Re: [tor-relays] How to use our own TOR relay as entry node for local network hosts

2015-05-23 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 5/20/15, s7r wrote: > On 5/20/2015 12:07 PM, Tor User wrote: >> If I'm wrong about this, that's great - I'd love to see some >> documentation to explain it better if you have any links handy. >> But if I'm right, how can I configure our TBB clients to actually >> MAKE them use our TOR proxy as

Re: [tor-relays] amount of unmeasured relays continuously rising since 2 weeks

2015-05-23 Thread Julian Plamann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Thanks for the eloquent response. Many good points made and apologies if my comments came across as being critical of the Tor development community. I have no plans to take down the relays I'm running any time soon -- bwauth hiccups or not. Regard

Re: [tor-relays] How to use our own TOR relay as entry node for local network hosts

2015-05-23 Thread s7r
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi Glad you understood what you are doing wrong. In this case, you can use your relay as a guard for the clients in your network. See in my previous email suggestion #2, and all your clients will have the desired guard. Install Tor browser on each c

Re: [tor-relays] amount of unmeasured relays continuously rising since 2 weeks

2015-05-23 Thread s7r
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello Julian Thanks for your contribution to Tor! Please keep them running, as much as you can. We already struggle to (at least partially) solve the issue for the short term, by launching more bandwidth authorities. On the long term, some research

Re: [tor-relays] Complaint being on a tor dnsbl..

2015-05-23 Thread Larry Brandt
Companies such as DirecTV blacklist all Tor relays.  This is very disconcerting when I go to their site to get help with my television feed.  In their defense (and this hurts), their Genie system uses some of the ports that Tor uses for ORPorts such as 9001. L Brandt

Re: [tor-relays] How to use our own TOR relay as entry node for local network hosts

2015-05-23 Thread Tor User
Hi s7r, Thank you for your reply. There's a lot of good info in it and I'll be reconfiguring the clients. The fact that I've been doing Tor-through-Tor unawares explains a lot. It did seem odd to have polipo in the mix, but it makes sense now, that would only be if the LAN clients weren't

Re: [tor-relays] Complaint being on a tor dnsbl..

2015-05-23 Thread Igor Chelnokov
Nothing. There are DNS blacklists for TOR nodes. For some wild reason they're called blacklists, but they just indicate that a particular IP runs a node/relay/bridge. Some idiots even ban IPs in these blacklists even if it's not an exit. Just explain this to your hoster and forget about it. On Sat

[tor-relays] Complaint being on a tor dnsbl..

2015-05-23 Thread 0x23
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hey guys, Today I got a complaint from my vServer hoster that has received an abuse email The company who accused the usage of my system is called sectoor http://www.sectoor.de/tor Here's the abuse message: More Information About Sectoor Listin