Re: [tor-relays] Advantage in more exits in the same /8?

2014-08-27 Thread Jesse Victors
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA384 On 08/27/2014 04:03 PM, tor-relays-requ...@lists.torproject.org wrote: > Not to drift too far off course, but I think you have your masking > back wards or confused at least. > > a /8 is 16M addresses 18.0.0.0/8 for example, so not a small block, >

Re: [tor-relays] Advantage in more exits in the same /8?

2014-08-27 Thread Jesse Victors
text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Jesse Victors > wrote: > >> I run some relays and an exit in a university setting. The nodes are in the >> same /8 block and are physically close to one another as well. Is there any >> advantage i

[tor-relays] Advantage in more exits in the same /8?

2014-08-26 Thread Jesse Victors
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA384 Hey everyone, I run some relays and an exit in a university setting. The nodes are in the same /8 block and are physically close to one another as well. Is there any advantage in turning one of the relays into another exit? This is something th

[tor-relays] Number of relays by version

2014-08-16 Thread Jesse Victors
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA384 Hey guys, Today on Reddit I saw a post on /r/Tor that listed the number of relays by version, which was pretty cool. While OP apparently loaded the information into SQLite and selected the count, there's another way to do it: sudo cat /var/lib/t

Re: [tor-relays] Contacting Apple About a Block IP Address

2014-08-13 Thread Jesse Victors
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA384 I don't know about that. The number of site that ban all Tor nodes (exits and non-exits alike) is relatively low compared to the number of websites that don't. The banning happens when trigger-happy sysadmins think that 1) IP address == user, and

[tor-relays] Exits behind a next-gen firewall? Opinions please

2014-07-10 Thread Jesse Victors
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hey guys, I've been running some exit nodes for some time now, and they're doing well. They've burned through many terabytes of bandwidth, and thanks to Tor's recommended reduced exit policy, complaints have been minimal. Clearly the vast major

[tor-relays] My exit's traffic isn't rising, is this normal?

2014-06-24 Thread Jesse Victors
Hello everyone, I run https://globe.torproject.org/#/relay/1946F5E4748B069D3B989B5AF50C7DDD3AC61859 and from the graphs it's clear that the traffic has roughly leveled off, rather than continue to climb. I generated a new key after Heartbleed, so it's been up for nearly three months. The bandw

Re: [tor-relays] Update your OpenSSL, several high-risk CVEs

2014-06-06 Thread Jesse Victors
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Ok, will do, thanks. On 06/06/2014 07:10 AM, Tom van der Woerdt wrote: > Yes, please restart Tor after updating -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQF

Re: [tor-relays] Update your OpenSSL, several high-risk CVEs

2014-06-06 Thread Jesse Victors
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Thanks. I saw the OpenSSL update, but thanks for explaining what it was about. Is it necessary to restart Tor to apply the update? Jesse V. On 06/06/2014 04:00 AM, tor-relays-requ...@lists.torproject.org wrote: > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 05 Jun

[tor-relays] Sudden drop in number of active relays

2014-04-20 Thread Jesse Victors
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hey everyone, I just checked in on https://metrics.torproject.org/network.html and noticed that there's been sudden drops in the number of relays which seems to have caused all other graphs to tank as well. It's too late for this drop to be caused

Re: [tor-relays] Init.d script for two simultaneous Tor instances

2014-04-18 Thread Jesse Victors
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Yes, it's better to have faster relays. However, if you are setting up a relay or exit on a gigabit connection it may take some time before you see significant utilization of the pipe. By running two Tor instances at once you can increase the contr

Re: [tor-relays] Init.d script for two simultaneous Tor instances

2014-04-18 Thread Jesse Victors
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I prefer "ps aux | grep tor" and then you can seem them running side by side. You can also seem them on htop, which I prefer over top. My init.d script sets a different log file to each instance, allowing you to monitor the logs of each independent

[tor-relays] Init.d script for two simultaneous Tor instances

2014-04-17 Thread Jesse Victors
In case anyone is interested in running two Tor instances (regular, bridge, relay, exit) on one machine, I've successfully made an init.d script to do just that. From searches on Google it looks like others have asked about this in the past, so I'm sharing this for them. Tor only allows two Tor in

[tor-relays] NSA knew about Heartbleed

2014-04-11 Thread Jesse Victors
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Saw this article: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-11/nsa-said-to-have-used-heartbleed-bug-exposing-consumers.html "The U.S. National Security Agency knew for at least two years about a flaw in the way that many websites send sensitive inform

Re: [tor-relays] Relays vulnerable to OpenSSL bug: Please upgrade

2014-04-08 Thread Jesse Victors
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I've updated OpenSSL, deleted the keys on my exit per the recommendations, and restarted the whole box. I got a new fingerprint. I'll watch to see how long the flags take to come back, but I predict it will be like a new relay. I wonder how this cha

[tor-relays] Ask Me Anything on Reddit about Tor

2014-03-11 Thread Jesse Victors
I recently held an Ask Me Anything on Reddit about Tor. For those that don't know, Reddit is famous for its AMAs, wherein someone unique or otherwise interesting will introduce themselves and then the community gets a chance to ask questions and learn. Traditionally it's been used as an excellent w

[tor-relays] Advise on fully using a gigabit connection

2014-03-05 Thread Jesse Victors
Hey everyone. I manage an exit at a university, and I recently moved it to a gigabit connection. I did some tests and the machine does appear to be capable of fully using the available bandwidth. Besides getting two Tor instances to run side-by-side on the same IP, is there anything else I can do t

Re: [tor-relays] Phishy

2014-02-03 Thread Jesse Victors
> FYI: Just got this to my Tor relay mail address, with a zip file > attached extracting to a '.scr' win exe. Curiously routed via a .gov.uk > mail relay... > > GB03022014.scr: PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windows > > MD5: dba1e52929f6ca9d1a1bf87e4ff469cf GB2546241.zip > MD5: fb11414

Re: [tor-relays] Considering setting up an exit, need advice

2014-01-31 Thread Jesse Victors
> Have you set AccountingMax in your torrc, by chance? > > Also, you sure are restarting the relay a lot. You should learn how to > use 'service reload' rather than 'service restart'. :) No, I don't have AccountingMax enabled, which is one of the reasons why I was puzzled by the hibernation flag. T

Re: [tor-relays] Considering setting up an exit, need advice

2014-01-31 Thread Jesse Victors
Thanks again guys for the help. "usuexit" is now online, and should be functioning properly, but there seem to be a few mystifying issues: 1) TorStatus marks it as "hibernating" which it clearly isn't; it's online and accepting connections. I'm not sure what made TorStatus think it was offline. 2)

Re: [tor-relays] Considering setting up an exit, need advice

2014-01-27 Thread Jesse Victors
Thanks guys for the tips. I followed the docs and suggestions here and on the blog/website, carefully worded an email to them, and sent it off earlier today. They just got back with me and they were on board with the idea! They even gave me some tips on setting it up, and were considering setting

[tor-relays] Considering setting up an exit, need advice

2014-01-23 Thread Jesse Victors
Hello everyone, I'm thinking about setting up an exit here at my university here in the US. My ISP has no problem with Tor relays on the fast connections, but I haven't inquired about exits. I'd be running the exit on a surplus computer that I have control over in a lab in one of the main buildin

Re: [tor-relays] Traceroute measurement from Tor relays

2013-10-24 Thread Jesse Victors
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 > That's where you come in. To figure out where traffic travels from > your relay, we'd like you to run a bunch of "traceroutes" - network > measurements that show the paths traffic takes. This is a one-time > experiment for now, but, depending on

Re: [tor-relays] My Relay speed has dropped nearly to zero - Why?

2013-10-19 Thread Jesse Victors
On 10/19/2013 06:00 AM, tor-relays-requ...@lists.torproject.org wrote: > Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 00:55:42 -0400 > From: Torop > To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > Subject: Re: [tor-relays] My Relay speed has dropped nearly to zero - > Why? > Message-ID: <526210ce.80...@optonl

Re: [tor-relays] NSA's "Tor Stinks"

2013-10-09 Thread Jesse Victors
vm1.site> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > On Tue, 2013-10-08 at 23:40 -0400, krishna e bera wrote: >> On 13-10-08 03:23 PM, Jesse Victors wrote: >>> ... >>> obviously has implications into other Tor users, the vast majority of >>

[tor-relays] NSA's "Tor Stinks"

2013-10-08 Thread Jesse Victors
I recently ran across several articles related to the NSA's attempts at cracking Tor and de-anonymizing its users. They are after terrorists and other individuals who seek to do harm of course, but their work obviously has implications into other Tor users, the vast majority of whom use Tor for le

Re: [tor-relays] Future versions and Vidalia?

2013-09-23 Thread Jesse Victors
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 > Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 12:54:34 +0300 > From: "J.C." > To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > Subject: [tor-relays] Future versions and Vidalia? > Message-ID: <52400fda.2060...@riseup.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flo

Re: [tor-relays] Getting max bandwidth out of a relay

2013-09-12 Thread Jesse Victors
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 > As I am trying to avoid using too many IPs (IPv4 is constrainted, IPv6 > is not, but the latter won't get much traffic), I'll try if I can get my > tcp-balancer idea setup in the run of next week (low on spare cycles at > the moment) and then for

Re: [tor-relays] Why is my fast relay so slow to gain popularity?

2013-09-11 Thread Jesse Victors
> (Most folks would just call that 100mbit, that is if your MB is > MegaByte, hence why 11.5 MiB/s would be more accurate). Yes, it is megabytes/sec, according to Speedtest.net. Most sysadmins would say 91.74 mbit down, 60.23 mbit up, (which is as you say basically 100 mbit) but since the Tor measu

[tor-relays] Why is my fast relay so slow to gain popularity?

2013-09-11 Thread Jesse Victors
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hello everyone, newcomer here. I'm behind very fast connection (11.5 MB/sec down, 7.5 MB/sec up) and I thought that the Tor network could benefit from my connection, especially since it's apparently been under high load recently. Per the latest blo