[tor-relays] Improving Relay IPv6 - RIPE Grant

2019-12-10 Thread teor
Dear relay operators, I just wanted to let you know that RIPE has announced funding for The Tor Project to improve IPv6 support on relays. (RIPE is the European internet infrastructure organisation.) https://www.ripe.net/support/cpf/funding-recipients-2019 We'll have more details early in 2020,

[tor-relays] Thinking of running bridge through Ubuntu Windows app and port question

2019-12-10 Thread Keifer Bly
Hi all, So currently I am running an OBFS4 bridge through the Tor Expert Bundle, however saw this app on Windows Store: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/ubuntu/9nblggh4msv6#activetab=pivot:overviewtab I am wondering, as this app allows to run Linux Terminal commands through it’s interface. Would

Re: [tor-relays] tor crashed: Could not apply consensus diff because an ed command was missing a line number.

2019-12-10 Thread teor
Hi, > On 8 Dec 2019, at 22:40, Winter Paulson > wrote: > > this morning the tor process crashed, couldn't find anything searching > the internet. Any hints what this might have been: > > Tor[96521]: Could not apply consensus diff because an ed command was > missing a line number. >

Re: [tor-relays] unbound: error: recvfrom 123 failed: Host is down

2019-12-10 Thread teor
Hi, > On 8 Dec 2019, at 22:37, Winter Paulson > wrote: > > I'm running an exit relay > 200 Mbit/s with local unbound on openbsd. I > receive a lot of the following syslog messages from unbound: > > unbound: [15040:1] error: recvfrom 226 failed: Host is down Maybe the remote DNS server can't

Re: [tor-relays] Article: The Growing Problem of Malicious Relays on the Tor Network

2019-12-10 Thread niftybunny
The main issue I see here is the 10%. Thats a really big chunk. They were bigger than me :( I also mailed the Tor Project after Nusenu did not receive an answer. This has to be much faster in the future. > On 9. Dec 2019, at 20:26, Dirk wrote: > > Dear all, > > I was made aware today of the

[tor-relays] Article: The Growing Problem of Malicious Relays on the Tor Network

2019-12-10 Thread Dirk
Dear all, I was made aware today of the article be nusenu [1]. Please read it. So even I theoretically new Sybil attack scenario against the tor network - I never was aware it could affect so much of the tor network infrastructure: "At their peak they reached >10% of the Tor network’s guard

[tor-relays] Obfs4 Bridge/Relay Issue

2019-12-10 Thread texasbuckeye
I have been trying to run a relay/obfs4 bridge from my Macbook (macOS Catalina 10.15.1) for some time now. I want to do it to help out the Tor network - getting a Tor t-shirt would be a nice bonus. I've already donated to help out until I can get my bridge/relay up & running. I've been starting