So my question to the community is as follows: does the Tor community want these small, cheap relays scattered in large quantity around the world, or not?
I realize there could be pros and contras. Among the contras there could be (for example) many small relays overloading the dirauths. I would like to hear more about the contras. Among the pros there could be increased security and anonymity, as it would take adversaries a bigger effort to infiltrate the network by establishing rogue relays. Also could be invaluable as bridges to help people under repressive regimes overcome censorship. Tor is gradually getting killed there. My general impression is that the current DirAuth and bwauths policies are stuck at some old paradigm where small bandwidth relays are dismissed without good reason, and tons of bandwidth gains and especially diversity and anonymity benefits are foregone Additional info about my experiment: I have just fired up an additional relay on Pi Zero. That's a fucking $9 Tor relay, including flash card and case. Looks like an oversized USB stick and plugs directly into a USB port of a computer. No need even for power supply. CPU utilization - negligible, total memory utilization (including Tor) 20%. No need to waste $35 on a Pi 3 which is grossly underutilized by the DirAuths. -----Original Message----- From: tor-relays [mailto:tor-relays-boun...@lists.torproject.org] On Behalf Of Rana Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2016 10:58 AM To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP @Patrice: Yes both relays started with brand new identities and the one that is now clinically dead (nickname ZG0) has been wiped out and restarted with a new fingerprint AND a new IP address as I have a dynamic one and I rebooted my router to get a new one). Did not help, so obviously this has everything to do with the network and how dirauths/bwauths test the connection and vote, and absolutely nothing to do with the identity of the relay See my previous messages to confirm that this has absolutely nothing to do with the capabilities of the Pi, which are a gross overkill for the use of (nickname) GG2 that the dirauths and bwauths allow. -----Original Message----- From: tor-relays [mailto:tor-relays-boun...@lists.torproject.org] On Behalf Of Patrice Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2016 2:57 AM To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: [tor-relays] @Rana - with reference to: Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic Hi, I`ve read your post and questions, also about your 2 Raspberry PIs with the same setting but different locations. I thought about it and my question is: Did these to PIs got a new fresh identity on day zero? If not, it`s worth a try, probably. Kill the old identities and let them by. My fundamental idea is (and that`s why I am writing this): Does my behaviour with the relay (restarting, upgrading, not be onlinening) effect the measurement and therefore the throughput of my relay? Cheers, Patrice _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
