Re: [tor-relays] Bridge Distribution Mechanism none

2022-04-19 Thread 55578 via tor-relays
Probably because obfs4 is not installed or not running properly. Check your logs for obfs4 errors, and for Apparmor error messages as well. On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 09:07, Ross Camm wrote: > I have been up and running with my Tor Bridge for a number of months now, yet > Tor Metrics r

Re: [tor-relays] Will pay but need someone

2022-05-17 Thread GANDI24325_TOR via tor-relays
swifi4 in Spain. I don't have the time to maintain or upgrade. I'm willing to keep on paying for the hosting but wonder if someone wishes to take over the account and build a new server and upgrade. PaulSent from my Huawei phone_______ tor-relays mailing list tor-

[tor-relays] Tor exit Spain

2022-05-17 Thread potlatch via tor-relays
operate out of Seattle Washington and have good communications with the Tor office here. I am retired electrical engineer with time to help Tor and Electronic Frontier Foundation. Hope you find a good operator for your primo relay. I can be contacted directly at potla...@proton.me Stay safe always

[tor-relays] (No Subject)

2022-05-12 Thread allforprivacy via tor-relays
Good evening, I'd like to ask: How would one go about encouraging an organization (such as a college, university or library), that they are affiliated with to some extent, to operate a Tor Exit Relay? I currently operate a Non-Exit relay at home, but I would like to also see if me and some

Re: [tor-relays] [Event] Relay Operators Meetup - May 21, 2022 @ 1900 UTC

2022-05-23 Thread roelquerimi via tor-relays
When will the next meetup be? Is it online? Sent with ProtonMail secure email. --- Original Message --- On Saturday, May 21st, 2022 at 6:29 PM, gus wrote: > Hello! > > The Tor Relay Operator is happening today in ~30 minutes! > > Here is our agenda: > > * Announ

[tor-relays] Question about new log messages after 0.4.7.7 upgrade

2022-05-27 Thread wardz via tor-relays
Been getting these syslog messages occasionally *after* the 0.4.7.7 upgrade on my bridge: -- May 26 21:00:58 torbridge Tor[ ]: Unexpected path length 4 for exit circuit 66 5, purpose 5 [3 similar message(s) suppressed in last 5400 seconds] May 26 16:26:17 torbridge kernel: [ ] TCP: eth0: Driver

Re: [tor-relays] Sanity check on NumCPUs

2022-05-30 Thread dlugasny via tor-relays
umCPUs 2" still the recommended maximum? > Running on a quad core and recently saw a message indicating I had > insufficient CPU power to support the desired number of connections... > > Thanks, > > Kevin > > ___________ &

[tor-relays] Introduction

2022-05-18 Thread roelquerimi via tor-relays
Hello the Tor relay operators. Nice to meet you. I'm Roel Querimi, I operate 9 exit relays: 0B1120660999AD1022D08664BE1AD08A77F55E50, 05757E11F488C50E3425F5F7E9319411B4270365, 5D2871217ABD67C2569C49919B46F3DFC6281D63, 983548730C7F3F52170BF2195C85D1423C33253B

[tor-relays] Bridges and Hs_vanguards

2022-07-12 Thread dmz21 via tor-relays
in nyx recently, which are not familiar to me. Under-utilization of my bridge is not a problem to me, but maybe someone can tell me whether the two are related? Maybe it's an issue at my end or my hoster or maybe a generic issue of the tor network currently? Or maybe it's all normal? Thanks

[tor-relays] EOL after changing operatin system

2022-06-03 Thread Fred via tor-relays
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[tor-relays] Error 403 connecting to Sysadmin 101 Workshop

2022-06-07 Thread Eldalië via tor-relays
BLOCK- pgp3voX5MoX1P.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

[tor-relays] bridge issue

2022-06-07 Thread potlatch via tor-relays
Hello, I have a bridge [1] that doesn't have any keys in /var/lib/tor/keys! How is that possible and how do I fix the problem? potlatch [1] FB45183DD82D572CA2B2641C1AB0EB0D8CE7B858 Sent with [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/) secure email.___ tor

Re: [tor-relays] EXPKEYSIG when running 'apt update'

2022-06-15 Thread wurstsemmel--- via tor-relays
://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89.asc | gpg --dearmor | tee /usr/share/keyrings/tor-archive-keyring.gpg >/dev/null I thought that the package deb.torproject.org-keyring should keep the signing key up-to-date, however the package was installed and is the new

Re: [tor-relays] From [tor-announce] Tor stable release 0.4.7.8 - Security Fix

2022-06-20 Thread Spydar007 via tor-relays
wrote: > > > We have released tor 0.4.7.8 earlier today, a new stable version for > > the 0.4.7.x series containing an important High severity security > > fix. The affected tor are only those of the 0.4.7.x series as in from > > tor-0.4.7.1-alpha to tor-0.4.7.7. > > Jun

Re: [tor-relays] Error 403 connecting to Sysadmin 101 Workshop

2022-06-07 Thread Eldalië via tor-relays
:56:43 +0300, Raya Sharbain wrote: >Hello hello! > >So the workshop happened on Saturday at 2000 UTC, the BBB room wasn’t >live yesterday. Sorry about that! Hopefully there’ll be another one >soon :-) > >Cheers, > >Raya > >> On 4 Jun 2022, at 22:16, Eldalië vi

[tor-relays] Relay Overloaded and Dropping Onionskins

2022-07-20 Thread bidulock_ringrose--- via tor-relays
It's 2x Xeon 2628v3s with NUMA enabled in the VM (2 sockets, 2 cores per socket). Enabling NUMA and de-virtualizing the CPU has helped increase my top bandwidth by around .7 to .9 mbytes/s, but still not great. Thank you in advance. ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

[tor-relays] Tor bridges limit

2022-07-24 Thread Me via tor-relays
not clear on whether the bridges are recognized by the tor network in the same manner as Middle relays and whether the two unit limit applies to the total of devices connected. Thank you in advance for any guidance and always remember They are watching

Re: [tor-relays] relay memory leak?

2022-07-27 Thread Fran via tor-relays
e abnormal and, often couple with other things, creates these resource pressure on relays that we rarely experience and so our team needs to investigate a needle in a haystack when it happens. I cut the BW nearly in halv but tor is still complaining a lot: "Your computer is too slow to h

Re: [tor-relays] GPG Signatures

2022-07-27 Thread Admin via tor-relays
Hi there, I have seen a couple of emails from Tor Project with the signature.asc file attached. I was wondering how I would go ahead and recreate this for myself. Any help would be great, Kind regards, Leon The content of this email is confidential and intended for the recipient

Re: [tor-relays] Relay Throttling

2022-05-06 Thread MiranDaniel via tor-relays
Hey, check your torrc, there is a RelayBandwidthRate setting (to limit speed) and also an AccountingMax setting to limit max traffic per month. -- MiranDaniel "-- Původní zpráva -- Od: sysmanager7 via tor-relays Datum: 06.05.2022 14:16:35 Předmět: [tor-relays] Relay Throt

[tor-relays] Relay Throttling

2022-05-06 Thread sysmanager7 via tor-relays
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Re: [tor-relays] Relay Throttling

2022-05-06 Thread GANDI24325_TOR via tor-relays
)RelayBandwidthBurst 6 MB # But allow bursts up to 6MB/s (48Mbps) AccountingMax 1TBAccountingStart month 1 12:00 Hopefully this helps Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com/) secure email. --- Original Message --- On Friday, May 6th, 2022 at 10:49, sysmanager7 via tor-relays wrote

Re: [tor-relays] Strange entries in notices.log

2022-08-23 Thread Eldalië via tor-relays
On Mon, 22 Aug 2022 21:49:13 +, toritdown via tor-relays wrote: > I am suddenly finding numerous entries in my /var/log/tor/notices log > that look like this: > > Aug 22 01:21:46.000 [warn] Unable to store router descriptor > Aug 22 01:21:46.000 [warn] Error writing to

[tor-relays] Warn:

2022-08-25 Thread sysmanager7 via tor-relays
een up four days. As of this writing just over 2 hours. Or is this another way to muck up a relay? Sysmanager Sent with [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/) secure email.___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.

[tor-relays] Overload

2022-08-29 Thread sysmanager7 via tor-relays
ing a more restricted exit policy. Any Ideas?? What is the syntax for MaxAdvertisedBandwidth? Currently is: MaxAdvertisedBandwidth 3Mb Sysmanager Sent with [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/) secure email.___ tor-relays mailing list tor-rel

Re: [tor-relays] Closing relay

2022-08-29 Thread Operator via tor-relays
On Sun, 28 Aug 2022 13:46:00 +0200 Ole Rydahl via tor-relays wrote: > Since 2014 I have run a non-exit relay at my premises. However ultimo > July the system load increased abruptly. Idle-cpu -typically 60-70% - > dropped to 30%, _and_ with frequent drops to 0! > > I reduced th

[tor-relays] One of my relays does not get a "consensus weight" value and is not in the list.

2022-08-30 Thread Elias via tor-relays
erprint of Infinity2 is 9F459D4756AA61D7ED05D000EA4C757FA19AC401. Thank you everyone for taking the time to think about this for a moment and have a great day to you all! Best ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] One of my relays does not get a "consensus weight" value and is not in the list.

2022-08-31 Thread Elias via tor-relays
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Re: [tor-relays] We need much more bridges with obfs4 and iat-mode set to 1 or 2..barely can't find any.

2022-08-24 Thread Fran via tor-relays
the protocol. In hindsight, it was >probably >a mistake to expose the iat option to users and bridge operators. > >Cheers, >Philipp https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2021-February/019370.html On 8/24/22 09:50, John Csuti via tor-relays wrote: I can dedicate

[tor-relays] Strange entries in notices.log

2022-08-23 Thread toritdown via tor-relays
I am suddenly finding numerous entries in my /var/log/tor/notices log that look like this: Aug 22 01:21:46.000 [warn] Unable to store router descriptor Aug 22 01:21:46.000 [warn] Error writing to "/var/lib/tor/cached-descriptors.new": No space left on device What does this mean? What

[tor-relays] bridge down

2022-10-17 Thread Anonforpeace via tor-relays
Hello: My Tor Bridge has been down for awhile as I was moving to a new home. I have been trying to bring it up again and have been receiving the messages you see below. I have checked the the tor project status and see that there is a Ddos attack affecting the network. Is that why I am getting

[tor-relays] MetricsPort: tor_relay_connections_total type confusion

2022-10-28 Thread nat--- via tor-relays
Hello David, again, thanks for your work on adding more metrics to tor's MetricsPort! Many relay operators will love this and documentation will be useful [1]. I reported https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/issues/40699 which got closed yesterday, but there was likely a misunderstanding

Re: [tor-relays] MetricsPort: tor_relay_connections_total type confusion

2022-10-28 Thread nat--- via tor-relays
one for gauges. thanks for working on this! best regards, nat [1] https://prometheus.io/docs/practices/naming/ ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] bridge down

2022-10-19 Thread Anonforpeace via tor-relays
=52636 DPT=50871 WINDOW=1024 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Oct 18 19:06:28 darkhoodie-HP-Compaq-Pro-6300-SFF Tor[73719]: Your server has not managed to confirm reachability for its ORPort(s) at x.x.x.x:443. Relays do not publish descriptors until their ORPort and DirPort are reachable. Please check your

[tor-relays] bridge distribution

2022-09-26 Thread potlatch via tor-relays
People, I have a bridge [0] with a bridge distribution mechanism of "non". It's been that way since May 2022. What gives? Should I remove it from the network as unless> potlatch Sent with [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/) secure email._________

[tor-relays] bridge distribution

2022-09-26 Thread potlatch via tor-relays
[0] FB45183DD82D572CA2B2641C1AB0EB0D8CE7B858 Sent with [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/) secure email.___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

[tor-relays] Consensus weight tanking

2022-10-06 Thread Me via tor-relays
Good day, Not sure if this would be the proper avenue to pursue this. I operate a couple of middle relays from my home server. All seemed well until this morning. Three days ago one was promoted to guard status while the other lags behind. This morning I check the Tor metrics page

[tor-relays] 'nudging' is a crime - 1B98468097E7F3FF102926423DF44315E414CBCF: down

2022-10-10 Thread Fred via tor-relays
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[tor-relays] Refuse Guard flag

2022-08-02 Thread Eldalië via tor-relays
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Re: [tor-relays] cannot keep my bridge up

2022-12-25 Thread Anonforpeace via tor-relays
you sent. It looks > like apparmor didn't want obfs4proxy to open some file. > I'm not sure why obfs4proxy would care about this file, maybe it's > something the go runtime likes to look at. It does not look fatal > though. > > Logs also says > > > Dec 20 09:15:27

Re: [tor-relays] cannot keep my bridge up

2022-12-22 Thread Anonforpeace via tor-relays
I'm not sure I understand. Are you showing me more lines of code to add? Sent from Proton Mail mobile Original Message On Dec 21, 2022, 5:18 AM, Toralf Förster wrote: > On 12/20/22 15:27, Anonforpeace via tor-relays wrote: > Dec 20 08:55:16 > mxh-HP-Compaq-Pro-6300-S

[tor-relays] I think I'm available 24/7

2023-01-09 Thread fastliftednloud via tor-relays
working on a relay install only to waste my time. Thanks for any useful info and while I'm here, sup people? I'm the new guy.___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] cannot keep my bridge up

2023-01-09 Thread Overthefalls via tor-relays
as safe/legit. On Sat, 2022-12-24 at 18:19 +, Anonforpeace via tor-relays wrote: > Thank you for this. Is there any way around this? This didn't used to > be problem. > _______ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.

Re: [tor-relays] IPv6 Tor authority is down?

2023-01-09 Thread shruub via tor-relays
Alright, good to know, thanks for your reply. -- Best, shruub ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

[tor-relays] IPv6 Tor authority is down?

2023-01-09 Thread shruub via tor-relays
I now wonder if I can simply ignore that and enable IPv6, or if this isn't recommended (and probably also what I could do in this case). Thanks a lot. -- Best, shruub _______ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

[tor-relays] Netcraft spam

2023-01-09 Thread jvoisin via tor-relays
told them we're hosting tor nodes, and that there is little we can do to prevent morons from abusing the network and using our relays for bad things™, but the netcraft spam keeps coming, annoying everyone. Is this something other operators have seen too or are we alone? If so, is there anything

Re: [tor-relays] Netcraft spam

2023-01-09 Thread tor-opera...@urdn.com.ua
jvoisin via tor-relays wrote: > Is this something other operators have seen too or are we alone? You're not alone, they're desperately trying to advertise themselves and you shouldn't give them any form of importance by replying to them. In fact, they will probably discard your re

Re: [tor-relays] (Save the date) Tor Relay Operators Meetup - 2023-01-28 @ 19UTC

2023-01-11 Thread theintern via tor-relays
Cant see it without enabling javascript and I'd rather not On January 11, 2023 4:50:18 PM UTC, gus wrote: >Dear relay operators, > >Save the date: our next Tor relay operator meetup will happen on January 28 at >19:00 UTC! > >We're drafting the agenda here: > - pad: https:/

[tor-relays] Setting a relay as an HSDirectory?

2022-12-18 Thread code9n via tor-relays
le. 6 ## 7 ## HiddenServicePort x y:z says to redirect requests on port x to the 8 ## address y:z. 9 10 #HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/hidden_service/ 11 #HiddenServicePort 80 127.0.0.1:80 12 13 #HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/other_hidden_service/ 14 #HiddenServicePort 80 127.0.0.1:8015 #HiddenServicePort 22 12

[tor-relays] New relay questions

2022-12-15 Thread code9n via tor-relays
email address as my first contact then my GPG fingerprint as a second contact but the fingerprint is displayed not the email. Now I have it all on one line with the email address first. Which brings me to my main question; when I run systemctl restart tor@default shouldn’t the new settings

[tor-relays] cannot keep my bridge up

2022-12-20 Thread Anonforpeace via tor-relays
Hello: I hope you can help me. I'm having trouble keeping my bridge up. Ports are forwarded. Running latest version of Tor. I had it running for at least roughly 7 to 10 days and then it went down and keeping it up is trouble. I even setup dynamic dns on my router using no-ip.com to see

Re: [tor-relays] PSA: Tor 0.4.5 reaches end of life (EOL) on 2023-02-15

2023-01-24 Thread Tortilla via tor-relays
Asked this before, but no one answered, so I'll try adding on this thread. What are the Tor signing keys? What key is being used here: https://dist.torproject.org/tor-0.4.7.13.tar.gz.sha256sum.asc On Mon, January 23, 2023 3:59 pm, Georg Koppen wrote: > Hello! > > In case it af

Re: [tor-relays] PSA: Tor 0.4.5 reaches end of life (EOL) on 2023-02-15

2023-01-24 Thread Petrarca via tor-relays
I'm running a relay on Debian (flavor) - all software is up-to-date and the tor version installed is 4.5.16. So I think it's up the Debian admins to update tor on their repositories (?); that way at least the Debian relays would get a proper update I assume. --- Original Message

Re: [tor-relays] PSA: Tor 0.4.5 reaches end of life (EOL) on 2023-02-15

2023-01-24 Thread Eldalië via tor-relays
On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 08:41:39AM +, Petrarca via tor-relays wrote: > I'm running a relay on Debian (flavor) - all software is up-to-date and the > tor version installed is 4.5.16. So I think it's up the Debian admins to > update tor on their repositories (?); that way at least t

[tor-relays] bridge going down

2023-01-22 Thread Anonforpeace via tor-relays
Hello: I have recently built a Tor Bridge (nickname is h4ck3rspace) and when it first went up, it was up to about two weeks and then it went down. So I brought it up again and ever since, it routinely goes down every 1 to 3 nights, between 8p and 10p EST. I've never seen this type of behavior

Re: [tor-relays] PSA: Tor 0.4.5 reaches end of life (EOL) on 2023-02-15

2023-01-24 Thread Petrarca via tor-relays
My CPU architecture is 'armhf' (hardware is Raspberry pi). So the post referenced below starts with pointing out that this setup is not supported. So any other way on how to upgrade easily on a new version of Tor ? --- Original Message --- trinity pointard schrieb am Dienstag, 24

Re: [tor-relays] security update for obfs4proxy

2022-11-03 Thread wurstsemmel--- via tor-relays
t the moment I have no possibility to update obfs4proxy, unless I switch to Debian 11. One of my two hosters is only offering Debian 10 "buster", so even this would not help. I have read the discussion on [3] and would be very happy to see obfs4proxy for Ubuntu and Fedora (if the folks a

[tor-relays] Tor Relay on Gandi.net

2022-11-04 Thread protectmyonion via tor-relays
mailto:tor-relays@lists.torproject.org I was wondering if anyone had experience running a Tor relay on Gandi. According to [good-bad-isps](https://community.torproject.org/relay/community-resources/good-bad-isps/), Gandi supports all relays. However, I contacted support asking them

Re: [tor-relays] Need a little assistance with a relay

2022-11-04 Thread Eldalië via tor-relays
Hello Ron, thank you for setting up a relay. What have you tried so far? You followed the instructions at [1]? How do you know the relay is not functioning? Is there anything in tor logs? [1] https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/guard/ On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 10:32:48PM +, Ronvau

[tor-relays] new bridge

2022-11-10 Thread Anonforpeace via tor-relays
Hello: I have setup a new bridge. Relay Search confirms it is up, however I wanted to verify with you as well. The nickname is: h4ck3rspace Thank you Sent with [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/) secure email.___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Relay on Gandi.net

2022-11-06 Thread GANDI24325_TOR via tor-relays
Hi, I ran a tor exit on them and it got shut down on the 4th abuse claim, i have no idea how those 2 exits relays are still going, I would recommend against them personally, and raised in the spring good-bad isps needs to be updated alot of ones on their are out of date Best advice is do your

Re: [tor-relays] security update for obfs4proxy

2022-11-03 Thread Anonforpeace via tor-relays
Hello: Is this update not available by running apt-get update && apt Sent from Proton Mail mobile Original Message On Nov 3, 2022, 10:34 AM, meskio wrote: > A reminder: If you operate a obfs4 bridge, please upgrade obfs4proxy to > 0.0.14 and restart

[tor-relays] Need a little assistance with a relay

2022-11-03 Thread Ronvau via tor-relays
Hello Tor, I am looking to set up a relay but have not been successful yet. ALthough I believe I followed instructions, the relay "Walton" does not appear to be functioning as I would expect. I was using SNAP as a vehicle to launch the relay but no luck there as it fai

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Relay on Gandi.net

2022-11-14 Thread jvoisin via tor-relays
https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/9BA84E8C90083676F86C7427C8D105925F13716C is from Nos-Oignons, and they have a close partnership with Gandi. ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin

Re: [tor-relays] Relay requirements

2023-03-07 Thread mail--- via tor-relays
Hi, > No network experience but already running 2 TOR instances: 1 TOR service + 1 > bridge. Very nice! You're asking some great questions and I'll try to answer as many as I can :). > My preferred choice at the moment is [3] where I would like to have 3 relays > (one of each

[tor-relays] relay configuration not allowing optimal performance

2023-02-25 Thread Relayer via tor-relays
I'm running a tor relay on some older hardware that I didn't want to discard when I could still put it so good use. Some details of the box are: -- CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8600 @ 2.40GHz -- RAM: 4GB -- ARCH: x86_64 -- HDD: 250GB -- OS: Ubuntu 22.04.1 I originally configured a single

Re: [tor-relays] Questions about Tor consensus weight & swag

2023-02-18 Thread shruub via tor-relays
a while. > > Best, > trinity-1686a > > > On Sat, 18 Feb 2023 at 11:43, shruub via tor-relays > wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> so my relay regulary gets overloaded, for what I can only assume is an >> hardware issue, (which I can't upgrade rn) si

Re: [tor-relays] Preferred range for ephemeral ports

2023-03-03 Thread shruub via tor-relays
Hello, thanks for supporting the tor network! If I recall correctly, the lower the better. E.g. if you start at 32768, which is the recommended port range due to it not being used else where "officially", until 33018. However, 6 - 60250 should also work well. You might also want

Re: [tor-relays] RFC: does a private exit would work?

2023-03-04 Thread shruub via tor-relays
, I personally just wouldn't know how to implement it correctly. Best, shruub ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

[tor-relays] Questions about Tor consensus weight & swag

2023-02-18 Thread shruub via tor-relays
Hello, so my relay regulary gets overloaded, for what I can only assume is an hardware issue, (which I can't upgrade rn) since I already applied the tor anti ddos scripts. It seems to be able to recover, however with a lower Consensus Weight. I also (stupidly) tried to have a cron restarting my

Re: [tor-relays] Questions about Tor consensus weight & swag

2023-02-18 Thread shruub via tor-relays
ow long it's been running. > Thanks for running a relay! :) _______ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] Police request regarding relay

2023-04-12 Thread tor-opera...@urdn.com.ua
We receive this mostly from France and Germany. We figured out that they downloaded the Tor Browser then looked at the Tor Circuit widget and just collected the addresses they could see there. This is the same as when Police, Attention Seekers, Cyber White Knights, Censors and other scoundrels c

[tor-relays] OpenBSD DoS Mitigation

2023-04-15 Thread null via tor-relays
Hi all, I'm running a Tor middle/guard relay on OpenBSD. I'm wondering if there are any steps I should take to guard my relay from DoS attacks. My thanks ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin

Re: [tor-relays] OpenBSD DoS Mitigation

2023-04-18 Thread cowtools--- via tor-relays
Thanks for the reply. What would be a reasonable per-ip rate limit (connections per second) for a Tor middle relay? Thanks On April 16, 2023 7:22:03 p.m. UTC, George wrote: >On 4/14/23 23:54, null via tor-relays wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm running a Tor middle/guard

[tor-relays] Relay Bandwidth

2023-04-03 Thread sysmanager7 via tor-relays
Greetings all! Setting up a new Digital Ocean Tor Relay. DO is giving me 3000 Gig a month. Is there a tutorial that I can use to calculate the bandwidth? I've searched around the web and for some reason people seem to dance around the question. They give examples not relevant to me and zero

Re: [tor-relays] Police request regarding relay

2023-04-13 Thread tor-opera...@urdn.com.ua
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[tor-relays] tor relay shows offline @ tor relay search while running

2023-02-03 Thread theyarewatching--- via tor-relays
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[tor-relays] Ensure servers with >2 relays per IP do not get hit by rate limiting firewalls (by other relays)

2023-02-03 Thread mail--- via tor-relays
Hi Tor operators, Some of us took/will take advantage of the increase in allowed Tor relays per IPv4 address[1] to reduce costs for running Tor relays. This change will result in more relays sharing the same source IP address than before, which means other relays using rate limits

Re: [tor-relays] tor relay shows offline @ tor relay search while running

2023-02-06 Thread Anonforpeace via tor-relays
My bridge was showing the same thing. Then I learned that there is a bug in the relay search page and you should only trust \var\log\syslog Sent from Proton Mail mobile Original Message On Feb 2, 2023, 4:40 PM, theyarewatching--- via tor-relays wrote: > Good day, > My

[tor-relays] Relays at universities campaign

2023-02-02 Thread Eldalië via tor-relays
Hello everyone. At last Saturday's Tor Relay Operators Meetup, ongoing work on a "relays at universities" campaign was announced. I am interested in it as I may be able to help a little, so I'd like to receive any news, but I don't remember any message about it on tor-relays@lists.torp

Re: [tor-relays] Comcast blocks ALL traffic with tor relays

2023-06-12 Thread xmrk2 via tor-relays
Okay, you planted some doubt. This is a quote what my peer wrote me about the issue, I hope it is ok to quote, contains no personal or sensitive info, emphasis added: > Comcast/Xfinity! has a bumpy past with tor. They periodically block it, get > yelled out by their subscribers and the

Re: [tor-relays] Comcast blocks ALL traffic with tor relays

2023-06-14 Thread xmrk2 via tor-relays
I have only experienced similar problems while running tor exit node, even with very restricted exit policy. Allowing exit only to port X, and unable to initiate connections to port Y (typically Y=HTTPS=443, of course X =/= Y). Note that those problems are not Comcast's fault, although they do

Re: [tor-relays] AROI not getting verified

2023-06-15 Thread chani via tor-relays
gards, nusenu _______ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] Comcast blocks ALL traffic with tor relays

2023-06-15 Thread xmrk2 via tor-relays
Hello, It is a good sign that Comcast cares and wants to defend itself. Another positive is that you did not try things like "tor is only for criminals/terrorists". As to the blog post you mention. (Note that to see the post one may need to delete the trailing full stop fr

[tor-relays] Comcast blocks ALL traffic with tor relays

2023-06-12 Thread xmrk2 via tor-relays
I'd like to raise awareness of the Comcast blocking. As stated in subject, I believe Comcast blocks all traffic between its customers and public tor relay nodes. That is, the blocking is not limited to tor-related traffic, all other services / ports on the tor relay are blocked. Background: I

Re: [tor-relays] Receiving abuse reports for Non-Exit Relay

2023-08-03 Thread Tortue via tor-relays
via tor-relays : > Hello, > > It is honestly still puzzling to me considering that the relay wasn’t > compromised or misconfigured. > > If you or anyone wants to check out the reports > https://www.abuseipdb.com/check/23.132.184.31 > > > On Wed, Jul 2

[tor-relays] Middle relay IP blocking

2023-08-03 Thread Eldalië via tor-relays
Hello there! I've been running for over 1.5 year a middle relay on an IP address I also use to browse, withous issues. However it's now some weeks since many websites that always refused tor traffic started to also refuse normal traffic from my IP. I suppose this is related to the relay, because I

Re: [tor-relays] Help Turkmens to bypass Internet censorship: run an obfs4 bridge!

2023-07-26 Thread tor-opera...@urdn.com.ua
blacklist, they maintain a whitelist, that is, everything is blocked but what's on the list. The result is that people can't even update software, things start to break and then they are forced to lift the filtering up a little bit which sometimes result in making bootstrapping Tor possible. A

Re: [tor-relays] Comcast blocks ALL traffic with tor relays

2023-06-18 Thread xmrk2 via tor-relays
Yes, I agree 100% with Danny's summary here, so I have to concede, I did not found enough evidence that Comcast blocks connections *to* tor relays. I apologize. Specifically, I did some tests with ronqtorrelays at risley.net , who is a Comcast Business customer, and he had no problem initiating

Re: [tor-relays] Comcast blocks ALL traffic with tor relays - probably firewall configuration; further tests

2023-06-13 Thread xmrk2 via tor-relays
e doing so, nobody was able to connect to his lightning node via IPv4 (clearnet, not tor). He claims to have done this back in July or August. We tested just today, and both sides were able to successfully initiate TCP connection, no blocking here. Importantly, at the same time I was not able to conn

[tor-relays] Do they use their own modem/router?

2023-06-13 Thread xmrk2 via tor-relays
As stated in subject, I believe Comcast blocks all traffic between its > customers and public tor relay nodes. That is, the blocking is not limited to > tor-related traffic, all other services / ports on the tor relay are blocked. > > Background: I am running a lightning node, lightning is a

Re: [tor-relays] Comcast blocks ALL traffic with tor relays

2023-06-12 Thread xmrk2 via tor-relays
he could do some tests from inside Comcast's network. He sounded a bit resigned though, so no guarantees obviously. And thanks for encouragement, up to now my efforts have fallen mostly to deaf ears. _______ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torpr

[tor-relays] AROI not getting verified

2023-06-14 Thread chani via tor-relays
the well known file on my webserver for the last few days. Am I missing something? relay fingerprint: CA1D49840F37E0C9D5F1770A5F033D80EB6AF369 ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman

Re: [tor-relays] AROI not getting verified

2023-06-14 Thread mail--- via tor-relays
Hi chani, When I try to access https://vagabyte.com/.well-known/tor-relay/rsa-fingerprint.txt I get a 404 Not Found. So my guess is that this is (at least one of the) problem(s). See https://nusenu.github.io/tor-relay-well-known-uri-spec/#well-knowntor-relayrsa-fingerprinttxt as well for more

Re: [tor-relays] [Important] A call for more long running bridges, especially with OBFS IAT-Mode set to 1 or 2.

2023-05-15 Thread Fran via tor-relays
Hey, the paper is from August 2018 (if I looked at the correct one), not so recent :) And e. g. Philipp Winter questions the usefulness of iat_mode: > substantial performance penalty for a dubious and poorly understood privacy gain https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2

Re: [tor-relays] Way to be notified when relay goes offline?

2024-02-04 Thread mail--- via tor-relays
offline? Thanks. > --Keifer > ___________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] request for receipes MULTI-instances of ethe4 Guard, Bridge, Exits, snowflake , Tunnel, or both DEBIAN and OpenBSD

2024-02-08 Thread admin--- via tor-relays
/ nodes per ONE IPv4, > and found only outdated problems unwell built. > > > Please when you have a bash sript / receipe, > I would welcome that. > > Hardening options would be very welcome too. > > > C. > _______ > tor-rela

Re: [tor-relays] request for receipes MULTI-instances of ethe4 Guard, Bridge, Exits, snowflake , Tunnel, or both DEBIAN and OpenBSD

2024-02-09 Thread Corl3ss via tor-relays
On 09/02/2024 00:48, admin--- via tor-relays wrote: You can have 2 separate relays on the same IPv4 address. Are you running into issues? It has been increased to 4 and then to 8 tor instances per IP address: https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-relays-8-relays-pers-ip-address-are-allowed

[tor-relays] 7000 concurrent connections

2024-02-20 Thread snowmanonahoe--- via tor-relays
going to fail entirely, slow down, or something else?Thanks in advance. ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

[tor-relays] Getting spammed with 404 "Consensus is too old" warnings

2024-02-20 Thread snowmanonahoe--- via tor-relays
heartbeat messages indicate the relay is working fine. The IP address is the same every time, and it's not mine. Anything to worry about? _______ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/li

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