Re: A Few Random Thoughts...

2009-06-27 Thread Scott Bennett
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:04:59 -0400 Michael co...@cozziconsulting.com wrote: Roger Dingledine wrote: On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 08:16:00AM -0400, Michael wrote: What I *am* doing is deploying a couple of heavy iron closed relays on OC3 or better bandwidth. The first is now deployed

Re: Lynx leaks DNS

2009-06-27 Thread Jim McClanahan
Phil wrote: I realize this needs a fix not a workaround, but if a workaround is enough for now you could try running lynx via proxychains -- tor Proxychains might grab all the DNS requests. Thanks for your response. Now that I know lynx doesn't leak DNS when the protocol (e.g. http://)

Re: many new relays

2009-06-27 Thread Ringo
It would be interesting to see more stats about the effect of other major media stories about Tor, Slashdot effect, etc. This whole Iran thing is a great way for a number of adversaries to slip in undetected. Ringo Phil wrote: --- On Wed, 6/24/09, 150% jump, in such a short time. Not sure

tor-ramdisk 20090627 released

2009-06-27 Thread basile
Hi everyone, I want to announce to the list that tor-ramdisk 20090627 is out. Tor-ramdisk is an i686 uClibc-based micro Linux distribution whose only purpose is to host a Tor server in an environment that maximizes security (hardnened binaries and kernel) and privacy (no logging at any level

Re: many new relays

2009-06-27 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 06/25/2009 05:03 PM, Phil wrote: No discussion or comments on this? What does it mean? It means everyone is busy working on other things. I encourage you to do the analysis yourself. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://torproject.org/ Blog:

Ping times with Tor running

2009-06-27 Thread Kris Linquist
All, The answer to this may be yeah, duh., just thought I'd ask :). I've got a residential cable connection where I am guaranteed 22mbit down, 5mbit up. My Tor relay BandwithRate is 1000 KB bursting up to 2000 KB. While Tor is running, incoming and outgoing pings to the nearest hop

Re: Ping times with Tor running

2009-06-27 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 08:47:01AM -0700, Kris Linquist wrote: The answer to this may be yeah, duh., just thought I'd ask :). I've got a residential cable connection where I am guaranteed 22mbit down, 5mbit up. My Tor relay BandwithRate is 1000 KB bursting up to 2000 KB. While Tor is

Re: Ping times with Tor running

2009-06-27 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
On 2009-06-27 17:58, Roger Dingledine wrote: While Tor is running, incoming and outgoing pings to the nearest hop goes from ~15ms to ~300+ms. This is very obvious when browsing. 1000KB is 8 megabit. 2000KB is 16 megabit. Tor counts in units of '1' rather than units of '1/8' :) Whereas

Re: Ping times with Tor running

2009-06-27 Thread Kris Linquist
D'oh. Thank you :) Roger Dingledine wrote: 1000KB is 8 megabit. 2000KB is 16 megabit. Tor counts in units of '1' rather than units of '1/8' :) Whereas your cable provider counts in units that produce large impressive-sounding numbers. See also

Re: Ping times with Tor running

2009-06-27 Thread Kris Linquist
Bandwidth tests (dslreports/speedtest.net) show that I am getting at least the guaranteed rate - usually significantly more. DOCSIS 3.0 cable. Udo van den Heuvel wrote: Also: Does your line really give you 22 mbit/s? How fast did that (ADSL?) modem really sync? What protocols are on the

Re: Ping times with Tor running

2009-06-27 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
On 2009-06-27 18:07, Kris Linquist wrote: Bandwidth tests (dslreports/speedtest.net) show that I am getting at least the guaranteed rate - usually significantly more. DOCSIS 3.0 cable. The you should shape your uplink to slightly below the netto speed you measured to avoid queues in the modem.

Re: Ping times with Tor running

2009-06-27 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
On 2009-06-27 17:47, Kris Linquist wrote: Is this expected or do you think it's poor performance by either my ISP or cable modem at accepting many connections? Traffic shaping. http://lartc.org/wondershaper/

Exit node IP *not* showing up on TorCheck and others

2009-06-27 Thread Chris Humphry
Hi,   I just started a session of TBB (current release) and when the homepage opened up it told me I was not connected to the Tor network.  So I went to TorCheck and it told me the same thing.  Then I used NewNym (via 'New Identity' in Vidalia) and with the new Exit node IP both TorCheck and

Re: SoC Project: Improving Hidden Service Security and Usability

2009-06-27 Thread Ringo
Please correct me if I am wrong, but I believe someone made HS security/usability improvements a while ago which included the username:passphrase option and making it possible to keep the URL hidden from anyone except those who are provided the URL? As far as I know, no such feature has been