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

2022-05-05 Thread The Doctor
our own SMTP relay on a $3.5 VPS to forward emails You could also run an SMTP-to-something else protocol bridge to work around it. I use a fake SMTP server that relays every message it gets over XMPP to work around that problem. The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415/510] WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ The

Re: [tor-relays] tor/munin/stem

2022-04-18 Thread The Doctor
I've been using for the last couple of years to monitor my hosts: https://github.com/virtadpt/exocortex-halo/tree/master/system_bot > The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415/510] WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the

Re: [tor-relays] let's make ContactInfo mandatory for exits (and warn others)

2021-04-25 Thread The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415/510]
ntermeasures it becomes actually useful. This. Also, not all of us are okay with the world finding out that we run Tor nodes. Some of us just do it and don't make a big deal about it. The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415/510] WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ The old world is dying, and the new wor

Re: [tor-relays] OS Upgrade

2021-04-24 Thread The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415/510]
tor config file and contents of /var/lib/tor, just in case something goes pear-shaped. The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415/510] WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters. ___

Re: [tor-relays] Many SSH requests

2021-04-02 Thread The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415/510]
followed by brute force attempts, so may as well cut 'em off at the knees). Or set up a hidden service for sshd on the box and reconfigure it to listen on the loopback only. You'll only be able to SSH in over the Tor network after that, but it'll cut the login attempts way down. The Doctor [41

Re: [tor-relays] anyone else with this issue?

2020-08-31 Thread The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415/510]
DoSing individual Tor nodes to help isolate where a given hidden service is running. Could this be a manifestation of that attack? The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415/510] WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born. N

Re: [tor-relays] Tor stopped suddenly - clock/time issue

2019-11-06 Thread The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415/510]
://thepihut.com/blogs/raspberry-pi-tutorials/17209332-adding-a-real-time-clock-to-your-raspberry-pi > * delay start of tor until time is setup Third option: Get a USB GPS dongle and configure ntpd to use that as an authoritative time source. That's what I did. The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415/510

Re: [tor-relays] Spam Emails Received From This Mailing List

2018-06-15 Thread The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415/510]
nybody else getting messages that purport to have CCNs in them? Three or four out of the two dozen this week have had them. ​The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415/510] PGP (new!): 4d7d 5c94  fa44 a235 WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ TOYNBEE IDEA IN KUBRICK'S 2001 RESURRECT DEAD ON PLANET J

Re: [tor-relays] FW: [#79576] Spam Emails Being Sent To TOR Relay Operators

2018-06-13 Thread The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415/510]
hat I'm sure are totally legit and nothing to worry about. The last couple, though, contain what are purported to be valid CCNs with accompanying info. This feels like a setup, but why, I don't know. If you receive any messages like this, delete them. ​The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415/510] PGP

Re: [tor-relays] Platform diversity in Tor network [was: OpenBSD doc/TUNING]

2014-11-05 Thread The Doctor
isn't common on most general servers? I get the impression that this is what was being referred to. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 WWW: https

Re: [tor-relays] Anonbox Project

2014-10-15 Thread The Doctor
/522165101390876672 When considered in the context of the shadiness that's been discovered around the Kickstarter, there is little reason to think that the glaring vulnerabilities @justinsteven discovered are going to be fixed prior to shipment. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer

Re: [tor-relays] Debian relay Puppet module

2014-06-18 Thread The Doctor
-upgrades documentation is at pains to avoid explaining how to do that; this is what I have in `sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow unattended-upgrades` - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89

Re: [tor-relays] hardware accelerated crypto

2013-10-02 Thread The Doctor
way to run one into the ground... - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ Meeble! Meeble meeble meeble! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [tor-relays] Relay security, re: local network

2013-09-30 Thread The Doctor
process running in that VM. Granted, it is fairly new so I do not believe anyone has done any serious security analysis of OSv, but it seems like it would be an ideal candidate for a very high performance Tor node. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project

Re: [tor-relays] huge increase in relay traffic

2013-08-30 Thread The Doctor
jumped out at me: 13006 similar message(s) suppressed in last 60 seconds 10760 similar message(s) suppressed in last 60 seconds 12265 similar message(s) suppressed in last 60 seconds 11535 similar message(s) suppressed in last 60 seconds Holy cats. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS

Re: [tor-relays] new relays

2013-08-28 Thread The Doctor
operators to decide to not relay traffic destined to sites about religion, LGBT issues, censorship, political beliefs, alternative social systems.. aren't these things that Tor is used to give people access to? - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project