Re: [tor-relays] Bridge Authority closure

2016-07-20 Thread Sebastian Hahn
> On 21 Jul 2016, at 05:20, 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? We'll have to act before that. We're currently looking for a new operator for t

Re: [tor-relays] Accounting and the 'Stable' flag

2016-08-21 Thread Sebastian Hahn
> On 21 Aug 2016, at 13:11, Ralph Seichter wrote: > > Hello list, > > I have enabled daily accounting on a non-exit Tor relay some days ago. > On the first day, the transfer threshold was reached and the relay > entered hibernation for a few hours, as expected. On the next day, I > reduced Rela

Re: [tor-relays] Exit Node Geographical Location

2016-12-09 Thread Sebastian Hahn
> On 09 Dec 2016, at 09:34, teor wrote: > > >> On 8 Dec. 2016, at 22:08, Sec INT wrote: >> >> US just has alot of people trying to exit there - so its always busy > > Tor clients choose exits at random, based on the ports the exit allows. > They *do not* try to find an exit close to the site

Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP

2016-12-22 Thread Sebastian Hahn
Hi there, I am one of the directory authority operators, so while I don't claim to know what the collective community wants, I am one of the people who are asked to make these decisions. > On 22 Dec 2016, at 10:25, Rana wrote: > > So my question to the community is as follows: does the Tor comm

Re: [tor-relays] "Graceful" Restart of Tor-Relay ?

2016-12-30 Thread Sebastian Hahn
> On 30 Dec 2016, at 19:26, mistral.re...@posteo.net wrote: > > Hello all, a newbie question: > > assuming that I want to shut down and restart a running tor-relay (for > whatever reason; e.g. a linux reboot is required) - is it fine to just shut > down the relay or is there a nicer, more tor-

Re: [tor-relays] How can we trust the guards?

2017-01-01 Thread Sebastian Hahn
> On 02 Jan 2017, at 07:28, Rana wrote: > I think I already covered the "if it exists" part. Sticking to the original > (old) design doc of Tor is not a practically useful strategy. I believe that > Tor has MOSTLY such strong adversaries, the others do not matter much. You do > not really use

Re: [tor-relays] Faravahar acting up again / "Bad Gateway" while uploading descriptor

2017-01-05 Thread Sebastian Hahn
> On 05 Jan 2017, at 22:29, anondroid wrote: > > I just set up a handful of new relays, and all of them have something like > the following in their logs: > > [WARN] http status 502 ("Bad Gateway") reason unexpected while uploading > descriptor to server '154.35.175.225:80' > [WARN] Recei

Re: [tor-relays] Faravahar acting up again / "Bad Gateway" while uploading descriptor

2017-01-05 Thread Sebastian Hahn
> On 05 Jan 2017, at 23:26, Toralf Förster wrote: > Signed PGP part > On 01/05/2017 10:40 PM, Sebastian Hahn wrote: > > They send notifications within 10 > > minutes of the beginning of the hour. > So, if the issue happens at the 11th minute - it would appear 1 hour befo

Re: [tor-relays] Another relay is using the same name as mine.

2017-06-11 Thread Sebastian Hahn
Hi Alan, > On 11. Jun 2017, at 21:22, Alan wrote: > I just need some advice. I'm running 3 relays, one is called Andromeda. > Today I find out there is another relay called Andromeda. > > https://atlas.torproject.org/#search/Andromeda > mine is running from ip 144.217.161.119 > > Is it a proble

Re: [tor-relays] Some Dir Authorities blocked

2017-09-16 Thread Sebastian Hahn
Hi there, > On 17. Sep 2017, at 01:19, Graeme Neilson wrote: > > I am running a relay but 4 out of 8 directory authorities appear to being > blocked by my ISP. > There is no route to the blocked authorities and the last responding tcp > traceroute hop is an ISP machine. There are routes via I

Re: [tor-relays] spurios warning about using the nickname instead of the key

2017-10-12 Thread Sebastian Hahn
Hi there, > On 12. Oct 2017, at 20:43, Scott Bennett wrote: > teor wrote: >>> On 12 Oct 2017, at 13:21, Toralf F?rster wrote: >>> >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>> Hash: SHA256 >>> On 10/11/2017 10:08 AM, Dylan Issa wrote: Did you set MyFamily using nicknames of the key? >

Re: [tor-relays] Thank you to directory operators

2017-10-30 Thread Sebastian Hahn
Hi there, > On 30. Oct 2017, at 22:12, Paul Templeton wrote: > > Here Here > > From: "Tor Node Admin @ SechsNullDrei.org" > To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > Sent: Monday, October 30, 2017 9:58:49 PM > Subject: [tor-relays] Thank you to directory operators > > Good morning, > > Relay ope

Re: [tor-relays] Testers needed for Nyx beta release

2017-10-30 Thread Sebastian Hahn
> On 31. Oct 2017, at 00:19, Damian Johnson wrote: > >> I think I've found a bug with the Connections pane. nyx appears to munge all >> the connections into "outbound", like: >> >> Connections (4852 outbound, 1 control): >> >> Whereas arm on the same system displays them correctly like: >> >

Re: [tor-relays] Atlas is now Relay Search!

2017-11-14 Thread Sebastian Hahn
Hey, > On 14. Nov 2017, at 19:00, teor wrote: > On 15 Nov 2017, at 02:41, Iain R. Learmonth wrote: > >>> On 14/11/17 15:35, Ralph Seichter wrote: >>> On 14.11.17 13:52, Iain R. Learmonth wrote: >>> I also notice that the "new look" does not work in Safari 11 on macOS >>> 10.13.1 (High Sierra).

Re: [tor-relays] Atlas is now Relay Search!

2017-11-14 Thread Sebastian Hahn
> On 14. Nov 2017, at 19:26, teor wrote: > > >> On 15 Nov 2017, at 05:05, Sebastian Hahn wrote: >> >> Hey, >> >>> On 14. Nov 2017, at 19:00, teor wrote: >>> On 15 Nov 2017, at 02:41, Iain R. Learmonth wrote: >>> >>>>

Re: [tor-relays] exit relay

2017-12-14 Thread Sebastian Hahn
> On 14. Dec 2017, at 23:04, Evangelos Meintasis > wrote: > > Hello to all, > I got this warning : > [warn] Tor is running as an exit relay. If you did not want this behavior, > please set the ExitRelay option to 0. > > But in /etc/tor/torrc file, I can not locate an y EXITRELAY option. > Sh

Re: [tor-relays] restarting tor service after AccountingMax has been reached

2017-12-21 Thread Sebastian Hahn
> On 20. Dec 2017, at 22:46, Fabian A. Santiago > wrote: >>> so how i first noticed was when i couldn't browse to my dirport readme html >>> page after a tor >>> restart. are you saying when it normally hibernates, that page goes down >>> too? >> >> Yes. >> >> When Tor hibernates, it doesn't

Re: [tor-relays] MyFamily and ContactInfo fields are required for operators running multiple tor instances

2018-01-11 Thread Sebastian Hahn
> On 11. Jan 2018, at 20:44, Dmitrii Tcvetkov wrote: > >>>MyFamily **must** be set correctly if you run more than one >>> relay or bridge. (That is, every relay should list all the others >>> as described above.) > > So if I run some relays and also some bridges I must to specify > unhashed

Re: [tor-relays] >30% of the Tor network runs outdated version: Consider enabling auto-updates

2018-01-14 Thread Sebastian Hahn
> On 14. Jan 2018, at 10:56, Ralph Seichter wrote: > > On 12.01.2018 17:05, nusenu wrote: > >> The motivation for this is that there are a lot of relays (>3000) >> running outdated tor releases. > > This reminds me that I wanted to ask about package updates: > > I compile Tor from the source

Re: [tor-relays] Publishing bridge contact information

2018-02-07 Thread Sebastian Hahn
> On 7. Feb 2018, at 18:55, Geoff Down wrote: > > > > On Wed, Feb 7, 2018, at 4:45 PM, Karsten Loesing wrote: > >> Possible disadvantages are: >> - If somebody runs a relay and a bridge, both with the same contact >> information, a censoring adversary might guess that the bridge might run >>

Re: [tor-relays] Publishing bridge contact information

2018-02-08 Thread Sebastian Hahn
Hi there, I don't want to declare it a showstopper outright, but: > On 8. Feb 2018, at 09:42, Karsten Loesing wrote: > > These sound like variants of the first disadvantage listed above. There > are two additional assumptions in here, though: > > 1) bridge operators use the same or a similar e

Re: [tor-relays] gabelmoo's BW scanner, temporary or permanent leave?

2018-02-19 Thread Sebastian Hahn
> On 19. Feb 2018, at 22:38, starlight.201...@binnacle.cx wrote: > > noticed gablemoo's BW scanner is offline and the entry for it at > > https://consensus-health.torproject.org/#bwauthstatus > > was removed; is it gone or just taking an extended break? It is broken because the current machi

Re: [tor-relays] hourly CPU spike at :02

2018-03-17 Thread Sebastian Hahn
> On 17. Mar 2018, at 11:05, Toralf Förster wrote: > > caused by both of the 2 Tor exits here at a Linux server. > > I do wonder what both processes do exactly 2 minutaes past each hour for > about half a minute? Maybe consensus diff calculation? signature.asc Description: Message signed wi

Re: [tor-relays] No stable flag from 6 out of 9?

2018-03-31 Thread Sebastian Hahn
> On 31. Mar 2018, at 14:45, Ole Rydahl wrote: > Disabled IPv6 some hours ago (nyx/menu/reset tor) with no change on the moods > of 6 of the muses. They still don't consider me "stable". The respective dirauths aren't muses, they simply function as they are designed - they treat relays with unr

Re: [tor-relays] No stable flag from 6 out of 9?

2018-04-15 Thread Sebastian Hahn
> On 15. Apr 2018, at 10:03, Ole Rydahl wrote: > As far as I can see, there is a quite large difference in the required > "running" period between the 9 directory authorities. I interpreted that as > an issue with my setup. 3 authorities voted stable after a few days, while > the 6 remaining n

Re: [tor-relays] No stable flag from 6 out of 9?

2018-04-15 Thread Sebastian Hahn
Hi, > On 15. Apr 2018, at 20:20, Ole Rydahl wrote: > It's my experience that announcing ipv6 capability and actually not > providing - results in not being part of the cached consensus since only 3 > authorities acknowledge your relay as running. > > My situation was different all 9 directory au

Re: [tor-relays] Problem with MyFamily config (doesn't work correctly)

2018-05-13 Thread Sebastian Hahn
> On 13. May 2018, at 18:01, Olaf Grimm wrote: > > Dear Tor controllers, > > > For some time now I have relays in different locations and with > different systems. > All relays have the same torrc, except nickname. > The following list shows the excerpt from metrics.torproject.org. > > Hydra1

Re: [tor-relays] Unprompted HUPs

2014-07-09 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On 09 Jul 2014, at 18:38, kingqueen wrote: > hi, > > Checking the log of my relay, I see that sometimes it reloads its > configuration from what it says is a HUP signal. > > An example: > > "06:40:57 [NOTICE] Received reload signal (hup). Reloading config and > resetting internal state." > >

Re: [tor-relays] OnionTip.com distributes Bitcoin donations to all BTC addresses set in ContactInfo

2014-08-10 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On 10 Aug 2014, at 19:00, Tim Semeijn wrote: > > I really like this and I've added an address to my exits (4.2% of > > total exit consensus). However, for this to really kick off I'd > > recommend adding visibility on how many donations were received > > and how it was distributed across relays.

Re: [tor-relays] Dynamic IP

2014-08-16 Thread Sebastian Hahn
Hi Tim, On 16 Aug 2014, at 23:53, Tim wrote: > I'm running a relay on a similarly "dynamic" IP. > If the line goes down, I'm reallocated a new one. But otherwise the IP is > stable. > If I don't notice the change, I notice the traffic drop, then I update the > torrc, and everything works again.

Re: [tor-relays] Dynamic IP

2014-08-17 Thread Sebastian Hahn
Hi Tim, > Sebastien, I run a relay on a machine that has an internal private IP, behind > a NAT router with a public IP. > > In my experience, I need to specify the NAT router's public IP in the torrc, > otherwise tor doesn't include it in the router descriptor it submits to the > consensus.

Re: [tor-relays] Time information

2014-09-02 Thread Sebastian Hahn
Hi, On 02 Sep 2014, at 21:19, Marcin Gondek wrote: > I just looking on the logs and see: > > ==cut== > Sep 02 21:03:54.000 [info] channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(): Received > NETINFO cell with skewed time from server at x.x.x.x:443. It seems that our > clock is behind by 1 hours, 24 minutes

Re: [tor-relays] request at Hetzner

2014-09-11 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On 11 Sep 2014, at 21:20, Toralf Förster wrote: >> Did you already look at Server4You? > oops, not now, wiki discouraged me at the first glance - will check I have the worst possible expierences with that company and hosting servers there. Would not recommend it at all. This includes: - fake v

Re: [tor-relays] Port-Based Best-Fit Circuit Selection

2014-09-20 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On 20 Sep 2014, at 03:26, Jeremy Olexa wrote: > Hijack thread: > So what is the advice to get a relay used more? Currently my relay > won't even get close to the AccountingMax (4TB/mo) even though the > BandwidthRate is set high enough (3MB/s). It seems like the network > considers my AdvertisedB

Re: [tor-relays] Estimating the value and cost of the Tor network

2014-09-25 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On 25 Sep 2014, at 09:21, Mike Perry wrote: > I really need identity fingerprints to see how much traffic your node is > actually pushing, what its consensus weight is, when and how often it is > hibernating, if it is otherwise strangely rate limited, etc. All nonexits since I started hosting g

Re: [tor-relays] Oniontip

2014-09-28 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On 28 Sep 2014, at 17:41, Pascal wrote: > There are some nice statistics at https://metrics.torproject.org about node > types. As of 9/24/14 the total advertized bandwidth for guards was 8.6Gbps, > exits 4Gbps, and middles 2Gbps. If you want to distribute tips > proportionally, based upon t

Re: [tor-relays] exit policy to reflect country-wide ban

2014-12-04 Thread Sebastian Hahn
Hi Pascal, On 04 Dec 2014, at 19:16, Pascal wrote: > Microdescriptors (Tor >0.2.3.x) broke the inclusion of specific IPs in exit > policies (exit enclaving). Did they break the exclusion of specific IPs in > exit policies as well? No, that's a local choice by the relay and it will prevent exi

Re: [tor-relays] exit policy to reflect country-wide ban

2014-12-04 Thread Sebastian Hahn
Hi Pascal, On 05 Dec 2014, at 04:26, Pascal wrote: > On 12/4/2014 3:50 PM, Sebastian Hahn wrote: >> No, that's a local choice by the relay and it will prevent exiting to >> IPs that it disallows in its config. > > Yes, but does it have a way of telling clien

Re: [tor-relays] Consensus weight dropped

2015-01-19 Thread Sebastian Hahn
Hey there, On 19 Jan 2015, at 10:03, eric gisse wrote: > This is roughly consistent with what I've been seeing on my own node. > > Weird. > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 1:31 AM, Bram de Boer > wrote: >> Update: generation of the http://nosur.com/consensus.txt list has >> completed now, and conta

Re: [tor-relays] Consensus weight dropped

2015-01-20 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On 20 Jan 2015, at 22:58, Roger Dingledine wrote: > We've already known about this in the context of "the bandwidth > authority scripts are very poorly tuned for the changes that have > happened in the Tor network since the scripts were written, so they > vote wildly varying numbers for relays".

Re: [tor-relays] Consensus weight dropped

2015-01-20 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On 21 Jan 2015, at 05:10, eric gisse wrote: > Holy crap, 40%? And that's been historically acceptable? I don't think it was historically like that. ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailma

Re: [tor-relays] Notice

2015-04-07 Thread Sebastian Hahn
Hi Bandie, > On 08 Apr 2015, at 00:22, Bandie Kojote wrote: > Dear list admins, > > I didn't subscribe to the tor-relay mailing list to receive spam. > Please do something against this. Maybe mark this list _with a big sign_ that > the people know, that this is for operators only, or drop non-su

Re: [tor-relays] Authdir is rejecting routers in this range

2015-05-12 Thread Sebastian Hahn
Hi Tim, > On 12 May 2015, at 21:52, Tim Semeijn wrote: > In my venture to find more ISPs to house Tor Exit nodes I have > recently set up a node in Switzerland (Private Layer - 179.43.160.41). > When running Tor 6 out of 9 Authdirs are rejecting the node: thanks for running a relay. The IP addre

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relays without AESNI

2015-09-15 Thread Sebastian Hahn
Hi, > On 16 Sep 2015, at 05:22, nobody wrote: > Hi all, > > I am looking at renting a dedicated server on a unmetered 100 Mbit/s > connection, but the CPU is a Intel G850, which is old (Q2 2011) and does > not have AES-NI. Will this CPU be too slow to make use of the bandwidth? I'm currently ru

Re: [tor-relays] Opt-In Trial: Fallback Directory Mirrors

2015-12-17 Thread Sebastian Hahn
Hi there, > On 17 Dec 2015, at 15:07, Nick Mathewson wrote: > In December 2015, we created a list of ~400 candidate fallbacks. > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/attachment/ticket/15775/fallback_dirs.inc > > If your relay is on this list, and you expect it to be on the same IP > address(

Re: [tor-relays] what's up(down) with gablemoo?

2016-01-21 Thread Sebastian Hahn
> On 21 Jan 2016, at 18:23, starlight.201...@binnacle.cx wrote: > > Lately 'gabelmoo' had been bouncing down and up like a ping-pong ball. > > Because gabelmoo is a BWauth (of which only five exist) as well as a normal > authority, the impact is greater than if it did not participate in bandwid

Re: [tor-relays] what's up(down) with gablemoo?

2016-01-21 Thread Sebastian Hahn
> On 21 Jan 2016, at 19:10, starlight.201...@binnacle.cx wrote: > > At 18:55 1/21/2016 +0100, you wrote: >> Gabelmoo is running 0.2.7.6. . . > > Thank you for replying. > > I saw earlier that moria1 ran into this > and decided to wait on 0.2.7 for my > relay, though I suppose the issue is > spe

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Exclude Nodes Misbehaving

2016-03-30 Thread Sebastian Hahn
> On 30 Mar 2016, at 23:08, cacahu...@autistici.org wrote: > Hahahahahahaha ... > *draws breath* > Have you tried GB as the country code? I think UK might be Ukraine. > ... hahahahaha ... There really is no need to make fun of someone who made an honest mistake and asked about it. Your post is ne

Re: [tor-relays] suspicious "Relay127001" relays

2016-07-06 Thread Sebastian Hahn
> On 06 Jul 2016, at 04:29, Ivan Markin wrote: > > simon: >> If I understood the documentation correctly, as a node operator I can't >> blacklist hosts individually (unless I'm putting them into MyFamily, >> which I don't want to). > > AFAIK, there is no option in tor itself to exclude relays f

Re: [tor-relays] Bandwidth

2011-07-06 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Jul 7, 2011, at 1:48 AM, Tomas Sironi wrote: > Hi people. In the Tor manual, the next options are specified: Hi Tomas, thanks for running a relay! > - BandwidthRate > - RelayBandwidthRate > > However i don't get to see the difference between those two. I imagined the > first one is the b

Re: [tor-relays] Strange warnings

2011-07-21 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Jul 21, 2011, at 2:58 PM, Klaus Layer wrote: > Hi, > > My relays suddenly show the following warnings: > > "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR or non-edge circuit." > > Is this something I should worry about? > > I am wondering why several of my relays shows that at nearly the same ti

Re: [tor-relays] relay uptime and stable flag

2011-08-19 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Aug 19, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Karsten Loesing wrote: > Hi Sambuddho, > > On 8/13/11 12:11 AM, Sambuddho Chakravarty wrote: >> I see some relays with uptimes over 100 days (eg. Pandora14), but they >> don't have the stable flag enabled ... In the FAQ page it says that relays >> are marked stable

Re: [tor-relays] Hibernation timing & bandwidth

2011-10-05 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Oct 5, 2011, at 7:20 PM, Steve Snyder wrote: > I have a relay with a fixed monthly bandwidth limit, so I expect the relay to > hibernate toward the end of the month. (I'm trying to spread the bandwidth > out over the month, but actual relay utilization cannot be estimated > accurately.) >

Re: [tor-relays] Relay accounting calculations

2011-10-05 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Oct 5, 2011, at 8:00 PM, Steve Snyder wrote: > I'm not sure I understand how the relay accounting limit is calculated. > > The manual says that you might specify an AccountingMax limit of 1 GB, a > ceiling that would be applied to each of the input and output traffic. The > manual also say

Re: [tor-relays] Middleman/guard nodes raided in the Netherlands

2011-11-10 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Nov 10, 2011, at 3:20 PM, Nils Vogels wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 14:44, Orionjur Tor-admin > wrote: >> On 10.11.2011 11:48, David wrote: >>> I just wanted to let everyone know that my two Tor nodes have been >>> raided (+all my computer equipment and everything that could store data). >

Re: [tor-relays] new (to me, at any rate) message

2011-12-04 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Dec 4, 2011, at 12:40 PM, Scott Bennett wrote: > About an hour and a half ago, my node issued the following message. > > Dec 04 04:03:56.685 [warn] Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR or > non-edge circuit. > > What does it mean? And what triggers it? Is it attempting to use a rel

Re: [tor-relays] consensus update request

2012-01-08 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Jan 8, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Scott Bennett wrote: > The last consensus document expired about 15 hours ago. I understand > that the authority operators and tor developers are probably occupied with > fixing whatever is the trouble, but if someone in that group of individuals > can spare a mom

Re: [tor-relays] consensus update request

2012-01-08 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Jan 8, 2012, at 3:30 PM, Scott Bennett wrote: > Thanks, Sebastian, for the very quick reply. > On Sun, 8 Jan 2012 15:12:25 +0100 Sebastian Hahn > wrote: >> On Jan 8, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Scott Bennett wrote: >>>The last consensus document expired about 15

Re: [tor-relays] Internal server error while fetching from dizum

2012-01-09 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Jan 9, 2012, at 5:35 PM, Klaus Layer wrote: > Hi, > > my relays are getting 500 error while fetching data from authority dizum. > > Can someone explain what is happening with this tor authority? > > Regards, > > Klaus > > 14:25:51 [WARN] Received http status code 500 ("Internal Server Err

Re: [tor-relays] Internal server error while fetching from dizum

2012-01-09 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Jan 9, 2012, at 5:49 PM, Sebastian Hahn wrote: > On Jan 9, 2012, at 5:35 PM, Klaus Layer wrote: >> Hi, >> >> my relays are getting 500 error while fetching data from authority dizum. >> >> Can someone explain what is happening with this tor authority? >&

Re: [tor-relays] Authorities: what is up?

2012-01-13 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Jan 13, 2012, at 9:31 AM, Klaus Layer wrote: > Hi, > > just because I am curious: can someone from the tor authority > operators please explain what is going on the last days with > tor authorities. This morning (europe) ides is not available. > > Thanks, > > Klaus We've had quite a bit

Re: [tor-relays] Authorities: what is up?

2012-01-13 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Jan 13, 2012, at 11:06 AM, Klaus Layer wrote: > Sebastian Hahn wrote on 13.01.2012: >> >> We've had quite a bit of trouble making a consensus in the past few >> days, tho these issues have been resolved as of two days ago or so. >> There were quite a few main

Re: [tor-relays] Authorities: what is up?

2012-01-13 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Jan 13, 2012, at 1:40 PM, Andrew Lewis wrote: > Because alpha tends to be pretty stable with tor, and the latest security > fixes are in alpha a lot sooner. > > On Jan 13, 2012, at 12:21 PM, Steve Snyder wrote: >> On 01/13/2012 05:27 AM, Sebastian Hahn wrote: >>>

Re: [tor-relays] Authorities: what is up?

2012-01-13 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Jan 13, 2012, at 1:27 PM, Nils Vogels wrote: > Hey Sebastian, Roger, > On 13/01/2012, Sebastian Hahn wrote: >> >> Ah, I see. ides not having a current consensus is different from ides >> being down. Ides still is running the stable Tor version and needs to be >

Re: [tor-relays] Authorities: what is up?

2012-01-13 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Jan 13, 2012, at 2:57 PM, Klaus Layer wrote: > Sebastian Hahn wrote on 13.01.2012: > >> >> Ah, I see. ides not having a current consensus is different from ides >> being down. Ides still is running the stable Tor version and needs to be >> upgraded to 0.2.3

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Deprecation Notice

2012-01-20 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Jan 20, 2012, at 12:18 PM, Sebastian Urbach wrote: > Am Wed, 28 Dec 2011 08:07:39 -0800 > schrieb Damian Johnson : > > Hi Damian, > >> Hi all. As per ticket 4788 [1] we'll soon be removing relays that are >> out of date and no longer safe to run, which includes anything older >> than version

Re: [tor-relays] hardware accel option in tor alpha

2012-03-31 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Mar 31, 2012, at 9:32 PM, Sebastian Urbach wrote: > Hi, > > I want to use the "hardware accel" feature with the actual tor alpha > version 0.2.3.12-alpha1. My CPUs support the Intel AES NI function > and the kernel module is enabled and running well. > > Im running OpenSSL 1.0.1, the debian

Re: [tor-relays] hardware accel option in tor alpha

2012-04-01 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Apr 1, 2012, at 2:22 PM, Sebastian Urbach wrote: > Hi Sebastian, oh hai. > Do you know if this > applies to the released 0.3.13-alpha version from the 26th of March ? It does not, that's why I said it isn't in any released version of tor. The next one should contain it, until then you're for

Re: [tor-relays] Unnamed flag

2012-08-15 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Aug 15, 2012, at 5:18 AM, k...@damnfbi.tk wrote: > Can anyone explain how to get the Unnamed flag for my node changed over to > Named? > -kupo The only way is to wait while the name mapping expires. ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.tor

Re: [tor-relays] big spike in cpu usage

2013-04-08 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Apr 8, 2013, at 7:52 AM, Moritz Bartl wrote: > On 07.04.2013 20:25, Andreas Krey wrote: >> No, its not 'per second'. It is the amount of allowed traffic that can >> be saved up while not hitting the BandwidthRate to be used up when the >> BandwidthRate is exceeded. > > Wow. Thanks. All these

Re: [tor-relays] I need to shut down my relay for a month possibly, what should I do

2013-04-15 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Apr 15, 2013, at 9:40 AM, Moritz Bartl wrote: > On 15.04.2013 03:45, Nate Homier wrote: >> If I shut down for a month what will happen to my relay. What if >> someone chooses the same nick for their relay and so on. > > Nicknames are not unique. Someone can pick the same nickname even when

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Relay Performance

2014-03-24 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On 24 Mar 2014, at 20:21, tor-admin wrote: > There a couple of sysctrl parameters that Moritz described here: > https://www.torservers.net/wiki/setup/server#sysctlconf That website has at least one glaringly dangerous suggestion, namely apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keys.gnupg.net 886DD

Re: [tor-relays] Strange behaviour on Atlas output after Key rotation

2014-04-22 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On 22 Apr 2014, at 20:34, Geri wrote: > Good evening all! > > I just have a question regarding my relay's status on Atlas. > > Approx. 5 days ago i have rotated all my keys (deleted /keys dir) after > Roger's advice for doing so for best security. > > Since then i am obersing a strange behav

Re: [tor-relays] publish current AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr limit?

2023-02-12 Thread Sebastian Hahn
> On 12. Feb 2023, at 11:46, nusenu wrote: > > Hi, > > would it be possible to publish > the currently enforced value of AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr > on some tpo website? Maybe consensus-health.tpo? > > kind regards, > nusenu Hi nusenu, that's a bit hard to do automatically, as the value is

Re: [tor-relays] Operator straw poll: Reasons why you use Tor LTS versions?

2019-09-08 Thread Sebastian Hahn
> On 7. Sep 2019, at 12:20, teor wrote: > > Hi, > > On 6 Sep 2019, at 20:14, Roman Mamedov wrote: > >>> Where does the security weakpoint risk come from? Does >>> apt-transport-tor/onion service repository availability help in your >>> mind here? >> >> As with adding any third-party reposit

Re: [tor-relays] Consensus Weight Dropping/Authority Issues?

2020-03-16 Thread Sebastian Hahn
Hi all, > On 16. Mar 2020, at 07:43, teor wrote: >> On 7 Jan 2020, at 22:57, John Ricketts wrote: >> >> I have been watching the consensus weight and bandwidth of all of my 50 exit >> nodes drop consistently over the past few months. I have not made any >> hardware changes in my data center a

Re: [tor-relays] Question about authority clock skew

2020-04-13 Thread Sebastian Hahn
Hi Luiz, > On 13. Apr 2020, at 15:41, torjoy > wrote: > I was browsing the "Consensus health" page and something let me curious... > What is the importance of the clock skew in the authorities with the > resolution of microseconds? > Brasília).png> >

Re: [tor-relays] Why does my relay often appears offline in Metrics and should I be worry?

2020-04-18 Thread Sebastian Hahn
Hi there, > On 19. Apr 2020, at 02:25, Roger Dingledine wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 10:16:34AM +0200, Clément Février wrote: >> The issue is back. After more than 3 days, the relay appears offline. >> All flags are gone in nyx. There is a bug. > > I believe there is something wrong with

Re: [tor-relays] Guard flag got removed after only 48 hours of downtime.

2020-07-28 Thread Sebastian Hahn
Hi William, > On 29. Jul 2020, at 00:45, Matt Traudt wrote: > > The Guard flag conditions are > https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/dir-spec.txt#n2640 > > Given you're Fast and Stable, and have a good advertised bandwidth and > weight, then I suspect you simply no longer have a Weigh

Re: [tor-relays] Heartbeat: It seems like we are not in the cached consensus.

2020-07-28 Thread Sebastian Hahn
Hi there, > On 28. Jul 2020, at 22:33, Fran wrote: > > thanks @Torix for the IPv6 suggestion, all auth were reachable via v6, but > for testing I turned of IPv6 in the tor config - no change. I can indeed ping both of your IPv4 and IPv6 from gabelmoo right now, but this is potentially a config

Re: [tor-relays] Guard flag got removed after only 48 hours of downtime.

2020-08-05 Thread Sebastian Hahn
> On 5. Aug 2020, at 17:25, William Kane wrote: > > Strange, it's still missing the Guard flag after 8 days of consecutive > uptime - maybe I'm just being impatient? > > Weirdly enough, the relay is also missing on > https://utternoncesense.com/consensus-health.html. > > Every other relay tha

Re: [tor-relays] Guard flag got removed after only 48 hours of downtime.

2020-08-10 Thread Sebastian Hahn
;> to go from 97.95% to 97.96%.. >> >> ..thats slow. >> >> Also, thanks for the correct site, I randomly searched >> "consensus-health" and just used the first site.. dumb mistake on my >> end. >> >> Thank you and have a great weekend ev

Re: [tor-relays] Wildly Different BandWidth Numbers

2021-02-02 Thread Sebastian Hahn
> On 2. Feb 2021, at 22:46, Eddie wrote: > > Looking at the consensus health page for my relay > D195E5CE8AE77BAC91673E6CFB7BD0AF57281646), I see wildly different values for > bandwidth: > > bw=3060 > bw=910 > bw=340 > bw=620 > bw=5130 > > Why is there such a discrepancy. I'm guessing thi

Re: [tor-relays] Fallback Directories - Upcoming Change

2021-04-08 Thread Sebastian Hahn
Hi, > On 8. Apr 2021, at 14:50, David Goulet wrote: > On 07 Apr (21:43:50), Toralf Förster wrote: >> On 4/7/21 9:04 PM, David Goulet wrote: >>> Over time, we will remove or add more relays at each minor release if the >>> set >>> of fallback directories not working reaches a 25% threshold or mo

Re: [tor-relays] Questions about consensus votes

2021-04-21 Thread Sebastian Hahn
Hi Tobias, thanks for running a relay! > On 20. Apr 2021, at 15:21, Tobias Höller wrote: > > I have only recently started operating relays > (Family:008196DC449482C73CFA9712445223917F760921) and have some trouble with > reliably getting the "Fast" and "HSDir" flags for my relays. Right now th

Re: [tor-relays] Relay MIGHTYWANG consensus issues and loss of STABLE flag

2021-10-29 Thread Sebastian Hahn
Hi Wang, > On 29. Oct 2021, at 18:10, Mighty Wang wrote: > > I have one pretty large relay, MIGHTYWANG which is an IP4/6 guard, dedicated > hardware running on a 1Gb line uncontended. It is usually one of the top 5 > relays by consensus weight but on the morning of 14th October it lost Guard