Re: [tor-relays] Hello guys. Is is possible to choose one's Entry Guards?

2013-01-09 Thread Coyo
On 1/9/2013 2:57 PM, Coyo wrote: On 1/9/2013 4:41 AM, Konstantinos Asimakis wrote: First of all, AFAIK, bridge relays act as entry guards, meaning they *replace* the first step of your tor circuits, they don't extend them to 4 nodes. When I say "entry guards" i mean entry guards from the perspe

Re: [tor-relays] Hello guys. Is is possible to choose one's Entry Guards?

2013-01-09 Thread Coyo
On 1/9/2013 4:41 AM, Konstantinos Asimakis wrote: First of all, AFAIK, bridge relays act as entry guards, meaning they *replace* the first step of your tor circuits, they don't extend them to 4 nodes. With that in mind you might be able to do this: your client -> bridge (obfuscated or not) ->

Re: [tor-relays] ServerAstra from hungary allows exit relays

2013-01-09 Thread Steve Snyder
My experience with ServerAstra is that they will null-route your IP address on reports of abuse. No notification to me, their customer. This put me in the position on several occasions of noticing that my VPS had been down for x days. It was only when opening a Support Ticket to complain abo

[tor-relays] ServerAstra from hungary allows exit relays

2013-01-09 Thread Claude
Hi I want to share my experience with a hoster I discovered about a year ago: https://serverastra.com/ I set up a non-exit relay in feburary 2012. They offer a VPS with 100Mbit unmetered traffic for about 15$/month. Here are the vnstat stats: http://paste.scratchbook.ch/view/26af6ae0 Recently, I

Re: [tor-relays] Hello guys. Is is possible to choose one's Entry Guards?

2013-01-09 Thread Konstantinos Asimakis
First of all, AFAIK, bridge relays act as entry guards, meaning they *replace* the first step of your tor circuits, they don't extend them to 4 nodes. With that in mind you might be able to do this: your client -> bridge (obfuscated or not) -> tor node B -> tor node C -> whatever (clearnet / intro

Re: [tor-relays] DigitalOcean, cheap VPS that's ok with middle relays

2013-01-09 Thread krugar
Moritz Bartl: > Hi Micah, > > On 08.01.2013 19:47, Micah Lee wrote: >> FYI, I just discovered a VPS provider DigitalOcean, and they seem fine >> with people running non-exit nodes: > > Thanks for the hint. In general, I don't see why VPS providers would not > allow internal Tor relaying, and I wo

Re: [tor-relays] DigitalOcean, cheap VPS that's ok with middle relays

2013-01-09 Thread mick
On Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:47:40 -0800 Micah Lee allegedly wrote: > FYI, I just discovered a VPS provider DigitalOcean, and they seem fine > with people running non-exit nodes: > > https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/tor Yep - that "mick" was me. I contacted them through their forum fo

Re: [tor-relays] Call for discussion: turning funding into more exit relays

2013-01-09 Thread Karsten Loesing
On 1/8/13 10:40 PM, Moritz Bartl wrote: > I wrote a small incapable script [4] that visualizes how often a relay > is a "fast" relay over time. In its current form, it is not very > helpful, but slightly modified to output monthly overviews or just a > percentage figure per relay, it might already