Re: [tor-relays] tor-arm question

What does the cat /var/log/tor/log says? On Tuesday, June 17, 2014 6:56 PM, Adam Griffin wrote: Running top in a separate SSH session shows ~50% load average.  I imagine spikes would cause the CLI interruptions and maybe relay unresponsive/resumed notices. Did you have the same blank upt

Re: [tor-relays] Help keeping Tor relay up

If you are on Linux it is worth to install ARM to monitor it. https://www.torproject.org/projects/arm.html.en   Also check from https://globe.torproject.org/ On Thursday, June 19, 2014 5:26 AM, Evelyne Fong wrote: I've managed to get my relay running long enough to run the bandwidth c

Re: [tor-relays] Traffic limitation

One way is to limit the bw in /etc/tor/torrc  RelayBandwidthRate 100 KB Long term you have to get at least 2TB vps or unmetered bandwidth. Once the relay is stable there will be lot of connections. On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 8:56 PM, "s...@sky-ip.org" wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAG

Re: [tor-relays] Exit policies pointing to IP blocks not appearing on Globe

Hi there, Welcome to the club of Tor operators. While congratulating you, just wanna remind you not to mix your traffic with Tor exit traffic for clarity. For your specific question, after making changes in exit policy how long did you wait before checking on globe? On Monday, June 9, 2014

Re: [tor-relays] VPS for tor exit nodes

I have gone through the GoodBadISPs but I'm looking for latest input from exit operators. Selected vps because don't want to see provider bans my account sometime later when running an exit node on a dedicated server. But I'm ok if can get a dedicated server for a decent price. All I need is

Re: [tor-relays] VPS for tor exit nodes

>I can only say I have exits running on VPSs which either had no bar to exits >originally and >changed, or had but let me through anyway. >One accepted a very plain statement of it being a Tor exit and even helped >sort out numerous >issues then, after I hired eight more annually, just >stopp

[tor-relays] VPS for tor exit nodes

Dear exit node operators, Could you please recommend vps providers allowing to run tor exit nodes? I checked many vps operators but most of them allow relays but not exit nodes according to AUP or ToS. thanks. ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@l

Re: [tor-relays] hardening a tor relay

That is a great piece of advice David. I have enabled the tcp outgoing 9001 and seeing a lot of new connections established to relays with 9001 ORPort. Thanks a lot. Keep it up guys... On Saturday, May 24, 2014 8:51 AM, David Serrano wrote: On 2014-05-24 01:25:36 (-0700), Contra Band

Re: [tor-relays] hardening a tor relay

Thanks guys, Your experience is really helpful. After some thoughts now I'm allowing only incoming tcp ports 443 and ssh outgoing tcp port 443 I haven't enabled the Dirport. Heard all tor relays are dir mirrors by default. Later I will read the nsa, Linux hardening guide. It looks good. Tha

Re: [tor-relays] hardening a tor relay

Thanks guys, Your experience is really helpful. After some thoughts now I'm allowing only incoming tcp ports 443 and ssh outgoing tcp port 443 I haven't enabled the Dirport. Heard all tor relays are dir mirrors by default. Later I will read the nsa, Linux hardening guide. It looks good. Tha

Re: [tor-relays] hardening a tor relay

Thanks guys, Your experience is really helpful. After some thoughts now I'm allowing only incoming tcp ports 443 and ssh outgoing tcp port 443 I haven't enabled the Dirport. Heard all tor relays are dir mirrors by default. Later I will read the nsa, Linux hardening guide. It looks good. Tha

[tor-relays] hardening a tor relay

Hi all, I'm impressed by Tor and its contribution to freedom of speech and started to run some tor relays. The first one is https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/DBE3CE33BA8BF1CB98091EE2A72690DF8218C2C3 and I have applied tight iptables to that as below. Can somebody advise what should be add/