Re: [tor-relays] Measuring the Accuracy of Tor Relays' Advertised Bandwidths

2019-08-08 Thread NOC
I think that is a bad idea. You don't know enough about a relay to have a clue about what the underlying hardware looks like from any of that metrics. Simple example: You have a 8 core 16 threads cpu, run 4 instances, each node pinned to 2 threads and a 10 gig pipe, you will run each tor

Re: [tor-relays] DoS attack on Tor exit relay

2019-08-08 Thread lists
On 06.08.2019 12:57, ger...@bulger.co.uk wrote: Thanks. I just could not see how Fail2ban would work on an ORport. What log would it look at? What criteria for the jail? The fai2ban on my non-tor VPS does not yet work with IPv6, which is partly the nature of IPV6 rather than a programming

Re: [tor-relays] 10 Years Torservers.net: Death or Future?

2019-08-08 Thread niftybunny
It was nothing personal at all. My point was and is: You can’t substitute a German non profit with this organisation. Even if you could, torservers.net are supporting all the others smaller orgs, not the other way around. Thats a lot of work organising orgs and also avoiding unnecessary work

Re: [tor-relays] Measuring the Accuracy of Tor Relays' Advertised Bandwidths

2019-08-08 Thread teor
Hi Rob, > On 8 Aug 2019, at 22:15, Rob Jansen wrote: > >> On Aug 6, 2019, at 5:48 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: >> >> On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 05:31:39PM -0400, Rob Jansen wrote: >>> Today, I started running the speedtest on all relays in the network. So >>> far, I have finished about 100

Re: [tor-relays] 10 Years Torservers.net: Death or Future?

2019-08-08 Thread Mitar
Hi! So I initially just wanted to share a tool/service which I think addresses some of the issues I noticed in projects, when people get burned out because of all the paperwork involved. I replied further to mostly address some, from my perspective, misunderstandings about this tool/service. By

Re: [tor-relays] Measuring the Accuracy of Tor Relays' Advertised Bandwidths

2019-08-08 Thread Rob Jansen
> On Aug 6, 2019, at 5:48 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 05:31:39PM -0400, Rob Jansen wrote: >> Today, I started running the speedtest on all relays in the network. So far, >> I have finished about 100 relays (and counting). I expect that the >> advertised bandwidths