[tor-relays] Supporting TOR: Seeking Affordable and Reliable Server Providers in Eastern Europe

2024-08-31 Thread Alex Swabbie via tor-relays
providers in less conventional locations (e.g., Eastern Europe like Poland, Hungary, Ukraine)? Thanks for any ideas, Alex https://tor.foundation ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman

Re: [tor-relays] Request for Tor to support armhf architecture

2024-08-19 Thread Alex
On Sat, 17 Aug 2024 19:35:46 -0600 Landon wrote: > The Raspberry Pi is a perfect computer to run Tor because it has 8 GB > RAM, is tiny, only uses a max of 25 watts of power and works great as > a network server. Plus, I don't have to leave my big power hungry > desktop computer on all the time t

Re: [tor-relays] Quick Assist Technology and Tor?

2024-06-24 Thread Alex Xu (Hello71) via tor-relays
n principle, it should work if you set HardwareAccel 1. However, based on my profiling, the actual AES encryption doesn't use that much CPU when using regular AES instructions. I couldn't find any independent QAT benchmarks from an internet search, but https://calomel.org/aesni_ssl_perfo

Re: [tor-relays] Relay no longer acting as a gaurd node?

2023-11-11 Thread Alex Xu (Hello71) via tor-relays
uled restarts are counted against a relay for Guard status. I'm not sure what the MTBF criteria are now, but restarting more than once a week will probably disqualify a relay from being a Guard. Cheers, Alex. ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@

Re: [tor-relays] List number of circuits per connection

2022-10-20 Thread Alex Xu (Hello71) via tor-relays
essively pursued this plan. I have some more ideas based on intra-family correlation, but they also have similar problems as well as more implementation problems. in the long term, our best hope is the PoW scheme (note: not cryptocurrency) being somewhat quietly worked on. cheers, Alex. __

Re: [tor-relays] FreeBSD 13.1: clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC_FAST) ~ 50 % performance gain

2022-06-21 Thread Alex Xu (Hello71) via tor-relays
t I'm not sure how useful that would be. OpenBSD and NetBSD don't seem to define either. Perhaps something like that would be appropriate for a FreeBSD ports patch. Cheers, Alex. ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] [Workshop] Sysadmin 101 for (new) relay operators - June 4th @ 1900 UTC

2022-05-23 Thread Alex Xu (Hello71) via tor-relays
h at 1900 - 2030 UTC. > > You can register here: > https://nc.torproject.net/apps/forms/cDLPxryHJcP5kMeW Can you explain why it is necessary to register in order to attend? Additionally, the URL to the Code of Conduct is neither clickable nor selectable, making it rather difficult

Re: [tor-relays] Does Tor work with Intel QAT acceleration

2022-04-12 Thread Alex Xu (Hello71) via tor-relays
Excerpts from Andreas Bollhalder's message of April 12, 2022 2:12 am: > > Hello Alex > > Thank you for your nice hint ot QAT_Engine. > > Yes, in theory it really seems to be possible. Looking at the Github repo of > the QAT_Engine, it looks like there are still so

Re: [tor-relays] My relay appear down when it's actually up

2020-07-11 Thread Alex Xu (Hello71)
Excerpts from trinity Pointard's message of July 11, 2020 7:12 am: > Hi, > > Since a few days, my relay A8503903F97FF27F5D1C3CA38817329F581925E6 > appear down according to metrics.torproject.org, and is not getting > the Running flag from 6 out of 9 authorities according to > consensus-health.torp

Re: [tor-relays] TCP CCA for Tor Relays (and especially Bridges)

2020-01-20 Thread Alex Xu
Quoting Iain Learmonth (2020-01-20 16:00:01) > Last time I looked you could not switch TCP congestion control algorithm > in Linux per-namespace (maybe you can now and you don't need to have > multiple VMs). It's been allowed for about two years now [0], but you don't need it anyways. Trying out n

Re: [tor-relays] Running on a Raspberry Pi

2019-09-10 Thread Alex Xu
Quoting William Denton (2019-09-10 02:16:30) > I'm reconfiguring things and decided to move a relay from an old laptop to a > Raspberry Pi. I tried it on a Pi Zero W, which is very cheap but also pretty > slow, and it just didn't work. Now I'm trying it on a Pi Four (which has > four > CPUs a

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay problem

2019-05-17 Thread Alex Xu
Quoting Roger Dingledine (2019-05-16 22:24:47) > On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 06:56:10PM +, findmei wrote: > > May 15 14:42:13.000 [warn] Unable to stat resolver configuration in > > '/etc/resolv.conf': Permission denied > > This one is weird and unexpected. Your relay can't do any dns resolves >

Re: [tor-relays] Test bed in MyFamily?

2018-08-29 Thread Alex Flores
Sorry for late. Whats up...? here is my  :  alexflores866@yahoo.comtlak to here... Sent from my iPhone On Wednesday, August 29, 2018 5:17 AM, Totor be wrote: Hi list, Just a quick question about families: I'm in the process of setting up a 4th relay as test bed VM in order to vali

Re: [tor-relays] Should a hoster be considered a relay operator because he hosts relays? I don't think so.

2018-08-28 Thread Alex Flores
Sorry for late. Whats up...? here is my  :  alexflores866@yahoo.comtlak to here... Sent from my iPhone On Wednesday, August 29, 2018 1:07 AM, Nathaniel Suchy wrote: Is there a way to switch my current relays to use offline keys and invalidate the old keys without losing current sta

Re: [tor-relays] Bridge to Relay Balance Notice

2018-05-18 Thread Alex Xu
As far as I know, bridges are currently not under heavy load. This is because not everyone connects via bridge. Moreover, even if everyone did, and nobody used onion services, the total bridge bandwidth should be exactly 1/4 the total bandwidth. Onion services require 5 (or is it 6? I think it's 5

Re: [tor-relays] Verizon AS701 blocking Tor consensus server tor26 (86.59.21.38)

2018-05-16 Thread Alex Xu
Quoting Roger Dingledine (2018-05-16 15:05:29) > The fix (if my theory is right) would be to reach whatever engineer made > this leap, and teach them about Tor. But it will be extra challenging > because they don't even know that there's something they need to learn. like the fact that malware can

Re: [tor-relays] lets stop using central big DNS resolvers (Google, Level3, OpenDNS, Quad9, Cloudflare)

2018-05-13 Thread Alex Xu
sounds like something that could be scripted. Quoting nusenu (2018-05-10 22:16:00) > Dear Exit Relay Operators, > > I'd like to invite you to check your exit's DNS resolver by > having a look at the following list of exits using resolvers > outside their AS (especially if it is Google, OpenDNS,

Re: [tor-relays] atlas.tpo version aggregate page

2018-01-27 Thread Alex Xu
Quoting nusenu (2018-01-27 10:31:00) > > > Iain Learmonth: > > https://atlas.torproject.org/#aggregate/version > > How can people find that page on atlas.torproject.org without knowing the > full URL? 1. https://atlas.torproject.org/ 2. "Advanced Search" 3. "by Version" (at the bottom) ___

Re: [tor-relays] Configuring your relay

2018-01-09 Thread Alex Xu
Quoting Tommy Collison (2018-01-09 19:55:47) > Hi there, > > I'm Tor's writer/editor. We just got a question on Twitter that I'm > stumped on, and I had a quick look through the documentation and didn't > find anything. Can anyone shed some light? > > - Can you set up a relay to provide more band

Re: [tor-relays] DoS attacks are real (probably)

2017-12-11 Thread Alex Xu
Quoting Felix (2017-12-11 17:07:30), as excerpted > Hi Alex > > Great points. > > > conntrack -L -p tcp --dport 9001 | awk '{print $5}' | sort | uniq -c | > > sort -n > > On FreeBSD one can do: > yeah, the optimal rule would ban "bad IPs&qu

[tor-relays] DoS attacks are real (probably)

2017-12-11 Thread Alex Xu
tl;dr: run this: conntrack -L -p tcp --dport 9001 | awk '{print $5}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n ignore numbers less than 10. the remaining output should consist of the following: 1. your IP 2. LeaseWeb and Online.net IPs (use rDNS and whois) 3. mobile networks block IPs in set 2 from acces

Re: [tor-relays] BrassHornComms tor relays: please update 'MyFamily' in your torrc

2017-01-24 Thread Alex Haydock
want to do something like this. Many thanks, Alex signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] Exploiting firmware

2016-12-07 Thread Alex Haydock
On 07/12/16 23:15, diffusae wrote > I am totally agree with you. > > One alternative would be to use coreboot on your machine. If you are > good, than you will put your kernel into the flash chip and make it > write protected. As far as I know, Coreboot is merely an open source BIOS replacement and

Re: [tor-relays] Exploiting firmware

2016-12-07 Thread Alex Haydock
On 07/12/16 21:45, diffusae wrote: > Hmm, interesting subject ... > > On 07.12.2016 21:35, Gumby wrote: >> Subject seems to have changed a bit, so not hijacking it. >> When thinking of any exploitation of firmware - should there be concerns >> of Intel's Management Engine in the CPU of any relays

Re: [tor-relays] network scan results for CVE-2016-5696 / rfc 5961

2016-11-21 Thread Alex Haydock
On 21/11/16 14:43, Olaf Selke wrote: > Am 19.11.2016 um 16:49 schrieb Alex Haydock: >> >> There are some graphs showing (the lack of) network diversity here, >> which are interesting to look at: >> >> http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/network_detail.php > > y

Re: [tor-relays] network scan results for CVE-2016-5696 / rfc 5961

2016-11-19 Thread Alex Haydock
or those who already have experience working with other kernels like FreeBSD/OpenBSD/Solaris etc. Cheers, Alex On 17/11/16 07:30, dawuud wrote: > Hi. > > I added the scan output to the repo, this includes the output csv file > and a list of vulnerable relays: > > https://git

Re: [tor-relays] Bridge Authority closure

2016-07-21 Thread Alex Chang-Lam
I believe also being highly known and trusted by the Tor project leads, likely the current dirauths, and the community as a whole. On Jul 21, 2016, at 6:03 AM, Sanjeev Gupta wrote: > Hi. > > What are the requirements, apart from long-term stability, for this? > > On 21 Jul 2016 12:18 pm, "Se

Re: [tor-relays] ARM Launch Permissions

2016-07-13 Thread Alex Chang-Lam
Behalf Of Tristan Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 5:29 AM To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] ARM Launch Permissions Have you tried adding this to your torrc? DisableDebuggerAttachment 0 On Jul 13, 2016 4:39 AM, "Alex Chang-Lam" mailto:ael9...@gmail.co

[tor-relays] ARM Launch Permissions

2016-07-13 Thread Alex Chang-Lam
able to use any of your system's resolvers to get tor's connections. This is fine, but means that the connections page will be empty. This is usually permissions related so if you would like to fix this then run arm with the same user as tor (ie, "sudo -u arm"). Alex -BEG

[tor-relays] Exit Node with Onion Pi

2015-10-06 Thread Alex Haesche
Hi all, I'm looking to start an exit node using this:https://learn.adafruit.com/onion-pi/overviewI have 100 Mbps symmetric uncapped internet. What do I need to do to prepare and run an exit node? What can you tell me so I can run this well?___ tor-rela

Re: [tor-relays] Question on running bridge nodes

2014-10-11 Thread Alex Jordan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On October 11, 2014 3:25:47 PM PDT, Tor externet co uk wrote: > I wondered whether it was more helpful to the Tor network as a whole to > have have a very fast node which hibernated every 12-15 hours, or if I > throttled Tor traffic, so that the n

Re: [tor-relays] Question on running bridge nodes

2014-10-11 Thread Alex Jordan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On October 11, 2014 3:25:47 PM PDT, Tor externet co uk wrote: > I wondered whether it was more helpful to the Tor network as a whole to > have have a very fast node which hibernated every 12-15 hours, or if I > throttled Tor traffic, so that the n

Re: [tor-relays] Help keeping Tor relay up

2014-06-19 Thread Alex Jordan
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 10:11 PM, Evelyne Fong wrote: > I've set up the relay recently, so I'm not expecting a lot of traffic. > However, I'm confused as to if my relay is suddenly failing for no reason or > is Atlus saying my relay is no longer running because there's no traffic on > it. Do you

Re: [tor-relays] Debian relay Puppet module

2014-06-16 Thread Alex Jordan
On Sunday, June 15, 2014, Moritz Bartl wrote: > > Personally, I think it would be great to not only have puppet modules > spread out somewhere across the Internet, but a full-fledged > guide/wizard that makes it easy for people to locally configure relays > without knowing anything about Tor confi

[tor-relays] Tor node monitoring

2013-04-16 Thread Alex Beal
Hello All, I was wondering what, if any, software you use for monitoring your relays. It would be nice if I could get an email when the Tor daemon crashes, and maybe another every night telling me about bandwidth used, average speed, etc. Thanks, Alex -- For sensitive information, use my