[tor-relays] What do the huge providers have to do within tor circuits?

2016-02-28 Thread torserver
Hello, slowly getting acquainted with running a Tor relay, i am wondering: >From my gathering, tor is - at times - connecting to many instances of akamai CDN services, amazonaws, and other similar services simultaneously. When i say many instances, i mean: a saw a peak exposure of 30 outgoing po

[tor-relays] default exit notice

2016-02-28 Thread Markus Koch
Does anyone have the exit notice in japanese? markus ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] Netflix overblocking non-exit Tor relays

2016-02-28 Thread Jamis Hartley
Well of course it is possible to find someone knowledgeable of IT, but the chances of that are similar to that of walking up to a random person on the street and having them be knowledgeable of it. I shouldn't have said absolutely everyone, but the call center people are not trained in IT. The per

Re: [tor-relays] Any known Tor relay seizures (in Germany)?

2016-02-28 Thread Jesse V
On 02/28/2016 06:57 PM, Moritz Bartl wrote: > The risks for seizures of exit relays are also minimal. What can happen > if you run them as individual is that the police comes with a warrant > and raids you because they assume you were the criminal (and then later > return everything and the case ag

Re: [tor-relays] Netflix overblocking non-exit Tor relays

2016-02-28 Thread Jesse V
On 02/28/2016 11:42 AM, Jamis Hartley wrote: > Because the support people in the call center are not IT people. They > don't understand computers and were never trained with tor nodes. They > were literally given cookie cutter responses to tell you when you come > and say that you are being blocked

Re: [tor-relays] Any known Tor relay seizures (in Germany)?

2016-02-28 Thread Thomas Braun
On Montag, 29. Februar 2016 00:47:47 CEST, Thomas wrote: Hello everybody, do you know of any relay seizures of non-exit relays? In the legal FAQ [1] this "risk" is only listed below exit relays. Have there been any of such events in Germany (either exit- or any other nodes)? Would I have to w

Re: [tor-relays] tor-relays Digest, Vol 61, Issue 43

2016-02-28 Thread stealth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 20:21:45 +, you wrote: > > > On 28 Feb 2016, at 21:17, stea...@nym.mixmin.net wrote: > > > > > Is your OpenSSL compiled optimised for your processor and for the > > > encryption that Tor uses? > > > > > > > I am using the OpenS

Re: [tor-relays] Any known Tor relay seizures (in Germany)?

2016-02-28 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 02/29/2016 12:47 AM, Thomas wrote: > do you know of any relay seizures of non-exit relays? > In the legal FAQ [1] this "risk" is only listed below exit relays. > Have there been any of such events in Germany (either exit- or any other > nodes)? > > Would I have to worry about seizures if I run

[tor-relays] Any known Tor relay seizures (in Germany)?

2016-02-28 Thread Thomas
Hello everybody, do you know of any relay seizures of non-exit relays? In the legal FAQ [1] this "risk" is only listed below exit relays. Have there been any of such events in Germany (either exit- or any other nodes)? Would I have to worry about seizures if I run a guard or middle relay in Germa

Re: [tor-relays] Netflix overblocking non-exit Tor relays

2016-02-28 Thread Nenad Marjanovic
Hi, I got ya, but what i do is running VPN on VPS and all home traffic is going over that IP, not ISP. I don't know if you can route your traffic in your home in this way, but I don't see why not. Only .. I don't have Netflix and I don't know if you have box only for it or you have one box for al

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Process Being Killed on VPS

2016-02-28 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 02/26/2016 11:22 PM, Random Tor Node Operator wrote: >> I have a VPS with 512 MB RAM. [...] The relay is an entry guard >> and moves about 20 MB/s. > Is that really 20 MegaByte per second? > If so, I fear 512 MB RAM won't cut it. > According to my experience, for a 100 Mbit/s relay you need at

Re: [tor-relays] Network Bandwidth Fine Tuning

2016-02-28 Thread Moritz Bartl
>> I ran the speedtest on my VPS which gave the results below: [...] >> My Bandwidth results are averaging around 1.5mbs to 3.0mbs via the >> Tor Globe Stats page. >> >> Can someone tell me how to increase my network bandwidth based on >> what I am capable of uploading and downloading. I am allocat

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Process Being Killed on VPS

2016-02-28 Thread Sean Greenslade
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 04:03:14PM -0500, Steven Jones wrote: > clearing the memory cache with a cron job cant hurt Yes it can. There is no reason to clear the vm cache manually unless you are testing cache-related code paths. The kernel will automatically reclaim cache memory for program memory s

Re: [tor-relays] tor-relays Digest, Vol 61, Issue 41

2016-02-28 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 28 Feb 2016, at 21:17, stea...@nym.mixmin.net wrote: > > > Is your OpenSSL compiled optimised for your processor and for the > > encryption that Tor uses? > > > > I am using the OpenSSL that was compiled for my version of > Mixmaster as I am running a middle remailer on the same VPS. It is

Re: [tor-relays] tor-relays Digest, Vol 61, Issue 41

2016-02-28 Thread stealth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 13:49:20 +, you wrote: > > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 12:02:13 +0100 > From: Tim Wilson-Brown - teor > To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Network Bandwidth Fine Tuning > Message-ID: > Co

Re: [tor-relays] Netflix overblocking non-exit Tor relays

2016-02-28 Thread john saylor
On 02/28/16 11:42, Jamis Hartley wrote: > Because the support people in the call center are not IT people. They > don't understand computers and were never trained with tor nodes. They > were literally given cookie cutter responses to tell you when you come > and say that you are being blocked beca

Re: [tor-relays] Netflix overblocking non-exit Tor relays

2016-02-28 Thread Jamis Hartley
Because the support people in the call center are not IT people. They don't understand computers and were never trained with tor nodes. They were literally given cookie cutter responses to tell you when you come and say that you are being blocked because of a proxy. They don't have any knowledge of

Re: [tor-relays] Netflix overblocking non-exit Tor relays

2016-02-28 Thread john saylor
On 02/28/16 02:08, Jamis Hartley wrote: > I seriously doubt it's hostility. you may be right. as i said, it was only speculation on my part ... but why didn't netflix support say it's your tor node when i was chatting with netflix support for an hour? or even- we are detecting a proxy on your net

Re: [tor-relays] biggest guard operator apparently left the tor network

2016-02-28 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 28 Feb 2016, at 15:46, SuperSluether wrote: > > From what I understand, the 3% that was lost should eventually be distributed > to the remaining relays, correct? Within a very short period of time, clients will use other guards. They'll try guards they have previously chosen, and try new

Re: [tor-relays] biggest guard operator apparently left the tor network

2016-02-28 Thread SuperSluether
From what I understand, the 3% that was lost should eventually be distributed to the remaining relays, correct? On 02/28/2016 08:39 AM, Kurt Besig wrote: On 2/28/2016 5:00 AM, nusenu wrote: Looks like SG.GS stopped their guard relays. They had >3% guard probability. +---++

Re: [tor-relays] biggest guard operator apparently left the tor network

2016-02-28 Thread Kurt Besig
On 2/28/2016 5:00 AM, nusenu wrote: > Looks like SG.GS stopped their guard relays. They had >3% guard probability. > > +---++--+ > | Con5 | lastseen | fingerprint | > +---++-

Re: [tor-relays] Network Bandwidth Fine Tuning

2016-02-28 Thread nusenu
nusenu: >> My Bandwidth results are averaging around 1.5mbs to 3.0mbs via the >> Tor Globe Stats page. >> >> Can someone tell me how to increase my network bandwidth based on >> what I am capable of uploading and downloading. I am allocated 2TB >> of bandwidth per month from my VPS >> >> Right no

Re: [tor-relays] Network Bandwidth Fine Tuning

2016-02-28 Thread nusenu
> My Bandwidth results are averaging around 1.5mbs to 3.0mbs via the > Tor Globe Stats page. > > Can someone tell me how to increase my network bandwidth based on > what I am capable of uploading and downloading. I am allocated 2TB > of bandwidth per month from my VPS > > Right now the Advertised

Re: [tor-relays] Network Bandwidth Fine Tuning

2016-02-28 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 28 Feb 2016, at 02:14, stea...@nym.mixmin.net wrote: > > Signed PGP part > I ran the speedtest on my VPS which gave the results below: > > root$ speedtest-cli > Retrieving speedtest.net configuration... > Retrieving speedtest.net server list... > Testing from ProServe B.V. (81.4.111.251)...

[tor-relays] biggest guard operator apparently left the tor network

2016-02-28 Thread nusenu
Looks like SG.GS stopped their guard relays. They had >3% guard probability. +---++--+ | Con5 | lastseen | fingerprint | +---++--+ | SG.GS | 2016-02-22 |

Re: [tor-relays] Netflix overblocking non-exit Tor relays

2016-02-28 Thread Virgil Griffith
Netflix engineering should be clueful enough to only block Tor-exit nodes. We probably just have to find a way to get in touch with one of their network engineers? -V On Saturday, 27 February 2016, Gero Kuehn wrote: > tl;dr: Even paying customers sharing IPs with non-exit Tor relays are now > b