[tor-relays] IP address change

2016-10-24 Thread balbea16


Hi There 
My ISP changes my IP address about every 24 hours. It takes 10 minutes until my 
tor server recognises this, and an hour until all usual connections are 
reestablished. How can I speed this up? Does it help to use a DNS? To pay for
 a static address is not an option.
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Re: [tor-relays] IP address change

2016-10-24 Thread balbea16
Hi TimTNX for your fast response. I'm afaid, that I have to stay with my 
current ISP. However, from time to time he keeps my IP address unchanged for up 
to 4 days. Mike

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> On 24 Oct. 2016, at 23:12, balbea16  wrote:
> 
> Hi There 
> My ISP changes my IP address about every 24 hours. It takes 10 minutes until 
> my tor server recognises this, and an hour until all usual connections are 
> reestablished. How can I speed this up?

The tor directory authorities vote on relays every hour.
There is no way to speed this up.

> Does it help to use a DNS?

No, Tor uses your IP address.

> To pay for a static address is not an option.
> Any ideas? Thank you. Mike

I'm sorry, this is just how Tor is designed.
But you are still contributing to the network.

You could try renting a cheap server in a data centre.
Most of them offer static IP addresses.

Tim

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[tor-relays] Outgoing Connections to middle nodes?

2016-12-03 Thread balbea16


Hi There, I've got a quick question. I have been running a tor relay since 3 
months. I don't have a guard flag, however many outgoing connections to non 
exit relays  (i.e. that should be middles than). Does that mean I run an entry 
node  (without having guard status)? How come?TNX Mike 
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Re: [tor-relays] Outgoing Connections to middle nodes?

2016-12-03 Thread balbea16


TNX for the fast response. Unfortunately I can't open .asc files on my mobile 
phone. I've to try this later at home. 


Von meinem Samsung Gerät gesendet.

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Re: [tor-relays] Outgoing Connections to middle nodes?

2016-12-03 Thread balbea16


Hi MichaelThanks for the hint. I guess you are totally right! I forgot about 
the hidden services. Right now I have about 1100 in and out connections, makes 
totally sense. Mike

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-Original Message-
From: tor-relays [mailto:tor-relays-boun...@lists.torproject.org] On Behalf Of 
Michael Armbruster
Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2016 2:10 PM
To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org
Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Outgoing Connections to middle nodes?

On 2016-12-03 at 12:56, balbea16 wrote:
> Hi There,
> I've got a quick question. I have been running a tor relay since 3 
> months. I don't have a guard flag, however many outgoing connections 
> to non exit relays  (i.e. that should be middles than). Does that mean 
> I run an entry node  (without having guard status)? How come?
> TNX Mike

Hi Mike,

you forget about hidden services IN the Tor network. Not every connection tries 
to connect to domains or services outside the Tor network.

So it could be that you are a middle relay having many outgoing connections to 
so-called rendezvous points.

Have a look at this sentence here from [1]:
"In general, the complete connection between client and hidden service consists 
of 6 relays: 3 of them were picked by the client with the third being the 
rendezvous point and the other 3 were picked by the hidden service."

Best,
Michael

[1] https://www.torproject.org/docs/hidden-services.html.en


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Re: [tor-relays] Second relay on same ESX

2016-12-11 Thread balbea16


Hi Are you actually talking about identical relays, i.e. with the same 
fingerprint? That would be interessting for me, as I'd like to run a second 
Rasp Pi in parallel for redundency reasons.Mike

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John,
The host has 32GB RAM& 4 CPUs
I have allocated 2GB & 2CPUs to my VM
As the VM CPU usage is +/-40%, I'm not sure if I should reduce to 1CPU (would 
it then be used at 80% average?)

P.

2016-12-11 18:22 GMT+01:00 John Ricketts :






Patrick,



I run all of my relays under VMware  and I don't have any issues at all.



How many CPUs do you have in the physical server and how many virtual CPUs do 
you have assigned to the VM?



John


On Dec 11, 2016, at 11:19, Patrick DERWAEL  wrote:






Hi guys,



I'm running a relay in a VM on a physical server which is largely under used

Current advertised bandwidth 26MB, consensus 76500

I'm considering running a second relay (2nd VM) on the very same hardware, but 
this brings a few questions:



- is there any issue running it at the same geographical place?

- would the current total BW effectively consumed (26MB) be divided in 2 (i.e. 
no added value in BW)?

- basically, would it have any significant added value to the network?



Thanks



 







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Re: [tor-relays] Second relay on same ESX

2016-12-11 Thread balbea16


Hi Tim,TNX for your fast response. That was more or less what I thought 
already. Mike

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> On 12 Dec. 2016, at 17:08, balbea16  wrote:
> 
> Hi 
> Are you actually talking about identical relays, i.e. with the same 
> fingerprint? That would be interessting for me, as I'd like to run a second 
> Rasp Pi in parallel for redundency reasons.
> Mike

Please don't run a second relay on the same fingerprint.
Your relay won't get much traffic, because it will look like
its address and ports are changing all the time.

Instead, run two relays with different keys, and let the
network load-balance between them.

Tim

>  Ursprüngliche Nachricht 
> Von: Patrick DERWAEL  
> Datum: 12.12.16 06:41 (GMT+01:00) 
> An: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org 
> Betreff: Re: [tor-relays] Second relay on same ESX 
> 
> John,
> The host has 32GB RAM& 4 CPUs
> I have allocated 2GB & 2CPUs to my VM
> As the VM CPU usage is +/-40%, I'm not sure if I should reduce to 1CPU (would 
> it then be used at 80% average?)
> 
> P.
> 
> 2016-12-11 18:22 GMT+01:00 John Ricketts :
> Patrick,
> 
> I run all of my relays under VMware  and I don't have any issues at all.
> 
> How many CPUs do you have in the physical server and how many virtual CPUs do 
> you have assigned to the VM?
> 
> John
> 
> On Dec 11, 2016, at 11:19, Patrick DERWAEL  wrote:
> 
>> Hi guys,
>> 
>> I'm running a relay in a VM on a physical server which is largely under used
>> Current advertised bandwidth 26MB, consensus 76500
>> I'm considering running a second relay (2nd VM) on the very same hardware, 
>> but this brings a few questions:
>> 
>> - is there any issue running it at the same geographical place?
>> - would the current total BW effectively consumed (26MB) be divided in 2 
>> (i.e. no added value in BW)?
>> - basically, would it have any significant added value to the network?
>> 
>> Thanks
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Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment?

2016-12-14 Thread balbea16


Hi ThereThis is a pretty interesting topic. I have been running a Rasp Pi 3 
based relay since August this year. By now, I am up to about 1,300 incomming 
and outgoing connections, and a max of about 21mbps. This is about 50% of the 
max. upload speed. Consensus weight is between 3,000 and 6,000. The CPU is 
running at 20% max. However, my local ISP disconnects me after 24 to 36 hours. 
From my point of view this is the only disadvantage. 
For a home based relay, is that good, bad,  or just average? Is there a chance 
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Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment?

2016-12-14 Thread balbea16


Pls. refer to may answers after each of your questions.



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Von: Rana  
Datum: 15.12.16  07:44  (GMT+01:00) 
An: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org 
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>Hi There>This is a pretty interesting topic. I have been running a Rasp Pi 3 
>based relay since August this year. By now, I am up to about 1,300 incomming 
>and outgoing connections, and a max of >about 21mbps. This is about 50% of the 
>max. upload speed. Consensus weight is between 3,000 and 6,000. The CPU is 
>running at 20% max. However, my local ISP disconnects me after 24 >to 36 
>hours. From my point of view this is the only disadvantage. > >For a home 
>based relay, is that good, bad,  or just average? Is there a chance for me to 
>get a stable, or even guard flag? What are your experiances?>MikeMy experience 
>is bad, the relay is not taking off at all, I have consensus weight of 19 and 
>am sending less than 20 MB every 6 hours despite having bandwidth measured by 
>Tor of between 70 and 120 KB/s. The total up bandwidth I have in ISP 
>connection is 1.5 mbps and this is probably the issue. I also run this on Pi 
>3. I did, however, get a stable flag after 5 days, and have had it since then. 
>My IP is dynamic and did not change in these 5 days or in the 4 days that 
>passed since I got the Stable flag. My relay nickname is ZG0.Based on your 
>experience I think your are doing fabulously well for a home relay, and that 
>what really counts is the ISP bandwidth, and the Stable flag does not have 
>much to do with how much traffic you get. Moreover, your 20% cpu util confirms 
>my opinion that Pi is the perfect, most cost efficient way to run a relay and 
>that running it on a larger computer is a waste of resources and money (up to 
>the point Raspi chokes which we are yet to discover J)Moreover, clearly Pi’s 
>cpu power will never be the bottleneck, only its memory size. You have a total 
>of 1GB of memory on your Pi 3, what’s your memory utilization?  about 513 MB 
>What’s the total traffic the Pi sends every 6 hours (reported in the Tor log 
>file /var/log/tor/notices.log and, for the previous time window, in 
>/var/log/tor/notices.log.1)? About 19 GB in the last 6 hour period, with a 
>total sent 2671.53 GB and received 2625.31 GB. What’s your relay’s nickname? 
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Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment?

2016-12-14 Thread balbea16


Hi Peter unfortunately your message is empty, it only shows the signature. This 
occurs with all signed messages. I have no idea how to solve the problem.Mike

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Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment?

2016-12-15 Thread balbea16


You are totally right. Besides the "cost" for the PI, I pay some additional 
Euros per month for the 40 MBIT upload, that's it. I really can recomment to 
run a relay on a Pi 3. Let's see how the Tor authorities handle this.
By the way the CPU temperature levels around 60 Celsius  (without running arm). 
I don't cool it. Mike

Von meinem Samsung Gerät gesendet.

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An: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org 
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OK then let me summarize.  1.   You are running a Pi from Cologne, at 21 
mbps (measured) peak, 900 kbps (measured) average utilization by Tor, with 1300 
connections.2.   Your Pi is under-utilized, probably limited by your ISP’s 
peering with those to which DirAuths are connected. 20% CPU utilization, 50% 
memory utilization. 3.   Given that part of the memory is used by Linux 
kernel, and that the PI Ethernet interface is nominally 100 mbps, the Pi is 
probably able to sustain up to 3000 connections.  Bottom line: the $35 Pi is a 
killer and running a Tor node with up to 3000 connections on another computer 
is probably a big waste of money. Comments welcome.  From: tor-relays 
[mailto:tor-relays-boun...@lists.torproject.org] On Behalf Of balbea16
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2016 9:04 AM
To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org
Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment? Pls. refer 
to may answers after each of your questions.  

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Von: Rana  
Datum: 15.12.16 07:44 (GMT+01:00) 
An: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org 
Betreff: Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment? >Hi 
There>This is a pretty interesting topic. I have been running a Rasp Pi 3 based 
relay since August this year. By now, I am up to about 1,300 incomming and 
outgoing connections, and a max of >about 21mbps. This is about 50% of the max. 
upload speed. Consensus weight is between 3,000 and 6,000. The CPU is running 
at 20% max. However, my local ISP disconnects me after 24 >to 36 hours. From my 
point of view this is the only disadvantage. > >For a home based relay, is that 
good, bad,  or just average? Is there a chance for me to get a stable, or even 
guard flag? What are your experiances?>MikeMy experience is bad, the relay is 
not taking off at all, I have consensus weight of 19 and am sending less than 
20 MB every 6 hours despite having bandwidth measured by Tor of between 70 and 
120 KB/s. The total up bandwidth I have in ISP connection is 1.5 mbps and this 
is probably the issue. I also run this on Pi 3. I did, however, get a stable 
flag after 5 days, and have had it since then. My IP is dynamic and did not 
change in these 5 days or in the 4 days that passed since I got the Stable 
flag. My relay nickname is ZG0.Based on your experience I think your are doing 
fabulously well for a home relay, and that what really counts is the ISP 
bandwidth, and the Stable flag does not have much to do with how much traffic 
you get. Moreover, your 20% cpu util confirms my opinion that Pi is the 
perfect, most cost efficient way to run a relay and that running it on a larger 
computer is a waste of resources and money (up to the point Raspi chokes which 
we are yet to discover J)Moreover, clearly Pi’s cpu power will never be the 
bottleneck, only its memory size. You have a total of 1GB of memory on your Pi 
3, what’s your memory utilization?  about 513 MB What’s the total traffic the 
Pi sends every 6 hours (reported in the Tor log file /var/log/tor/notices.log 
and, for the previous time window, in /var/log/tor/notices.log.1)? About 19 GB 
in the last 6 hour period, with a total sent 2671.53 GB and received 2625.31 
GB. What’s your relay’s nickname? Balbea16 ___
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Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment?

2016-12-15 Thread balbea16


J, TNX for the recommendation. Just used a spare one. Temperature dropped to 41 
C. Didn't like the noise, because  it's running permanentely. However, you are 
right :-) 


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Von: Rana  
Datum: 15.12.16  09:34  (GMT+01:00) 
An: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org 
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Well I do suggest that you get a set of Pi heat sinks on ebay for $0.70 
(including postage from China, adhesive and sinks for all 3 chips on the Pi). 
And if you are as extravagant as I you will even shell out an additional $1.20 
for a Pi case. Your 20 mbps relay has some value, you do not want to step on it 
accidentally J  From: tor-relays 
[mailto:tor-relays-boun...@lists.torproject.org] On Behalf Of balbea16
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2016 10:24 AM
To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org
Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment? You are 
totally right. Besides the "cost" for the PI, I pay some additional Euros per 
month for the 40 MBIT upload, that's it. I really can recomment to run a relay 
on a Pi 3. Let's see how the Tor authorities handle this. By the way the CPU 
temperature levels around 60 Celsius  (without running arm). I don't cool it. 
Mike  Von meinem Samsung Gerät gesendet.

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Von: Rana  
Datum: 15.12.16 08:53 (GMT+01:00) 
An: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org 
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me summarize.  1.   You are running a Pi from Cologne, at 21 mbps 
(measured) peak, 900 kbps (measured) average utilization by Tor, with 1300 
connections.2.   Your Pi is under-utilized, probably limited by your ISP’s 
peering with those to which DirAuths are connected. 20% CPU utilization, 50% 
memory utilization. 3.   Given that part of the memory is used by Linux 
kernel, and that the PI Ethernet interface is nominally 100 mbps, the Pi is 
probably able to sustain up to 3000 connections.  Bottom line: the $35 Pi is a 
killer and running a Tor node with up to 3000 connections on another computer 
is probably a big waste of money. Comments welcome.  From: tor-relays 
[mailto:tor-relays-boun...@lists.torproject.org] On Behalf Of balbea16
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2016 9:04 AM
To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org
Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment? Pls. refer 
to may answers after each of your questions.  

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Von: Rana  
Datum: 15.12.16 07:44 (GMT+01:00) 
An: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org 
Betreff: Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment? >Hi 
There>This is a pretty interesting topic. I have been running a Rasp Pi 3 based 
relay since August this year. By now, I am up to about 1,300 incomming and 
outgoing connections, and a max of >about 21mbps. This is about 50% of the max. 
upload speed. Consensus weight is between 3,000 and 6,000. The CPU is running 
at 20% max. However, my local ISP disconnects me after 24 >to 36 hours. From my 
point of view this is the only disadvantage. > >For a home based relay, is that 
good, bad,  or just average? Is there a chance for me to get a stable, or even 
guard flag? What are your experiances?>MikeMy experience is bad, the relay is 
not taking off at all, I have consensus weight of 19 and am sending less than 
20 MB every 6 hours despite having bandwidth measured by Tor of between 70 and 
120 KB/s. The total up bandwidth I have in ISP connection is 1.5 mbps and this 
is probably the issue. I also run this on Pi 3. I did, however, get a stable 
flag after 5 days, and have had it since then. My IP is dynamic and did not 
change in these 5 days or in the 4 days that passed since I got the Stable 
flag. My relay nickname is ZG0.Based on your experience I think your are doing 
fabulously well for a home relay, and that what really counts is the ISP 
bandwidth, and the Stable flag does not have much to do with how much traffic 
you get. Moreover, your 20% cpu util confirms my opinion that Pi is the 
perfect, most cost efficient way to run a relay and that running it on a larger 
computer is a waste of resources and money (up to the point Raspi chokes which 
we are yet to discover J)Moreover, clearly Pi’s cpu power will never be the 
bottleneck, only its memory size. You have a total of 1GB of memory on your Pi 
3, what’s your memory utilization?  about 513 MB What’s the total traffic the 
Pi sends every 6 hours (reported in the Tor log file /var/log/tor/notices.log 
and, for the previous time window, in /var/log/tor/notices.log.1)? About 19 GB 
in the last 6 hour period, with a total sent 2671.53 GB and received 2625.31 
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Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment?

2016-12-15 Thread balbea16


Hi J. I know. But I need a fan on top of the sinks. Just the heat sinks are not 
efficient enough. 


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I meant aluminum heat sink, not a fanHeat sinks do not make noise, they are 
flat pieces of metal with rib structure for improved heat radiation. You glue 
them on the chips that tend to become hot as they crunch your Tor relay 
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[tor-relays] Flags?

2016-12-19 Thread balbea16


Hi There, I assume, that this has been discussed here already pretty often. 
However, it seems to be, that the "stable flag" is only assigned to relays with 
a static, or at least long lasting, IP address. It also seems to be, that the 
stable flag is mandatory to get the guard flag. If so, that would mean: Dynamic 
address = no chance to obtain the guard flag. Is that the truth? Tnx Mike 
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[tor-relays] Speed up of reconnections after IP Address change

2016-12-21 Thread balbea16


Hi There,I only have a dynamic IP address and my ISP changes it almost every 
time after 24 hours. It is somehow sad to see 1.400 connections drop to almost 
none. After the change it takes 20 minutes until my OR notices this (our IP 
Address has changed from ...). It than takes another hour until the connections 
start to actualy rebuild. This means it takes more than an hour  (every per 
day) to reach the normal operating Mode.
Is there any way to speed up this process? Could adjust the torrc script for 
instance?
TNX Mike 


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Re: [tor-relays] What's a "useful" relay?

2016-12-23 Thread balbea16


Hi There I am actually a little bit confused now. I am one of (as Rana knows) 
those Pi 3 based OR operators with daily changing IP address. My consensus 
weight is about 5,000, with a max. of 1,400 connections.  I would like to 
recomment, that the TOR org should publish minimum requirements to run a relay. 
And, if my kind of relays would bring disadvantage to the network, I would shut 
it off. So far, I think, that small and large relays in combination are good 
for anonymity. Mike___
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Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP

2016-12-27 Thread balbea16


Hi There I evaluated some relays with newly assigned (red) guard flags. All of 
them had already the stable flag assigned. And (so far I could see) all of them 
had (almost) static IP addresses. In my case, this may be the reason why I 
don't get a guard flag. My ISP changes it every 24 hours. However, I'd be fine 
with "just" operating a fast middle node. I will keep an eye on this. Mike
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Re: [tor-relays] Speed up of reconnections after IP Address change

2017-01-03 Thread balbea16


Hi ThereI've just written a simple bash script which verifies (in a while loop) 
every 2 minutes if the OR address has been changed by my ISP. If so, it stops 
and then restarts the Tor service again. Then it sleeps for 24 hours and starts 
the 2 minute loop again. Not very sophisticated, but it might work. Mike___
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Re: [tor-relays] Speed up of reconnections after IP Address change

2017-01-03 Thread balbea16


'tor service start'  disconnects all connections, START uses the new IP 
address. Which is important. I am not sure if Sighup does the same. I assume it 
only reloads the config file. Any ideas?

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