Re: [tor-relays] relay got suspended

2020-10-26 Thread ylms
Hello Paul, On 10/25/20 9:15 PM, Paul Geurts wrote: has any of you see this behauvior? I think there is no use in putting a Right, there is no point in doing that. Usually such DDoS last a few hours max. relay behind a ddos filter, or is there? In that case I'll just spin up another one.

Re: [tor-relays] SSH

2020-09-22 Thread ylms
Hello again, if you setup Fail2ban or similar, please make sure it does not send out abuse emails, Fail2ban-Spam or similar is alot of work for Tor Exit operators. Regards yl On 9/21/20 11:19 AM, Андрей Гвоздев wrote: > Hello > I'm running a TOR relay, every time I SSH to my server I see a

Re: [tor-relays] SSH

2020-09-21 Thread ylms
On 9/21/20 11:19 AM, Андрей Гвоздев wrote: > I'm running a TOR relay, every time I SSH to my server I see a message > that there were thousands of failed login attempts > Do you see this message too? I think this is quite normal, for any server, if you do not run any service that blocks IPs

Re: [tor-relays] Exit stops after one year, then again after few days

2020-05-11 Thread ylms
Hello Roger On 5/1/20 12:15 AM, Roger Dingledine wrote: > My first question would be whether the relay has an IPv6 ORPort, because > maybe that address became unreachable. Thanks for this question. This was it it seems. Still I can't see any problem and am not able to find the reason, but this

Re: [tor-relays] Help with torrc for Bridge

2020-04-17 Thread ylms
Hello Marco On 4/17/20 11:32 AM, li...@for-privacy.net wrote: > On 17.04.2020 11:05, i forget: >> On 17.04.2020 10:03, ylms wrote: >>> ORPort 443 >> + ORPort [YOUR:V6:IP]:443 So I should use ORPort twice, once for IPv4 and once for IPv6? What is the optio

[tor-relays] Help with torrc for Bridge

2020-04-17 Thread ylms
Hello all I just set up a bridge and want to make sure I didn't forget anything. //the torrc I use Nickname FancyNick ContactInfo see https://example.com/torcontact/ ControlPort 9051 ORPort 443 SocksPort 0 BridgeRelay 1 ServerTransportPlugin obfs4 exec /usr/bin/obfs4proxy

Re: [tor-relays] Exit stops after one year, then again after few days

2020-04-08 Thread ylms
Hello Roger On 4/8/20 10:53 AM, Roger Dingledine wrote: > Notice-level logs are a fine default. They should include everything > that's important for you to hear about, but also they try hard not to > include sensitive information. > > See this item from the old faq, which didn't get migrated to

Re: [tor-relays] Exit stops after one year, then again after few days

2020-04-08 Thread ylms
Hello Teor On 4/7/20 11:24 PM, teor wrote: > Hi, > >> On 7 Apr 2020, at 21:34, ylms wrote: >> >> As written above, I run an Exit (for many years, with the current setup >> since 04.2019) but on 30. March 2020 it stopped, I was unable to >> determine any reas

Re: [tor-relays] Exit stops after one year, then again after few days

2020-04-07 Thread ylms
t 4 MB/sec, not very much. Regards yl On 4/7/20 12:37 PM, ylms wrote: > Hello all > As written above, I run an Exit (for many years, with the current setup > since 04.2019) but on 30. March 2020 it stopped, I was unable to > determine any reason. > So I installed updates and sin

[tor-relays] Exit stops after one year, then again after few days

2020-04-07 Thread ylms
Hello all As written above, I run an Exit (for many years, with the current setup since 04.2019) but on 30. March 2020 it stopped, I was unable to determine any reason. So I installed updates and since there were some Kernel updates I also rebooted the machine. The Exit was back up and ran again

Re: [tor-relays] Bridge on Raspberry Pi Zero

2020-02-12 Thread ylms
On 2/12/20 5:28 AM, skarz wrote: > 70 Mbps isn’t fast enough for Tor? I'd say it is not fast enough for Tor, we did some tests with a Raspberry Pi4 lately, these can utilize close to 100 MBit/s. You could just try it, the Debian repository should provide the correct version for the processor

Re: [tor-relays] %include in torrc

2020-01-09 Thread ylms
>> >> >> Am 7. Januar 2020 19:12:46 MEZ schrieb "Toralf Förster" >> : >>> >>> On 1/7/20 6:36 PM, ylms wrote: >>>> >>>> Is arm supposed to complain about the line with the %include as "The >>>

[tor-relays] %include in torrc

2020-01-07 Thread ylms
Hello Is arm supposed to complain about the line with the %include as "The torrc differs from what tor's using. You can issue a sighup to reload the torrc values". It also complains, that the ExitPolicy, which is now in an %include file, is missing. So that seems to be bogus. Tor 0.4.2.5 in

Re: [tor-relays] Hardware specs for a high-bandwidth Tor exit?

2019-11-06 Thread ylms
Hello Christian, please also report back with the information you found out. I am also pretty interested, running Tor Exits for various German NGOs this really is a topic I am interested in. Currently the fastests Exit I operate in Germany is "only" doing a little more than 30MiB/s I think. But

[tor-relays] public open socks port

2019-10-23 Thread ylms
Hello all, I am wondering if there is any reason why one should not open the socks port of Tor to the public internet? I mean I run a Tor exit or relay, so why should I not open the port and give it to people that can't install Tor on some devices? Thanks for your thoughts. yl

Re: [tor-relays] these ~790 tor relays will be removed from the network unless they upgrade

2019-10-04 Thread ylms
Hello nusenu, On 10/4/19 12:43 PM, nusenu wrote: > yes, operators with usable contactInfo get contacted directly by Roger > himself. so manually copied email addresses like this "tor AT ip-eend dot nl" and then emails send, not automatic to only valid addresses? Right? Regards yl

Re: [tor-relays] Some newbie questions

2019-10-04 Thread ylms
Hello skarz, On 10/3/19 3:17 AM, skarz wrote: > What is the proper way to stop/start/restart a relay? I’ve ‘corrupted’ a few > relays during this process, for example a relay had a new fingerprint after > restarting the machine. Actually my biggest problems thus far are all based > around Tor

Re: [tor-relays] these ~790 tor relays will be removed from the network unless they upgrade

2019-10-04 Thread ylms
Hello did anyone contact the relay operators by the given email addresses? I someone would do this it would be nice, otherwise I will do this later this weekend. I would just forward this email here to let them know about that information and ask them to subscribe to the list as well. If someone

Re: [tor-relays] Relay C19B33758B3A5144894233EC4C95D7985B9FD101

2019-04-08 Thread ylms
On 4/5/19 10:58 AM, ylms wrote: > "[WARN] Error binding network socket: Address already in use [991 > duplicates hidden]" > > I did use a search engine, but am not sure what too look for further. > Also let me know if I should not worry at all. > > 991

Re: [tor-relays] Relay C19B33758B3A5144894233EC4C95D7985B9FD101

2019-04-08 Thread ylms
On 4/5/19 6:16 PM, li...@for-privacy.net wrote: > Hint for ylms: Socks 0 + reject in the torrc config. > > SocksPort 0 > SocksPolicy reject * I think the latter is not needed because I did set "SocksPort 0" now, then reloaded the config and got this: 09:06:52 [NOT

Re: [tor-relays] Relay C19B33758B3A5144894233EC4C95D7985B9FD101

2019-04-08 Thread ylms
On 4/5/19 5:31 PM, li...@for-privacy.net wrote: > Am 05.04.2019 10:58, schrieb ylms: > >> can someone point me at some information about this warning? >> >> "[WARN] Error binding network socket: Address already in use  [991 >> duplicates hidden]" >

Re: [tor-relays] Relay C19B33758B3A5144894233EC4C95D7985B9FD101

2019-04-08 Thread ylms
On 4/5/19 12:36 PM, torg...@linux-hus.dk wrote: > hi, the adress is in use check what is running on your system and check > also the ports sudo lsof -i -P -n | grep LISTEN does not show any ports used twice for the same address. yl ___ tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] Relay C19B33758B3A5144894233EC4C95D7985B9FD101

2019-04-05 Thread ylms
Hello again, can someone point me at some information about this warning? "[WARN] Error binding network socket: Address already in use [991 duplicates hidden]" I did use a search engine, but am not sure what too look for further. Also let me know if I should not worry at all. 991 warnings are

Re: [tor-relays] Another Slow Relay

2019-04-04 Thread ylms
Hello Ben, On 4/4/19 12:59 PM, Ben Riley wrote: > So based on a connection of about 97Mb, which means I can usually peak out > my download speeds at 11Mb/sec. Are those speeds above ok? I don't want to > drown my connection, but happy to give it a couple of meg :) just a short note from me, teor

Re: [tor-relays] Spamcop question

2019-04-04 Thread ylms
r to block their ip in the email. Not sure what my provider does with that reply, but I never hear back from any people. Thanks again for the help. Regards yl Replies, just for reference: 1. On 4/2/19 11:24 PM, Ralph Seichter wrote:> * ylms: > >> smtp:>>smtp.e

[tor-relays] Spamcop question

2019-04-02 Thread ylms
Hello fellow Tor-Exit operators, today I got the following Abuse message: //Start [ SpamCop V5.0.0 ] This message is brief for your comfort. Please use links below for details. Email from 5.199.130.188 / Tue, 19 Mar 2019 12:20:30 + https://www.spamcop.net/w3m?i=.(removed)

Re: [tor-relays] Relay C19B33758B3A5144894233EC4C95D7985B9FD101

2019-03-12 Thread ylms
On 3/11/19 11:54 PM, teor wrote: > We would like to make tor more helpful, and make it guess IPv6. > But we're not there yet. > > Until then, people have to learn the details of tor's config For relays on dynamic ADSL lines it would be helpful to provide the static host part of an /56 or /64

Re: [tor-relays] Please help, my relay is unresponsive

2019-03-11 Thread ylms
Hello digitalist, On 3/11/19 9:40 PM, digitalist00 wrote: > I had a lot of errors due to a lack of diskspace. Obvisly the logs had filled > it up, so I commented the lines in the torrc that deal with logs. you may need to check in /var/log how much space the files there take up, also install

Re: [tor-relays] Please help, my relay is unresponsive

2019-03-11 Thread ylms
Hello digistalist, On 3/9/19 8:14 PM, digitalist00 wrote: > Dear helpers! > Nyx says that my relay is unresponsive and that it was resumed. As I > write this mail I have already 334 duplicates hidden. > What's my problem and how can I solve this? > The relay runs on a Raspberry Pi and is

Re: [tor-relays] Please help, my relay is unresponsive

2019-03-11 Thread ylms
On 3/11/19 12:22 AM, teor wrote: > Have you tried reading tor's logs directly? > (It looks like you are reading them through nyx.) > > Tor's logs should be at /var/log/tor/log , or a similar path. In Raspian logs are sent to system journal, so "sudo journalctl -f -u tor.service" will show the

Re: [tor-relays] Please help, my relay is unresponsive

2019-03-11 Thread ylms
On 3/9/19 11:49 PM, digitalist00 wrote: > OK: chown hat's gebracht. Try to add the user you use to start nyx to the group tor runs with. If you run a Debian based system it is "sudo usermod -a -G debian-tor your_user_name" to add "your_user_name" to the group "debian-tor". That should help

Re: [tor-relays] Relay C19B33758B3A5144894233EC4C95D7985B9FD101

2019-03-11 Thread ylms
Hello teor, On 3/9/19 5:07 AM, teor wrote: > ORPort [IPv6]:Port > > For example: > > ORPort [2001:db8::1]:9001 > > Tor doesn't guess IPv6 addresses yet. That was very helpful to find my stupid mistake. thanks. yl ___ tor-relays mailing list

Re: [tor-relays] Relay C19B33758B3A5144894233EC4C95D7985B9FD101

2019-03-11 Thread ylms
Hello Roger, thanks for you reply. On 3/9/19 4:08 AM, Roger Dingledine wrote: > On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 03:52:48PM +0100, ylms wrote: >> Hello, >> I just setup a new exit, I know it takes time to "train", but I would be >> interested in tips on how to tweak it

[tor-relays] Relay C19B33758B3A5144894233EC4C95D7985B9FD101

2019-03-08 Thread ylms
Hello, I just setup a new exit, I know it takes time to "train", but I would be interested in tips on how to tweak it. I just replaces a old exit that used the same IP, but unfortunately we lost that config/key. So any tips are welcome in general. I also have some questions. Atlas does not show