Re: [tor-relays] Email Blocked by ISP

2019-05-17 Thread gerard
Yea, the big corporates do not want anyone to run their own email servers now, and I may end up giving up, as no longer really need a VPS as I am retired. Email servers that are not a run through big corporation are by definition suspicious. At one time I ran Tor with a separated IP address

Re: [tor-relays] Trouble Running Middle Relay On Google Cloud Debian VBS

2019-05-17 Thread Keifer Bly
Thanks. I wonder why the relay is not showing up in the consensus, it is sending and reiceving data but is showing this error. ay 16 00:58:51.000 [warn] Received http status code 404 ("Not found") from server ' 45.62.242.212:9030' while fetching consensus directory. Heartbeat: It seems like we ar

Re: [tor-relays] Email Blocked by ISP

2019-05-17 Thread Neel Chauhan
Looking at your email address, you have an ISP assigned email. Unless you work for Spectrum, you shouldn't use an ISP email account. I'd advise you either: * Sign up for a third-party email service like Gmail, Outlook, ProtonMail, or Tutanota * If you can maintain one, run your own email s

[tor-relays] new tor middle relay error

2019-05-17 Thread Keifer Bly
Hi all, So I am running a new tor middle relay via a Google Cloud VPS but after the relay running for 1 day I am seeing this error May 16 18:23:50.000 [notice] Heartbeat: It seems like we are not in the cached consensus. Any thoughts on why this is happening is appreciated, thank you. --Keifer _

Re: [tor-relays] Trouble Running Middle Relay On Google Cloud Debian VBS

2019-05-17 Thread Neel Chauhan
Keifer, I think your Cron script is problematic. The script: 0 0 1 * * apt-get update apt update && apt install -y --only-upgrade tor killall tor tor Would kill Tor and since you don't have "&& tor" after the "killall tor", it is not restarting it. But I'd advise just giving up on cron. F

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay problem

2019-05-17 Thread Alex Xu
Quoting Roger Dingledine (2019-05-16 22:24:47) > On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 06:56:10PM +, findmei wrote: > > May 15 14:42:13.000 [warn] Unable to stat resolver configuration in > > '/etc/resolv.conf': Permission denied > > This one is weird and unexpected. Your relay can't do any dns resolves >