Re: [tor-relays] running a relay on a home connection

2013-12-19 Thread Luther Blissett
On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 17:35 +0530, abhiram wrote: > > Great! DDNS service looks like a nice way to make this permanent. The > other thing I managed was by enabling upnp in my router, the address > discovery takes place automatically. > > thanks for the suggestions! Though there are choices, I wo

Re: [tor-relays] running a relay on a home connection

2013-12-19 Thread abhiram
On Tuesday 17 December 2013 11:50 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: > On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 11:25:15AM +0530, abhiram wrote: >> I am running a tor relay on a home connection. My connection is >> assigned a new ip as the lease expires every few days. So far I am >> fixing this my editing my torrc file w

Re: [tor-relays] running a relay on a home connection

2013-12-19 Thread abhiram
On Wednesday 18 December 2013 05:20 AM, Mark Jamsek wrote: > On 18/12/2013 9:20 AM, I wrote: >> Could you expand that it little further, please? >> Robert >> >> >>> >>> You may use a dynamic dns resolver such as freedns.afraid.org, dyn.com >>> or noip.com etc, then you can use your full dns name in

Re: [tor-relays] running a relay on a home connection (abhiram)

2013-12-19 Thread Thomas Hand
Dnsdynamic.org is quite nice. Simple and easy, decent update API. Never had a problem in the 2 years I used them. My 2 satoshi... On Dec 18, 2013 1:20 PM, "Oliver Schönefeld" wrote: > hello to everybody, > > as there were some alternatives for dynmic DNS handling mentioned, i'd > like to add the

Re: [tor-relays] running a relay on a home connection (abhiram)

2013-12-18 Thread Oliver Schönefeld
hello to everybody, as there were some alternatives for dynmic DNS handling mentioned, i'd like to add the following: as with most commercial dyndns providers come conditions (paid account, limited number of hosts, and - what annoys me the most - login after x days, etc.) i want to point you to

Re: [tor-relays] running a relay on a home connection

2013-12-17 Thread Mark Jamsek
On 18/12/2013 9:20 AM, I wrote: Could you expand that it little further, please? Robert You may use a dynamic dns resolver such as freedns.afraid.org, dyn.com or noip.com etc, then you can use your full dns name instead of your current IP address. ___

Re: [tor-relays] running a relay on a home connection

2013-12-17 Thread I
Could you expand that it little further, please? Robert > > You may use a dynamic dns resolver such as freedns.afraid.org, dyn.com > or noip.com etc, then you can use your full dns name instead of your > current IP address. FREE 3D EA

Re: [tor-relays] running a relay on a home connection

2013-12-17 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 11:25:15AM +0530, abhiram wrote: > I am running a tor relay on a home connection. My connection is > assigned a new ip as the lease expires every few days. So far I am > fixing this my editing my torrc file with the new address value. Are > there better ways of handing this?

Re: [tor-relays] running a relay on a home connection

2013-12-17 Thread Luther Blissett
On Tue, 2013-12-17 at 11:25 +0530, abhiram wrote: > Hello, > > I am running a tor relay on a home connection. My connection is > assigned a new ip as the lease expires every few days. So far I am > fixing this my editing my torrc file with the new address value. Are > there better ways of handing

Re: [tor-relays] running a relay on a home connection

2013-12-17 Thread Thomas Hand
I don't think you need to specify an external IP in the torrc file. You can just specify 0.0.0.0:9050 for socks and 0.0.0.0:9030 for directory. Tor will identify if you have a dynamic IP and resync with the network automatically each time it changes. Also make sure it is a relay you are running and