Re: [tor-relays] New exit node best practices

2017-05-26 Thread teor
> On 27 May 2017, at 11:10, nusenu wrote: > >> What questions should I be asking to be sure they'll be Tor friendly >> before shutting down my exit nodes? > > Often you will find out only after they see the actual abuses coming in, > but another fine method is to ask for custom WHOIS so the abu

Re: [tor-relays] New exit node best practices

2017-05-26 Thread nusenu
Hi Isaac, > After many months of running a relay, I'm planning to establish up a > family of exit nodes with geographically diverse VPS providers, thanks for caring about geo-diversity! > Several questions: - Does establishing a family increase the risk of > the nodes being taken down en masse?

[tor-relays] New exit node best practices

2017-05-26 Thread Isaac Grover, Aileron I.T.
Good evening, After many months of running a relay, I'm planning to establish up a family of exit nodes with geographically diverse VPS providers, shying away from the list of the most heavily used Tor friendly providers. Several questions: - Does establishing a family increase the risk of the

Re: [tor-relays] Who is running the two biggest Exits in the network?

2017-05-26 Thread nusenu
> I'm just wanting to raise the point, that while lack of contact > information may be concerning, in my opinion the contact information is > definitely not something you should rely on to assess how untrustworthy > a given relay is. A person or group with malicious intentions can fake > this, easi

Re: [tor-relays] Who is running the two biggest Exits in the network?

2017-05-26 Thread Duncan
Hi Paul, Paul: Since about mid April there are just two similar Exits making up now about 4.5% exit probability together. Located in Panama, run in the okservers.net network, AS395978 ,they don’t give up any further information about themselves. Personally I would feel better at least having a

Re: [tor-relays] Who is running the two biggest Exits in the network?

2017-05-26 Thread teor
> On 27 May 2017, at 02:28, Nagaev Boris wrote: > > On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 3:26 PM, nusenu wrote: >>> Since about mid April there are just two similar Exits making up now about >>> 4.5% exit probability together. >>> Located in Panama, run in the okservers.net network, AS395978 ,they don’t >

Re: [tor-relays] Questions about OfflineMasterKey

2017-05-26 Thread nusenu
Cristian Consonni: > On 18/05/2017 10:45, nusenu wrote:>> I don't know any context or background > but if you fear this could happen > end to use tor's OfflineMasterKey feature (without >> copying the master key to the server) with a short keylifetime (i.e. 7 >> days), especially if it is a fallba

Re: [tor-relays] Memory Problems with tor releay

2017-05-26 Thread teor
> On 23 May 2017, at 04:29, tor-relay.d...@o.banes.ch wrote: > > we are operating two exit nodes with each two tor processes out of > Switzerland. > The nodes worked quite stable until about 2-3 weeks ago. > > Since then we experience frequent disruptions (Up to several times a > day). This is c

Re: [tor-relays] Who is running the two biggest Exits in the network?

2017-05-26 Thread Nagaev Boris
On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 3:26 PM, nusenu wrote: >> Since about mid April there are just two similar Exits making up now about >> 4.5% exit probability together. >> Located in Panama, run in the okservers.net network, AS395978 ,they don’t >> give up any further information about themselves. >> >>

[tor-relays] Questions about OfflineMasterKey

2017-05-26 Thread Cristian Consonni
Hi, On 18/05/2017 10:45, nusenu wrote:>> Currently, my server hosting kitten1 and kitten2 (tor guard and fallback >> directory) is under seizure since 14/05 11h. butplease revoke >> immediatly kitten1 & kitten2 tor node. >> Those nodes are also fallback directory. > > I don't know any context or

Re: [tor-relays] Who is running the two biggest Exits in the network?

2017-05-26 Thread nusenu
> Since about mid April there are just two similar Exits making up now about > 4.5% exit probability together. > Located in Panama, run in the okservers.net network, AS395978 ,they don’t > give up any further information about themselves. > > Personally I would feel better at least having a cont

Re: [tor-relays] reminder: tor 0.3.1.1-alpha is _not_ recommended (known bug)

2017-05-26 Thread nusenu
> you might want to wait for tor > 0.3.1.2-alpha https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2017-May/043220.html -- https://mastodon.social/@nusenu https://twitter.com/nusenu_ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tor-relay

[tor-relays] Who is running the two biggest Exits in the network?

2017-05-26 Thread Paul
Since about mid April there are just two similar Exits making up now about 4.5% exit probability together. Located in Panama, run in the okservers.net network, AS395978 ,they don’t give up any further information about themselves. Personally I would feel better at least having a contact or even

[tor-relays] reminder: tor 0.3.1.1-alpha is _not_ recommended (known bug)

2017-05-26 Thread nusenu
Since there were only 8 relays running 0.3.1.1-alpha I didn't bother to state this here, but since the number is rising since yesterday I just wanted to remind you that tor 0.3.1.1-alpha contains a bug that makes this not a good version to use. In the worst case (unlikely) you would publish a limi

[tor-relays] n...@neelc.org relays: MyFamily and tor version update needed

2017-05-26 Thread nusenu
Hi Neel, thanks for running FreeBSD tor relays. Your new relay added yesterday is not yet in sync with your other relays yet, please consider updating the MyFamily configuration to help protect tor clients from using a single operator in entry and exit position: https://atlas.torproject.org/#detai