Very interesting! I have two VPS at different locations with justhost.ru (IQ Data St. Petersburg and DataLine Moscow - AS51659) and have also noticed a change: - on December 30th, both servers could not reach deb.torproject.org and the torproject.org web page. Both IPv4 and IPv6 were blocked. - I tried again today and everything worked fine. I even downloaded the tor browser bundle for Windows over one of the servers just to see if it works. It does and the signature also checks out (verified on a different server outside Russia) - running tor nodes at both locations continues to work
Best Regards, Kristian Jan 2, 2022, 08:22 by torrelaysaregr...@gmail.com: > Hello, > > i have a relay at > profitserver.ru <http://profitserver.ru>> at their > Chelyabinsk location and recently the relay fell out of the consensus. > > I can ping all authorities with IPv4 and IPv6 and > torproject.org > <http://torproject.org>> is not blocked. > I opened the ControlPort and tried to manually create circuits to the > authorities. > > extendcircuit 0 authoritynickname > getinfo circuit-status > > I observed that i can successfully create circuits to no more than three > authorities and it seems to change to which authorities i can create circuits. > The unsuccessful circuits stay in EXTENDED but never reach BUILT until Tor > gives up eventually. > > Currently no other of my russian relays are affected. > I am not an expert with the ControlPort but i hope this is proving what i > tried to prove. > > > Here is the conversation with the support: > me: > > Hello, > I am running a (non-exit) Tor relay on the VPS and it stopped working a few > weeks ago. > I can ping the Tor authorities IP addresses but when i try to manually create > a Tor circuit it seems to timeout 6 out of 9 times which indicates some > blocking attempts on your (or your upstream providers) side. > I have a couple of other Tor relays in russia and i have never seen routinely > failing manually created circuits to the Tor authorities. > Do you block Tor or do you otherwise mess with Tor traffic? > support agent: > > Hello, i can't say something about TOR network, now. > We have black box from government, which can control traffic, and perhaps > block TOR. > Ourselves don't block TOR> > me: > > Thanks for your answer. > The TSPU from Roskomnadzor that is doing Deep Packet Inspection? > I feel with you and all the russian citizens... :( > Good luck> > > support agent: > > Maybe it's a black box > > If this is indeed their blackbox messing with Tor traffic then it is quite > subtile because it does not block > torproject.org <http://torproject.org>> > and pings to the authorities are going through. > The relay suddenly was online for one consensus in the last weeks and i can > still use it when i manually set it as a Guard in my Tor client. > So if you run a relay in russia and you experience weird stuff with it then > you may not only want to check if you can reach the authorities by ping but > you may want to try to manually craft a circuit to all of them. > > Hope that helps anyone > Cheers >
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