Re: [tor-relays] Fast Exit Node Operators - ISP in US

2014-11-29 Thread Toralf Förster
On 11/28/2014 11:40 PM, I wrote: How many instances could this run? Intel E3-1240 Dedicated Server Special Server Location: Buffalo USA Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1240 V2 3.40 GHz HDD: 500GB 7200RPM RAM: 16GB DDR3 Bandwidth: 10TB Monthly Traffic IP: /29 Port Speed: 1Gbit fully

Re: [tor-relays] Fast Exit Node Operators - ISP in US

2014-11-28 Thread I
How many instances could this run? Intel E3-1240 Dedicated Server Special Server Location: Buffalo USA Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1240 V2 3.40 GHz HDD: 500GB 7200RPM RAM: 16GB DDR3 Bandwidth: 10TB Monthly Traffic IP: /29 Port Speed: 1Gbit Price: $119/Month Sale Price: $59/month Robert

Re: [tor-relays] Fast Exit Node Operators - ISP in US

2014-11-28 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
10TB/month is 30Mbit/s. You will have reached those 10TBs long before coming close to maxing out a single CPU core. I'd estimate that a single E3-1240 CPU core can deliver between 150Mbit/s and 250Mbit/s. The specs on that server are fine, it's just not a lot of bandwidth. Tom I schreef op

Re: [tor-relays] Fast Exit Node Operators - ISP in US

2014-11-27 Thread Libertas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 11/25/2014 02:29 PM, Syrup-tan wrote: The colocation isn’t cheap to say the least, and it only gives 5TB/month unless we want to pay more per month; This may the largest logistical problem I've encountered when looking for dedicated

Re: [tor-relays] Fast Exit Node Operators - ISP in US

2014-11-27 Thread Syrup-tan
Turns out the colocation costs $672/year for the network, and another $780/year for power, so I don’t think Voxility is very feasible for an exit node without bargaining with them. If anyone knows of a good way of finding high-bandwidth budget dedicated servers (a search term or a list of

Re: [tor-relays] Fast Exit Node Operators - ISP in US

2014-11-27 Thread jason
Someone may wish to look into Rokubear, I remember them being mentioned as Tor Exit friendly a few years back. -Jason On 11/28/2014 01:54 AM, Syrup-tan wrote: Turns out the colocation costs $672/year for the network, and another $780/year for power, so I don’t think Voxility is very feasible

Re: [tor-relays] Fast Exit Node Operators - ISP in US

2014-11-27 Thread jason
sorry was https://www.rokabear.com/ not roku -Jason On 11/28/2014 01:56 AM, ja...@icetor.is wrote: Someone may wish to look into Rokubear, I remember them being mentioned as Tor Exit friendly a few years back. -Jason On 11/28/2014 01:54 AM, Syrup-tan wrote: Turns out the colocation costs

Re: [tor-relays] Fast Exit Node Operators - ISP in US

2014-11-27 Thread Niklas Kielblock
On 28/11/2014 02:54, Syrup-tan wrote: Turns out the colocation costs $672/year for the network, and another $780/year for power, so I don’t think Voxility is very feasible for an exit node without bargaining with them. This isn't all that expensive for colo; it's just not on the bargain end

Re: [tor-relays] Fast Exit Node Operators - ISP in US

2014-11-27 Thread Niklas Kielblock
They don't seem to be offering a lot of servers right now... https://clients.rokabear.com/cart.php?gid=3 niklas On 28/11/2014 02:56, ja...@icetor.is wrote: Someone may wish to look into Rokubear, I remember them being mentioned as Tor Exit friendly a few years back. -Jason On 11/28/2014 01:54

Re: [tor-relays] Fast Exit Node Operators - ISP in US

2014-11-27 Thread Steve Snyder
On Thursday, November 27, 2014 8:39pm, Libertas liber...@mykolab.com said: [snip] If anyone knows of a good way of finding high-bandwidth budget dedicated servers (a search term or a list of providers, for example), please share. I expected there to be more of a market for this kind of thing

Re: [tor-relays] Fast Exit Node Operators - ISP in US

2014-11-24 Thread Mirimir
On 11/24/2014 03:06 AM, s7r wrote: If the only limit is consumed monthly traffic, and not the bandwidth your relays consumes daily (e.g. you use your VPS only for Tor) it is not recommended to use RelayBandwidthRate. Better use AccountingMax, and your relay will work at full speed until it

Re: [tor-relays] Fast Exit Node Operators - ISP in US

2014-11-24 Thread s7r
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/24/2014 7:32 PM, Mirimir wrote: On 11/24/2014 03:06 AM, s7r wrote: If the only limit is consumed monthly traffic, and not the bandwidth your relays consumes daily (e.g. you use your VPS only for Tor) it is not recommended to use

Re: [tor-relays] Fast Exit Node Operators - ISP in US

2014-11-23 Thread Seth
On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 22:42:15 -0800, Mirimir miri...@riseup.net wrote: How much throughput do you get with your VPS, 1000 GB/mo or 2000 GB/mo? The 1000 GB/mo applies to whichever value is greater, input or output. So far the Tor node is pushing less than 1.5GB per day. Takes a while for

Re: [tor-relays] Fast Exit Node Operators - ISP in US

2014-11-23 Thread Seth
On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 19:13:17 -0800, ZEROF secur...@netmajstor.com wrote: I saw some info just yesterday, but it's not in actual server configuration. Can you provide some good resource for setting dnscrypt-proxy? And no logging DNS's is good to protect end users A caveat: You should probably

Re: [tor-relays] Fast Exit Node Operators - ISP in US

2014-11-23 Thread ZEROF
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I'm not using opendns. OpenNic and OpenDNS are not same thing. On 23 November 2014 at 23:59, Seth wrote: On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 19:13:17 -0800, ZEROF wrote: I saw some info just yesterday, but it's not in actual server configuration. Can you

Re: [tor-relays] Fast Exit Node Operators - ISP in US

2014-11-23 Thread Seth
On Sun, 23 Nov 2014 16:53:03 -0800, ZEROF secur...@netmajstor.com wrote: I'm not using opendns. OpenNic and OpenDNS are not same thing. I'm aware of the distinction. What I was trying to point out for the benefit of people just getting started with dnscrypt-proxy, is that by default it

Re: [tor-relays] Fast Exit Node Operators - ISP in US

2014-11-23 Thread usprey
http://blog.censurfridns.dk/en Pretty sure this is no fon. On 24 November 2014 at 02:18, Seth l...@sysfu.com wrote: On Sun, 23 Nov 2014 16:53:03 -0800, ZEROF secur...@netmajstor.com wrote: I'm not using opendns. OpenNic and OpenDNS are not same thing. I'm aware of the distinction. What

Re: [tor-relays] Fast Exit Node Operators - ISP in US

2014-11-23 Thread Mirimir
On 11/23/2014 11:05 AM, s7r wrote: That is, because in almost all cases, providers allow unmetered incoming traffic to your server but keep count and accounting on outgoing traffic from your server, which is why the torrc setting acts the way it does. That would be great! I'll confirm with

Re: [tor-relays] Fast Exit Node Operators - ISP in US

2014-11-22 Thread I
I would happily chip in to a node like that. One thing, though, about USA is their fickleness when shown a legal letter. I increased VPSs to more than ten paid a year in advance with GreenValueHost because they were so helpful they even reinstalled Tor and sorted some Linux problems for me. Then

Re: [tor-relays] Fast Exit Node Operators - ISP in US

2014-11-22 Thread Seth
On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 16:35:18 -0800, I beatthebasta...@inbox.com wrote: So USA can be fast and cheap but beware when they agree Tor is acceptable because there are poor trade practices laws to get refunds and rights. FWIW I spun up a Tor exit node on VULTR. I pro-actively informed them I

Re: [tor-relays] Fast Exit Node Operators - ISP in US

2014-11-22 Thread s7r
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just checked them now, that is great if they will allow you to run Tor exit nodes on such cheap virtual machines. 5$ for 1000GB is a good deal for US traffic, and bitcoin accepted is an important pro. But I am concerned if they will sustain Tor exits

Re: [tor-relays] Fast Exit Node Operators - ISP in US

2014-11-22 Thread Mirimir
On 11/22/2014 05:56 PM, Seth wrote: On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 16:35:18 -0800, I beatthebasta...@inbox.com wrote: So USA can be fast and cheap but beware when they agree Tor is acceptable because there are poor trade practices laws to get refunds and rights. FWIW I spun up a Tor exit node on

Re: [tor-relays] Fast Exit Node Operators - ISP in US

2014-11-22 Thread ZEROF
If you are looking for good solution, I'm testing right now http://roundabove.com, running one exit node with exit rules provided from https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/ReducedExitPolicy. Tor's uptime is 11 days 12:00 hours, with 194 circuits open. I've sent 182.16 GB and received

Re: [tor-relays] Fast Exit Node Operators - ISP in US

2014-11-22 Thread Seth
On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 18:46:18 -0800, ZEROF secur...@netmajstor.com wrote: I use servernames without logging from this this list http://wiki.opennicproject.org/Tier2 (France). Great resource of logless DNS servers, I'm a big fan of OpenNIC. Have you bothered to encrypt DNS traffic by setting

Re: [tor-relays] Fast Exit Node Operators - ISP in US

2014-11-22 Thread teor
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 17:58:37 -0800 From: Seth l...@sysfu.com ... I should have also mentioned in my previous post I put the following in /etc/tor/torrc # Bandwidth and data caps AccountingStart day 19:45 # calculate once a day at 7:45pm AccountingMax 33 GBytes # 33GB X 30 days =

Re: [tor-relays] Fast Exit Node Operators - ISP in US

2014-11-22 Thread Mirimir
On 11/22/2014 06:58 PM, Seth wrote: SNIP I should have also mentioned in my previous post I put the following in /etc/tor/torrc # Bandwidth and data caps AccountingStart day 19:45 # calculate once a day at 7:45pm AccountingMax 33 GBytes # 33GB X 30 days = 10GB shy of 1000GB/mo.

[tor-relays] Fast Exit Node Operators - ISP in US

2014-11-21 Thread SiNA Rabbani
Dear Relay Operators, I noticed there are very few US based exit nodes in the network. And more and more people are jumping on the same set of AS numbers in Europe. I am not if the reason is lack of Tor friendly ISPs or people are just too freaked out about the summer of Snowden. I think it's

Re: [tor-relays] Fast Exit Node Operators - ISP in US

2014-11-21 Thread Moritz Bartl
Hi SiNA, On 11/22/2014 01:08 AM, SiNA Rabbani wrote: Dear Relay Operators, I noticed there are very few US based exit nodes in the network. And more and more people are jumping on the same set of AS numbers in Europe. [...] Thank you, SiNA. A reminder to relay operators: Diversity is