Re: Excessive scrubs
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 04:16:08PM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: [massive top-posting sequence *deleted* --SB] Two requests: 1) please learn to edit followups in-line, i.e., stop top-posting please learn to list-reply, i.e. stop breaking threads *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
Re: The translation portal has been updated
Hi, On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 04:57:28PM +0100, Runa A. Sandvik wrote: The translation portal over at https://translation.torproject.org has been updated and is now running a more up-to-date version of Pootle than before. Please send an email to tor-assista...@torproject.org if you experience any problems with file permissions, missing files, missing users or similar things. I tried to register, but the activation-link does not to work: http://38.229.70.5:8080 refuses the connection. btw: the ssl-certificate has been expired in March 2010 Regards, sigi *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
firefox sage add-on
Hi, Has anyone tested the firefox sage(too)-addons [1] for the use with tor yet? Is this (anonymously) safe to use? Regards, sigi. [1] sage https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7263 sage-too https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/77
Re: Tor bridge not generating any traffic
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 03:19:31PM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:23:33 +0200 Johannes Nitsche nitsc...@rambler.ru top-posted (please learn not to do that): broken thread (please learn not to do that - again and again)
Re: Bittorrent
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 09:21:30AM +0100, Marco Bonetti wrote: On Mon, February 16, 2009 22:17, Ted Smith wrote: Yes, I believe the proper way to do so is to use Tor as the tracker proxy, but conduct actual data transfer in the clear. Or at least, that's what I've seen on this list in the past. Would anyone like to correct me? it's also possible to run an all-torified bittorrent swarm (both peers and tracker) and more, see the instructions on the azureus site: http://azureus.sourceforge.net/doc/AnonBT/Tor/howto_0.5.htm You definitely shouldn't do that, since the tor-network is not capable of such a huge traffic-amount through P2P with bittorrent these days. By downloading with bittorrent via Tor, you take away the bandwidth from the people who really need it for browsing the web safely. Regards, sigi
Re: Some Tor w/ Firefox Questions
Hi, On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 05:26:57AM -0500, Ringo Kamens wrote: 3. One of the common criticisms of NoScript+Tor is that a malicious exit node can pretend to be any site it wishes. What about enabling js on file:// urls? If I understand them correctly, the browser won't make any external requests and then there would be no threat of an attack. Here on my machine, browsing the web with tor and firefox is not possible, with addons noscript and torbutton enabled. I had to disable noscript to use the torbutton first. sigi.
Re: Google searches
Hi, On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 08:32:23AM -0400, Alessandro Donnini wrote: When I do that, I frequently get a 403 response, or a strange search result page, e.g. http://www.google.de/search?hl=deq=Es+tut+uns+leid%2C+aber+...btnG=Google-Suchemeta=; Is this to be expected? Yes. You'll find some information in the tor-wiki: 4.11. Google tells me I have spyware installed https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#head-24b240c0329b118e4947357fb584b5579804b2ef sigi.
Re: unsubscribe
Hi John, On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 04:15:35AM -0700, John Mosgrove wrote: unsubscribe me. Please write your Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with mailbody including: unsubscribe or-talk btw: When finally will list-subscribers check their mailheaders for this? sigi.
Re: unsubscribe
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 07:08:35PM +0100, Geoff Down wrote: On 9 Oct 2008, at 13:24, sigi wrote: On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 04:15:35AM -0700, John Mosgrove wrote: unsubscribe me. Please write your Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with mailbody including: unsubscribe or-talk btw: When finally will list-subscribers check their mailheaders for this? It would never have occurred to me to check the headers either, so perhaps you are being too hard on them. Possibly I was too hard on this, but this unsubscribe-question comes so often on all mailinglists, that it bothers a lot nowadays... and it's been answered frequently already - so often... sigi.
Re: Archive email addresses
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 01:10:58PM +0100, Geoff Down wrote: On 29 Aug 2008, at 07:26, Roger Dingledine wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 06:17:22AM +, downie wrote: Hi, can the email addresses be concealed on the mail4liste.de forum please? I get enough spam already. I doubt anybody here runs mail4liste.de. It certainly isn't the official Tor list archives. (And we did prune email addresses from the archives.seul.org lists.) Perhaps you should contact somebody at mail4liste.de to get them to do so? If they refuse, I suppose I can unsubscribe the address. The webmaster has changed to forum to require registration to view. I'm not sure this addresses the problem really - I suppose it stops search engines. Or should. Do you use a regex to prune addresses from the official archive? I'd like to see or-talk removed there entirely. It makes no sense to publish this besides the official archives, into the bargain phpBB-based. I think it's no good idea to publish the entire mail-adresses there, even if there's a registration required. sigi.
Re: ktorrent and tor
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 04:17:12AM -0700, Dieter Zinke wrote: NOBODY should reply to questions of this kind. tor with ktorrent? tor with azureus? Tsss ... All list members should be highly alarmed if somebody asks for help using azureus or shareaza. Both clients in the hands of experienced programmes can be used to spy the tor network. Yes, i know this is not the case this time. A kid asked for help in downloading ilegal (?) music via anonymous tor network, which is idiotic and no serious tor user should answer questions like this. But again, be alarmed if someone asks for help using shareaza or azureus. Both clients are used to spy the tor network. I only wanted to use tor for my connections with the tracker-connections, since ktorrent has an option for setting a http-tracker-proxy. That does not mean, that all download-traffic goes through tor. I think it's reasonable to do this, whatever files anybody wants to share - and it does not use a lot tor-bandwidth. sigi.
ktorrent and tor
Hi all, I always used ktorrent and tor with its option http-tracker-proxy set to 127.0.0.1:8118 and it ran well over tor... But now for a unknown reason to me, ktorrent seems to ignore this setting and sends all its tracker-requests not through tor anymore. Does anyone of you use ktorrent and tor and sees this behaviour? If I set up konqueror to use tor, ktorrent uses it too, but for all of its traffic. I'd like to only route the tracker-requests through tor, like I did before. Has anyone here a hint, where I should look after, or where I missed something? I'm running debian lenny/sid and tried with ktorrent 2.2.6/2.2.7 Thanks, sigi
Re: ktorrent and tor
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 10:34:10PM -0400, Ringo Kamens wrote: Did this change after you upgraded KTorrent or something along those lines? ie What changes could have caused it. Comrade Ringo Kamens sorry, I really don't know. I'm not using ktorrent very often - and I did some apt-get upgrades since my last use of ktorrent... Today I tried out tork for a while - but this should have no effect I guess, because it's already removed completly and I've restarted my system since then. sigi.
Re: ktorrent and tor
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 10:57:53PM -0400, Ringo Kamens wrote: I don't know much about Ktorrent so I can't help you, but hopefully somebody else can. If you're open to alternatives, you can try azereus which does have an option to specify http proxying ; / Comrade Ringo Kamens well, if I don't find a solution for this, I think have to change my client to azureus... but I'd be a liitle sad, because I liked ktorrent a lot... Thanks a lot for your really fast answers! sigi.
Tor 0.2.0.24-rc
Hi, I just updated Tor on my server to 0.2.0.24-rc and thought, the following warnings might be of interest: Apr 23 01:55:27.818 [notice] This version of Tor (0.2.0.24-rc) is newer than any recommended version, according to the directory authorities. Recommended versions are: 0.1.2.19,0.2.0.22-rc,0.2.0.23-rc and Apr 23 01:55:44.610 [notice] No current certificate known for authority dizum; launching request. and Apr 23 01:55:45.290 [warn] Received http status code 404 (Not found) from server '213.131.246.194:443' while fetching /tor/keys/fp/E8A9C45EDE6D711294FADF8E7951F4DE6CA56B58. The last one mentions the the server of the german ChaosComputerClub and could be temporary - but the first ones should not come up, right? sigi
monitoring tor-traffic
Hi, for a year or so, I was running a Tor-middleman-relay, and the monitoring-sites on the net were fine for me. Now I switched to a bridge-relay and was thinking about how to monitor the connections and traffic going through it. I found a plugin for munin, as mentioned here http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jun-2006/msg00024.html but this doesn't work, the plugin exits with errors. Now I'd like to get any information, how I can easily monitor my tor-relay: How many connections and how many traffic goes through it. Thanks for your help! sigi
Re: monitoring tor-traffic
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 03:41:45PM -0500, Jonathan Addington wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:09 AM, sigi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for a year or so, I was running a Tor-middleman-relay, and the monitoring-sites on the net were fine for me. Now I switched to a bridge-relay and was thinking about how to monitor the connections and traffic going through it. I found a plugin for munin, as mentioned here http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jun-2006/msg00024.html but this doesn't work, the plugin exits with errors. Now I'd like to get any information, how I can easily monitor my tor-relay: How many connections and how many traffic goes through it. What OS and router (if you have one) are you running? It's Debian etch running on a vserver
problems with bridge-relay
Hi, I switched from a middle-man-node to a bridge-relay on my vserver today... I installed Tor 0.2.0.23-rc on my Debian-system and set the following options in my torrc-file: SocksPort 0 ORPort 9001 BridgeRelay 1 RelayBandwidthRate 50KBytes ExitPolicy reject *:* AuthoritativeDirectory 1 BridgeAuthoritativeDir 1 But with this setting, I get the warning-messages like: Apr 08 19:22:41.312 [warn] Your server (62.75.149.148:9030) has not managed to confirm that its DirPort is reachable. Please check your firewalls, ports, address, /etc/hosts file, etc. Nmap shows, that the ports are open: PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION 9001/tcp open unknown 9030/tcp open unknown Has anyone an idea, what's wrong with all this? Thanks a lot, sigi
Re: problems with bridge-relay
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 04:18:33PM -0400, Roger Dingledine wrote: On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 10:09:42PM +0200, sigi wrote: I switched from a middle-man-node to a bridge-relay on my vserver today... I installed Tor 0.2.0.23-rc on my Debian-system and set the following options in my torrc-file: SocksPort 0 ORPort 9001 BridgeRelay 1 RelayBandwidthRate 50KBytes ExitPolicy reject *:* AuthoritativeDirectory 1 BridgeAuthoritativeDir 1 Well, the first problem is that you set yourself up as both a bridge relay and a bridge directory authority. :) You should take out the last two lines, if you want to be a bridge relay. Ooops - thanks a lot for the fast solution! :) sigi
Re: tor and google-error
Google Error We're sorry... ... but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now. https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#GoogleSpyware Ooops, I'm very sorry - looks like I asked about a very often asked problem - sorry about that! And a lot of thanks for all your answers! sigi.
running tor on a vserver
Hi, two days ago I set up a Tor-proxy on my vserver - and first it seemed all running ok. But after some hours there appeared a lot of warnings in my log-file complaining about some buffer-problems: Jul 08 13:36:55.420 [warn] Error creating network socket: No buffer space available Jul 08 13:36:55.420 [warn] Error creating network socket: No buffer space available Jul 08 13:36:55.421 [warn] Error creating network socket: No buffer space available This messages come up again and again, several times per minute. Since this error affects all other applications on this server, which want to connect to the network, I had to shut down my tor-server for now. I tried to limit my BandWidthRate, with no effects. I tried to edit /proc/user_beancounters, as described in the wiki http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#VServer But I'm not allowed to write to this file. Is there anything, I can do about it? I got this vserver mostly, because I wanted to run tor... and no I have to see it's not working! :-| If it helps: I was running tor version 0.1.2.14 on debian etch. Thanks for any help! Regards, sigi
Re: running tor on a vserver
We should probably rename it MinConn or something like that -- or get rid of it entirely. To repeat: Saying ConnLimit 90 will have no effect on your situation. And I thought, it helped, because this is the first time, my server runs a lot longer than 2 hours... Do you have any suggestions, what I can do else to prevent the logs about the buffer? (Some people want us to implement some sort of maximum connections open at a time feature -- but that would cause you to refuse 'extend' operations, and potentially turn you into a useless Tor server. Until we have a plan for a non-clique topology (also known as a restricted-route topology) that doesn't screw up the anonymity we can offer, the best we can answer is that you need to be able to handle many sockets if you want to be a server.) Does this mean, I can't do anything about it but restarting my server several times per day? Regards, sigi
serifos down?
Hi, on the tor-website there is published http://serifos.eecs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/exit.pl as a status page of the tor network... it seems to be down for weeks now?!? I think someone should repair it - or delete it from tor.eff.org sigi. -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux **| |: :' : The universal| |`. `' Operating System | | `-http://www.debian.org/|
Re: tor and its speed
Perhaps changing the number of seconds for MaxCircuitDirtiness may help reduce the unpleasant effect of slow circuits by shortening circuit lifespan? have you installed fasterfox? I personally find tor is more than adequately fast with the aforementioned setting at 300 and with fasterfox on. You may also want to have a look at the server exit nodes with the greatest uptime and bandwidth capability and set them as preferred exits and entry points? Thanks for all this hints! Now I use fasterfox, and it really gives some more performance. The setting 'MaxCircuitDirtiness 300' seems to have no real effects here... anyway - I'll try it with fasterfox, I didn't know this extension until now. Thanks, sigi. -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux **| |: :' : The universal| |`. `' Operating System | | `-http://www.debian.org/|
confiscating middleman-tor-nodes
Hi, possibly we get a problem, because in Germany they're just confiscating tor-middleman-nodes?!? The message is only available in German... http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-496214.html Does anyone here have similar problems? asks; sigi.
Re: Puzzling behavior of Tor server.
Hi, I recently set-up a Tor server with an exit node on port 80 (WinXP SP2). I configured a middleman-proxy... When using either firefox or opera, I frequently see the following entries in my log file: Sep 04 03:12:21:890 [Notice] connection_ap_expire_beginning(): We tried for 15 seconds to connect to '[scrubbed]' using exit 'bach'. Retrying on a new circuit. Sep 04 04:08:19:078 [Notice] resolve_my_address(): Your IP seems to have changed. Updating. Sep 04 04:08:39:187 [Notice] router_orport_found_reachable(): Self-testing indicates your ORPort is reachable from the outside. Excellent. Publishing server descriptor. Sep 04 07:51:55:031 [Notice] connection_ap_expire_beginning(): We tried for 15 seconds to connect to '[scrubbed]' using exit 'yyycccvvvddd132'. Retrying on a new circuit. Sep 04 07:52:02:031 [Notice] connection_ap_expire_beginning(): We tried for 15 seconds to connect to '[scrubbed]' using exit 'yyycccvvvddd132'. Retrying on a new circuit. [...] ...and my logs do look the same. What's wrong with it? It's building new circuits - seems alright, doesn't it? This makes logging out of Yahoo mail and other services difficult. Does anyone have a suggestion? ??? What do you want to log? I think as a tor-node you/we should log possibly the traffic, nothing else - providing most possible anonymity. Am I not right? Regards, sigi. -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux **| |: :' : The universal| |`. `' Operating System | | `-http://www.debian.org/|
Re: Puzzling behavior of Tor server.
Hi, On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 04:12:27PM -0700, Caitlin wrote: Yes, you're right but I forgot to mention that the software eventually gives up on another path (essentially it seems to stall) and I cannot log-out of Yahoo mail. Another annoying event is that I see a blank page after submitting login information. so, you don't want to log something special about you're tor-traffic? Possibly I didn't understand that right before... ;) I think it could be the same thing why paypal and ebay accounts get locked to tor-users frequently: It can happen, that your IP-address changes while you're logged in to your account somewhere, because tor changes the circuit frequently. I know it from paypal and ebay, that they assume that there may be a unauthorised third person, who uses your account when this happens... I think, you can't do anything about that. I had this experience some days ago with ebay: They locked my account, because they thought there was an unauthorized person using my username. I think, it has nothing to do with your tor-server - it's normal. For me your logs do look OK. sigi. -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux **| |: :' : The universal| |`. `' Operating System | | `-http://www.debian.org/|
