[tor-relays] TOR Exit Relay Bandwidth Drop

I run a fast tor exit relay. It goes to 100MB/s easy after a few days but every 2 weeks something happens (no hardware/network issue on this node locally) and the tor bandwidth drops down to 1-2MB/s. Then I have to stop the tor service and start it again after a couple mins. Most of the times,

[tor-relays] Curiosity about connections list

I'm used to seeing many connections on my middle and bridge nodes, but on the new Exit node in NYX I'm seeing ~850 inbound connections and 0 outbound connections, this seems strange. Googling isn't getting me very far, whats with this behavior? ___ t

Re: [tor-relays] orport

I'm not sure how TOR gets its addresses but sometimes you need to specify it directly, especially for bridges for some reason. Just use your whole IP ORPort 123.456.789.123:80 Dont forget if you are mapping Obfs4 you need to add the permissions so obfs can go to a port that low /Don't

[tor-relays] metrics

Hello, im trying to enable prometheus metrics, and... something goes wrong: torrc: MetricsPort 9166 MetricsPortPolicy accept * after tor restart in logs: Tor[15368]: Opening Metrics listener on 127.0.0.1:9166 Tor[15368]

[tor-relays] relayor v21.0.0 is released

Hi, relayor v21.0.0 is released. relayor is an ansible [1] role that helps you with running tor relays with minimal effort (automate everything). https://github.com/nusenu/ansible-relayor [1] https://www.ansible.com/ This version contains a bugfix: * the GPG key for deb.torproject.org expir

Re: [tor-relays] anyone else getting sync floods from russia?

Glad to hear its nothing personal. Putin still loves me ♥️ Thats Perl? I have no clue what it does. We already changed the timers on the TCP connections and we have scripts running which are blocking IPs who will send us x connections. Right now they changed tactics and for me it looks like

Re: [tor-relays] anyone else getting sync floods from russia?

On 2/20/21 2:25 AM, niftybunny wrote: https://i.imgur.com/nDbaXqH.png https://i.imgur.com/Y5259wW.png Yep, I do wonder if sth like netstat --tcp -n -4 | perl -wane ' BEGIN { $Hist=(); } { next unless (m/^tcp/); ($Remote) = spl