Re: [tor-relays] FYI: Subpoena Received

2018-06-07 Thread I
Are and or the relay in USA? FYI, I received a subpoena from a US based court to produce information about individual(s) who were using one of our exit nodes at a specific date/time.  In the nearly 3 months that these exits have been in operation, this is the first subpoena and only the second

[tor-relays] FYI: Subpoena Received

2018-06-07 Thread "IPfail (Tor Admin)"
FYI, I received a subpoena from a US based court to produce information about individual(s) who were using one of our exit nodes at a specific date/time. In the nearly 3 months that these exits have been in operation, this is the first subpoena and only the second complaint received. For purpo

Re: [tor-relays] Trying to set up a relay at home, but get no connections

2018-06-07 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Roger Dingledine dijo [Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 01:20:19AM -0400]: > First, did your relay find itself reachable (both ORPort and DirPort) > at startup? Look for lines like > > Jun 05 12:47:50.013 [notice] Self-testing indicates your ORPort is reachable > from the outside. Excellent. > > and > > Ju

Re: [tor-relays] Trying to set up a relay at home, but get no connections

2018-06-07 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 11:37:26PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > The following happens every couple of hours: All of these log entries are fine and normal except this one: > Jun 07 09:36:19.000 [notice] Heartbeat: It seems like we are not in the > cached consensus. > Jun 07 15:36:19.000 [n

[tor-relays] Trying to set up a relay at home, but get no connections

2018-06-07 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Hello, I have set up a VM at my home server (via fiber DSL) to work as a Tor relay. I have set up port forwarding for ORport and DirPort (defaults, 9001 and 9030). The logs don't give me any useful information — or, possibly, I fail to grok anything useful ;-) The following happens every couple o

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Guard Relay

2018-06-07 Thread Neel Chauhan
On 2018-06-07 14:08, Keifer Bly wrote: Thanks. How much bandwidth and uptime do I need to become a guard relay? Sent from my iPhone Bandwidth requirments: A guard is the first relay in the chain of 3 relays building a Tor circuit. A middle relay is neither a guard nor an exit, but acts as t

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Guard Relay

2018-06-07 Thread Keifer Bly
Thanks. How much bandwidth and uptime do I need to become a guard relay? Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 7, 2018, at 5:39 AM, Neel Chauhan wrote: > > The guard flag gets automatically assigned to you if you have enough > bandwidth and uptime. You usually don't get to choose. You can still > infl

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Guard Relay

2018-06-07 Thread Neel Chauhan
The guard flag gets automatically assigned to you if you have enough bandwidth and uptime. You usually don't get to choose. You can still influence it by inducing downtime or limiting bandwidth (but both will be counterproductive). There are no risks in being a guard node, unlike being an exit.