Re: [tor-relays] Question on running bridge nodes

2014-10-11 Thread Alex Jordan
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On October 11, 2014 3:25:47 PM PDT, Tor externet co uk  
wrote:

> I wondered whether it was more helpful to the Tor network as a whole to
> have have a very fast node which hibernated every 12-15 hours, or if I
> throttled Tor traffic, so that the node was more stable.

It is better for the network to have a fast but unstable node.

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Re: [tor-relays] Question on running bridge nodes

2014-10-11 Thread Alex Jordan
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On October 11, 2014 3:25:47 PM PDT, Tor externet co uk  
wrote:

> I wondered whether it was more helpful to the Tor network as a whole to
> have have a very fast node which hibernated every 12-15 hours, or if I
> throttled Tor traffic, so that the node was more stable.

It is better for the network to have a fast but unstable node.

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Re: [tor-relays] Help keeping Tor relay up

2014-06-19 Thread Alex Jordan
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 10:11 PM, Evelyne Fong
 wrote:
> I've set up the relay recently, so I'm not expecting a lot of traffic.
> However, I'm confused as to if my relay is suddenly failing for no reason or
> is Atlus saying my relay is no longer running because there's no traffic on
> it.

Do you have hibernation set up?
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Re: [tor-relays] Debian relay Puppet module

2014-06-16 Thread Alex Jordan
On Sunday, June 15, 2014, Moritz Bartl  wrote:
>
> Personally, I think it would be great to not only have puppet modules
> spread out somewhere across the Internet, but a full-fledged
> guide/wizard that makes it easy for people to locally configure relays
> without knowing anything about Tor configuration options.

+1; this would be great for Tor Cloud users.

>
> In my dream
> world, it would not only support Debian: Right now, most of the Tor
> network runs on Debian, which is not ideal. We need more *BSD and
> Solaris! And FreeDOS! :)

Why is this not ideal? I'm not following.
Also, do you mean Debian or Debian-like? If the latter, Tor
Cloud (Ubuntu) probably accounts for a fair bit of that inbalance.
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