Re: [tor-relays] community team highlights: Relay Advocacy

Hello everyone, As there is some concern / confusion about what occurred here, I wanted to take a moment to explain: After Nusenu discovered the cluster of relays on OVH not reporting contactinfo, I reached out to a contact we have at OVH to ask if they can pass along information to the user

Re: [tor-relays] slow relays

> On Jan 13, 2019, at 18:03, teor wrote: > > > On 14 Jan 2019, at 09:32, ronqtorrel...@risley.net wrote: >> >> Thanks. I'm curious what, in the consensus, suggests that I'm too far from >> the Authority Servers? I don't know how to read that page; I can't even >> figure out what units

Re: [tor-relays] community team highlights: Relay Advocacy

OVH only allows Tor relays and exits on their dedicated servers, it's not allowed on VPS and Cloud. I do not believe they're actively checking though, you could probably get away with a non-exit relay, or even an exit relay on the reduced-reduced exit policy (brush off the occasional abuse /

Re: [tor-relays] slow relays

> On 14 Jan 2019, at 09:32, ronqtorrel...@risley.net wrote: > > Thanks. I'm curious what, in the consensus, suggests that I'm too far from > the Authority Servers? I don't know how to read that page; I can't even > figure out what units they're using to report bandwidth. It's a unitless

Re: [tor-relays] slow relays

Hard to tell. A few years ago I had an ISP with a fat shiny direct line to the DE-CIX. So in theory everything was wonderful, it was not. Rule of thumb: Get as near as possible to the auth servers, same data center would be perfect :) Having all relays in one data center would make the state

Re: [tor-relays] slow relays

Hi! Thanks. I'm curious what, in the consensus, suggests that I'm too far from the Authority Servers? I don't know how to read that page; I can't even figure out what units they're using to report bandwidth. One of the relays is one hop away (via a lightly-loaded terabit switch) from the

Re: [tor-relays] community team highlights: Relay Advocacy

> On 13. Jan 2019, at 22:54, grarpamp wrote: > >>> communicating with OVH regarding relays without contactinfo > >> Is it *really* a good idea to poke OVH over this? >> in their ToS >> I feel this can backfire in a bad way >> is easier to ban all this "Tor" entirely? > > Though there can be

Re: [tor-relays] community team highlights: Relay Advocacy

>> communicating with OVH regarding relays without contactinfo > Is it *really* a good idea to poke OVH over this? > in their ToS > I feel this can backfire in a bad way > is easier to ban all this "Tor" entirely? Though there can be some context, in general harassing and busywork for ISP is

Re: [tor-relays] slow relays

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[tor-relays] slow relays

> On Jan 12, 2019, at 18:32, teor wrote: > > Here are some initial steps for troubleshooting: > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/MyRelayIsSlow Hi! I have been running a couple of relays for 4-5 years. In spite of following the advice in the link above, I still only average