Re: [tor-relays] Who am I?

2020-09-23 Thread Sean Greenslade
On September 21, 2020 4:33:38 PM PDT, kencf0...@riseup.net wrote: > > >On 2020-09-20 23:35, dmz21 wrote: > >> Please check if it works when you select a ORPort above 1023. >> It is a common problem with Tor on Linux: it cannot open ports below >> 1024 when running as a non-root service. > >News to

Re: [tor-relays] tor relay

2020-03-13 Thread Sean Greenslade
>> What are the contents of /etc/resolv.conf ? > >127.0.0.1 >::1 That's the problem. The format of resolv.conf requires the string "nameserver" before each ip. Try something like this: # Up to three nameserver lines are allowed. nameserver 127.0.0.1 nameserver ::1 #nameserver --Sean

Re: [tor-relays] tor relay

2020-03-11 Thread Sean Greenslade
On March 9, 2020 3:55:38 AM PDT, "Станислав" wrote: >hi.I start second instance of tor, but for some reason it stopped >working.after updating the firmware on board pc engines apu2 > >Mar 09 13:48:46.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 0% (starting): Starting >Mar 09 13:49:03.000 [notice] Starting with

Re: [tor-relays] toranon (977)?!?

2019-12-25 Thread Sean Greenslade
On December 24, 2019 10:31:43 PM EST, Kenneth Freeman wrote: >Messing around with my new computer I get this: > >[warn] /run/tor is not owned by this user, but by toranon (977). >Perhaps you are running Tor as the wrong user? > >Duckduckgo displays hentai results. Go figure. Sounds to me like

Re: [tor-relays] my IP got blocked

2017-11-15 Thread Sean Greenslade
On November 14, 2017 4:38:54 AM PST, Patrice wrote: >Hi everyone, > > >I`ve got an issue with my local IP address. I am running a relay about >1 >year and since 3 or 4 weeks I can`t reach some websites like: ebay or >ikea. > >All I get is this message: > >* >* > >*Access

Re: [tor-relays] SSH brute force attempts to connect to my Middle Relay IP address

2017-10-04 Thread Sean Greenslade
On October 3, 2017 11:02:55 PM PDT, Fr33d0m4all wrote: >Hi, >My Tor middle relay public IP address is victim of SSH brute force >connections’ attempts and the attack is going on since two weeks ago. >It’s not a problem, the server that is listening with SSH on the same >IP

Re: [tor-relays] Problem upgrading Tor to 0.2.9.9 on Raspbian (Debian Jessie)

2017-02-02 Thread Sean Greenslade
On January 31, 2017 12:17:00 AM PST, fr33d0m4all wrote: >Hi, >this is not really a Tor issue, but I'd like to know if there is >someone >else like me that is having problems upgrading his Tor installation to >the latest version on its Raspberry (running Raspbian based on

Re: [tor-relays] new relay package for Ubuntu 16.04+

2016-08-24 Thread Sean Greenslade
On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 05:33:43PM +0200, Jan Vidar Krey wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2016, at 16:43, Aeris wrote: > > > 2) security is better > > > > Sorry to say that, but : no. It’s very weaker than plain old Debian > > package. > > > > This is a matter of perspective on the "security"

Re: [tor-relays] Pi3 mid relay dropping lil bit of packets

2016-08-15 Thread Sean Greenslade
>> Hello, >> I just started running my little 5 mbits mid relay on Pi3 on raspbian and >> all seems to be dandy, >> it picked traffic nicely, hovering around 700-800 total connections, >> its not unusual to see it pushing full advertised bandwidth during peak >> hours (with ~20-25% load on 1 core,

Re: [tor-relays] Don't use Google's DNS server

2016-07-29 Thread Sean Greenslade
On July 28, 2016 2:50:40 PM EDT, ITechGeek wrote: >On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Tristan >wrote: > >> I really wish VPS services wouldn't use Google DNS by default. If not >for >> this e-mail, I would have been on Google's DNS for a while before I

Re: [tor-relays] Bridge Authority closure

2016-07-20 Thread Sean Greenslade
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 11:20:33PM -0400, Me wrote: > So what are we going to do when Green shuts down the Bridge Authority server > next month? Will it have a serious effect, or will there be any apparent > issues or slowdowns? > > Me Please don't hijack an existing thread for a completely

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Process Being Killed on VPS

2016-02-28 Thread Sean Greenslade
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 04:03:14PM -0500, Steven Jones wrote: > clearing the memory cache with a cron job cant hurt Yes it can. There is no reason to clear the vm cache manually unless you are testing cache-related code paths. The kernel will automatically reclaim cache memory for program memory

Re: [tor-relays] Unbelieveable

2015-12-05 Thread Sean Greenslade
> > Check your firewall, and gateway port forwards if the server is > > behind a NAT. If you're not sure where to start, post the output of > > "sudo iptables -L" > > > > --Sean > > > I've made several iptables and saved them, I thought, however every > time I reboot the VPS all my rules are

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay seized by police

2015-11-09 Thread Sean Greenslade
On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 12:40:19AM +, Tim Sammut wrote: > I meant is it possible for a relay operator to detect if a snapshot of a > running VM or VPS has been taken? Asked slightly differently, if I have > a relay running as a VPS or VM, can I somehow detect if my provider took > a snapshot

Re: [tor-relays] how reliable is the advertised vs consumed bandwidth on tor metrics

2015-10-02 Thread Sean Greenslade
On October 2, 2015 7:36:52 AM EDT, jensm1 wrote: >I just stumbled over this >(https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth-flags.html) graph at tor >metrics, which shows advertised exit bandwidth to be around 40Gbit/s >and >consumed exit bandwidth around 20Gbit/s. This would mean that

Re: [tor-relays] Tor is starting without the -f /etc/tor/torrc option

2015-09-21 Thread Sean Greenslade
On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 09:05:21PM +0100, Tor Stuff wrote: > I am running tor on a new Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS system. I have restarted tor a > couple of times with > > service tor restart > > I noticed when I start arm that it is telling me that > > The torrc differs from what tor's using. You