Re: [tor-relays] A general question for relay operators

2018-06-27 Thread teor
> On 28 Jun 2018, at 15:14, Keifer Bly wrote: > > Oh, my mistake. I thought torstatus.blutimage.de was also for operators as > well as clients. https://torstatus.blutmagie.de/ is for operators. But the data on the site is created for Tor clients. > I was aware that tor metrics stated relays

Re: [tor-relays] A general question for relay operators

2018-06-27 Thread Keifer Bly
➢ Has anyone wondered why the number of nodes is so incredibly low? If by that you mean why there are fewer relays than there are tor users (clients), I’d say there are several reasons for this. Not everybody can run a relay, it requires having a router that can smoothly handle the load (or data

Re: [tor-relays] A general question for relay operators

2018-06-27 Thread Keifer Bly
Oh, my mistake. I thought torstatus.blutimage.de was also for operators as well as clients. I was aware that tor metrics stated relays current up/down time of a relay but did not know they keep it for that long, my apologies. I am a dork sometimes. ➢ run a relay out of a data center, and let

Re: [tor-relays] A general question for relay operators

2018-06-27 Thread I
I wish I'd known that this is not the place to learn Linux or really how to run a node securely and efficiently. Perhaps an acknowledgement of that might bring some other pages or styles of the current pages. I'd like to see a collection of correct answers perhaps searchable but restricted and

Re: [tor-relays] A general question for relay operators

2018-06-27 Thread teor
Hi, > On 28 Jun 2018, at 13:25, Keifer Bly wrote: > > I am not saying that relays that are currently not running should be treated > like they are currently running. I am just saying the network conseoucsus > could be improved a little in the sense that relays, even very high bandwidth >

Re: [tor-relays] A general question for relay operators

2018-06-27 Thread Keifer Bly
I am not saying that relays that are currently not running should be treated like they are currently running. I am just saying the network conseoucsus could be improved a little in the sense that relays, even very high bandwidth ones, might go offline from time to time due to things like power

Re: [tor-relays] A general question for relay operators

2018-06-27 Thread teor
> On 28 Jun 2018, at 11:45, Keifer Bly wrote: > > It is also a pain at times keeping the OS, especially on macOS, the newer > versions of which my not support older machines, up to date while trying to > keep the relay stable, as relay status is changed so quickly (removing relays > from

Re: [tor-relays] A general question for relay operators

2018-06-27 Thread Keifer Bly
Before I started running a relay, one thing I wish I had known was that a relay has to be running for about three months and also continuously be offering 2mb/s network traffic to be used as a Guard relay. This is difficult If running a relay in the United States, as most ISPS in the US (or at

[tor-relays] A general question for relay operators

2018-06-27 Thread George
Greetings relay operators. A question that came up offline for relay operators can be summed up in one sentence, paraphrased from flexlibris: as a relay operator, what "things" do you wish you knew before you started running a relay? I'm really curious, in particular, to hear from those relay

Re: [tor-relays] Become a Fallback Directory Mirror

2018-06-27 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Colin Childs dijo [Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 11:40:42AM -0500]: > Hello Tor Relay Operators, > > Do you want your relay to be a Tor fallback directory mirror? > Will it have the same address and port for the next 2 years? > Just reply to this email with your relay's fingerprint. You didn't specify