Re: [tor-relays] upcoming directory authority changes

2022-12-08 Thread Tim Kuijsten via tor-relays
(2) Rotate to fresh identity keys for moria1, the directory authority that I run. In early November 2022 there was a remote break-in to the computer running moria1. Based on the evidence and the type of attack, I believe it was a standard automated attack -- that is, I think they weren't targeting

Re: [tor-relays] How many threads needed for unbound at a fast relay?

2020-08-24 Thread Tim Niemeyer
Hi Toralf All F3 Netze relays together are using one unbound with 4 CPU Cores. Each consumes about ~20%. It's a Xeon(R) CPU E3-1230 V2 @ 3.30GHz (w/o Hyperthreading). Tim Am Samstag, den 22.08.2020, 09:12 +0200 schrieb Toralf Förster: > I do wonder about a reasonable number. > &g

Re: [tor-relays] Please help us find a working alternative to using MaxMind's GeoLite2 databases

2020-02-12 Thread Tim Niemeyer
et any response. And it looks as they didn't update since then. I will check your list for the 185.220.100.0/22 prefixes and report in the ticket, later. Tim Am 12. Februar 2020 16:05:04 MEZ schrieb Karsten Loesing : >Hi relay operators, > >as you might have heard, MaxMind has ch

Re: [tor-relays] Exit Concentration vs Bulk filters?

2020-01-04 Thread Tim Niemeyer
; to all people and orgs that provide us with exit resources. Besides the resources, these providers handle all the troubles with police and other annoying things and that is the really hard work of an exit relay. We need all exits, whether high or small capacity. Don't we? Tim signature.asc

[tor-relays] Exit Concentration vs Bulk filters? (Was: Tor Organizations Meetup during 36c3 in Leipzig (Germany))

2020-01-03 Thread Tim Niemeyer
s too evil for our cpu capacity. Sure it is nice to help scientist to scan the networks, bus .. realy .. don't they have enough capacities at the universities? Tim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part __

Re: [tor-relays] Very high CPU Load and low Traffic since Sunday

2019-08-20 Thread Tim Niemeyer
Hi Just short: i noticed the high rate of ssh abuse mails. So I started to test to reject (via tor config) the ssh port. Traffic and load now looks a lot better. So it seems to be a brute force attack which slows down the exit due to too much too small packets. Tim PS: @teor: did you forgot

[tor-relays] Very high CPU Load and low Traffic since Sunday

2019-08-18 Thread Tim Niemeyer
l#search/family:719FD0FA327F3CCBCDA0D4EA74C15EA110338942 Kind regards Tim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] 10 Years Torservers.net: Death or Future?

2019-08-05 Thread Tim Niemeyer
Hi We don't need a funding platform. We need someone who * maintains the social contacts * gives interviews * does the tax declaration * ... and so on ... Tim Am Freitag, den 02.08.2019, 08:44 -0700 schrieb Mitar: Hi! Yes, running a non-profit for you is not free (accounting costs, at

Re: [tor-relays] What fraction of Tor’s DNS traffic goes to Google and Cloudflare?

2019-07-14 Thread Tim Niemeyer
) The one reduces it's capacity I, personally, prefer a).. I don't think b) is the way to go because the capacity is needed. Tim > > Although the DNS dependencies are bad too. > > > On 7/11/19 6:31 PM, nusenu wrote: > > > > > > https://medium.com/@nusenu/w

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

2019-07-06 Thread Tim Niemeyer
erf.py b/relay_perf.py index 52b5444..cb54371 100644 --- a/relay_perf.py +++ b/relay_perf.py @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ from twisted.web.client import readBody    def write_json(filestem, data):  now = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y%m%d_%H%M"); -print(data) +#print(data)  jsonStr = json

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

2019-06-30 Thread Tim Niemeyer
ware. But money is a limiting factor. :( Kind regards Tim Am Freitag, den 28.06.2019, 20:16 + schrieb nusenu: > Dear Exit relay operators, > > first of all thanks for running exit relays! > > One of the crucial service that you provide in addition to > forwarding  > TCP

Re: [tor-relays] Bridge Relay Internet Speed Much Slower Than Actual Internet Speed

2018-11-16 Thread Tim Kuijsten
On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 10:13:32AM +1000, teor wrote: On 16 Nov 2018, at 06:22, Keifer Bly wrote: But is it normal for the fast flag to be off and on? Thank you. Yes. Change is normal. Embrace change. Do not worry. this one made me laugh. nice one! :) __

Re: [tor-relays] when do dead "Alleged Family Members" disappear?

2018-11-04 Thread Tim Kuijsten
On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 05:55:02PM +0100, niftybunny wrote: you have removed it from your torrc under MyFamily ? Yes I did in the currently active relay. I don't think I had deleted it from MyFamily of the other relay before I shut it down though. -Tim On 4. Nov 2018, at 17:52

[tor-relays] when do dead "Alleged Family Members" disappear?

2018-11-04 Thread Tim Kuijsten
th now and won't be coming back, I wonder when it stops appearing as an alleged family member on the metrics page? (it is also no longer listed as MyFamily). -Tim [1] 2C76951164C5184A3B8B7CC1914B34E4622B225F [2] https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/B183A69592D2E8C

[tor-relays] log "Is your outbound address the same as your relay address?"

2018-08-30 Thread Tim Kuijsten
orrc as well, but this didn't avoid getting this message once. Kind regards, Tim [0] tosk B183A69592D2E8C8C487C054D0849E3C9561DC11 [1] kali 2C76951164C5184A3B8B7CC1914B34E4622B225F ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org http

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

2018-08-17 Thread Tim Kuijsten
o Results found!" <https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/Chiron420%209C7BB4BCB58AC876D83B67277A0CF3BC73F4FDF6> Is this typical or might there be something awry in my setup? wait at least three hours. https://blog.torproject.org/lifecycle-new-relay -Tim __

Re: [tor-relays] potential relayor Address bug

2018-03-24 Thread Tim Niemeyer
ook and "ip address" output, > so I can try to reproduce? (also off-list) > (if you have more than a single default route/interface also the > routing > table) I added the outputs to the issue. Thanks Tim > thanks, > nusenu > > signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: [tor-relays] Hello new exit operator F3 Netze

2018-03-24 Thread Tim Niemeyer
Hi Nusenu Am Samstag, den 24.03.2018, 13:51 + schrieb nusenu: > Hi Tim, > > > > I saw you recently added 8 new  > > > tor exit instances and wanted to thank you for > > > contributing exit bandwidth to the tor network! > > > > At the moment th

Re: [tor-relays] Hello new exit operator F3 Netze

2018-03-24 Thread Tim Niemeyer
tances on the main IP. So I manipulated the template a bit, so that the 'Address'-config is added to the torrc. I'm currently unsure if it's a bug or if I've a misunderstanding. Still learning.. ;) > thanks for joining the network and happy packet forwarding! Please don&#

Re: [tor-relays] reminder: tor 0.3.1.1-alpha is _not_ recommended (known bug)

2017-05-31 Thread Tim Semeijn
r run master builds after > https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=ab9976b7245f05a97e0285265c4cfcb225bd48e2 > https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/dists/tor-nightly-master-stretch > > stay safe, > nusenu > -- Tim Semei

Re: [tor-relays] Exploiting firmware

2016-12-07 Thread Tim Kuijsten
Op 07-12-16 om 23:50 schreef Alex Haydock: AMD is no escape, as they have an equivalent in the form of their "Platform Security Processor" I believe[1] the Athlon 5370 that AMD released this year is without PSP. Suits small form factors and has good performance for the mere 25 Watt that it us

Re: [tor-relays] "Potentially dangerous relay groups"

2016-09-27 Thread Tim Semeijn
ably should also filter entries where two out of guard_prob, > middle_prob and exit_prob are 0 since that means that (1) is never the > case - iff onionoo is right about these probabilities. > > > > ___ > tor-relays mailing li

Re: [tor-relays] How to find (and test) my obfs4 bridge?

2016-07-27 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
n87 > > Kind regards > Tor-node.net > > ___ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP C855 6CED 5D90

Re: [tor-relays] Bridge Authority closure

2016-07-20 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
tors from the new authority, but as far as I know, bridge descriptor updates aren't essential for clients to continue to use a bridge. (I may be wrong about this.) Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP C855 6CED 5D90 A0C5 29F6 4D43 450C BA7F 968F 094B OTR 8F39BCAC 9C9DDF

Re: [tor-relays] Best bandwidth setup for exit node

2016-07-14 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
they should only go down once per month.) It's also worth noting that the Tor network only uses about 50% of the advertised bandwidth. But this is a good thing, because it helps reduce latency and congestion. https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth.html Tim > > > On Thu, Jul 14

Re: [tor-relays] interesting tor platform string or tor bug?

2016-07-10 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
test-network-all". https://gitweb.torproject.org/chutney.git/ If you do find that it's a programming error in tor, feel free to submit a patch, or a unit test that would catch similar errors in the platform string. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor Tim > > T

Re: [tor-relays] in/out bandwidths and packet sizes

2016-07-09 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
kely a multiple of 512 bytes (from cells) on the way out, but can be any size (from the remove website) on the way in. I don't think it's an issue. Tim > > -- > Toralf > PGP: C4EACDDE 0076E94E, OTR: 420E74C8 30246EE7 > >

Re: [tor-relays] interesting tor platform string or tor bug?

2016-07-07 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 8 Jul 2016, at 09:48, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote: > > >> On 8 Jul 2016, at 09:41, nusenu wrote: >> >> Hi Seongmin, >> >> out of curiosity I was wondering whether your so called tor "platform" >> string ("??B`?\u000

Re: [tor-relays] interesting tor platform string or tor bug?

2016-07-07 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
ys mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP C855 6CED 5D90 A0C5 29F6 4D43 450C BA7F 968F 094B ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6n signature.asc Description: Message

Re: [tor-relays] Darknet Shenanigans [was: suspicious "Relay127001" relays]

2016-07-06 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
rking on it, and it's called "next generation hidden services". Until then, relays get banned for this behaviour. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP C855 6CED 5D90 A0C5 29F6 4D43 450C BA7F 968F 094B ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6

Re: [tor-relays] which DirPort should be advertised ?

2016-07-05 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 5 Jul 2016, at 19:23, Toralf Förster wrote: > > Signed PGP part > On 07/05/2016 04:01 AM, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote: > > In 0.2.8.3-aplha, "clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an > > encrypted begindir connection for directory requ

Re: [tor-relays] which DirPort should be advertised ?

2016-07-04 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
connections are made over the ORPort. This means that in 0.2.8 clients no longer use any DirPort, and relays only use the IPv4 DirPort. IPv6 clients and bridge clients use the IPv6 ORPort. In 0.2.7 and before, clients and relays only use the IPv4 DirPort. IPv6 bridge clients use the IPv6 ORP

Re: [tor-relays] [tor-dev] Usability Improvements for Atlas (was Re: Globe is now retired)

2016-06-29 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
estions for small changes before merging. > > Thanks, > Iain. > > [1]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5430 > [2]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6787 > ___ > tor-dev mailing list > tor-...@lists.t

Re: [tor-relays] Usability Improvements for Atlas (was Re: Globe is now retired)

2016-06-29 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
t; > [1]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5430 > [2]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6787 > ___ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/m

Re: [tor-relays] Bridge torrc custom + socks

2016-06-29 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 29 Jun 2016, at 16:57, Petrusko wrote: > > Thx Tim for validating this torrc configuration, before deploying it. > Ok, I'll remove those 2 lines. (but it can be helpful for Tor network on > fast bridges ?) No, there are only 10 authoritative directories in the

Re: [tor-relays] Bridge torrc custom + socks

2016-06-28 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
e something to add, to remove ?! Another eye is always cool to be sure > ! > > Many thx for your lights :) > > -- > Petrusko > PubKey EBE23AE5 > C0BF 2184 4A77 4A18 90E9 F72C B3CA E665 EBE2 3AE5 > > ___ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.or

Re: [tor-relays] suspicious relays

2016-06-24 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
similar for "involuntary" FTP servers before. Bonnet? Or a honeypot. Or a series of cloned servers. It's hard to tell. But there do seem to be a large number of them, 55 in a recent consensus. And no contact info, either. We might want to remove these relays from the network before th

Re: [tor-relays] Multiple fingerprints for same IP:Port combo

2016-06-22 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
o replicate the same node and re-use the same > keypair in multiple physical locations for the same anycast IP, but I'm > not sure this is a good idea. It would make the keys more vulnerable, and it also interferes with Tor's canonical connection code. (And likely o

Re: [tor-relays] Opt-In Trial: Fallback Directory Mirrors

2016-06-21 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
fallback directory mirror. Is the new address permanent for the next two years? If so, we can add it to the list for consideration in 0.2.9. Tim > > On 2015-12-17 15:07, Nick Mathewson wrote: >> TL;DR: Stable non-exit relays

Re: [tor-relays] Relay Fingerprint Changed After Updates

2016-06-21 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
backup before the updates? Also, since your relay was on the fallback directory list for 0.2.8.4-rc, and its fingerprint has changed, we're going to remove it. Once you've sorted out this issue, let me know, and I'll put it on the whitelist for consideration in 0.2.9. Tim > Th

[tor-relays] Fwd: Enable relay as trusted directory & entry guard

2016-05-26 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
node) by the directory authorities if it has enough stability and bandwidth over time. For more information, please read: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay Your relay is already a directory mirror, because you have configured a DirPort. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) t

Re: [tor-relays] TOR router install without access to root

2016-05-25 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
ust change the tor startup script and torrc. Tim > > Sebastian > > ___ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays Tim Wilson-Brow

Re: [tor-relays] New month, new TOR exit servers, need ELI5 pls

2016-05-22 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
53 is only useful for clients that want to run their own DNS over TCP, or use port 53 for something else. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6n signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail ___

Re: [tor-relays] What's this Abuse

2016-05-20 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
lays-boun...@lists.torproject.org] On Behalf > Of Tim Wilson-Brown - teor > Sent: 20 May 2016 16:49 > To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > Subject: Re: [tor-relays] What's this Abuse > > >> On 20 May 2016, at 11:12, Dr Gerard Bulger wrote: >> >> >> M

Re: [tor-relays] What's this Abuse

2016-05-20 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
don't want our mailing list messages to go against this goal. (Even if the Internet users involved are not using Tor or another IP anonymisation method.) Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6n si

Re: [tor-relays] Cannot Access Tor

2016-05-08 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
Tor users, it's for Tor relay operators. For any more emails on this question, please reply to tor-t...@lists.torproject.org. Have you tried whitelisting the other processes that tor runs, like tor.exe? You might also need to ask Norton how to properly whitelist Tor Browser, rather than askin

Re: [tor-relays] "support team" address?

2016-05-01 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 2 May 2016, at 09:51, eliaz wrote: > >> On 5/1/2016 4:52:12 AM, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor (teor2...@gmail.com) wrote: >>>> On 1 May 2016, at 16:52, eliaz wrote: >>> =20 >>> =20 >>>> On 4/30/2016 7:33:26 PM, Moritz Bartl (mor...@tors

Re: [tor-relays] "support team" address?

2016-05-01 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
;catch all" than tor-relays. > [snip] > > I neglected to mention that tor crashes upon restart when I'm running my > bridge. Restarting in client mode works fine. So should I send the > details to tor-talk or tor-relays? Please log a bug at https://trac.torproject.org

Re: [tor-relays] Search warrant and house search because of an exit in DE

2016-04-30 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
he proxy service access to all your Exit's traffic. > > Gerry > > ___ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays Tim Wilson-Brown (

Re: [tor-relays] Announcing a shutdown of a relay

2016-04-28 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
orities. Relays which aren't running are excluded from the consensus. Clients don't choose them any more. Atlas shows a historical view of relays that have been down. Look in the "Current Status" column to see if the relay is running. Tim > > > > Le 28/04/2016 1

Re: [tor-relays] Announcing a shutdown of a relay

2016-04-28 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
ts will stop using it when they find it's down, or within 5 hours. Tim > > > -Original Message- > From: tor-relays [mailto:tor-relays-boun...@lists.torproject.org] On Behalf > Of Tim Wilson-Brown - teor > Sent: 28 April 2016 10:30 > To: tor-relays@lists.torprojec

Re: [tor-relays] Announcing a shutdown of a relay

2016-04-28 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
t 30 seconds) for clients to choose a new guard. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6n signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relay

Re: [tor-relays] does it make sense to close unused ports at a tor relay with iptables ?

2016-04-28 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 28 Apr 2016, at 19:18, Toralf Förster wrote: > > Signed PGP part > On 04/28/2016 11:14 AM, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote: > > Ports in, or ports out? > Ports in I meant, sry. > > > Closing inbound ports is a security precaution > The question is - if the

Re: [tor-relays] does it make sense to close unused ports at a tor relay with iptables ?

2016-04-28 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
er Tor relays can choose any port for their ORPort and DirPort. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6n signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail ___ tor-relays mailin

Re: [tor-relays] MaxMemInQueues is set to 256 MB

2016-04-27 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
sses. Using swap for Tor may slow things down more. > If in case I cant use the whole 100Mbit/s - what would be the minimum > requirement in memory I would need as the CPU is just working on a 20 > percent level? We typically recommend 512MB, but your experience may vary depending on your

Re: [tor-relays] IPv6 bridges (without IPv4 ORPort but IPv4 connectivity)

2016-04-24 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
v4 address may be blocked in some jurisdictions, but not others. So it still could be useful for some users. And the bridge's IPv6 address is far less likely to be blocked, so it will be useful by itself. Please also note that you can have a maximum of 2 relays per IPv4 address (or a relay

Re: [tor-relays] I am failing with newbie stuff :((((

2016-04-20 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
r destination. Does tor start as a client? If so, it's likely that you failed to copy the torrc file. Does tor fail to start? If so, it helps to let us know the warning messages it prints out. Perhaps the files were corrupted on the way, or something else happened. Tim Tim Wilson-Bro

Re: [tor-relays] [tor-dev] prop224: HSDir caches question with OOM

2016-04-18 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
disk DoS risk here, particularly for relays with smaller disks. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6n signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail ___ tor-relays maili

Re: [tor-relays] Reading check.torproject

2016-04-17 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
settings on your bridge. It's normal for tor to change exits occasionally. Do you know which exit your tor client was actually using during that time? If so, report it to bad-rel...@lists.torproject.org Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B ricochet:ekmygaiu

Re: [tor-relays] Opt-In Trial: Fallback Directory Mirrors

2016-04-15 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
elay will be considered as a fallback when we next rebuild the list. Thanks Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6n signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail ___ tor-

Re: [tor-relays] Opt-In Trial: Fallback Directory Mirrors

2016-04-15 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
0.2.8-rc, your relay was excluded as a fallback because the key had changed. Will you be keeping the new key for the next 2 years? If so, I'll update the fallback list with the new key, and your relay will be considered as a fallback when we next rebuild the list. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (te

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Relays Support of tor-relays Digest, Vol 63, Issue 20

2016-04-10 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
bout entry, middle and exit relays as well as layers of encryption, but I > need more realistic explaination how all of these operate in a practice. > Thank you! What have you read so far? Have you read: "Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router"? http://www.onion-router.net/Pub

Re: [tor-relays] Private Tor Research Network

2016-04-08 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
figure the user and permissions correctly? Tor also has more specific requirements for security reasons, this protects the keys from other users on the system. It's hard to give more advice without more specific details. If this advice doesn't help, please copy and paste the configurat

Re: [tor-relays] No Daily Digest Anymore

2016-04-07 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
emails sent to you bounce? Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6n signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torpr

Re: [tor-relays] Relays with broken DirPorts

2016-04-01 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 2 Apr 2016, at 10:44, tor-cont...@posteo.de wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm the operator of one of the mentioned relays (81.7.14.227). Thanks, > Tim, for pointing this issue out to me. I'll try to help with this as > much as I can. > > So far, I have not be

Re: [tor-relays] Relays with very slow DirPorts

2016-03-30 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
Dear Relay Operators, Please see below for an updated list of slow relay DirPorts. > On 31 Mar 2016, at 11:13, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote: > > While I was checking fallback directory mirrors for #17158, I encountered > some relays that took more than a minute to serve a con

Re: [tor-relays] Relays with broken DirPorts

2016-03-30 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 31 Mar 2016, at 11:42, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote: > > >> On 31 Mar 2016, at 11:23, Michael McConville > <mailto:mm...@mykolab.com>> wrote: >> >> You'll probably get through to more people if you include nicknames with >> IP addres

Re: [tor-relays] Relays with broken DirPorts

2016-03-30 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
would do that for me, I'm a little snowed under at the moment. Tim > > Thanks for this, > Mike > > Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote: >> Dear Relay Operators, >> >> Also while working on #17158, I found some relays whose DirPort responses >> made my py

[tor-relays] Relays with broken DirPorts

2016-03-30 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
mp / Wireshark check, but I don't have time at the moment. Would anyone like to follow this up? This is an incomplete list of broken relay IPs and DirPorts, starting with those with the highest consensus weight: 217.23.14.190:1194 151.80.164.147:80 148.251.255.92:80 78.142.19.59:80 Thanks T

[tor-relays] Relays with very slow DirPorts

2016-03-30 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
highest consensus weight: 217.198.117.122:80 212.47.250.44:80 158.69.112.86:80 50.7.178.34:80 191.101.251.172:80 51.254.249.177:80 188.165.232.40:80 104.236.38.231:8080 89.163.225.184:9030 185.31.230.69:9030 81.7.14.227:9030 62.210.238.33:9030 164.132.56.137:9030 212.107.149.145:9030 94.23.165

Re: [tor-relays] Running 5000 relays...

2016-03-21 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 22 Mar 2016, at 08:14, Toralf Förster wrote: > > Signed PGP part > Tim Wilson-Brown - teor: > > * if the AccountingRule is not "in". > Ah, > AccountingRule in > was meant. I did not set that config option in the past due to the impact of

Re: [tor-relays] Running 5000 relays...

2016-03-21 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 22 Mar 2016, at 04:22, Toralf Förster wrote: > > Signed PGP part > Tim Wilson-Brown - teor: > > In 0.2.8, every relay is potentially a hidden service directory and > > a directory mirror. > But with this configuration : > > # 20 TB/month: echo "20

Re: [tor-relays] Running 5000 relays...

2016-03-21 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
led. Relays use the DirPort directly, but they typically use the authorities for directory documents. (Some obscure relay configurations will use the fallback directory mirrors.) Tim > > > > Am Sonntag, 20. März 2016 02:54 schrieb Tim Wilson-Brown - teor > : >

Re: [tor-relays] Exitmap module to count CloudFlare CAPTCHAs

2016-03-20 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
cy is not winning proposition. I meant "a website using CloudFlare that has the "Block" option selected for Tor". Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B teor at blah dot im OTR CAD08081 9755866D 89E2A06F E3558B7F B5A9D14F signature

Re: [tor-relays] Exitmap module to count CloudFlare CAPTCHAs

2016-03-20 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
s show CloudFlare's "JavaScript Challenge" [1] ? http://www.zdziarski.com <http://www.zdziarski.com/> (yes, only HTTP, ugh) uses their JavaScript challenge. And their "Totally Block Tor" [1] option? (only available to enterprise (paying?) customers) I don't know of a C

Re: [tor-relays] Running 5000 relays...

2016-03-19 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
s a DirPort or not). This used be controlled by the HidServDirV2 option, but that's now obsolete. See ticket 16543 and commit 2f8cf524b. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B teor at blah dot im OTR CAD08081 9755866D 89E2A06F E3558B7F B5A9D14F signature.asc D

Re: [tor-relays] please send me your hosters

2016-03-19 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
t;> not really add anything new to that site. >> >> It'a always a good idea to ask. > > I don't think it is worth the effort for non-exits. Since that should not > botter the hoster at all. Some hosters are bothered by (or do not support) high numbers of connection

Re: [tor-relays] What IPs does Torbrowser need?

2016-03-19 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
resolution is performed by the Exit. So technically, there are no DNS packets until the Exit queries its DNS servers for the server name provided by the client. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B teor at blah dot im OTR CAD08081 9755866D 89E2A06F E3558B7F B5A9D1

Re: [tor-relays] Ticket #18489

2016-03-08 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
recover from the Valencia meeting, > I expect this one will be easy to resolve. I am still in an airport, and I believe others are still on post-dev-meeting leave. Give us a week or so to look into it. We should be able to get a fix in the next alpha. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor23

Re: [tor-relays] relay maintenance without losing consensus weight?

2016-03-08 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 9 Mar 2016, at 05:26, Michael McConville wrote: > > Zwiebel wrote: >> Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote: >>>> Zwiebel wrote: >>>> is there a way to shut down Tor relays for a short time without >>>> losing consensus weight or band

Re: [tor-relays] Hibernation Expectations

2016-03-08 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
d reasons to run a fast relay. If you're very close to your bandwidth cutoff, why not decrease it slightly, and run all the time? Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B teor at blah dot im OTR CAD08081 9755866D 89E2A06F E3558B7F B5A9D14F signature.as

Re: [tor-relays] relay maintenance without losing consensus weight?

2016-03-08 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
ut Tor won't let me. Networks need extra capacity - it increases average speeds, and absorbs sudden usage spikes. Consider starting a second tor instance on other ports to use the extra capacity on your server. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B teor at blah

Re: [tor-relays] Network Bandwidth Fine Tuning

2016-03-02 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
circuit are on different /16s. (But it's still good to set MyFamily so it's clear which relays are controlled by the same person.) Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B teor at blah dot im OTR CAD08081 9755866D 89E2A06F E3558B7F B5A9D14F signature.asc De

Re: [tor-relays] What do the huge providers have to do within tor circuits?

2016-02-29 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
-how is huge. And > their ability to draw information from any sort of internet traffic is > unparalleled. Please check your torrc and your entry in globe to make sure you're a non-exit relay. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B teor at blah dot

Re: [tor-relays] tor-relays Digest, Vol 61, Issue 41

2016-02-28 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
nd connections to stay under about 3/4 of the memory you have. Try 1GB. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B teor at blah dot im OTR CAD08081 9755866D 89E2A06F E3558B7F B5A9D14F signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail _

Re: [tor-relays] biggest guard operator apparently left the tor network

2016-02-28 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
osen, and try new guards if all previously chosen guards are down. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B teor at blah dot im OTR CAD08081 9755866D 89E2A06F E3558B7F B5A9D14F signature.asc Description: Message signed with Open

Re: [tor-relays] Network Bandwidth Fine Tuning

2016-02-28 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
cated 2TB > of bandwidth per month from my VPS What processor is on your VPS? How fast is it? Does it have AES-NI? Is your OpenSSL compiled optimised for your processor and for the encryption that Tor uses? How much RAM does your VPS have? Have you read the torservers.net Tor tuning advic

Re: [tor-relays] Notices.Log Message

2016-02-27 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
ad (or create) the permanent master identity key. > Feb 26 10:04:02.000 [notice] Your Tor server's identity key "It's the first time I started a version of tor that supports ed25519 keys, and I don't have an ed25519 key yet." > > fingerprint is 'stealth A29

Re: [tor-relays] Feedback

2016-02-26 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
ers find that new address? (For some users, the bridge authority might tell them when provided with the bridge's fingerprint, but only if their other bridges work.) > (Of course they could > still simply block the whole /16 or whatever your ISP has) Typically only the IP and port are b

Re: [tor-relays] Feedback

2016-02-25 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
e middle of a circuit, and for rendezvous points for short-lived hidden service circuits. So it's not disruptive or useless. (It might slow down a few clients who try your relay for the few hours each day it takes to find its new IP address.) Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2

Re: [tor-relays] Stable Flag Question

2016-02-25 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
t for 0.2.6.) Give it time, and enough authorities should believe your relay is stable. Perhaps you could consider upgrading it from 0.2.4? Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B teor at blah dot im OTR CAD08081 9755866D 8

Re: [tor-relays] Mexico ISP blocking authority nodes and preventing exit relays.

2016-02-18 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 18 Feb 2016, at 22:16, Mirimir wrote: > > On 02/18/2016 03:47 AM, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote: >> >>> On 18 Feb 2016, at 14:40, Ricardo Malagon Jerez wrote: >>> >>> I don't know how and why, but since January is impossible to have an exit

Re: [tor-relays] Mexico ISP blocking authority nodes and preventing exit relays.

2016-02-18 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
. Relays need to be able to post their descriptors to the authorities. So they have to be able to reach at least one authority - they can't use only fallback directory mirrors. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B teor at blah dot im OTR CAD08081 9755866D

Re: [tor-relays] TOR service wont start with ORPort enabled

2016-02-14 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 15 Feb 2016, at 00:10, Volker Mink wrote: > > I think I found something. > >>> could not bind to 0.0.0.0:9001: address already in use > > Where can i set the binding? Is your old Tor process still running? Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail

Re: [tor-relays] TOR service wont start with ORPort enabled

2016-02-14 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
torrc-file enabled. > Port 9001 is forwarded at my router and the Pi is also in the DMZ. Can you please send us the Tor log messages? They usually say why Tor won't start. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B teor at blah dot im OTR CAD08081 9755866D 89E2A06F

Re: [tor-relays] Should Onionoo consider relays with the same ip# to be part of the same family?

2016-02-05 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> -V > > On Friday, 5 February 2016, Karsten Loesing <mailto:kars...@torproject.org>> wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> [Removing metrics-team@ to avoid cross posting.] >> >> On 28/01/16 21:22, Tim Wilson-Brow

Re: [tor-relays] Nameservers fail and come back at the same time?

2016-01-31 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
gt; resolv.conf? > You likely need to send a HUP to tor to get it to re-read your DNS configuration. Maybe Google DNS is not reliable from your location, so you could put another name server first? Or perhaps investigate resolving your VPS DNS manually, then using their IP addresses as well?

Re: [tor-relays] Nameservers fail and come back at the same time?

2016-01-31 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
DNS requests. A drawback is that your VPS company then sees your DNS requests and your traffic, but they could do this anyway.) Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B teor at blah dot im OTR CAD08081 9755866D 89E2A06F E3558B7F B5A9D14F signature.asc Description: M

Re: [tor-relays] Nameservers fail and come back at the same time?

2016-01-31 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
vers? Typically, by editing /etc/resolv.conf. But some platforms automatically generate it using the files in /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/ It should be fairly straightforward, if not, search the Internet for a HOWTO for your platform. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com P

Re: [tor-relays] Should Onionoo consider relays with the same ip# to be part of the same family?

2016-01-28 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 29 Jan 2016, at 07:20, Roman Mamedov wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 06:33:51 +1100 > Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote: > >> Tor already considers relays in the same IPv4 /16 to be in the same family. > > Maybe a step further in this would be to autoextend manual

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