: [tor-relays] new exit relay

2023-04-12 Thread Linux-Hus Oni via tor-relays
ke any relay. >> You don't have a stable flag yet either.So just let it run for a week >> and just watch it. >> >> >> Sandro >> >> >> >> Am 06.04.23 um 11:50 schrieb Linux-Hus Oni via tor-relays: >>> Hi to all, i have setup a n

Re: [tor-relays] For some reason, my bridge is still saying it has no distribution mechanism, despite it is listed as email in my torrc and says it is overloaded?

2023-04-18 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
> Nickname gbridge > ORPort 8080 > SocksPort 0 > BridgeRelay 1 > PublishServerDescriptor bridge > BridgeDistribution email > ServerTransportPlugin obfs4 exec /usr/bin/obfs4proxy > ServerTransportListenAddr obfs4 0.0.0.0:8081 > ExtOrPort auto > Log notice f

[tor-relays] new exit relay

2023-04-09 Thread Linux-Hus Oni via tor-relays
Hi to all, i have setup a new tor exit relay with name TorGate, but there are only a few kb trafic on this? the flags are exit,running,v2dir,valid and its also messured. there are no warns or errors in the tor console any ideas why? regards Lin signature.asc Description: Message signed

Re: [tor-relays] Help Turkmens to bypass Internet censorship: run an obfs4 bridge!

2023-07-31 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
On Monday, July 31, 2023, 2:11:52 PM MDT, li...@for-privacy.net wrote: > On Montag, 31. Juli 2023 00:55:15 CEST Gary C. New via tor-relays wrote: > > On Sunday, July 30, 2023, 3:30:55 PM MDT, li...@for-privacy.net wrote: > > > I don't know if I should ignore that o

Re: [tor-relays] Help Turkmens to bypass Internet censorship: run an obfs4 bridge!

2023-08-02 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
On Wednesday, August 2, 2023, 10:09:06 AM MDT, meskio wrote: > Quoting li...@for-privacy.net (2023-08-02 17:13:53) > > On Dienstag, 1. August 2023 23:22:12 CEST Gary C. New via tor-relays wrote: > > > On Tuesday, August 1, 2023, 10:54:40 AM MDT, >wrote: > > &g

Re: [tor-relays] Help Turkmens to bypass Internet censorship: run an obfs4 bridge!

2023-08-01 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
On Tuesday, August 1, 2023, 10:54:40 AM MDT, wrote: On Montag, 31. Juli 2023 23:06:54 CEST Gary C. New via tor-relays wrote: >> Please let me know, if you are able to get the OBFS4 >> bridge working without exposing the ORPort. Respectfully, > Yes, that's work

Re: [tor-relays] Help Turkmens to bypass Internet censorship: run an obfs4 bridge!

2023-07-30 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
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Re: [tor-relays] Receiving abuse reports for Non-Exit Relay

2023-07-27 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
the issue is confirmed, you can configure the machine layer firewall to block all outbound tcp/22 traffic initiated from the server in question with iptables, etc. I doubt it is Tor related. Best Wishes! Gary— This Message Originated by the Sun. iBigBlue 63W Solar Array (~12 Hour Charge) + 2 x

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay IP blocking

2023-08-08 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
On Tuesday, August 8, 2023, 10:24:44 AM MDT, wrote: On Dienstag, 8. August 2023 00:30:38 CEST Gary C. New via tor-relays wrote: > > In addition to network diversity, there is the fact that most individuals > > find it necessary to run an at Home internet connection 24 x

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay IP blocking

2023-08-03 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
and pivot to an at-Home, Bridge operator, which has been trouble free and much more amenable to at-Home operation. Thanks for running a Tor Relay... or Bridge. On Thursday, August 3, 2023, 1:58:08 PM MDT, telekobold wrote: Hi, On 03.08.23 14:22, Logforme wrote: > My "

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay IP blocking

2023-08-07 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
st wasn’t approved >>> by >>> moderator). I was running a relay from my home ISP. After a short while >>> certain websites became inaccessible from other computers in my home >>> network that shared the same public IP. After trial and error with other >>> IP

Re: [tor-relays] Relay that's been running for a long time suddenly saying it's new?

2024-01-15 Thread Alexandru-Mihai Szabo via tor-relays
appen as > it's been running for a few years, but suddenly saying it's new? > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > \--Keifer [https_metrics.torproject.org_rs.html_details_79E3B585803DE805CCBC00C1EF36B1E74372861D]: https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/

Re: [tor-relays] Relay in Japan being marked as a US relay?

2024-01-18 Thread Cauan Henrique Zorzenon via tor-relays
> > they're all telling me that the IP is in Japan. > > > > I'm wondering if perhaps there's an issue with the GeoIP lookup? Or > > perhaps an outdated database? > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > ___ &g

Re: [tor-relays] Relay no longer acting as a gaurd node?

2023-11-11 Thread Alex Xu (Hello71) via tor-relays
as unstable, you can try to run some monitoring software, or sign up for the revamped Tor Weather service (https://weather.torproject.org/). Unfortunately, if your downtime is due to system updates, you'll need to try to consolidate those, as even scheduled restarts are counted against a rel

Re: [tor-relays] Discuss. Why not split donations to Tor relay owners?

2023-11-01 Thread Syverson, Paul F CIV USN NRL (5543) Washington DC (USA) via tor-relays
Valeo, Paul On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 11:41:58AM +, torrrel...@riseup.net wrote: > I provided some high speed Tor nodes (non-exits and guards) but I quit > in this year to make some space for my other projects. I would continue > collaborating by keep Tor nodes online if I receive some

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