[tor-relays] "The best part is that it will cost you less than $30 per month!"

2013-04-16 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 23:41:34 + "Runa A. Sandvik" wrote: > The best part is that it will cost you less than $30 per month! Is that really supposed to be the "best" part? $5-$7 today gets you a VPS with 1-2TB of bandwidth per month, http://www.lowendbox.com/ $17 gets you a Core Duo dedicated

Re: [tor-relays] Tor node monitoring

2013-04-16 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:34:33 -0600 Alex Beal wrote: > I was wondering what, if any, software you use for monitoring your relays. > It would be nice if I could get an email when the Tor daemon crashes, and > maybe another every night telling me about bandwidth used, average speed, > etc. I just h

Re: [tor-relays] A call to arms for obfuscated bridges

2013-04-16 Thread Runa A. Sandvik
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 4:52 PM, George Kadianakis wrote: > Looking into BridgeDB, we have 200 obfs2 bridges, but only 40 obfs3 > bridges: this means that we need more people running the new Python > obfsproxy! Upgrading obfsproxy should be easy now, since we prepared > new instructions and Debian

Re: [tor-relays] Tor node monitoring

2013-04-16 Thread Lunar
Alex Beal: > I was wondering what, if any, software you use for monitoring your relays. > It would be nice if I could get an email when the Tor daemon crashes, and > maybe another every night telling me about bandwidth used, average speed, > etc. For external monitoring, I wrote a Nagios check usi

Re: [tor-relays] Tor node monitoring

2013-04-16 Thread Chris Patti
Sending your tor process a 'kill -USR1' yields a wealth of interesting info in the logs, although this isn't what you want I know :) On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Alex Beal wrote: > Hello All, > > I was wondering what, if any, software you use for monitoring your relays. > It would be nice

Re: [tor-relays] Tor node monitoring

2013-04-16 Thread Damian Johnson
> I was wondering what, if any, software you use for monitoring your relays. > It would be nice if I could get an email when the Tor daemon crashes, and > maybe another every night telling me about bandwidth used, average speed, > etc. For notifications about when your relay is down you can use to

[tor-relays] Tor node monitoring

2013-04-16 Thread Alex Beal
Hello All, I was wondering what, if any, software you use for monitoring your relays. It would be nice if I could get an email when the Tor daemon crashes, and maybe another every night telling me about bandwidth used, average speed, etc. Thanks, Alex -- For sensitive information, use my public

Re: [tor-relays] A call to arms for obfuscated bridges

2013-04-16 Thread Martin Weinelt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16.04.2013 22:37, Moritz Bartl wrote: > On 16.04.2013 22:27, Roman Mamedov wrote: >>> Also, obfsproxy was rewritten in Python and it now supports a >>> new pluggable transport called 'obfs3' which works even in >>> China [2]. >> I wish this sort of

Re: [tor-relays] A call to arms for obfuscated bridges

2013-04-16 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 16.04.2013 22:27, Roman Mamedov wrote: >> Also, obfsproxy was rewritten in Python and it now supports a new >> pluggable transport called 'obfs3' which works even in China [2]. > I wish this sort of functionality was integrated directly into tor. > I am not up for installing and configuring an e

Re: [tor-relays] A call to arms for obfuscated bridges

2013-04-16 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:52:19 +0300 George Kadianakis wrote: > Also, obfsproxy was rewritten in Python and it now supports a new > pluggable transport called 'obfs3' which works even in China [2]. We > have dropped support for the C-version of Obfsproxy, and the new > Pluggable Transport Bundles c

Re: [tor-relays] A call to arms for obfuscated bridges

2013-04-16 Thread Lunar
Steve Snyder: > obfs3 won't build/run on RHEL6/CentOS6 due to the Python 2.7.x (plus > many, many subpackages) requirement. That's a pity: obfsproxy can actually run with Python 2.6 as I've happily discovered when doing packages for Debian Squeeze. I hope George will be able to lower the requiere

Re: [tor-relays] A call to arms for obfuscated bridges

2013-04-16 Thread Steve Snyder
On Tuesday, April 16, 2013 12:52pm, "George Kadianakis" said: [snip] > Looking into BridgeDB, we have 200 obfs2 bridges, but only 40 obfs3 > bridges: this means that we need more people running the new Python > obfsproxy! Upgrading obfsproxy should be easy now, since we prepared > new instruction

Re: [tor-relays] A call to arms for obfuscated bridges

2013-04-16 Thread Sina Eetezadi
I would love to help. My questions, does it make any sense to run a bridge from a residential internet that changes its IP 2-3 times a day? My server is running constantly, however my provider "likes" disconnects and as a result my IP changes. > Greetings, > > A year ago we asked you to run obf

[tor-relays] A call to arms for obfuscated bridges

2013-04-16 Thread George Kadianakis
Greetings, A year ago we asked you to run obfuscated bridges to help people in Iran [0]. Many people answered our call and we ended up having a big pool of obfuscated bridges to give to our users. Unfortunately, today, most of those bridges are down, and fresh ones are needed more than ever, sinc

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Relay on DSL connection

2013-04-16 Thread Jochen Fahrner
Am 14.04.2013 14:10, schrieb Geoff Down: > Hi, > thanks for running a relay. > Tor checks its IP often, and will publish the new one when it detects a > change. If you have logging set to at least 'notice' level there will > be 'Our IP Address has changed' entries in the log. > GD > Thank you,