Re: [tor-relays] Less Traffic on my relay

2014-10-07 Thread Tor Zilla
Hi Drake, What you are saying makes lotta sense but what i see is a mix of information.. Lot of folks say that bridges work well in case the IP keeps changing but your point is how the user finds out whats the new IP for my bridge.. The only way i can think of is if its set to auto update the d

Re: [tor-relays] Less Traffic on my relay

2014-10-07 Thread Drake Wilson
Tor Zilla wrote: > You are right. I am using a DSL connection and my IP keeps changing often > > What i am going to do is setup a bridge instead of a non exit relay and watch > how much i can contribute to the community. Sorry for jumping in---I'm seen this a few times and wonder whether it'

Re: [tor-relays] Less Traffic on my relay

2014-10-07 Thread Tor Zilla
Hi All, I just setup a bridge and it looks like i have a bug as per the message log.. Failed to open GEOIP file C:\Users\*ABCD*\AppData\Roaming\tor\geoip. We've been configured to see which countries can access us as a bridge, and we need GEOIP information to tell which countries clients are i

Re: [tor-relays] Less Traffic on my relay

2014-10-07 Thread Chris Whittleston
Thanks for running a relay Torzilla. If you do decide to get a Raspberry Pi, the step-by-step middle relay setup tutorial here might be useful: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bf_D_j1O-9ckTS9DY8ngIdiFwHta6Q5Uj_5dvOiavCQ/edit?usp=docslist_api If you want to set it up as a hidden bridge, you'l

Re: [tor-relays] Less Traffic on my relay

2014-10-07 Thread Tor Zilla
Hi Julien, Thanks a lot for your reply. I got your point now.. You are right. I am using a DSL connection and my IP keeps changing often What i am going to do is setup a bridge instead of a non exit relay and watch how much i can contribute to the community. If all goes well i will buy a

Re: [tor-relays] Less Traffic on my relay

2014-10-07 Thread Julien ROBIN
Hi, and welcome ;) With a very tiny bandwidth dedicated to your Tor Relay, the consensus weight of your relay will be very tiny (so may be nobody will be using it, because Tor Users have too great chances to take another bigger one). If, moreover, the relay has a lot of big down times (hours),

[tor-relays] Less Traffic on my relay

2014-10-07 Thread Sebastian Urbach
Hi, There is a very good article regarding new relays. Could answer a lot of your questions: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay Hi All, I am a noob to the Tor community and its fun serving Tor as one of the relays. I am planning to setup multiple relays however

[tor-relays] Less Traffic on my relay

2014-10-07 Thread Tor Zilla
Hi All, I am a noob to the Tor community and its fun serving Tor as one of the relays. I am planning to setup multiple relays however before i jump into anything further i setup one machine as a non exit relay to test how much traffic i can route.. Not to forget i also read the article on