As some of you might have noticed the tor network recently
lost a noticeable number of relays and bridges as seen in the
metrics.tpo relay graphs (0.7% cw fraction).
https://metrics.torproject.org/networksize.html
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DwGAESoXgAEoB6L.jpg
this occurred when these relays upg
nusenu wrote:
> As some of you might have noticed the tor network recently
> lost a noticeable number of relays and bridges as seen in the
> metrics.tpo relay graphs (0.7% cw fraction).
>
> https://metrics.torproject.org/networksize.html
> https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DwGAESoXgAEoB6L.jpg
>
> this
> this occurred when these relays upgraded from tor 0.3.3.10 to 0.3.4.9
> (package maintainer update)
>
> All these relays were behind NAT devices and they relied on a tor
> feature that got removed between these two versions:
>
>> o Removed features:
>> - The PortForwarding and PortForward
On 1/12/19 9:07 AM, nusenu wrote:
> I guess I somehow expected that: the maintainer patched tor 0.3.4.10 to added
> this
> feature again and here we go again with the flood of relays using that
> version of tor:
>
> 79 relays from 2019-01-11:
Assuming those relays get a weight of 20 (or zero?)
> Assuming those relays get a weight of 20 (or zero?) I do wonder if
> there's a metrics graph (option) showing the number of relays having
> a significant weight?
their consensus weight is non-zero (they make up ~0.3% of the tor network
capacity)
https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/sn
I was intrigued by the high number of consumer IP's that these relay are
supposed to be running on while seemingly automated updating the relay
version. The nickname made me look into Ubuntu Snaps as a possible tor
distribution which led me to this snap:
https://snapcraft.io/tor-middle-relay.
On 1/12/19 11:08 AM, Argo2 wrote:
> It was last updated the 9th of January and when you download the stable
> snap it is actually named 'snap269'.
Just FWIW this is incremented to snap270:
https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/93156A27C9B035C488678E98FE4156F7B593872F
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Argo2:
> I was intrigued by the high number of consumer IP's that these relay
> are supposed to be running on while seemingly automated updating the
> relay version. The nickname made me look into Ubuntu Snaps as a
> possible tor distribution which led me to this snap:
> https://snapcraft.io/tor-mi
Toralf Förster:
> Just FWIW this is incremented to snap270:
the number in the relay nickname is just the $SNAP_REVISION
https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~privacy-squad/+junk/tor-middle-relay-snap/revision/87#daemon
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