Re: [tor-relays] why the network lost 350 relays and some, bridges

2019-01-12 Thread nusenu
Toralf Förster: > Just FWIW this is incremented to snap270: the number in the relay nickname is just the $SNAP_REVISION https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~privacy-squad/+junk/tor-middle-relay-snap/revision/87#daemon -- https://twitter.com/nusenu_ https://mastodon.social/@nusenu signature.asc

Re: [tor-relays] why the network lost 350 relays and some, bridges

2019-01-12 Thread nusenu
Argo2: > I was intrigued by the high number of consumer IP's that these relay > are supposed to be running on while seemingly automated updating the > relay version. The nickname made me look into Ubuntu Snaps as a > possible tor distribution which led me to this snap: >

Re: [tor-relays] why the network lost 350 relays and some, bridges

2019-01-12 Thread Toralf Förster
On 1/12/19 11:08 AM, Argo2 wrote: > It was last updated the 9th of January and when you download the stable > snap it is actually named 'snap269'. Just FWIW this is incremented to snap270: https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/93156A27C9B035C488678E98FE4156F7B593872F -- Toralf PGP

Re: [tor-relays] why the network lost 350 relays and some, bridges

2019-01-12 Thread Argo2
I was intrigued by the high number of consumer IP's that these relay are supposed to be running on while seemingly automated updating the relay version. The nickname made me look into Ubuntu Snaps as a possible tor distribution which led me to this snap: https://snapcraft.io/tor-middle-relay.

Re: [tor-relays] why the network lost >350 relays and some bridges

2019-01-12 Thread nusenu
> Assuming those relays get a weight of 20 (or zero?) I do wonder if > there's a metrics graph (option) showing the number of relays having > a significant weight? their consensus weight is non-zero (they make up ~0.3% of the tor network capacity)

Re: [tor-relays] why the network lost >350 relays and some bridges

2019-01-12 Thread Toralf Förster
On 1/12/19 9:07 AM, nusenu wrote: > I guess I somehow expected that: the maintainer patched tor 0.3.4.10 to added > this > feature again and here we go again with the flood of relays using that > version of tor: > > 79 relays from 2019-01-11: Assuming those relays get a weight of 20 (or zero?)

Re: [tor-relays] why the network lost >350 relays and some bridges

2019-01-12 Thread nusenu
> this occurred when these relays upgraded from tor 0.3.3.10 to 0.3.4.9 > (package maintainer update) > > All these relays were behind NAT devices and they relied on a tor > feature that got removed between these two versions: > >> o Removed features: >> - The PortForwarding and

Re: [tor-relays] why the network lost >350 relays and some bridges

2019-01-11 Thread s7r
nusenu wrote: > As some of you might have noticed the tor network recently > lost a noticeable number of relays and bridges as seen in the > metrics.tpo relay graphs (0.7% cw fraction). > > https://metrics.torproject.org/networksize.html > https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DwGAESoXgAEoB6L.jpg > > this