[tor-relays] Test bed in MyFamily?

[Totor be]

Hi list,

Just a quick question about families: I'm in the process of setting up a
4th relay as test bed VM in order to validate the Linux and Tor updates
before updating my 3 live relays (none of these are exits)

This 4th relay will be fully operational, but will only be started from
time to time, when updates are available
After the updates are installed, I plan to leave it running for half a day
or so until it appears in Tor Metrics
Question: should I include this test bed relay in MyFamily or leave it
completely stand alone?
What would you recommend?

Thanks!

Patrick
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Re: [tor-relays] Test bed in MyFamily?

[Totor be]

Hi Ian

That's what I've done, but what is the rationale if I may ask ?
Personally, I prefer not to see a relay than seeing one down, but this is
extremely subjective!

Thanks

On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 10:11 PM Iain Learmonth  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 29/08/18 13:16, Totor be wrote:
> > This 4th relay will be fully operational, but will only be started from
> > time to time, when updates are available
> > After the updates are installed, I plan to leave it running for half a
> > day or so until it appears in Tor Metrics
> > Question: should I include this test bed relay in MyFamily or leave it
> > completely stand alone?
> > What would you recommend?
>
> Yes, please include family for all of your relays.
>
> Thanks,
> Iain.
>
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[tor-relays] Migrating to CentOS8

[Totor be]

Hi folks

I'm considering migrating my relays from CentOS 7 to CentOS 8 and upgrading
tor from 0.3.5.8 to 0.4.1.6
One small VM relay at home is running the C8/0.4 setup and seems to be ok

According to bodhi, this is supposed to be stable
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?packages=tor

Before migrating the others, I prefer to cross-check: is there anyone aware
of issues with C8 and tor 0.4.x??

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[tor-relays] Where to run new relays?

[Totor be]

Hi list,

I'm planning to go for a full reinstall of my 2 guards in order to upgrade
them to CentOS 8 & Tor 0.4.x
My current relays (Tor 0.3.5.8 & CentOS7) are running at OVH (France) and I
was considering installing the new ones at a more useful location
France has the second highest aggregated consensus weight, so I should
avoid France, THAT is clear

But then I got puzzled:
Should I maximise the bandwidth criteria by running the relays in countries
having good connectivity and bandwidth (Europe, US...), at the cost of
diversity?
Should I maximise the geographical diversity (Gabon, Reunion...) at the
cost of bandwidth?

Alternatively, I could just stop asking stupid questions and make my life
easier by reinstalling at OVH...

The stats are nice indeed, but I miss clear recommendations in order to
make my mind

So, any useful recommendation,guys?
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Re: [tor-relays] Relay in a stop/start loop

[Totor be]

Hi Roger,

Some quick facts
- tor is enabled to auto-start when the system boots
- I do have nyx on that box, but I just run it every now and then (i.e. it
does not run permanently)
- there is nothing else than tor on the box
- disc space is not an issue: 45G free on /root, 700M free on /boot and 53G
free on /home

The other things to investigate are way beyond my linux competences
My best bet would be to perform a fresh install (OS+tor)

Thanks!

On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 11:11 AM Roger Dingledine 
wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 11:01:09AM +0200, Totor be wrote:
> > I have upgraded recently my relays (totorbe*) to CentOS8 + tor 0.4.2.7
> and
> > they all seemed to run properly
> > This morning, I just noticed a weird behavior on one of them (no idea
> since
> > when this is going on)
> >
> > When starting tor, it goes to the point of IP identification and then
> > starts shutting down ("Interrupt: we have stopped accepting new
> > connections...")
> > It attempts then to restart immediately and loops start --> interrupt -->
> > start etc...
> >
> > Any idea where too start investigating??
>
> Hm!
>
> It sounds like whatever package you have auto-starts Tor if it notices
> that it's not running. That's not unreasonable, but also it ought to have
> some error count where it only tries to restart it a certain number of
> times per timeframe. This is something that either the package's init
> script should do, or that systemd's settings should handle.
>
> The bigger mystery for you is: why does Tor keep deciding to exit? It
> looks like something is sending it the equivalent of a ^C. What is doing
> that? This is the main thing to investigate.
>
> Maybe you are running some external tool like nyx, or your own script
> based on stem, which is killing it somehow?
>
> Maybe systemd is somehow deciding that after some timeout it needs to
> die? I find it interesting that you get these two lines right after each
> other each time:
>
> Apr 06 10:35:13.000 [notice] Signaled readiness to systemd
> Apr 06 10:35:13.000 [notice] Interrupt
>
> It's as though systemd is misinterpreting the signal from Tor, and
> deciding to kill it rather than be happy.
>
> So: I suspect "bug in centos package" as a good place to investigate.
> Maybe there is already a ticket open in your packaging system?
>
> Be sure also to check other more general issues like "do you have enough
> disk space?"
>
> --Roger
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Re: [tor-relays] Does OVH cloud support exit relays?

[Totor be]

Hi,

A few years ago, OVH explicitly disallowed exits
Note that, by then, regular relays were also not authorized on VPS
This is why I'm running relays inVMs on a physical server with no issue
(from OVH) since years

Having said that, I must admit I have not recently checked if their policy
have changed

HTH

P.

On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 8:27 AM Keifer Bly  wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
>
> So I have been running a bridge relay for over a year now, and recently
> purchased the $6 per month VPS from
> https://ca.ovhcom/manager/dedicated/#/configuration
> 
>
>
>
> I am waiting for the “please wait up to 48 hours to activate your account”
> and am planning to set up a new tor relay on the vps once it is running. I
> am wondering, does anybody on the list know if they allow exit relays? Do
> they charge based on how much traffic tor will generate, or is it a solid
> $6 per month for their Linux VPS?
>
>
>
> Thanks very much all
>
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[tor-relays] Relay on CentOS8

[Totor be]

Hi all

As you might be aware, CentOS is switching from CentOS Linux to CentOS
Stream
https://www.centos.org/cl-vs-cs/

They provides a straightfowrarw way to migrate from Lunix to Stream:
#dnf swap centos-linux-repos centos-stream-repos
#dnf distro-sync

I have migrated a relay running in a small VM and everything seems to run
fine

Before migrating my production relay, I would appreciate any feedback from
other CentOS users on this migration: disk space required, eventual issues
envountered and more generally do's & don'ts

Thanks a lot!
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Re: [tor-relays] Relay on CentOS8

[Totor be]

Hi Neel,

Thank you for your advice, but I was not planning to run away from CentOS.
For what I need, it suits me perfectly

My question was exclusively about the migration process CentOS Linux to
CentOS Stream
Any advice on that migration would be much appreciated

Thanks

On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 7:07 PM Neel Chauhan  wrote:

> On 2021-08-20 05:08, Totor be wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > As you might be aware, CentOS is switching from CentOS Linux to CentOS
> > Stream
> > https://www.centos.org/cl-vs-cs/
> >
> > They provides a straightfowrarw way to migrate from Lunix to Stream:
> > #dnf swap centos-linux-repos centos-stream-repos
> > #dnf distro-sync
> >
> > I have migrated a relay running in a small VM and everything seems to
> > run fine
> >
> > Before migrating my production relay, I would appreciate any feedback
> > from other CentOS users on this migration: disk space required,
> > eventual issues envountered and more generally do's & don'ts
>
> I'm a FreeBSD user, but if you don't want CentOS Stream, there are
> AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux, both which focus on being a spiritual
> successor to pre-Stream CentOS.
>
> For you, I'd recommend looking at Alma/Rocky as opposed to CentOS
> Stream, but IMHO you should compare all three. However I have never run
> RHEL-based distros as a "server" (I've always run FreeBSD there) so I
> can't tell you my experiences.
>
> > Thanks a lot!
>
> -Neel
>
> ===
>
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