Re: [tor-relays] Relay down, "rejected", help

2014-04-19 Thread Luther Blissett
On Sat, 2014-04-19 at 07:42 -0700, kbesig wrote: > 1. As non-admin: /usr/bin/vidalia > > (process:540): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS > daemon: > An AppArmor policy prevents this sender from sending this message to > this recipient, 0 matched rules; type="method_call",

Re: [tor-relays] Onion address or clearnet address

2014-02-07 Thread Luther Blissett
On Fri, 2014-02-07 at 06:26 -0500, Tom Ritter wrote: > On 6 February 2014 14:51, Thomas Themel wrote: > > Hi, > > Luther Blissett (lbliss...@paranoici.org) wrote on 2014-02-06: > >> 1. When you access the clearnet you need dns name resolving which need > >> to

Re: [tor-relays] Onion address or clearnet address

2014-02-06 Thread Luther Blissett
On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 12:56 +0800, Hang wrote: > Some sites such as RiseUp and DuckDuckGo could be accessed via onion > addresses. I would like to know which address (onion address vs clearnet > address) should I use when using TBB. I believe both ways are more or > less the same in terms of identi

Re: [tor-relays] privoxy, port 8118 scans

2014-01-20 Thread Luther Blissett
On Sun, 2014-01-19 at 15:38 +, Mateusz Błaszczyk wrote: > Hey > > I am wondering if this is a coincidence but since I started the tor relay, I > see a lot of TCP/8118 connections attempts on my relay's external IP. > > I run the offending source IPs (aggregated to /24s) through cymru's ip-to

Re: [tor-relays] tor-relays Digest, Vol 36, Issue 23

2014-01-19 Thread Luther Blissett
On Sat, 2014-01-18 at 18:24 +, ja...@icetor.is wrote: > Jack I'd be happy to help you, > we could chat over xmpp using otr if you're able. my username is > kupoj...@gmail.com. I'll help you set up your machine as a relay. > -J > > On 01/18/2014 06:05 PM, Jack Wilborn wrote: > > I have an extra

Re: [tor-relays] How to force VPS to update to current release?

2014-01-07 Thread Luther Blissett
On Tue, 2014-01-07 at 13:40 -0800, I wrote: > Luther, > > Following that page's help has allowed me to get mulitple VPSs working for > Tor but I am asking what to do when apt-get update or yum update doesn't get > the newer version of Tor. > How an update can be forced is the question. > > (The

Re: [tor-relays] How to force VPS to update to current release?

2014-01-07 Thread Luther Blissett
For reference: https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en#ubuntu This page describes the proper method of sync'n your "sources.list" file with Tor project's repos. -- 010 001 111 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part __

Re: [tor-relays] running a relay on a home connection

2013-12-19 Thread Luther Blissett
On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 17:35 +0530, abhiram wrote: > > Great! DDNS service looks like a nice way to make this permanent. The > other thing I managed was by enabling upnp in my router, the address > discovery takes place automatically. > > thanks for the suggestions! Though there are choices, I wo

Re: [tor-relays] running a relay on a home connection

2013-12-17 Thread Luther Blissett
On Tue, 2013-12-17 at 11:25 +0530, abhiram wrote: > Hello, > > I am running a tor relay on a home connection. My connection is > assigned a new ip as the lease expires every few days. So far I am > fixing this my editing my torrc file with the new address value. Are > there better ways of handing

Re: [tor-relays] Traffic in port 9050 in a relay (denial of service attack?)

2013-11-12 Thread Luther Blissett
On Mon, 2013-11-11 at 19:55 -0500, Jeroen Massar wrote: > PS: Try doing a packet sniff on a link with thousands of connections and > where your user cannot tell you what source IP they have; next to the > fact that they might just be using the wrong destination host... ;) > > Greets, > Jeroen >

Re: [tor-relays] Traffic in port 9050 in a relay (denial of service attack?)

2013-11-11 Thread Luther Blissett
On Wed, 2013-11-06 at 14:00 +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote: > On 2013-11-06 13:47 , mick wrote: > > On Wed, 06 Nov 2013 14:00:09 +0200 > > Lars Noodén allegedly wrote: > > > >> On 11/06/2013 01:26 PM, mick wrote: > >>> I disagree. Dropping all traffic other than that which is > >>> explicitly require

Re: [tor-relays] Traffic in port 9050 in a relay (denial of service attack?)

2013-11-05 Thread Luther Blissett
On Tue, 2013-11-05 at 09:36 +0100, jj tor wrote: > Sorry for the confusión, the exact line in my torrc is "Socksport 0", so, > SOCKS port is closed. Moreover, I haven't got any exit rule towards port > 9050 > > Even if I block this traffic using iptables, I am very curious about why > the server

Re: [tor-relays] Running more nets than Tor?

2013-10-04 Thread Luther Blissett
On Fri, 2013-10-04 at 04:31 -0400, grarpamp wrote: > Anyone also offering up vpngate, i2p, mail mixes, other > p2p/networks, etc to the public on their relay platform? > ___ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torpr

Re: [tor-relays] Relay security, re: local network

2013-09-25 Thread Luther Blissett
On Wed, 2013-09-25 at 19:10 +0300, Joe wrote: > Hi, > > I'm planning to run a Tor relay on a spare computer at home. Security is > a concern, and not only regarding the machine running the relay but also > my other computers. Are there any (theoretical or otherwise) known > attacks a person can

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

2013-09-24 Thread Luther Blissett
On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 13:36 +0300, J.C. wrote: > So far I haven't seen any other error messages than something about a > failed DNS server, which always corrects itself half a second or so > afterwards, stating nameservers are back up. It's running on a 100/10 > connection, pushing as much upstr

Re: [tor-relays] Sent open privoxy port warning

2013-09-13 Thread Luther Blissett
Ow, forgot to say, don't bother with that hex. From what I could get with the help of others, this is just a byte reversed/corrupted log entry. Since the hard drive used to store logs is some years old, I guess this is related to badblocks. On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 12:35 -0700, Aaron Hopkins wrote:

Re: [tor-relays] Sent open privoxy port warning

2013-09-13 Thread Luther Blissett
On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 12:35 -0700, Aaron Hopkins wrote: > I sent the following warning to the listed e-mail address of 14 of the 19 > Tor nodes I found that accepted connections on port 8118, some of which > bounced. > > If any of you run or know how to get in touch with the operators of the > no