Re: [tor-relays] new ansible-tor features: automatic instance configuration + automatic MyFamily generation (PATCH)

2015-02-17 Thread Raynardine
On 02/17/2015 04:01 PM, Moritz Bartl wrote: My algorithm. Hm. This all sucks because Tor still doesn't scale across multiple cores. There should be more affordable dedicated host service providers that provide professionally overclocked servers. Liquid nitrogen isn't that expensive to generate,

Re: [tor-relays] new ansible-tor features: automatic instance configuration + automatic MyFamily generation (PATCH)

2015-02-17 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:00:02PM +0100, Moritz Bartl wrote: We still lack the gamification Relay Challenge website that Virgil was talking about. It would just sum up all relays of a family, and then it really does not matter any more. If anybody (ok, it has to be the right people, not quite

Re: [tor-relays] new ansible-tor features: automatic instance configuration + automatic MyFamily generation (PATCH)

2015-02-17 Thread Nusenu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, For reference, this thread started here [2]. Arzhel and Moritz, could you comment on whether you prefer to manually create/specify tor instances (via 'proc_instances') as you do here [1], or whether you would make use of an instance auto

Re: [tor-relays] new ansible-tor features: automatic instance configuration + automatic MyFamily generation (PATCH)

2015-02-17 Thread Nusenu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Bug: Due to the fact that MyFamily is not written to the torrc in the first round, torrc files will always change which results in tor processes being reloaded unnecessarily often - which is not what we want. - --list-fingerprint is probably the

Re: [tor-relays] new ansible-tor features: automatic instance configuration + automatic MyFamily generation (PATCH)

2015-02-17 Thread Nusenu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Bug: Due to the fact that MyFamily is not written to the torrc in the first round, torrc files will always change which results in tor processes being reloaded unnecessarily often - which is not what we want. --list-fingerprint is

Re: [tor-relays] new ansible-tor features: automatic instance configuration + automatic MyFamily generation (PATCH)

2015-02-17 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 02/17/2015 06:29 PM, Nusenu wrote: Arzhel and Moritz, could you comment on whether you prefer to manually create/specify tor instances (via 'proc_instances') as you do here [1], or whether you would make use of an instance auto configuration (two instances per IP - see example here [2])?

Re: [tor-relays] new ansible-tor features: automatic instance configuration + automatic MyFamily generation (PATCH)

2015-02-17 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 02/17/2015 08:15 PM, David Stainton wrote: I didn't mean to imply that Moritz or any torservers.net people are using my Ansible role... I have no idea how they maintain their tor relays... The sad story is in a draft email to tor-relays. We barely maintain anything these days. This hasn't

[tor-relays] new ansible-tor features: automatic instance configuration + automatic MyFamily generation (PATCH)

2015-02-16 Thread Nusenu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi David, thanks for creating ansible-tor. I added two features that are crucial to me and maybe useful for others as well. If you like it, feel free to merge - this is my first ansible experience and it is lightly tested. Example: lets say you

Re: [tor-relays] new ansible-tor features: automatic instance configuration + automatic MyFamily generation (PATCH)

2015-02-16 Thread David Stainton
Hi Nusenu, Thanks for the patch. You've added quite a bit more features than 2. Would you mind telling me which 2 features are critical for your use-case and why? Can you share your ansible-tor playbook? Perhaps a redacted copy if you have sensitive information in it... I'd like for this ansible

Re: [tor-relays] new ansible-tor features: automatic instance configuration + automatic MyFamily generation (PATCH)

2015-02-16 Thread David Stainton
responding inline Would you mind telling me which 2 features are critical for your use-case and why? - - automatic instance deployment (and all the dependencies that comes with that, like ORListenAddress - without it tor0 would block tor2 from starting since they are binding on the same

Re: [tor-relays] new ansible-tor features: automatic instance configuration + automatic MyFamily generation (PATCH)

2015-02-16 Thread Nusenu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi David, thanks for your quick feedback. Would you mind telling me which 2 features are critical for your use-case and why? - - automatic instance deployment (and all the dependencies that comes with that, like ORListenAddress - without it