Re: [tor-relays] Port-Based Best-Fit Circuit Selection

2014-09-17 Thread Tim
On 17 Sep 2014, at 22:00, Paritesh Boyeyoko wrote: > On Tuesday 16 Sep 2014 17:36:41 Toralf F?rster wrote: >> On 09/16/2014 03:35 AM, Paritesh Boyeyoko wrote: >>> Hello -- >>> So, I was thinking that in the same way that Tor relays have port-based >>> exit policies, could they not >>> also have

Re: [tor-relays] Multithreading

2014-09-17 Thread tor
afaik multithreading got done at GSOC (or some part of it) but idk when it will get in official builds. here the mail Белоус Михаил schrieb:> During GSoC I have done following: > Threadpool using pththread > Benchmark for this pool > Multithread version of command_proccess_cell and fix most of

Re: [tor-relays] Multithreading

2014-09-17 Thread Sebastian Urbach
Hi, Thanks, that was the text i was looking for. I read this text somewhere but couldn't find it anymore. afaik multithreading got done at GSOC (or some part of it) but idk when it will get in official builds. here the mail Белоус Михаил schrieb:> During GSoC I have done following: Threa

Re: [tor-relays] BBC and UK Lottery blocking ip addresses running relay nodes

2014-09-17 Thread Stephen Mollett
Hi all, Just to add another data point on the BBC/Tor situation, I've just had a reply to a case I opened with BBC Audience Services which sounds very discouraging - it appears to be a matter of deliberate policy: "Thank you for contacting the BBC iPlayer support team. "I understand you’re exper

Re: [tor-relays] Multithreading

2014-09-17 Thread Toralf Förster
On 09/16/2014 03:33 PM, Sebastian Urbach wrote: > Is someone able to provide a timetable for the multithreading > implementation into the alpha branch ? I'll take anything ;-) +1 I run 4-core i7-3770, where all 4 cores idles at lowest ondemand cpu governor frequency of 1.6 GHz currently - I insta

Re: [tor-relays] Port-Based Best-Fit Circuit Selection

2014-09-17 Thread Paritesh Boyeyoko
Hi Tim -- Very good points, and yes most likely the mail protocols would be candidates for "slow", high latency circuits. However, there may be another class of relays that's overlooked - many VPS providers sell VPSes with low data caps, even on fast connections (100Mbit/s). There are two wa

Re: [tor-relays] BBC and UK Lottery blocking ip addresses running relay nodes

2014-09-17 Thread Matt Puckey
Stephen Mollett: > [...] > "Thank you for contacting the BBC iPlayer support team. > > "I understand you’re experiencing problems accessing BBC iPlayer as > you’re told that you are outside of the UK. > > "Please note that if you run TOR, then I’m afraid as per our development > team’s confirmati

[tor-relays] help force Centos to update Tor

2014-09-17 Thread I
Hej, (With very little knowledge) I can not get Centos 6 VPS to update to the newer version of Tor. Would someone please help me to do that? off list of on Robert ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.o

Re: [tor-relays] BBC and UK Lottery blocking ip addresses running relay nodes

2014-09-17 Thread Chris Whittleston
Yeah ouch - maybe I just got someone a bit more helpful. I'm with Matt though, it seems like they still don't get the difference between using Tor as a client and running a relay, so this isn't the end of the road there. You are going to have to rely on them wanting to actually think about it thoug

[tor-relays] Fwd: Call for a big fast bridge (to be the meek backend)

2014-09-17 Thread Mike Perry
Forwarded from tor-dev to here, in case any relay operators missed this: - Forwarded message from David Fifield - Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 19:12:23 -0700 From: David Fifield To: tor-...@lists.torproject.org Subject: [tor-dev] Call for a big fast bridge (to be the meek backend) User-Agent: