[tor-relays] German company Webtropia: Terminated contract without notice because of abuse

2014-07-30 Thread uf
Hi all, I've been running two exit relays, [1] and [2], at the German company Webtropia [3] for the past two weeks. Things went quite nice and smoothly, the speed of the server was decent and the network great, pushing quite some terabyte. Before renting the server, I told them what I wanted to

[tor-relays] German company Webtropia: Terminated contract without notice because of abuse

2014-07-30 Thread tor
You somewhat made a mistake here - you've got to have an exit policy that (minimally) rejects ports 25 and 465, or else your relay becomes a giant abuse tool for spammers, scammers, and phishers instead of what you intended it to be (which was a standard-functioning Tor relay). You might

Re: [tor-relays] Relay not on Atlas or Globe?

2014-07-30 Thread Neuman1812
Its there... https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/527ACFA6E729CF1CF3203444BA7E5E6CA6CE7F89 On 07/29/2014 07:58 PM, Michael Patton wrote: Hello all, I have started a new exit relay recently (NetFreedomTest3 - 527ACFA6E729CF1CF3203444BA7E5E6CA6CE7F89) and it has been up over 5 days now.

Re: [tor-relays] Relay not on Atlas or Globe?

2014-07-30 Thread Mike Patton
Yes is there now. Very strange. I restarted it today because of a Tor update and a few hours later it was fine. M. On 30/07/2014 9:48 pm, Neuman1812 neuman1...@gmail.com wrote: Its there... https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/527ACFA6E729CF1CF3203444BA7E5E6CA6CE7F89 On 07/29/2014 07:58

Re: [tor-relays] German company Webtropia: Terminated contract without notice because of abuse

2014-07-30 Thread krishna e bera
On 14-07-30 05:11 AM, t...@t-3.net wrote: You somewhat made a mistake here - you've got to have an exit policy that (minimally) rejects ports 25 and 465, or else your relay becomes a giant abuse tool for spammers, scammers, and phishers instead of what you intended it to be (which was a

Re: [tor-relays] German company Webtropia: Terminated contract without notice because of abuse

2014-07-30 Thread Lunar
t...@t-3.net: You somewhat made a mistake here - you've got to have an exit policy that (minimally) rejects ports 25 and 465, or else your relay becomes a giant abuse tool for spammers, scammers, and phishers instead of what you intended it to be (which was a standard-functioning Tor relay).

Re: [tor-relays] German company Webtropia: Terminated contract without notice because of abuse

2014-07-30 Thread tor
IMO, even relaying SMTP-like for the email which typically requires auth first isn't a great idea if there is any concern about an upstream getting abuse complaints about a relay (such as a leased box). A frequent way that spammers get their garbage out these days is to compromise a user

Re: [tor-relays] German company Webtropia: Terminated contract without notice because of abuse

2014-07-30 Thread s7r
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7/30/2014 10:34 AM, u...@riseup.net wrote: Hi all, I've been running two exit relays, [1] and [2], at the German company Webtropia [3] for the past two weeks. Things went quite nice and smoothly, the speed of the server was decent and the

Re: [tor-relays] German company Webtropia: Terminated contract without notice because of abuse

2014-07-30 Thread tor
Let's not confuse two things, here. The customer wanting to host a Tor exit relay is a different service request than wanting to run a wide-open SMTP relay. No reputable ISP would agree to host an open SMTP relay and I'm sure this one did not knowingly do so. It would be unfortunate for

[tor-relays] 0.2.4.23 availability on trusty armhf?

2014-07-30 Thread trash eighty
I am running a pretty active relay, using Ubuntu Trusty on armhf. I see 0.2.4.23 for Intel architecture in the repositories, but not on Trusty/armhf. Didn't know if this was an oversight, or if it's still coming down the pipe. Thanks, Trash80 ___

Re: [tor-relays] 0.2.4.23 availability on trusty armhf?

2014-07-30 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Wed, 30 Jul 2014, trash eighty wrote: I am running a pretty active relay, using Ubuntu Trusty on armhf. I see 0.2.4.23 for Intel architecture in the repositories, but not on Trusty/armhf. Didn't know if this was an oversight, or if it's still coming down the pipe. Still building...

[tor-relays] Finding relay Sybils / Groups [re: relay_early/blackhat]

2014-07-30 Thread grarpamp
As a project then to production development, someone should go back through the entire history of descriptors and look for groups coming online... dates, IP's, contacts, tor/OS versions, nicknames, ISP's, geoip, numbers coming online over sliding timeframes, correlation to 'news events', etc.

Re: [tor-relays] German company Webtropia: Terminated contract without notice because of abuse

2014-07-30 Thread tor
At this point the isp is clearly the victim! This guy doesn't have his own ips and ipv4 is rare, so risking a complete ip range to get on blacklists will be unacceptable for any company. I can fully understand them, because dealing with spamhaus mafia is a nightmare. Lets hope they wont getting

Re: [tor-relays] [tor-talk] Finding relay Sybils / Groups [re: relay_early/blackhat]

2014-07-30 Thread Damian Johnson
Hi grarpamp. Actually we do have a rudimentary Sybil checker and it *did* pick up on those relays back in January... https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-consensus-health/2014-January/003954.html We had some internal discussions about them but the thread lost momentum before they were

[tor-relays] how sensitive is relay 'state' file?

2014-07-30 Thread starlight . 2014q3
Can anyone comment on how sensitive the information in the relay 'state' is? In particular, if entry guards are recorded in the file should one be concerned about protecting the file via a) encrypting the file system where it resides b) making a point of not backing up the file I suppose it