Best with limited bandwidth - relay or bridge?

2010-01-30 Thread David McKeegan
I've been running an exit relay for about 6 months on my Linode VPS. The bandwidth on my hosting deal is capped at 200Gb per month, so my relay is limited to 50k, bursting to 90k - that keeps it safely around 80% of my monthly bandwidth allocation. I was wondering if switching my service to a

Re: Tor argument at BoingBoing

2010-01-26 Thread David McKeegan
On 26 Jan 2010, at 11:07, Jens Kubieziel wrote: > * David McKeegan schrieb am 2010-01-26 um 10:55 Uhr: >> Perhaps some here would care to post in defence? > > In my opinion it is not worth the hassle. > "Never argue with an idiot. They will only pull you down to their leve

Tor argument at BoingBoing

2010-01-26 Thread David McKeegan
There's a discussion of Tor over at BoingBoing, where Cory Doctorow published a good article: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/25/intro-to-tor-how-you.html Some of the comments are provocative: "TOR is 99% Nigerian fraud and kiddie porn. Don't take my word for it. Set up an exit node and snif

"permission denied" on wake-up

2009-07-14 Thread David McKeegan
Tor newbie here. I set my relay (running on an Ubuntu VPS) to hibernate after 2GB and everything seemed to be working fine until the time came for it to wake up for the first time. My log showed this repeated error: Jul 14 14:11:56.045 [notice] Opening OR listener on 0.0.0.0:443 Jul 14 14:1