Re: [tor-relays] broken GPG signature on ML

2018-07-20 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2018-07-19 22:13, nusenu wrote: > > I actually thought about signing it but then I realized that mailman > > mangles messages to the point that my signatures usually end up bad > > (yours do too :/ ), so it didn't seem worth fighting with that one. > > The GPG signature of my emails doesn't ap

Re: [tor-relays] Home router keeps failing.

2018-07-16 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2018-07-16 10:51, Gary wrote: > I have been running a (non-exit) middle relay for some time and up > until now my router has mostly coped. It is what is what I got from my > ISP, I can't afford to get a new one. At the minute I had to reset it > on a daily basis which not only breaks tor circui

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Relay Operators Needs

2018-06-21 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2018-06-21 08:25, Matthew Glennon wrote: > Relays intending to act as Guards choose port 443 because it (and 80) are > usually reachable in the tightest of network security situations (where > traffic destined for most all other ports is blocked at the > gateway/firewall.) At least that's my re

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

2018-05-13 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2018-05-13 15:34, Paul wrote: > Unfortunately the /etc/resolv.conf gets overwritten on reboot. On > Linux I solved that with editing > /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/base. In that file, i put in the info as > i would in resolv.conf. > > nameserver 127.0.0.1 > > Then i told resolvconf to regene

[tor-relays] Advertised bandwidth

2018-04-23 Thread Ian Zimmerman
In /etc/tor/torrc, I have: ahiker!507 ~# fgrep -i bandwidth /etc/tor/torrc | grep -v '^#' RelayBandwidthRate 64 MBytes RelayBandwidthBurst 512 MBytes But metrics.torproject.org says: Details for: ahiker Configuration Nickname ahiker OR Addresses IPv4 Advertised Bandwidth 55.99 KiB/

[tor-relays] Ahiker shutting down

2017-06-05 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Hello, sadly I have to terminate my relay because it seems to interfere with the quotidian use of my server. I'll look for a way to help the community in other ways. -- Please *no* private Cc: on mailing lists and newsgroups Personal signed mail: please _encrypt_ and sign Don't clear-text sign:

[tor-relays] Doing the english [Was: Kitten1 and kitten2 compromised (guard/hs/fallback directory)]

2017-05-21 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2017-05-20 18:07, Chris Kerr wrote: > Yes, 'sensible', like 'actually' and 'eventually', is a "false friend" > whose meaning in English is different from that in just about every > other European language (but the other languages are consistent with > each other e.g. 'sensible' in French and '

Re: [tor-relays] Strange behaviour Tor 0.2.9.10 - off topic

2017-05-18 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2017-05-18 20:56, Felix wrote: > Indeed it's not broken, it's *Usenet Signature Convention* > https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3676.txt (chapter 4.3.) > > That's old school - how we saved bandwidth in ancient times :) Not only that, it helps when you _want_ part of your article to be invisible u

Re: [tor-relays] Upgrading a relay and changing IP address

2017-05-18 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2017-05-18 14:09, Sebastian Niehaus wrote: > It should be possible to upgrade to Jessie from the template. At least > that is what I did on my maschine hosted as a VPS. Yes. Running on a shared Linode, I am free to do practically anything to the Debian OS installed, except updating the kernel

Re: [tor-relays] GeoIP file

2017-05-08 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2017-05-08 20:07, Roger Dingledine wrote: > What are you doing, that needs changes to the geoip file of a running > Tor daemon? There is fresh geoip data posted on maxmind.com monthly. Doesn't it make sense to have the daemon use it? -- Please *no* private Cc: on mailing lists and newsgroup

[tor-relays] GeoIP file

2017-05-08 Thread Ian Zimmerman
How does the tor daemon read the GeoIP database file? Does it read the whole file once when starting up, or every time it needs to resolve an IP, or something in between (say, it builds an index in memory on startup and then seeks to locations in the file when looking up)? I am asking because I w