Re: [tor-relays] Exit relaying: What regulations exist in your country?

2013-01-19 Thread Matt .
>> What are the exact regulations in your country?We are starting a project in >> Australia regarding running exit nodes. Have reached out to law enforcement >> and Electronic Frontiers Australia, awaiting further information. In >> addition we have someone who has had a takedown request from

Re: [tor-relays] New obfsproxy transport: scramblesuit [bridge operators: please upgrade!]

2014-02-12 Thread Matt
On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 16:04:56 + George Kadianakis wrote: > Greetings, > > a few days ago we integrated ScrambleSuit to obfsproxy. ScrambleSuit > is a pluggable transport by Philipp Winter; you can find more about it > at: http://www.cs.kau.se/philwint/scramblesuit/ > > If you are running a b

Re: [tor-relays] New obfsproxy transport: scramblesuit [bridge operators: please upgrade!]

2014-02-12 Thread Matt
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 18:29:26 + Matt wrote: > I installed obfsproxy through pip. Running Tor 0.2.5.1, I'm seeing > this message: > > [warn] Managed proxy at '/usr/local/bin/obfsproxy' failed the > configuration protocol and will be destroyed. > > That doe

Re: [tor-relays] New obfsproxy transport: scramblesuit [bridge operators: please upgrade!]

2014-02-13 Thread Matt
On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 18:10:38 + George Kadianakis wrote: > > Hm, the "Could not set up listener" error message usually appears when > something is already listening on the port that obfsproxy wants to > bind to (Twisted throws the error.CannotListenError exception). > I managed to avoid the

Re: [tor-relays] New on relays and Tor

2017-11-12 Thread Matt Traudt
used by the relay? > First thing to do would be configure Tor to log to a file and to read that file. You can check it to see if Tor logs any issues, and every 6 hours Tor will log bandwidth usage information. Matt ___ tor-relays mailing

Re: [tor-relays] my IP got blocked

2017-11-14 Thread Matt Traudt
#x27;re being dumb for blocking your IP when it is impossible for abusive traffic to come from your relay. Some webmasters who don't understand Tor do that, but there's not really anything we can do. Best I can suggest is you try talking to them, which isn't a very satisfying suggestio

Re: [tor-relays] git branch to run from?

2017-12-19 Thread Matt Traudt
> a recommended version. > > - Andreas > When I build a release version of Tor from git, I do so from the tags (like "tor-0.3.1.9"). They have the proper version names. Matt ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://

Re: [tor-relays] New Relay

2018-02-16 Thread Matt Traudt
their torrcs. Thank you for running a relay. If you haven't read this blog post yet, you may want to. https://blog.torproject.org/lifecycle-new-relay Matt ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] DoS stats from exits running 0.3.3.2-alpha

2018-02-16 Thread Matt Traudt
On 2/16/18 12:23, nusenu wrote: > I was wondering if these unfriendly tor clients are using tor's default > path selection or something else. > > If they do tor exit relays would have much smaller values in their DoS stats, > right? > > Would any tor exit operator (listed bellow) running 0.3.3.2

Re: [tor-relays] torproject.org outages? (was Re: Tor Relay Setup)

2018-02-24 Thread Matt Traudt
d right now. What little that can be done, is being done. Matt ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] Unmeasured Flag

2018-02-28 Thread Matt Traudt
Things will be back to normal "soon." Matt ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] Experimental DoS mitigation is in tor master

2018-03-11 Thread Matt Traudt
ped > down - so there'S no strong correlation IMO. > > Does there have to be a correlation between the number of Tor users and the relays updating to versions including DoS migitaion? Couldn't the extra abusive users have just gone away, now that they&#

Re: [tor-relays] DoS statistics from EA4366BCDCA6167B8CFF70E41D8CD1EE9968E445

2018-03-15 Thread Matt Traudt
ameserver warns/notices are at all related to the DoS (that now seems to be over). I've seen those on my fast relays for ... ever (the last year). Matt ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] My relay lost concensus

2018-03-23 Thread Matt Traudt
consensus-health.torproject.org/consensus-health-2018-03-23-15-00.html#B33BFA9AA0005730C1C0E8F7E6F53CF3C5716BD6 Matt ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] My relay lost concensus

2018-03-23 Thread Matt Traudt
On 3/23/18 12:55, victor...@riseup.net wrote: > El 23/03/18 a las 12:34, Matt Traudt escribió: >> >> Does your relay do both IPv4 and IPv6? Did your IPv4/6 address change? >> > > Thanks. I haven't realised there is a problem with its IPv6 address, > even if

Re: [tor-relays] Outdated relay versions are they secure to use?

2018-04-03 Thread Matt Traudt
per serious bugs pop up that often. For example, if TROVE-2018-002 as described here[0] is really only capable of crashing a relay, then I wouldn't say your traffic is less secure because you're using a relay on 0.3.2.9 instead of 0.3.2.10. No Tor does not take relays' versions into ac

Re: [tor-relays] Trouble with relay stability

2018-04-16 Thread Matt Traudt
/lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2018-April/014982.html It's hard/impossible to give you an exact time. Please just be patient and don't sweat little things like what flags you have from day-to-day. And thanks for running a relay! Matt _

Re: [tor-relays] Advertised bandwidth

2018-04-23 Thread Matt Traudt
olute fastest relays get anywhere near that[0]. Plus, you're a bridge, and bridges don't see as much use as relays. Thank you for contributing to Tor. Matt [0]: https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#toprelays ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] control who can connect me

2018-04-25 Thread Matt Traudt
; instead of literally "control who can even attempt to log in". I think they are still worth mentioning.) Hope that helps. Matt ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] What's the timeline for a Tor relay to start routing a large amount of traffic?

2018-04-27 Thread Matt Traudt
y also vary wildly in how much they are used. Just look at this[0] relay's 1 year graph. If after a few months you still are using a small part of your available NIC speed, you should consider running a second relay on the same machine. You can run two relays per IPv4 address.

Re: [tor-relays] create Tor-Guard and Tor-Middle

2018-04-29 Thread Matt Traudt
tand out. If you have properly configured MyFamily on your relays, your Tor client may try to prevent you from using multiple relays in the same family on a circuit. Hope that helps. Matt ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org ht

Re: [tor-relays] create Tor-Guard and Tor-Middle

2018-04-29 Thread Matt Traudt
way to do that? > No there is no way to do that. Matt ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] dew questions about Tor-relay

2018-05-03 Thread Matt Traudt
al.html.en > can i set in my "torrc" file what ip i dont want/want to connect me? > This sounds like a duplicate of your question from a few weeks ago. I answered this here[1]. [1]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2018-April/015068.html Matt

Re: [tor-relays] Unable to confirm my ORPort is reachable

2018-05-24 Thread Matt Traudt
formation provided, most likely port 9001 is not forwarded correctly at your router. Matt ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] FYI: Subpoena Received

2018-06-08 Thread Matt Traudt
.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/ReducedExitPolicy > I did too. Perhaps even from the same source...? Not sure if that can be shared so I just won't. My exit isn't in the US, but I am. Matt ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.

Re: [tor-relays] Is Tor-network protected from using one hop?

2018-06-26 Thread Matt Traudt
tigation stuff, relays wouldn't allow themselves to be used as the only hop in a circuit. Apparently this affects onion service circuits too. If you want a single-hop proxy, then you don't want Tor. Matt ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-rel

Re: [tor-relays] Is Tor-network protected from using one hop?

2018-06-26 Thread Matt Traudt
On 6/26/18 10:29, Nagaev Boris wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 5:27 PM, Matt Traudt wrote: >> On 6/26/18 10:16, dave levi wrote: >>> I'm testing few things in Tor and I noticed that if im changing(from the >>> source code) the number of hop's(nodes) to be

Re: [tor-relays] More about single-hop exits (was: tor-relays Digest, Vol 89, Issue 49)

2018-06-26 Thread Matt Traudt
se options were removed in May 2017. Setting them has no effect. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/22060 Matt ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] Question regarding ethical torrent blocking

2018-07-15 Thread Matt Traudt
ic, you already stopped supporting FFS. Personally I'd rather support 99.9% of Tor users (made up percentage) forever than support 100% of Tor users for a limited time. I don't run the default exit policy on all my relays and I don't see anything wrong with my decision. Hope that h

Re: [tor-relays] Updating relay using killall -hup command

2018-07-18 Thread Matt Traudt
r distro actually do it?]) Don't fret about uptime or flags. Updates -- both for Tor and your OS -- are more important. Thanks for running a relay. Matt ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] dir port on non exit

2018-08-02 Thread Matt Traudt
o feel free not to." > > Thanks for running a relay! > --Roger Also, you won't set DirPortFrontPage since you aren't an exit. (This is the only way I could come up with why asking about DirPort in the context of exit vs non-exit made sense) Hope that helps Matt __

Re: [tor-relays] How long before a new relay shows up in Relay Search?

2018-08-17 Thread Matt Traudt
urs. Check Tor's log for errors. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorRelayGuide#Verifythatyourrelayworks If you configured an IPv6 ORPort in addition to the (required) IPv4 one, it must be working or else your relay will be considered down. Matt _

Re: [tor-relays] Cloudflare Onions Beta and Network Stability

2018-08-20 Thread Matt Traudt
The dirauths don't serve onion service descriptors. https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/rend-spec-v2.txt (and -v3) Matt On 08/20/2018 07:38 PM, Nathaniel Suchy wrote: > Except perhaps the directory authorities? > > On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 7:19 PM, Alec Muffett <

Re: [tor-relays] Greypony / Conrad Rockenhaus offline?

2018-10-04 Thread Matt Traudt
On October 4, 2018 4:54:54 PM EDT, Nathaniel Suchy wrote: >We wouldn’t have to make these threads if community members like Isaac >didn’t make threads about a lack of response from one team member. > >We could: >A) Inform everyone >B) Inform a few customers and hope we don’t miss any >C) Ignore th

Re: [tor-relays] freebsd relay doesnt receive any traffic (after 1 month)

2018-10-25 Thread Matt Traudt
don't set any options that it doesn't tell you to set. And don't set options you don't understand. `man tor` can help you understand what you're setting Matt ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] New to Tor Relay, using Rasberry Pi3. Grateful for Help

2018-10-26 Thread Matt Traudt
running a non-exit relay. The logs you shared don't have the lines that I'd expect for any type of relay. Is your torrc located at /etc/tor/torrc? Did you start Tor via systemd like 'sudo systemctl restart tor' or from the command line manually? Hope that helps. Matt ___

Re: [tor-relays] Configuring relay

2018-11-11 Thread Matt Traudt
On 11/11/18 5:40 PM, DeMarcus Sullivan wrote: > I am running the latest version on Tor 8.0.3 on my Windows desktop. I > would like to run a non-exit relay 24/7 and I'm having trouble finding > the step-by-step process to do so. Before I could just copy amd paste > the torrc configuration text in

Re: [tor-relays] Fwd: Throughput of each circuit

2018-12-04 Thread Matt Traudt
ut modifying Tor's source code. > 2-What is the difference between circuit and channel in relays? > I'm looking forward to hearing from you! > thanks! Channels are a thin wrapper around connections (which themselves are a nice wrapper around TCP sockets) in Tor's source cod

Re: [tor-relays] Why are my relays flagged?

2018-12-20 Thread Matt Traudt
Because 0.3.4.9 is out. Sometimes the old version will stop being recommend before the new version is available in various repositories, but that doesn't seem to be the case here. I see 0349 for bionic on deb.tpo apt update, apt upgrade, systemctl restart tor Matt On 12/20/18 6:21 AM, Lan

Re: [tor-relays] How to use a bridge configured with "ORport auto" within Tails?

2018-12-20 Thread Matt Traudt
picks at random (technically, I think it lets the kernel pick and the kernel picks at random, but the outcome is the same). So you need to check Tor's logs on the bridge to see what it picked. Asking Tor over its ControlPort is another option,

Re: [tor-relays] How to use a bridge configured with "ORport auto" within Tails?

2018-12-20 Thread Matt Traudt
On 12/20/18 09:25, Toralf Förster wrote: > On 12/20/18 3:13 PM, Matt Traudt wrote: >> "ORPort auto" means let Tor pick. It picks at random (technically, I >> think it lets the kernel pick and the kernel picks at random, but the >> outcome is the same).

Re: [tor-relays] Leaky-pipe circuit topology

2019-01-18 Thread Matt Traudt
of the pipe. In Tor, you can send traffic into a circuit that isn't just destined to go out the other end. You can send traffic into a circuit that is destined for one of the relays in the middle. Thus not all the traffic makes it to the end of the circuit. Matt On 1/18/19 3:45 AM, mar

Re: [tor-relays] Become a Fallback Directory Mirror

2019-05-21 Thread Matt Traudt
On 5/21/19 10:38, t...@blicky.net wrote: > Hi, > > On 2019-05-21, gus wrote: >> [2] >> https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/tree/src/or/fallback_dirs.inc >> [3] >> https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/tree/scripts/maint/fallback.whitelist > > Both of these 404 for me. Where can I find the refe

[tor-relays] Relay Consensus Low

2019-05-25 Thread Matt Westfall
ow bursts up to 200KB/s (1600Kbps) DirPort 9030 # ExitPolicy reject *:* # no exits allowed ExitPolicy reject6 *:* Any suggestions appreciated. Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. Everything Computers and Networks 804.592.1672 ___ tor-

Re: [tor-relays] Relay Consensus Low

2019-05-30 Thread Matt Westfall
? If I can't access the file system is there any way to get what I need from "somewhere" to retain my fingerprint? Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. Everything Computers and Networks 804.592.1672 http://ecansol.com On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 2:58 AM wrote: &g

Re: [tor-relays] Relay Consensus Low

2019-06-01 Thread Matt Westfall
puu.sh/DA4Sh/6e27417c74.png I tried to run chutney tests to see what hardware supports but haven't quite figured out what the command line I should be using is. Any help with that would be appreciated. Thanks, Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. Everything Computers and

Re: [tor-relays] Relay Consensus Low

2019-06-02 Thread Matt Westfall
ut that's still way more than 9 :-D Guess we'll see what happens. I didn't see if anyone answered if I need a separate IP or if I can create another tor instance on different ports but on the same IP, to increase the load I'm handling. Thanks, Matt Westfall President &

Re: [tor-relays] Onionoo and ASN Number/AS Name

2019-06-02 Thread Matt Westfall
ding- in a whole ASN though, you'll probably just have to wait for it to filter through. Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. Everything Computers and Networks 804.592.1672 -- Original Message -- From: "teor" To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Sent: 6/2/2

Re: [tor-relays] Setting Tor Relay to Hibernate After 100Mbits

2019-06-03 Thread Matt Traudt
h, but mentally we should be adding "per second" for torrc options like RelayBandwidthRate. 100 Megabits per second is a reasonable RBR setting for a reasonable relay. 100 Megabits per month is a useless relay. Hope that helps. Matt ___ tor-rel

Re: [tor-relays] Setting Tor Relay to Hibernate After 100Mbits

2019-06-04 Thread Matt Westfall
the relay bandwidth & burst rates. It will prevent it from using more than 100 Mbps so you won't go over. Thanks, Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. Everything Computers and Networks 804.592.1672 -- Original Message -- From: "Keifer Bl

Re: [tor-relays] exit operators: overall DNS failure rate above 5% - please check your DNS resolver

2019-06-30 Thread Matt Westfall
Just set your exit relay DNS to 8.8.8.8 and 1.1.1.1 I mean dns traffic isn't bulk traffic, let google and CloudFlare do the "work" Thanks, Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. Everything Computers and Networks 804.592.1672 -- Original Message -- From:

Re: [tor-relays] Windows Relay Setup

2019-07-13 Thread Matt Traudt
and don't) use windows, so keep that in mind. https://tor.stackexchange.com/a/16443 Hope this helps, but it probably won't. Matt ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] Unutilized bandwidth

2019-07-14 Thread Matt Westfall
were basically is what it is and I mean we're still helping the network by running a node, Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. Everything Computers and Networks 804.592.1672 -- Original Message -- From: "Alec Larsen" To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Sen

Re: [tor-relays] Unutilized bandwidth

2019-07-30 Thread Matt Westfall
he -stable- flag so it's leaned on more. That doesn't really affect the underlying issue of tor nodes with TONS of bandwidth not being utilized a little more. But I'm happy to donate whatever the tor protocol decides it wants to use :( Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutio

Re: [tor-relays] Measuring the Accuracy of Tor Relays' Advertised Bandwidths

2019-07-30 Thread Matt Westfall
confirm/verify available bandwidth versus just using whatever 'ol configuration value is set. But it's definitely kind of slowed nodes down in general :( Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. Everything Computers and Networks 804.592.1672 -- Original Message -

Re: [tor-relays] Measuring the Accuracy of Tor Relays' Advertised Bandwidths

2019-08-06 Thread Matt Traudt
> You probably want to be scatterplotting a bunch > of different things and durations on metrics.tpo. > > And isolating out path nodes and things from > whichever it is you're trying to measure. > Introducing known inputs. Etc. Thanks for the input. I'm sure our anal

Re: [tor-relays] tor relay ipv6

2019-08-22 Thread Matt Westfall
IPv6 at the OS Side is not difficult whatsoever. My node is running IPv6, I have 2Gbps Comcast Fiber. It's literally no different than configuring IPv4 other than its hexidecimal and a lot more digits :-D Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. Everything Computers and

Re: [tor-relays] tor relay ipv6

2019-08-22 Thread Matt Westfall
141.963 ms 13 2a03:e2c0:bc7::2 (2a03:e2c0:bc7::2) 140.933 ms 141.737 ms 141.245 ms So perhaps your ISP is wonking with tor traffic as suggested. Thanks, Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. Everything Computers and Networks 804.592.1672 -- Original Message --

Re: [tor-relays] tor relay ipv6

2019-08-22 Thread Matt Westfall
ateam:/etc/network# cat interfaces iface eno1 inet6 static address 2001:559:800c:1900::5a02 netmask 126 gateway 2001:559:800c:1900::5a01 dns-nameserver 2620:0:ccc::2 2620:0:ccd::2 Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. Everything Computers and Networks 804.592.1672 -- Origina

Re: [tor-relays] tor relay ipv6

2019-08-22 Thread Matt Westfall
That's why I personally just disable all firewalls and just configure acls in vulnerable services themselves. Don't let mysql listen on anything but local host, server secured lol. -- Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. 804.592.1672 On August 22, 2019 11:46:44

Re: [tor-relays] Low-bandwidth relay

2019-09-04 Thread Matt Traudt
ng a relay. To a some extent, a relay existing is the majority of the contribution and the specific amount of traffic it carries day-to-day is less important. [0]: https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/3DA54600E615E5AF841C03FB81D7321735562B5B [1]: https://consensus-health.torproject.org/

Re: [tor-relays] Operator straw poll: Reasons why you use Tor LTS versions?

2019-09-05 Thread Matt Traudt
y from $PLACE, create a bunch of infrastructure that builds Tor for all supported platforms reliably and efficiently, use a bunch of signatures everywhere so nothing bad can happen, done. So easy a caveman could do it, nothing bad could ever happen, absolutely no downsides, it's $CURRENT_YEAR so why don't we have this, etc. etc. -- Matt ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] ORPort

2019-09-13 Thread Matt Westfall
Is your node behind a routee/firewall? You most likely need to forward ports in your router. -- Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. 804.592.1672 On September 10, 2019 9:46:50 PM EDT, Anonforpeace wrote: >Hello: > >Hope someone can help me. I'm trying to

Re: [tor-relays] Short Research Survey

2019-09-16 Thread Matt Westfall
have to have a stock car. I can't take my tricycle there. ;-) -- Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. 804.592.1672 On September 10, 2019 3:43:58 AM EDT, teor wrote: > >Hi, > >> On 10 Sep 2019, at 14:35, Anon-research >wrote: >> >> Dear

Re: [tor-relays] SSH scanning on TOR Exit - Nerfing Rules

2019-09-16 Thread Matt Corallo
ng these things. Matt On 8/29/19 11:26 PM, AMuse wrote: > Hi all! I'm curious what y'all think of this situation. > > I have SSH open as an exit port on a TOR exit that my friends and I are > maintaining - and of course it's the #1 offender by far in automated > abuse no

Re: [tor-relays] Bridge stats always in multiples of 8

2019-09-23 Thread Matt Traudt
country while still producing useful statistics. This tries to protect users in countries with few Tor/bridge users. Matt ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] FYI - DNS

2019-10-07 Thread Matt Westfall
I also do -not- get an answer @ that DNS but other domains resolve https://puu.sh/Ep4Ws/150c13aef7.png Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. Everything Computers and Networks 804.592.1672 -- Original Message -- From: "Geoff Down" To: tor-relays@lists.torpr

Re: [tor-relays] DDNS with Relays and/or Bridges?

2019-10-20 Thread Matt Palmer
On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 04:57:00PM +, nottryingtobel...@protonmail.com wrote: > Forgive me if this is a dumb or newbie question, but can DDNS be used with > either relays or bridges? No. Bridges and relays are recorded in the directory by IP address, not hostname.

Re: [tor-relays] public open socks port

2019-10-23 Thread Matt Traudt
SSH tunnel if you're going to do this ... -- Matt ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] Issues reaching gigabit relay speeds

2019-10-31 Thread Matt Traudt
ucky here. - It's not ideal to be going full tilt all the time. You want to have some headroom for bursts without causing congestion. Obviously you aren't even close to that yet. Thanks for running Tor relays. Sorry I don't have satisfying answers. Please stick with it and avoid worr

Re: [tor-relays] Backup the Fingerprint

2019-11-04 Thread Matt Traudt
On 11/4/19 4:31 AM, Kolja Sagorski wrote: > Hello, can anyone help me to backup the fingerprint on debian10? > https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#UpgradeOrMove ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torpr

Re: [tor-relays] New operator

2019-11-21 Thread Matt Traudt
bly shouldn't expect constant usage because there aren't many bridge users. If Tor hasn't documented the above prominently on its bridge setup guide, they should. "Why isn't my bridge getting used?" is a FAQ. As outlined above, there's a lot of possible reasons,

Re: [tor-relays] Consensus Weight low when compared to Advertised Bandwidth

2019-12-16 Thread Matt Westfall
Consensus weight is no lo ger based on advertised bandwidth to prevent abuse. It is based on measured and observed actual throughput. -- Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. 804.592.1672 On December 16, 2019 1:30:48 PM EST, Neel Chauhan wrote: >Hi, > >Af

Re: [tor-relays] Consensus Weight low when compared to Advertised Bandwidth

2019-12-16 Thread Matt Westfall
Also you didn't migrate your fingerprint. So it's a new server and will take weeks if not months for the consensus weight to creep up. -- Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. 804.592.1672 On December 16, 2019 1:30:48 PM EST, Neel Chauhan wrote: >Hi, &

Re: [tor-relays] Can anyone help with this issue?

2020-01-06 Thread Matt Traudt
. > N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is > therefore disabled by default. > N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user > configuration details. > $ date > Mon Jan  6 04:32:36 EST 2020 > > I have fixed this before but

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

2020-01-09 Thread Matt Corallo
/bridges, but it seems BBA/BBAv2 would be a worthwhile experiment to see if it improves the browsing experience for non-western tor users. Matt ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

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

2020-01-12 Thread Matt Corallo
Cool! What did your testing rig look like? I suppose the real question is what does the latency/loss profile of the average Tor (bridge) user look like? On 1/10/20 8:18 AM, Roman Mamedov wrote: > On Thu, 9 Jan 2020 00:58:36 -0500 > Matt Corallo wrote: > >> BBA should handle ran

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

2020-01-12 Thread Matt Corallo
s, but it sounds like there’s no good existing work in this domain? Matt > On Jan 10, 2020, at 17:36, Roman Mamedov wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Jan 2020 16:24:56 + > Matt Corallo wrote: > >> Cool! What did your testing rig look like? > > A few years ago I've go

Re: [tor-relays] How do I get the *current* Tor exit node IP address over the control port?

2020-01-27 Thread Matt Traudt
l the connections use one (or more) circuits reserved for this bucket's traffic. If I have https://amazon.com open in tabs 4, 5, and 6, all its state goes into a different single bucket and all the connections use a different circuit(s) for their traffic. So just by browsin

Re: [tor-relays] How do I get the *current* Tor exit node IP address over the control port?

2020-01-28 Thread Matt Traudt
ain (e.g. yet another hobby Tor-powered web crawler or SEO), or by harming its reputation by "ethically" hacking or vulnerability scanning the web. You can email me off-list with actual information about what you're working on if you think it's a good use of Tor a

Re: [tor-relays] Recommended router for 200+ Mb/s relay

2020-04-29 Thread Matt Traudt
Is there evidence that the existing router is a bottleneck? Matt On 4/29/20 11:13, Secure Node wrote: > Hi, > > I'm hosting 150+ Mb/s relay for a while now: > https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/333C874B532B3EA7E1A40980B7656FCAE34E08A9 > > > I'm

Re: [tor-relays] Does OVH cloud support exit relays?

2020-05-11 Thread Matt Palmer
>exit relays? https://community.torproject.org/relay/community-resources/good-bad-isps/ > Do they charge based on how much traffic tor will > generate, or is it a solid $6 per month for their Linux VPS? That is something best answered by OVH

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay occasionally maxing out CPU usage

2020-05-20 Thread Matt Traudt
e subsystem and I'm sure many of my implicit assumptions are wrong. Matt On 5/19/20 11:59, William Kane wrote: > Okay, so your suspicion was just confirmed: > > consdiffmgr_rescan_flavor_(): The most recent ns consensus is > valid-after 2020-05-19T15:00:00. We have diffs to this c

Re: [tor-relays] Authority Nodes

2020-07-06 Thread Matt Westfall
te that it can and should, initiate bandwidth tests and report them back to the actual authorities? Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. Everything Computers and Networks 804.592.1672 http://ecansol.com On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 5:59 AM Roger Dingledine wrote: > On Fri, Jun 19,

Re: [tor-relays] >23% Tor exit relay capacity found to be malicious - call for support for proposal to limit large scale attacks

2020-07-07 Thread Matt Corallo
any hosting providers by limiting percentage of relays in a given ASN may be somewhat limiting. If nothing else, it also captures another useful trait that you don’t want to just bounce your traffic across five hosts in different OVH datacenters from a traffic correlation perspective. Matt >&g

Re: [tor-relays] Guard flag got removed after only 48 hours of downtime.

2020-07-28 Thread Matt Traudt
The Guard flag conditions are https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/dir-spec.txt#n2640 Given you're Fast and Stable, and have a good advertised bandwidth and weight, then I suspect you simply no longer have a Weighted Fractional Uptime that is at least the median for "familiar" relays. T

Re: [tor-relays] What is the command to view the tor log file on Debian?

2020-07-29 Thread Matt Traudt
otice syslog`. I think (but don't know for sure) adding a `Log` line in your torrc would override this, since this appears in the defaults torrc. Matt On 7/29/20 1:09 PM, Keifer Bly wrote: > Hello, > >   > > So I am trying to view the tor log file (for how much traffic was sent,

Re: [tor-relays] Blog: How Malicious Tor Relays are Exploiting Users in 2020 (Part I)

2020-08-14 Thread Matt Corallo
and many sites forget to enroll themselves in the preload list. For reference, the first two "probably kinda try to be secure for their users" sites I tried were not on the list: wellsfargo.com and bankofamerica.com. Matt On 8/13/20 5:19 AM, Michael Gerstacker wrote: https://m

[tor-relays] Collaborative Bad-Abuse-Sender Blocklist

2020-09-28 Thread Matt Corallo
dling replies to their emails they expect others to handle, or does anyone already have such a list? Matt ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] Collaborative Bad-Abuse-Sender Blocklist

2020-09-28 Thread Matt Corallo
Tor exit node operators with similar policies and collaborating on such blocklists would save all of us with similar policies time. Matt On 9/28/20 2:18 PM, Tortilla wrote: On Mon, September 28, 2020 5:04 pm, Matt Corallo wrote: Hi all, I run a few relatively-small exit nodes, and still get a decent

Re: [tor-relays] Reconfiguring a middle relay as a bridge

2020-09-30 Thread Matt Palmer
want others to use Tor. So Tor users affected won't be able to use your bridge anyway. - Matt ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] Collaborative Bad-Abuse-Sender Blocklist

2020-10-19 Thread Matt Corallo
I'll start dropping your emails" policies, I'm happy to figure out a way to grow this, but for now I'll note that probably want to just blackhole anything from autogenera...@blocklist.de :). Matt On 10/11/20 4:28 AM, Tortilla wrote: - snip - Of course, it's important t

Re: [tor-relays] Server lost Stable flag but has more than 60 days uptime

2021-01-22 Thread Matt Traudt
#x27;ve said the above, I expect to be corrected. Lol. Matt On 1/21/21 7:02 AM, raltul...@posteo.org wrote: > Hello list, > > I'm trying to find out why the server > (https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/11DF0017A43AF1F08825CD5D973297F81AB00FF3) > has lost its stabl

Re: [tor-relays] tor relay issue on windows 10

2021-04-08 Thread Matt Traudt
maybe less crazy if it's a bug on Windows systems only. Running little-t tor manually--as a client or even as a relay--is much less common on Windows. The thing to try here is to specify GeoIPFile and GeoIPv6File in the torrc with the paths to the GeoIP files tor ships with (don't try gettin

Re: [tor-relays] tor relay issue on windows 10

2021-04-09 Thread Matt Traudt
, that's a way to get the files. Matt [0]: https://www.torproject.org/download/tor/ ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] Relay Control

2021-04-16 Thread Matt Traudt
ontrolPort/ControlSocket, you can change most options even while the relay is running. These changes are NOT SAVED to the torrc. That's what nyx does. Matt ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] OS Upgrade

2021-04-23 Thread Matt Traudt
On 4/23/21 05:01, kathihil...@gmail.com wrote: >  Ubuntu 20.4 on my Digital Ocean droplet needs to be upgraded. > >  Can the upgrade be done without shutting down the relay. I >  currently have six flags and don't want to loose them. How >  is the upgrade done on a relay that is in operation? Yo

Re: [tor-relays] A report on running a bridge on google cloud

2021-05-03 Thread Matt Traudt
On 4/26/21 1:40 PM, Keifer Bly wrote: > So for a little bit over a week now, I have been running a bridge on > Google Cloud and it has charged less then $5. So, while too expensive > for running relays, it seems to be an ok service for running bridges on. Is $0.085/GB (egress) accurate[0]? Mean

Re: [tor-relays] Cheapest HW to get 20Mbit?

2016-08-28 Thread Matt Traudt
it's possible to launch several Tor > processes, so all cpu x4 cores can be used at same time. > Up to two per IP. Note you need to specify separate data directories for each Tor process. Be kind and specify them all as family members if you run multiple Tor relays :) Matt signat

Re: [tor-relays] Cheapest HW to get 20Mbit?

2016-08-28 Thread Matt Traudt
is paper[1] shows an attack for harvesting onion services. It would have been much easier without the 2-per-IP limit. Matt [1]: http://ieee-security.org/TC/SP2013/papers/4977a080.pdf signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tor-relays mai

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