Re: [tor-relays] Traffic limitation

2014-06-19 Thread Contra Band
One way is to limit the bw in /etc/tor/torrc  RelayBandwidthRate 100 KB Long term you have to get at least 2TB vps or unmetered bandwidth. Once the relay is stable there will be lot of connections. On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 8:56 PM, s...@sky-ip.org s...@sky-ip.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP

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

2014-06-19 Thread Contra Band
If you are on Linux it is worth to install ARM to monitor it. https://www.torproject.org/projects/arm.html.en   Also check from https://globe.torproject.org/ On Thursday, June 19, 2014 5:26 AM, Evelyne Fong darkbahamu...@hotmail.com wrote: I've managed to get my relay running long

Re: [tor-relays] tor-arm question

2014-06-19 Thread Contra Band
What does the cat /var/log/tor/log says? On Tuesday, June 17, 2014 6:56 PM, Adam Griffin adgri...@gmail.com wrote: Running top in a separate SSH session shows ~50% load average.  I imagine spikes would cause the CLI interruptions and maybe relay unresponsive/resumed notices. Did you have

Re: [tor-relays] Exit policies pointing to IP blocks not appearing on Globe

2014-06-10 Thread Contra Band
Hi there, Welcome to the club of Tor operators. While congratulating you, just wanna remind you not to mix your traffic with Tor exit traffic for clarity. For your specific question, after making changes in exit policy how long did you wait before checking on globe? On Monday, June 9,

Re: [tor-relays] VPS for tor exit nodes

2014-06-03 Thread Contra Band
I can only say I have exits running on VPSs which either had no bar to exits originally and changed, or had but let me through anyway. One accepted a very plain statement of it being a Tor exit and even helped sort out numerous issues then, after I hired eight more annually, just stopped

Re: [tor-relays] VPS for tor exit nodes

2014-06-03 Thread Contra Band
I have gone through the GoodBadISPs but I'm looking for latest input from exit operators. Selected vps because don't want to see provider bans my account sometime later when running an exit node on a dedicated server. But I'm ok if can get a dedicated server for a decent price. All I need

Re: [tor-relays] hardening a tor relay

2014-05-24 Thread Contra Band
Thanks guys, Your experience is really helpful. After some thoughts now I'm allowing only incoming tcp ports 443 and ssh outgoing tcp port 443 I haven't enabled the Dirport. Heard all tor relays are dir mirrors by default. Later I will read the nsa, Linux hardening guide. It looks good.

Re: [tor-relays] hardening a tor relay

2014-05-24 Thread Contra Band
), Contra Band wrote: Your experience is really helpful. After some thoughts now I'm allowing only incoming tcp ports 443 and ssh outgoing tcp port 443 Please enable at least outgoing port 9001 as well. Most relays listen on that port, with 443 in second place. With those ports allowed