Re: [tor-relays] Tor Weather has been discontinued
Sad to hear this. I was briefly part of the rewrite and I remember it getting selected to be part of google's summer of code. I was under the impression that the it was running as I recently got a tshirt email for my relay. I haven't had the opportunity to look at how the new weather based on Onionoo was tested? Thanks! On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 7:48 AM, Karsten Loesing <kars...@torproject.org> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dear relay operators, > > as of April 4, 2016, Tor Weather has been discontinued. > > Tor Weather [0] provided an email notification service to any user who > wanted to monitor the status of a Tor node. Upon subscribing, they > could specify what types of alerts they would like to receive. The > main purpose of Tor Weather was to notify node operators via email if > their node was down for longer than a specified period, but other > notification types were available, including one where operators would > be informed when their node was around long enough to qualify for a > t-shirt. > > The main reason for discontinuing Tor Weather is the fact that > software requires maintenance, and Tor Weather is no exception. Tor > Weather was promising t-shirts for relays that have not been around > long enough or that provided too little bandwidth to be useful to the > network, and it was almost impossible to deny a t-shirt after Tor > Weather has promised it. Apart from that, Tor Weather was likely not > offering t-shirts to people who have long earned it, thereby confusing > them. An unreliable notification system is worse than not having a > system at all. Relay operators shouldn't rely on Tor Weather to > notify them when their relay fails. They should rather set up their > own system instead. > > We have tried to find a new maintainer for Tor Weather for years, but > without success. We started rewriting Tor Weather [1] using Onionoo > [2] as data back-end in 2014, and even though that project didn't > produce working code, somebody could pick up this efforts and finish > the rewrite. The Roster developers said that they're planning to > include an email notification function in Roster [3]. And we > developed a simple Python script that provides information about a > relay operator's eligibility for acquiring a t-shirt [4]. None of > these alternatives is a full replacement of Weather, though. > > We encourage you, the community of Tor relay operators, to step up to > start your own notification systems and to share designs and code. > Tor Weather is still a good idea, it just needs somebody to implement it. > > Tor Weather is discontinued in two steps. For now, new subscriptions > are disabled, new welcome messages are not sent out anymore, and > existing subscriptions continue working until June 30, 2016. From > July 1, 2016 on, Tor Weather will not be sending out any emails. > > Sorry for any inconvenience caused by this. > > All the best, > Karsten > > > [0] https://weather.torproject.org/ > > [1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/weather-in-2014 > > [2] https://onionoo.torproject.org/ > > [3] http://www.tor-roster.org/ > > [4] > https://gitweb.torproject.org/metrics-tasks.git/tree/task-9889/tshirt.py > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJXAn7HAAoJEC3ESO/4X7XBmhEIAKxWEwex5pyp5RBHkE4+1IC2 > WaKjcvIT0WiZJ8prZASNSxF7ART6r2trG50+Pd2GCdu0SOjIz3eeQNSkx251RaqF > xF7dw2RVhExcYOar4FG5+KkXu6X3k0svMvNeMGzcRd51yaaVeW8OaAgV0NC+CHgE > ZkA7bg26jCvG8EFrKCg4fuZ3JW3+O3mvcquea+aB4q6gbuQFjgoxzfH5+XkmpA5i > gDZnsIRuBDYuUW8V1ior/7DG2wGlCjWZUotoTysfsFW2FSMUrTBZOlvhpHicMfER > VpLxY8+b3ZGC6Olit50ISZql8l12yO3Hik32eKIcgK2fpx6vgKE+T83I8voIpOU= > =LVj8 > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > ___ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays > -- Abhiram Chintangal ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
Re: [tor-relays] Digital Ocean: Moving to better Plan
Hello Sebastian, Thanks for responding. On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:15 PM, Sebastian Urbach sebast...@urbach.org wrote: On January 31, 2015 2:09:14 AM Abhiram Chintangal abhiram.chintan...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Abhiram, I have been running a tor middle relay[1] for the past few months. Thank you very much ! One thing that I noticed in the last two months is that my relay is eating up the 1tb bandwidth in the first three weeks. So I am thinking of moving to a better plan or tweaking the current config to serve the bandwidth so that the relay is up for the entire month. I assume that you want a recommendation. A better plan probably means spending more money. Would be better for the network. If you can spare the money, go for it. If you dont want to spend more money than it would be a good idea to lower the Rate value until you end up within your traffic limit for the month. The benefit would be a permanent available relay. Hmm, I think I will try changing the rate and see what happens. Last year, I used a daily limit instead of monthly one. It drastically reduced the relays reported bandwidth ( 1Mbps to 60 kbps ). Thanks! -- Sincerely yours / Sincères salutations / M.f.G. Sebastian Urbach - Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth. - Henry Louis Mencken (1880 - 1956), American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist and critic. ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays -- Abhiram Chintangal ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
Re: [tor-relays] Digital Ocean: Moving to better Plan (Abhiram Chintangal)
Hello Seth, Thanks for your input. On 01/31, Seth wrote: https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en If you have bandwidth cost issues, enabling hibernation is preferable to setting a low bandwidth, since it provides users with a collection of fast servers that are up some of the time, which is more useful than a set of slow servers that are always available. Interesting. In my case, my relay hibernates for about 6 days. So turning down the bandwith doesn't seem like a big deal to me. I wonder what the exit relay folks do. Thanks! ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
[tor-relays] Digital Ocean: Moving to better Plan
Hello, I have been running a tor middle relay[1] for the past few months. Apart from tweaking the configuration a few times, I didn't have to do much to get things working. One thing that I noticed in the last two months is that my relay is eating up the 1tb bandwidth in the first three weeks. So I am thinking of moving to a better plan or tweaking the current config to serve the bandwidth so that the relay is up for the entire month. Btw, here is my .torrc ORPort 443 DirPort 80 Exitpolicy reject *:* Nickname orpheus ContactInfo orpheus@risup.net Log notice file /var/log/tor/notices.log RelayBandwidthRate 1024 KB RelayBandwidthBurst 1024 KB MaxAdvertisedBandwidth 1024 KB DisableDebuggerAttachment 0 AccountingMax 500GBytes AccountingStart month 1 0:00 Thank you! -- Abhiram Chintangal [1]: https://atlas.thecthulhu.com/#details/3045303283D4EAF74C8FA053054C691BB451AACA ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
[tor-relays] new relay - large variation in consensus weight
Hello all, I am running a middle relay on a digital ocean [1] for roughly about a month now. While the process has been fairly straight forward, in the last few days I have noticed a large variation in the relays consensus weight. Right now it is close 1000 a few days before it was 300. Is this regular behaviour? Cheers! -- Abhiram Chintangal [1]: https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/3045303283D4EAF74C8FA053054C691BB451AACA ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
[tor-relays] Atlas slow/not working?
Hello, I am not able to check my relays status via Atlas for the last two days. Any ideas? Thanks -- Abhiram Chintangal I guess we agree with reason, but now it's a matter of disposition. ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
Re: [tor-relays] Atlas slow/not working?
Thanks! I got it to work now. On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Justaguy justa...@riseup.net wrote: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/13905 This can be solved by using mirrors like https://atlas.thecthulhu.com/ -- Contact: Irc, justaguy @ Freenode or OFTC OTR fingerprint: FF6D1AC2 13F38B15 EDB21522 D3530A6F 6EE01996 On 12/06/2014 05:12 PM, Abhiram Chintangal wrote: Hello, I am not able to check my relays status via Atlas for the last two days. Any ideas? Thanks -- Abhiram Chintangal I guess we agree with reason, but now it's a matter of disposition. ___ tor-relays mailing listtor-relays@lists.torproject.orghttps://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays -- Abhiram Chintangal I guess we agree with reason, but now it's a matter of disposition ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
[tor-relays] Running a New Relay
Hello, About two days ago, I started running my first tor relay using a digital ocean vps instance. Yesterday, I found this nice article[1] about the life-cycle of a tor relay. It was a great read and I think I understanding of how tor works has improved quite a bit. Currently, my relay[2] whose up-time is roughly 2 days 18 hours doesn't have any active circuits ( via tor-arm). Since its in the unmeasured phase( days 0-3) shouldn't it be making circuits back to itself? I believe the number that was mentioned in the article was four. I apologize if my question seems silly. Thanks! -- Abhiram Chintangal I guess we agree with reason, but now it's a matter of disposition [1]https://blog.torproject.org/blog/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay [2]: https://atlas.thecthulhu.com/#details/0D63999A202B34EF1CD9669BC45B0A697D9BF203 ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
Re: [tor-relays] NSA special treatment for Tor community
It looks like there is a certificate verification problem with the website. Cheers! Abhiram On Friday 04 July 2014 03:57 AM, no.thing_to-h...@cryptopathie.eu wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Tor relays! If you did not subscribe to the talk-list, like me until this evening, you may have missed the latest surveillance news: The NSA targets directly the nine Tor directory servers https://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/aktuell/nsa230_page-1.html The whole article is highly recommended to read. In what way normal, internal relays like mine are affected, is not further investigated. Best regards, and: Stay wiretapped! Anton - -- no.thing_to-hide at cryptopathie dot eu 0x30C3CDF0, RSA 2048, 24 Mar 2014 0FF8 A811 8857 1B7E 195B 649E CC26 E1A5 30C3 CDF0 Bitmessage (no metadata): BM-2cXixKZaqzJmTfz6ojiyLzmKg2JbzDnApC -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTtdjNAAoJEMwm4aUww83wl1gH/0k7HpY1k+ZQVrwowyZfVRK+ EnIJLarO8sOTKIz9wFpu3ZTo8x8zDBlca05au6Wa/RuxHzf8W5yl+xgulBKKhQkR l+lqQvv0Me2DcwFTfUsBoYkNxaoaf0sF1yO2Bn1OF3iMQO+nyF5bMV6WLq722AoR jFsvvvVP6JIRd14HFVLKMrpOvqEPkJa0XTpvQGBUpKxJA/+/hj+Od+/RpwC2eyIM lAjrDxvDGFwIzCFn/vgBGMSvOUmm+LVnMR/uVmNCRAylmF25YtkP3t4tM7iPKMNg 1aQWCCnT6UusdkSzjs3AazcIA9797029wDTZ4B9dUljhB4i3DrcdgiX3txjqQQw= =zCCT -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
