Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay operators please help test #2667 branch

2021-02-03 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 01:20:58AM +0200, s7r wrote: > Indeed the defense is triggered more often than I expected. Very nice. Btw, a better version of the #2667 patch is now included in all of the current Tor releases: 0.3.5.13, 0.4.3.8, 0.4.4.7, 0.4.5.5-rc. So if you are still trying out my

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay operators please help test #2667 branch

2021-02-03 Thread s7r
Roger Dingledine wrote: Hello friendly relay operators, Another day, another weird thing with the Tor network. This time we have some jerk bombing the directory authorities with directory fetches, and doing it via exits:

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay operators please help test #2667 branch

2021-01-30 Thread nusenu
Roger Dingledine: > On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 12:34:28AM +0100, nusenu wrote: >> If dir auths (some or all) are willing to share (privately or publicly) the >> distribution of >> attack load (frequency, bandwidth, ...) by exit source IP in total or >> relative values >> I can correlate this data

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay operators please help test #2667 branch

2021-01-28 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 12:34:28AM +0100, nusenu wrote: > If dir auths (some or all) are willing to share (privately or publicly) the > distribution of > attack load (frequency, bandwidth, ...) by exit source IP in total or > relative values > I can correlate this data to strengthen a hypothesis

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay operators please help test #2667 branch

2021-01-28 Thread nusenu
Unless you already ruled out that hypothesis by looking at the attack distribution by source IP: If dir auths (some or all) are willing to share (privately or publicly) the distribution of attack load (frequency, bandwidth, ...) by exit source IP in total or relative values I can correlate this

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay operators please help test #2667 branch

2021-01-28 Thread Chris Dagdigian
Have a tor exit running in the US ; fingerprint is 3DE567C1350C0E858C6147AECB06EA9B3EAF3261 and OR address is 71.174.105.126:9001 Just built and launched the ticket-2667 branch; came up as: [notice] Tor 0.4.6.0-alpha-dev running on Linux with Libevent 2.0.21-stable, OpenSSL 1.0.1t, Zlib

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay: ERROR -- No Descriptor Available

2020-08-05 Thread William Kane
I think this is related to available file system descriptors. Try increasing the number of descriptors, around 8192 should be fine for most relays. If running systemd, edit the service (systemctl edit ) and append the following, then restart: [Service] LimitNOFILE=8192 You might also need to

Re: [tor-relays] Exit Relay throughput

2020-06-21 Thread William Kane
Tor already has code that avoids having multiple nodes from a single /16 range or from the same AS (correct me on that one if I'm wrong, not totally sure about it) in the same circuit, so as long as your MyFamily setting is set correctly, I see no problem here. Throughput is important as you will

Re: [tor-relays] Exit Relay throughput

2020-06-21 Thread William Kane
Also - 4000 connections sounds like your OS limiting the amount of open file descriptors, when I still used to run exit relays, it was at least 6500 connections just for all the other Tor relays, which should now be 7000. You should at the very least allow 8192 open file descriptors. If you

Re: [tor-relays] exit relay "internal error"

2019-06-19 Thread dns1983
Thank you very much for your support. I think i'll wait a few days to find a solution, otherwise I'll ask for a reset of my VM. Cheers Gigi Il 18 giugno 2019 17:26:11 CEST, David Goulet ha scritto: >On 18 Jun (12:51:45), dns1...@riseup.net wrote: >> Hello, > >Hi! > >> >> I have an exit

Re: [tor-relays] exit relay "internal error"

2019-06-18 Thread David Goulet
On 18 Jun (12:51:45), dns1...@riseup.net wrote: > Hello, Hi! > > I have an exit relay on a debian remote vm. Yesterday, after I installed the > last linux security update, I rebooted It, and than I had a problem with > additional IPs, that were no more being assigned. In order to understand if

Re: [tor-relays] Exit Relay

2018-03-06 Thread Damian Johnson
> Sorry, I meant to write "connection getinfo". > > And I'm not sure that the original reasoning applies: if Stem is getting the > information from other sources anyway, why don't we just provide it > through Tor? Ah! Gotcha. No argument from me. > Its worth noting that I have seen circuits on

Re: [tor-relays] Exit Relay

2018-03-06 Thread Gary
Hello, On 6 March 2018 at 00:06, Damian Johnson wrote: > > > I switched to nyx and it is fine allthough on deeper inspection the IP > to is actually my IP so clearly this is a bug. > > Hi Gary. Sorry, not sure I follow. Are you saying Nyx (not arm) is > labeling these as

Re: [tor-relays] Exit Relay

2018-03-05 Thread teor
On 6 Mar 2018, at 12:27, Damian Johnson wrote: >> A circuit getinfo sounds like a great feature. I'd be happy to review >> a proposal, but I'm not sure I'd have time to implement it. > > No worries! As mentioned, we already have a proposal. Eight years ago > Nick

Re: [tor-relays] Exit Relay

2018-03-05 Thread Damian Johnson
> A circuit getinfo sounds like a great feature. I'd be happy to review > a proposal, but I'm not sure I'd have time to implement it. No worries! As mentioned, we already have a proposal. Eight years ago Nick encouraged me to write proposals for things I'd find helpful, but of course a proposal

Re: [tor-relays] Exit Relay

2018-03-05 Thread teor
On 6 Mar 2018, at 11:29, Damian Johnson wrote: >> Does Tor export a list of connections over the control port? > > Hi teor. Nope, tor doesn't. That's something I wanted many years ago > and I made a proposal, but Jake talked me into limiting it to circuits > instead... >

Re: [tor-relays] Exit Relay

2018-03-05 Thread Damian Johnson
> Does Tor export a list of connections over the control port? Hi teor. Nope, tor doesn't. That's something I wanted many years ago and I made a proposal, but Jake talked me into limiting it to circuits instead...

Re: [tor-relays] Exit Relay

2018-03-05 Thread teor
> On 6 Mar 2018, at 11:06, Damian Johnson wrote: > > For what it's worth here's where Nyx decides to label a connection as > being an exit. The conditional is "if I can't resolve this to a relay > and our exit policy allows exiting to it then label as an exit"... > >

Re: [tor-relays] Exit Relay

2018-03-05 Thread Damian Johnson
Hi Roger, I don't think thats' the issue here. The lines they cited were exit connections, not the 'Exit' circuit lines (the later look different and don't include scrubbing). For what it's worth here's where Nyx decides to label a connection as being an exit. The conditional is "if I can't

Re: [tor-relays] Exit Relay

2018-03-05 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 10:02:10AM +, Gary wrote: > What is going on here? I am confused as to why there is exit connections > but I am not / dont want an exit relay. I am guessing those are self-reachability tests and self-speed tests that your relay does by making circuits back to itself.

Re: [tor-relays] Exit Relay

2018-03-05 Thread Gary
Hello, On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 2:49 AM, teor wrote: > I think this is a bug in arm. > Try nyx. I switched to nyx and it is fine allthough on deeper inspection the IP to is actually my IP so clearly this is a bug. On 5 March 2018 at 18:18, Damian Johnson

Re: [tor-relays] Exit Relay

2018-03-05 Thread Damian Johnson
Oops! Actually, this would happen with Nyx too. This is a Stem bug... https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/25423 Thanks for the catch! On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 2:49 AM, teor wrote: > > >> On 5 Mar 2018, at 21:02, Gary wrote: >> >>

Re: [tor-relays] Exit Relay

2018-03-05 Thread teor
> On 5 Mar 2018, at 21:02, Gary wrote: > > Hello. > > I have configured my relay (jaffacakemonster2) to be non exit, however arm > shows me the following (I edited out IPs' & some lines after copy/paste from > connection screen for others security / brevity) >

Re: [tor-relays] Exit Relay Up

2018-02-05 Thread nusenu
Conrad Rockenhaus: > Hello All, > > I just brought up my third relay, ConradsOVHRelay03, as an exit. I > appreciate the feedback that everyone provided me with before and I > hope that this relay is configured perfectly. I’m glad to add more > bandwidth to the cause. thanks for adding more

Re: [tor-relays] exit relay

2017-12-15 Thread Gary Smith
Hello. If it is not set in your torrc, try looking in the torrc-default file /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc If you forget where this file is, look in the log where for two lines near the top for "loading torrc" or something If nothing is there, write EXITRELAY 0 yourself, right at

Re: [tor-relays] exit relay

2017-12-14 Thread teor
On 15 Dec 2017, at 09:14, Toralf Förster wrote: >> On 12/14/2017 11:08 PM, Sebastian Hahn wrote: >> If you don't want to run an Exit relay, set ExitRelay 0. > Not needed IMO - I'm under the impression that nowadays with recent Tor > versions a user must opt-in to

Re: [tor-relays] exit relay

2017-12-14 Thread Toralf Förster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 12/14/2017 11:08 PM, Sebastian Hahn wrote: > If you don't want to run an Exit relay, set ExitRelay 0. Not needed IMO - I'm under the impression that nowadays with recent Tor versions a user must opt-in to configure Tor to be an exit. - --

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

Re: [tor-relays] exit relay consensus weight

2017-05-25 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 08:20:16PM -0700, Arisbe wrote: > I just made an interesting observation that I thought I would share. > Yesterday I started a VPS exit relay at a well known hosting company > in Moldova [0]. Within 24 hours I saw the consensus weight exceed > 1. The relay is bandwidth

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay funding

2016-08-04 Thread Kurt Besig
On 8/3/2016 10:13 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: > On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 03:29:01PM +0200, t...@as250.net wrote: >> Absolutely. Most of the infrastructure we provide on that basis and it >> is ok! The reason for running that exit node was that we believed it >> would contribute towards a positive

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay funding

2016-08-04 Thread Petrusko
Haha yes! T-shirts are a good way to start conversations with people who don't really know what is this "onion" !? And be proud to wear it ! :p Registration is open ?!! ;p Le 04/08/2016 à 17:26, I a écrit : > Hear Hear, Roger and Petrusko, > > Nonetheless, I would like the promised t-shirts

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay funding

2016-08-04 Thread I
Hear Hear, Roger and Petrusko, Nonetheless, I would like the promised t-shirts before next year. Robert ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay funding

2016-08-04 Thread Petrusko
And I think a lot of users doesn't know what is there "behind". As always in computer's world... Now I'm able to explain quickly (what I've understood) this network to some friends/family, who were using Tor a long time ago before I've started to have fun with contributing a little to the

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay funding

2016-08-03 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 03:29:01PM +0200, t...@as250.net wrote: > Absolutely. Most of the infrastructure we provide on that basis and it > is ok! The reason for running that exit node was that we believed it > would contribute towards a positive impact in many peoples lives. Thanks for

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay funding

2016-08-03 Thread I
...t-shirts.[ sotto voce ] ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay funding

2016-08-03 Thread tor
On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 14:31:34 +0200 Andreas Krey wrote: > On Wed, 03 Aug 2016 13:40:03 +, t...@as250.net wrote: > ... > > our support. Just to make it clear: "appreciate" in this context > > doesn't mean funding. All those years we didn't get as much as a > > "thank you!" from

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay funding

2016-08-03 Thread NotRandom Someone
I think that the purpose was not being famous or recognized but just having more kindness. The fact is that a lot of Tor users don't even know which relay they are using and how to get the informations of the exit relay they're using, meaning that they will actually never thank anyone of running

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay funding

2016-08-03 Thread Tristan
If you were running relays just to get recognized, you were probably doing it did the wrong reason. ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay funding

2016-08-03 Thread Andreas Krey
On Wed, 03 Aug 2016 13:40:03 +, t...@as250.net wrote: ... > our support. Just to make it clear: "appreciate" in this context > doesn't mean funding. All those yearswe didn't get as much as a "thank > you!" from anyone. Operating tor nodes is - like operating any invisible infrastructure -

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay funding

2016-08-03 Thread tor
On Wed, 09 Mar 2016 14:51:12 +0100 Elrippo wrote: > Why are you then complaining if you do not accept money for running > your relays?! Where do you see any complaining? I guess you misunderstood my mail. If other people are getting support in keeping their relays up

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay funding

2016-03-09 Thread Kenneth Freeman
On 03/09/2016 07:09 AM, Cristian Consonni wrote: > We have a saying in Italian that says "Chiedere è lecito, rispondere è > cortesia". > Roughly translated "Asking is allowed, answering is courtesy", that is > you can ask for whatever you want, maybe somebody will respond, or > don't, whatever.

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay funding

2016-03-09 Thread elrippo
That's a reason for me to contribute in funding people/organisations who are willing to spend a lot of time and money! > I agree with that. Not everyone has a job that earns them a load of > money and they still want to operate a relay. > I personally spent almost the same money for servers as I

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay funding

2016-03-09 Thread elrippo
Dear Roman, please let us not be picky, i did not address you or anybody else but t...@as250.net in the specific mail. I am writing to a list so i believe everybody knows who is addressed on that list for various reasons. In case you are not satisfied with my awnser i apologize for "spamming"

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay funding

2016-03-09 Thread Sebastian Pfeifer
I agree with that. Not everyone has a job that earns them a load of money and they still want to operate a relay. I personally spent almost the same money for servers as I can afford to buy food - Life can be hard ;) Am 2016-03-09 um 14:51 schrieb Elrippo: > Why are you then complaining if you do

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay funding

2016-03-09 Thread Elrippo
Why are you then complaining if you do not accept money for running your relays?! I personally do not have any problems with contributing, you earn my full respect, but I do have problems with relay operators who are complaining about others getting funded. Maybe a change in your strategy

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay funding

2016-03-09 Thread tor
On Wed, 9 Mar 2016 12:38:03 +0100 "Volker Mink" wrote: > It losing much performance over time. Whats the reason for this? The curve matches pretty much our hardware/network upgrade cycle. As more services/hosts are provisioned the performance decreases, then an upgrade

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay funding

2016-03-08 Thread Greg Moss
I'll kick in a few month also... On Mar 8, 2016 5:26 PM, "Michael McConville" wrote: > elrippo wrote: > > I will also chip in with some funding. > > > > DO you accept Bitcoin or Monero, i do not like to you use PayPal for > > funding an TOR relay ;D > > > > If so, please post

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay funding

2016-03-08 Thread Michael McConville
elrippo wrote: > I will also chip in with some funding. > > DO you accept Bitcoin or Monero, i do not like to you use PayPal for > funding an TOR relay ;D > > If so, please post the addresses, so we can fund a fast running relay. Definitely: 1KjWtgsrSRJ6mBMjAuKhqSGvEPVJ8rRoqV > Also tell

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay funding

2016-03-08 Thread renke brausse
Hi Roman, > Sorry but reading these kinds of things is kind of demoralizing. -- I kind of understand your sentiment but > Oh I know mine are not Exit relays, so those are not special enough, nothing > to see here, move along. this is (at least for me) not true - Michael's mail was the first I

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay funding

2016-03-08 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Tue, 08 Mar 2016 20:17:44 +0100 elrippo wrote: > I will also chip in with some funding. > DO you accept Bitcoin or Monero, i do not like to you use PayPal for funding > an TOR relay ;D > If so, please post the addresses, so we can fund a fast running relay. > Also

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay funding

2016-03-08 Thread Michael McConville
re...@mobtm.com wrote: > > Sadly, I have to shut it down at least temporarily if no one can help me > > pay for it. Is anyone interested? You can search the mailing lists to > > see that I've been contributing for a few years, and I can give more > > verification if you'd like. > > if you're

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay funding

2016-03-07 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 02:34:02PM +0100, re...@mobtm.com wrote: > Hi Michael, > > > Sadly, I have to shut it down at least temporarily if no one can help me > > pay for it. Is anyone interested? You can search the mailing lists to > > see that I've been contributing for a few years, and I can

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay funding

2016-03-07 Thread renke
Hi Michael, > Sadly, I have to shut it down at least temporarily if no one can help me > pay for it. Is anyone interested? You can search the mailing lists to > see that I've been contributing for a few years, and I can give more > verification if you'd like. if you're willing to give me a

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay funding

2016-03-07 Thread Virgil Griffith
For what it's worth, the primary goal of the Toroken Incentive was to make it possible for relay operators such as Michael to continue operating. If adding a cryptocurrency incentive is now on the table, I am down for resuming work on it. -V On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 10:37 AM, Volker Mink

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay funding

2016-03-06 Thread grarpamp
On 3/6/16, Volker Mink wrote: > Thats bad to lose such a fast exit. And the diversity of an OpenBSD one at that. Somebody could just turn off one of their Linux relays and send this guy the monthly fee instead. ___ tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay funding

2016-03-06 Thread Volker Mink
Thats bad to lose such a fast exit. Ever considered crowdsourcing to get the needed money? Best, Volker > Am 07.03.2016 um 03:01 schrieb Michael McConville : > > Hi, everyone. > > I'm an experienced Tor relay operator and a mostly dormant community > member. My main

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

2015-11-10 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 10 Nov 2015, at 14:03, Sean Greenslade wrote: > > 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

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] Exit relay seized by police

2015-11-09 Thread Tim Sammut
Hi Tim, sorry. On 11/10/2015 12:33 AM, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote: >> On 11/06/2015 08:41 PM, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote: > The directory authorities are generally more concerned when > they *don't* stop it afterwards, and instead keep running it, > perhaps with extra logging,

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

2015-11-09 Thread Tim Sammut
Hi Tim, everyone. On 11/06/2015 08:41 PM, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote: > The directory authorities are generally more concerned when they > *don't* stop it afterwards, and instead keep running it, perhaps with > extra logging, packet dumps, and decryption via seized private keys. Is there a

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

2015-11-09 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 10 Nov 2015, at 11:28, Tim Sammut wrote: > > Hi Tim, everyone. > > On 11/06/2015 08:41 PM, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote: >> The directory authorities are generally more concerned when they >> *don't* stop it afterwards, and instead keep running it, perhaps with >>

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

2015-11-07 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 11/06/2015 05:31 PM, Kevin Beranek wrote: > Is there a better list than this one for doing so? I can't find a list > that seems more appropriate > on https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo. Or do I have > to email the DirAuths directly? If so, where do I find the addresses to

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

2015-11-06 Thread I
It would seem to make a difference if you are in one country and the company is in another and the legal action is in another.Robert ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org

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

2015-11-06 Thread justaguy
Because you lost control of your exit relay, you should ask DirAuths to reject/refuse/ban your exit. On 11/06/2015 05:05 PM, Kevin Beranek wrote: > Is there a procedure I should follow if a relay has been seized by the > police? Do DirAuths typically do something in cases where a relay is >

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

2015-11-06 Thread Kevin Beranek
Is there a better list than this one for doing so? I can't find a list that seems more appropriate on https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo. Or do I have to email the DirAuths directly? If so, where do I find the addresses to use? On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 8:20 AM, justaguy

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

2015-11-06 Thread Josef Stautner
Well, of course they take a dump of the RAM and stop it afterwards :-) Am 06.11.2015 um 21:18 schrieb Josef Stautner: > They stop it, make a dump of the RAM and save the hard drive. > > Am 06.11.2015 um 20:58 schrieb I: >> How can they seize a virtual server? >> Which country are the police from?

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

2015-11-06 Thread Josef Stautner
They stop it, make a dump of the RAM and save the hard drive. Am 06.11.2015 um 20:58 schrieb I: > How can they seize a virtual server? > Which country are the police from? > > Robert > > > ___ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org

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

2015-11-06 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 7 Nov 2015, at 07:20, Josef Stautner wrote: > > Well, of course they take a dump of the RAM and stop it afterwards :-) The directory authorities are generally more concerned when they *don't* stop it afterwards, and instead keep running it, perhaps with extra logging,

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

2015-11-06 Thread Kevin Beranek
Thanks everyone. I sent an email to all of the DirAuth operators. On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote: > > On 7 Nov 2015, at 07:20, Josef Stautner wrote: > > Well, of course they take a dump of the RAM and stop it afterwards

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

2015-11-06 Thread DerTor Steher
and here's the URL I spoke of: https://atlas.torproject.org/#search/flag:Authority Sorry, I forgot to paste it in the email. 2015-11-06 18:16 GMT+01:00 DerTor Steher : > Hey Kevin, > > under the following URL you can find all authorities with their email > adresses stated

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

2015-11-06 Thread I
Which police? ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

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

2015-11-06 Thread Nima Fatemi
Kevin Beranek: > Is there a better list than this one for doing so? I can't find a list > that seems more appropriate on > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo. Or do I have to > email the DirAuths directly? If so, where do I find the addresses to use? That would be

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

2015-11-06 Thread Kevin Beranek
Russian, I assume because the relay was in Russia. On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 12:49 PM, I wrote: > Which police? > > ___ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org >

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

2015-11-06 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 7 Nov 2015, at 08:36, Kevin Beranek wrote: > > Russian, I assume because the relay was in Russia. Russia has over 200 mutual legal assistance treaties. Source: http://www.mlat.is/p/query-interface.html (requires JavaScript) Sometimes it's impossible to tell where the

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay is apparently being used to attack other servers

2015-06-15 Thread yl
Am 14.06.2015 um 22:35 schrieb trillium: Thanks all for the help. I think I may try to move the exit relay over to SolarVPS or another VPS. It’s just a bummer because the relay was advertising ~6-7MB/s bandwidth and using a fair amount of it before people decided to use it for attacks, so I

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay is apparently being used to attack other servers

2015-06-15 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 06/14/2015 10:35 PM, trillium wrote: Thanks all for the help. I think I may try to move the exit relay over to SolarVPS or another VPS. I think it's a very good approach to hunt new providers on platforms like lowendbox.com, ask them whether they are okay with exit relays, and then try them

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay is apparently being used to attack other servers

2015-06-14 Thread trillium
Thanks all for the help. I think I may try to move the exit relay over to SolarVPS or another VPS. It’s just a bummer because the relay was advertising ~6-7MB/s bandwidth and using a fair amount of it before people decided to use it for attacks, so I felt like I was contributing to the

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay is apparently being used to attack other servers

2015-06-13 Thread spiros_spiros
Hi Trillium, It is always sad when Tor is used to hack/DoS/compromise servers. As operator of an Exit Node unfortunately you will see as well as the DMCA notice the hacking/abuse/spamming/botnet alerts from some service provider, also you will get notification that the node is added to this

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay is apparently being used to attack other servers

2015-06-13 Thread Carlin Bingham
On Sun, 14 Jun 2015, at 06:03 AM, trillium wrote: Hello, I’m running an exit relay (fingerprint: 5793CB9E1F5BAD3D5DA6C4158E16067D80CD8A2E) on a Linode VPS right now, and so far they’ve been really fantastic with dealing with a couple of DMCA notices that were sent to them. However, in the

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay is apparently being used to attack other servers

2015-06-13 Thread James Moore
I experienced the same thing with LInode and decided to take down my relay and move it to SolarVPS. Multiple exchanges with Linode support led me to believe they didn't understand how tor worked or they were covering their ass. I had previously let them know I was running an exit and they

Re: [tor-relays] exit relay not utilising full capacity (even after months)

2014-10-29 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2014-10-29 09:41, Rejo Zenger wrote: [..] - So, the question is: why is it so much slower maximising the full bandwidth? The configuration from mid-July onwards is identical to the one in April. The only thing that has changed is in mid-August, when I moved to relay into a LXC

Re: [tor-relays] exit relay not utilising full capacity (even after months)

2014-10-29 Thread Rejo Zenger
++ 29/10/14 10:15 +0100 - Jeroen Massar: There are some weird properties in trying to do full-bandwidth. Deterministic it for sure is not. The IP is not mentioned in atlas: https://atlas.torproject.org/#search/94.142.240.243 Nope. That is the IP-address of the switch in front of the node. The

Re: [tor-relays] exit relay not receiving flag

2014-09-22 Thread Christian Sturm
On 09/22/2014 06:52 AM, ja...@icetor.is wrote: Hey All, I'm a bit embarassed here but I don't see what I'm doing wrong. I've recently inherited a VPS donation from an anonymous donor. I've configured it up like the rest of Icetor's exit relays but it never receives the exit flag. The exit in

Re: [tor-relays] exit relay not receiving flag

2014-09-22 Thread Philipp Winter
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 04:52:36AM +, ja...@icetor.is wrote: I'm a bit embarassed here but I don't see what I'm doing wrong. I've recently inherited a VPS donation from an anonymous donor. I've configured it up like the rest of Icetor's exit relays but it never receives the exit flag. The

Re: [tor-relays] Exit Relay on VPS by WEDOS

2014-03-04 Thread Moritz Bartl
Hi, Thanks for going through the trouble of running an exit relay! On 03/04/2014 08:49 AM, dope457 wrote: Today, few weeks from last incident, they just pulled out ethernet cable from my VPS and I am not sure what to do. Looks like this ISP is not suitable for Tor exit relays. Please add it

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay operators: a call for packets on port 8118

2013-09-09 Thread Aaron Hopkins
On Mon, 22 Jul 2013, Zack Weinberg wrote: The CMU Tor exit is seeing about 66 packets/second worth of this (1 packets, 1151 unique IPs in 149.5 seconds). I don't have time to dig any deeper right now, but on the theory that it's a botnet doing click fraud, I'll pass this along to our

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay operators: a call for packets on port 8118

2013-07-22 Thread Javantea
Hi Kent, I am getting 125 packets per second sustained incoming on port 8118 like you on my exit node. I noticed this last year but forgot about it because it was such low bandwidth. I count 2582 unique IPs in 20 minutes. I think you've found something significant. The obvious question is why

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay operators: a call for packets on port 8118

2013-07-22 Thread Aaron Hopkins
On Sun, 21 Jul 2013, rotpoison throngnet wrote: I am hoping that some other exit relay operators can sniff for packets to destination port 8118 I set up a copy of nginx returning 404s on that port. After a few thousand requests, here are the hostnames it is trying to hit: 4655

Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay operators: a call for packets on port 8118

2013-07-22 Thread rotpoison throngnet
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Re: [tor-relays] Exit relay operators: a call for packets on port 8118

2013-07-21 Thread krishna e bera
On 13-07-21 08:40 PM, rotpoison throngnet wrote: I am an exit relay operator in Honolulu that has posted to this list before, on the same subject. I am hoping that some other exit relay operators can sniff for packets to destination port 8118 (usually used for Privoxy) to confirm that they