Re: [tor-relays] Upgrade your relay to 0.2.4.17-rc?

2013-09-05 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Thu, 5 Sep 2013 06:54:57 -0400 Roger Dingledine wrote: > Hi folks, > > I just released 0.2.4.17-rc. Hopefully there will be debs of it soon. > > It comes with a new feature: > - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests > with higher priority than the old "

[tor-relays] how to start remote VPS gui

2013-09-05 Thread I
Definitely a newboy questionI ssh into an Ubuntu 13.04 (from Ubuntu 13.04) and see root@vps09:~#.To get a gui going which I can handle I apt-get updateapt-get install ubuntu-desktopboth worked. Restarted.I can't get the gui to start.What is a better way to control and install an exit relay remo

Re: [tor-relays] [ARM] Connecting to another host's control port with ARM: Connection refused.

2013-09-05 Thread Robert Charlton
Martin, setting ControlListenAddress to 10.0.0.3:9051 did the trick. I've also enabled cookie authentication. Obviously ARM running on something that's not a Tor server to connect to a server's control port has its limits, but I can still get some useful info. Thanks. __

Re: [tor-relays] [ARM] Connecting to another host's control port with ARM: Connection refused.

2013-09-05 Thread Martin Weinelt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06.09.2013 06:01, Robert Charlton wrote: > Hello, Tor community. Quick, possibly noobish question. I'd like to > use my desktop and connect ARM (running on the desktop) to the > control port of a server running Tor on the same LAN, but it's > refusi

[tor-relays] [ARM] Connecting to another host's control port with ARM: Connection refused.

2013-09-05 Thread Robert Charlton
Hello, Tor community. Quick, possibly noobish question. I'd like to use my desktop and connect ARM (running on the desktop) to the control port of a server running Tor on the same LAN, but it's refusing the connection. I'm running /sudo -u tor arm -i 10.0.0.3:9051/, and it outputs: robert@CPC-Arch

Re: [tor-relays] Upgrade your relay to 0.2.4.17-rc?

2013-09-05 Thread Andy Isaacson
On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 12:08:05PM -0700, Andy Isaacson wrote: > After 20 minutes of uptime with 17-rc I'm not seeing the CPU pegged like > it was within minutes of restart with 0.2.3.25, even though we are > pushing 220 Mbps already. Here's stats from the last hourly: ==> /var/log/tor/notices1.l

Re: [tor-relays] Upgrade your relay to 0.2.4.17-rc?

2013-09-05 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 10:54:58PM +0200, tor-admin wrote: > Just noticed that during bootstrap there are new warnings I never noticed > before. Is this a known issue or should I file a ticket? > > Sep 05 21:56:15.000 [warn] Problem bootstrapping. Stuck at 85%: Finishing > handshake with first h

Re: [tor-relays] Upgrade your relay to 0.2.4.17-rc?

2013-09-05 Thread Yoriz
On Sep 5, 2013, at 20:13 , Kevin C. Krinke wrote: > > Machine's performance and resource usage are all within allowed norms (in > fact running better than the 2.3.x release). I concur with Kevin that this built is running smoothly: Sep 05 21:24:37.000 [notice] Circuit handshake stats since las

Re: [tor-relays] Upgrade your relay to 0.2.4.17-rc?

2013-09-05 Thread tor-admin
On Thursday 05 September 2013 22:27:53 tor-admin wrote: > Updated torland family. Hope that the new version helps. One of the last > messages before update to 0.2.4.17-rc: > > Sep 05 21:06:29.000 [warn] Your computer is too slow to handle this many > circuit creation requests! Please consider usin

Re: [tor-relays] Upgrade your relay to 0.2.4.17-rc?

2013-09-05 Thread tor-admin
Updated torland family. Hope that the new version helps. One of the last messages before update to 0.2.4.17-rc: Sep 05 21:06:29.000 [warn] Your computer is too slow to handle this many circuit creation requests! Please consider using the MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option or choosing a more r

Re: [tor-relays] Upgrade your relay to 0.2.4.17-rc?

2013-09-05 Thread Andy Isaacson
On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 06:54:57AM -0400, Roger Dingledine wrote: > So the more relays that upgrade to 0.2.4.17-rc, the more stable and fast > Tor will be for 0.2.4 users, despite the huge circuit overload that the > network is seeing. > > Please consider upgrading. If you do, though, please also

Re: [tor-relays] Upgrade your relay to 0.2.4.17-rc?

2013-09-05 Thread Elrippo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Nice, thank you :) Let's see, how Tor reacts on this :D Roger Dingledine schrieb: >Hi folks, > >I just released 0.2.4.17-rc. Hopefully there will be debs of it soon. > >It comes with a new feature: > - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-

Re: [tor-relays] Upgrade your relay to 0.2.4.17-rc?

2013-09-05 Thread Kevin C. Krinke
On 2013-09-05, at 2:00 PM, Elrippo wrote: > > Nice, thank you :) > Let's see, how Tor reacts on this :D Just a quick note on my exit node's stats: 17:46:33 [NOTICE] Circuit handshake stats since last time: 25849/25857 TAP, 117/117 NTor. 16:46:33 [NOTICE] Circuit handshake stats since last t

Re: [tor-relays] Upgrade your relay to 0.2.4.17-rc?

2013-09-05 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Roger Dingledine: > Hi folks, > > I just released 0.2.4.17-rc. Hopefully there will be debs of it > soon. I will get binary debs for Raspbian completed this evening, and this time sign them with my public key[1] for anyone who chooses to trust me.

Re: [tor-relays] Upgrade your relay to 0.2.4.17-rc?

2013-09-05 Thread Logforme
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Upgraded to 0.2.4.17-rc and almost immediately got the following in my syslog: debian kernel: [5000394.949751] TCP: Possible SYN flooding on port 443. Sending cookies. Check SNMP counters. No idea what it means. 443 is my or port. Tor is running fin

Re: [tor-relays] Upgrade your relay to 0.2.4.17-rc?

2013-09-05 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Thu, 05 Sep 2013 17:04:15 +0200 virii wrote: > Don't know if this is update specific or just because of the new users > in the network: I had this on 0.2.4.16, so not update-specific. -- With respect, Roman signature.asc Description: PGP signature _

[tor-relays] Appropriate bandwidth limits for my home relay

2013-09-05 Thread Nick
Hi all, After running my relay for a bit on my home connection I found that Tor would happily consume all the bandwidth available, which (coupled with the number of connections overwhelming my home router, I suspect) caused my internet connection to be unusable for other things. So I set the Rela

Re: [tor-relays] Upgrade your relay to 0.2.4.17-rc?

2013-09-05 Thread virii
Don't know if this is update specific or just because of the new users in the network: 17:00:25 [WARN] Your Guard curiosity3 ($07AE80AA2F475282E3C08F589826C8FB19E8086B) is failing a very large amount of circuits. Most likely this means the Tor network is overloaded, but it could also mean an at

[tor-relays] A bit more evidence on circuit creation storms

2013-09-05 Thread Dan Staples
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Just to add my experiences to the mix: I started running a RPi relay back in January. It ran fine for several months, until I started to get these circuit creation storms periodically. It would come at random times, maybe once a week, and would some

Re: [tor-relays] Upgrade your relay to 0.2.4.17-rc?

2013-09-05 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Lunar wrote: > > For those in a hurry, automatically built packages are available by > adding the following in your sources.list: > I see the following messages, which I was not seeing earlier. It eventually completes bootstrapping, 100%: Sep 05 22:04:03.000 [no

Re: [tor-relays] Upgrade your relay to 0.2.4.17-rc?

2013-09-05 Thread Kevin C. Krinke
Upgraded to the nightlies this morning. Everything running peachy keen so far. Thanks! On 2013-09-05, at 7:12 AM, Lunar wrote: > Roger Dingledine: >> I just released 0.2.4.17-rc. Hopefully there will be debs of it soon. > > For those in a hurry, automatically built packages are available by >

Re: [tor-relays] Upgrade your relay to 0.2.4.17-rc?

2013-09-05 Thread virii
On 09/05/2013 03:20 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: > On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 06:54:57AM -0400, Roger Dingledine wrote: >> In my spare time I'm also working on a blog post to explain what's going >> on and what measures we're taking to keep things afloat. > https://blog.torproject.org/blog/how-to-handl

Re: [tor-relays] Upgrade your relay to 0.2.4.17-rc?

2013-09-05 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 06:54:57AM -0400, Roger Dingledine wrote: > In my spare time I'm also working on a blog post to explain what's going > on and what measures we're taking to keep things afloat. https://blog.torproject.org/blog/how-to-handle-millions-new-tor-clients --Roger

Re: [tor-relays] Upgrade your relay to 0.2.4.17-rc?

2013-09-05 Thread Lunar
Roger Dingledine: > I just released 0.2.4.17-rc. Hopefully there will be debs of it soon. For those in a hurry, automatically built packages are available by adding the following in your sources.list: deb http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/ tor-nightly-0.2.4.x-wheezy main You can repl

[tor-relays] Upgrade your relay to 0.2.4.17-rc?

2013-09-05 Thread Roger Dingledine
Hi folks, I just released 0.2.4.17-rc. Hopefully there will be debs of it soon. It comes with a new feature: - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake requests. We still process some TAP req