Re: [tor-relays] Advantage in more exits in the same /8?

2014-08-27 Thread Jesse Victors
: cakkunmykgxkt1oebv5lft9edqlhvajsbxv7qkhqn6dcbpuj...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Jesse Victors jvict...@jessevictors.com wrote: I run some relays and an exit in a university setting. The nodes are in the same /8 block and are physically close to one another

[tor-relays] Advantage in more exits in the same /8?

2014-08-26 Thread Jesse Victors
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA384 Hey everyone, I run some relays and an exit in a university setting. The nodes are in the same /8 block and are physically close to one another as well. Is there any advantage in turning one of the relays into another exit? This is something

[tor-relays] Number of relays by version

2014-08-17 Thread Jesse Victors
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA384 Hey guys, Today on Reddit I saw a post on /r/Tor that listed the number of relays by version, which was pretty cool. While OP apparently loaded the information into SQLite and selected the count, there's another way to do it: sudo cat

Re: [tor-relays] Contacting Apple About a Block IP Address

2014-08-13 Thread Jesse Victors
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA384 I don't know about that. The number of site that ban all Tor nodes (exits and non-exits alike) is relatively low compared to the number of websites that don't. The banning happens when trigger-happy sysadmins think that 1) IP address == user,

[tor-relays] Exits behind a next-gen firewall? Opinions please

2014-07-10 Thread Jesse Victors
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hey guys, I've been running some exit nodes for some time now, and they're doing well. They've burned through many terabytes of bandwidth, and thanks to Tor's recommended reduced exit policy, complaints have been minimal. Clearly the vast

[tor-relays] My exit's traffic isn't rising, is this normal?

2014-06-24 Thread Jesse Victors
Hello everyone, I run https://globe.torproject.org/#/relay/1946F5E4748B069D3B989B5AF50C7DDD3AC61859 and from the graphs it's clear that the traffic has roughly leveled off, rather than continue to climb. I generated a new key after Heartbleed, so it's been up for nearly three months. The

Re: [tor-relays] Update your OpenSSL, several high-risk CVEs

2014-06-06 Thread Jesse Victors
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Thanks. I saw the OpenSSL update, but thanks for explaining what it was about. Is it necessary to restart Tor to apply the update? Jesse V. On 06/06/2014 04:00 AM, tor-relays-requ...@lists.torproject.org wrote: Message: 1 Date: Thu, 05 Jun

Re: [tor-relays] Update your OpenSSL, several high-risk CVEs

2014-06-06 Thread Jesse Victors
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Ok, will do, thanks. On 06/06/2014 07:10 AM, Tom van der Woerdt wrote: Yes, please restart Tor after updating -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/

Re: [tor-relays] Init.d script for two simultaneous Tor instances

2014-04-18 Thread Jesse Victors
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I prefer ps aux | grep tor and then you can seem them running side by side. You can also seem them on htop, which I prefer over top. My init.d script sets a different log file to each instance, allowing you to monitor the logs of each

Re: [tor-relays] Init.d script for two simultaneous Tor instances

2014-04-18 Thread Jesse Victors
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Yes, it's better to have faster relays. However, if you are setting up a relay or exit on a gigabit connection it may take some time before you see significant utilization of the pipe. By running two Tor instances at once you can increase the

[tor-relays] Init.d script for two simultaneous Tor instances

2014-04-17 Thread Jesse Victors
In case anyone is interested in running two Tor instances (regular, bridge, relay, exit) on one machine, I've successfully made an init.d script to do just that. From searches on Google it looks like others have asked about this in the past, so I'm sharing this for them. Tor only allows two Tor

[tor-relays] NSA knew about Heartbleed

2014-04-11 Thread Jesse Victors
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Saw this article: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-11/nsa-said-to-have-used-heartbleed-bug-exposing-consumers.html The U.S. National Security Agency knew for at least two years about a flaw in the way that many websites send sensitive

Re: [tor-relays] Phishy

2014-02-03 Thread Jesse Victors
FYI: Just got this to my Tor relay mail address, with a zip file attached extracting to a '.scr' win exe. Curiously routed via a .gov.uk mail relay... GB03022014.scr: PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windows MD5: dba1e52929f6ca9d1a1bf87e4ff469cf GB2546241.zip MD5:

Re: [tor-relays] Considering setting up an exit, need advice

2014-01-31 Thread Jesse Victors
Thanks again guys for the help. usuexit is now online, and should be functioning properly, but there seem to be a few mystifying issues: 1) TorStatus marks it as hibernating which it clearly isn't; it's online and accepting connections. I'm not sure what made TorStatus think it was offline. 2)

[tor-relays] Considering setting up an exit, need advice

2014-01-23 Thread Jesse Victors
Hello everyone, I'm thinking about setting up an exit here at my university here in the US. My ISP has no problem with Tor relays on the fast connections, but I haven't inquired about exits. I'd be running the exit on a surplus computer that I have control over in a lab in one of the main

Re: [tor-relays] Traceroute measurement from Tor relays

2013-10-24 Thread Jesse Victors
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 That's where you come in. To figure out where traffic travels from your relay, we'd like you to run a bunch of traceroutes - network measurements that show the paths traffic takes. This is a one-time experiment for now, but, depending on what

Re: [tor-relays] My Relay speed has dropped nearly to zero - Why?

2013-10-19 Thread Jesse Victors
On 10/19/2013 06:00 AM, tor-relays-requ...@lists.torproject.org wrote: Message: 3 Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 00:55:42 -0400 From: Torop to...@optonline.net To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] My Relay speed has dropped nearly to zero - Why? Message-ID:

Re: [tor-relays] NSA's Tor Stinks

2013-10-09 Thread Jesse Victors
/plain; charset=utf-8 On Tue, 2013-10-08 at 23:40 -0400, krishna e bera wrote: On 13-10-08 03:23 PM, Jesse Victors wrote: ... obviously has implications into other Tor users, the vast majority of whom use Tor for legal and proper activities. Could you give some evidence for what vast majority

[tor-relays] NSA's Tor Stinks

2013-10-08 Thread Jesse Victors
I recently ran across several articles related to the NSA's attempts at cracking Tor and de-anonymizing its users. They are after terrorists and other individuals who seek to do harm of course, but their work obviously has implications into other Tor users, the vast majority of whom use Tor for

Re: [tor-relays] Future versions and Vidalia?

2013-09-23 Thread Jesse Victors
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 12:54:34 +0300 From: J.C. j...@riseup.net To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: [tor-relays] Future versions and Vidalia? Message-ID: 52400fda.2060...@riseup.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1;

Re: [tor-relays] Getting max bandwidth out of a relay

2013-09-12 Thread Jesse Victors
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 As I am trying to avoid using too many IPs (IPv4 is constrainted, IPv6 is not, but the latter won't get much traffic), I'll try if I can get my tcp-balancer idea setup in the run of next week (low on spare cycles at the moment) and then

[tor-relays] Why is my fast relay so slow to gain popularity?

2013-09-11 Thread Jesse Victors
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hello everyone, newcomer here. I'm behind very fast connection (11.5 MB/sec down, 7.5 MB/sec up) and I thought that the Tor network could benefit from my connection, especially since it's apparently been under high load recently. Per the latest

Re: [tor-relays] Why is my fast relay so slow to gain popularity?

2013-09-11 Thread Jesse Victors
(Most folks would just call that 100mbit, that is if your MB is MegaByte, hence why 11.5 MiB/s would be more accurate). Yes, it is megabytes/sec, according to Speedtest.net. Most sysadmins would say 91.74 mbit down, 60.23 mbit up, (which is as you say basically 100 mbit) but since the Tor