Re: [tor-relays] Guard flag got removed after only 48 hours of downtime.

2020-07-30 Thread ECAN - Matt Westfall
r problems? So when it shows back up, the metrics want to makes sure it's going to stay up before giving it Guard back :-D Thanks, Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. Everything Computers and Networks 804.592.1672 -- Original Message -- From: "Sebasti

Re: [tor-relays] Authority Nodes

2020-07-06 Thread Matt Westfall
te that it can and should, initiate bandwidth tests and report them back to the actual authorities? Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. Everything Computers and Networks 804.592.1672 http://ecansol.com On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 5:59 AM Roger Dingledine wrote: > On Fri, Jun 19,

Re: [tor-relays] Consensus Weight low when compared to Advertised Bandwidth

2019-12-16 Thread Matt Westfall
Consensus weight is no lo ger based on advertised bandwidth to prevent abuse. It is based on measured and observed actual throughput. -- Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. 804.592.1672 On December 16, 2019 1:30:48 PM EST, Neel Chauhan wrote: >Hi, > >Af

Re: [tor-relays] Consensus Weight low when compared to Advertised Bandwidth

2019-12-16 Thread Matt Westfall
Also you didn't migrate your fingerprint. So it's a new server and will take weeks if not months for the consensus weight to creep up. -- Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. 804.592.1672 On December 16, 2019 1:30:48 PM EST, Neel Chauhan wrote: >Hi, &

Re: [tor-relays] MyFamily line commented out but stays valid?

2019-11-08 Thread ECAN - Matt Westfall
If memory serves, if you're running multiple nodes on the same IP or in the same /24 tor protocol automatically families any nodes running in the same /24 Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. Everything Computers and Networks 804.592.1672 -- Original Message --

Re: [tor-relays] Migrating to CentOS8

2019-11-08 Thread ECAN - Matt Westfall
I just setup a C8 / 0.4 yesterday on a linode nanode, seems to be running fine so far: https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/4E559E30279092315BF907DABDF00720473F8320 Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. Everything Computers and Networks 804.592.1672 -- Orig

Re: [tor-relays] The Onion Box v19.2: Dashboard to monitor Tor node operations

2019-11-08 Thread ECAN - Matt Westfall
This looks promising then, especially as I intend to expand the tor nodes I'm donating to the network. Just added a middle in Japan yesterday :) I'll definitely check it out, thanks for the effort put into this!! Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. Everything

Re: [tor-relays] "large number of connections to other relays" - What should I do?

2019-11-08 Thread ECAN - Matt Westfall
I noticed this yesterday when setting up a new node. It's because Tor establishes a bunch of internal circuits for testing and stability when you first start it up so it can measure it and such. Mine went away after about 24 hours. Thanks, Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solut

Re: [tor-relays] Fingerprint Change?!?

2019-10-30 Thread ECAN - Matt Westfall
I guess it was file system corruption, because: https://puu.sh/EyXCk/6e7a7b36a7.png it's on the physical file system Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. Everything Computers and Networks 804.592.1672 -- Original Message -- From: "teor&qu

Re: [tor-relays] The Onion Box v19.2: Dashboard to monitor Tor node operations

2019-10-30 Thread ECAN - Matt Westfall
As far as I can tell, this just gives you a graphical representation of the data available from metrics.torproject.. which already has graphs... I'm confused. Can you elaborate as to why someone should look into running this? Thanks, Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solut

Re: [tor-relays] New relay in USA: bridge or middle relay?

2019-10-30 Thread ECAN - Matt Westfall
ut there -definitely- needs to be a more intelligent system developed for determining this. I just proved that I have 2 GIGABITS of bandwidth HUNDREDS to other countries, but there is 20 MegaBits flowing through my relay, lol. Thanks, Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc.

[tor-relays] Fingerprint Change?!?

2019-10-20 Thread ECAN - Matt Westfall
For some reason, and somehow my fingerprint for tor changed about a month ago :( It is now : C9FD236FDE28003315BD8C96EE94BC58D85FBACF It used to be: B1B10104EB72A1FBBF6687B05F1915D87D00DBDE Anyone have any idea why this would have happened? Thanks, Matt Westfall President & CIO

Re: [tor-relays] FYI - DNS

2019-10-07 Thread Matt Westfall
I also do -not- get an answer @ that DNS but other domains resolve https://puu.sh/Ep4Ws/150c13aef7.png Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. Everything Computers and Networks 804.592.1672 -- Original Message -- From: "Geoff Down" To: tor-relays@lists.torpr

Re: [tor-relays] Short Research Survey

2019-09-16 Thread Matt Westfall
have to have a stock car. I can't take my tricycle there. ;-) -- Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. 804.592.1672 On September 10, 2019 3:43:58 AM EDT, teor wrote: > >Hi, > >> On 10 Sep 2019, at 14:35, Anon-research >wrote: >> >> Dear

Re: [tor-relays] ORPort

2019-09-13 Thread Matt Westfall
Is your node behind a routee/firewall? You most likely need to forward ports in your router. -- Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. 804.592.1672 On September 10, 2019 9:46:50 PM EDT, Anonforpeace wrote: >Hello: > >Hope someone can help me. I'm trying to

Re: [tor-relays] tor relay ipv6

2019-08-22 Thread Matt Westfall
That's why I personally just disable all firewalls and just configure acls in vulnerable services themselves. Don't let mysql listen on anything but local host, server secured lol. -- Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. 804.592.1672 On August 22, 2019 11:46:44

Re: [tor-relays] tor relay ipv6

2019-08-22 Thread Matt Westfall
141.963 ms 13 2a03:e2c0:bc7::2 (2a03:e2c0:bc7::2) 140.933 ms 141.737 ms 141.245 ms So perhaps your ISP is wonking with tor traffic as suggested. Thanks, Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. Everything Computers and Networks 804.592.1672 -- Original Message --

Re: [tor-relays] tor relay ipv6

2019-08-22 Thread Matt Westfall
ateam:/etc/network# cat interfaces iface eno1 inet6 static address 2001:559:800c:1900::5a02 netmask 126 gateway 2001:559:800c:1900::5a01 dns-nameserver 2620:0:ccc::2 2620:0:ccd::2 Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. Everything Computers and Networks 804.592.1672 -- Origina

Re: [tor-relays] tor relay ipv6

2019-08-22 Thread Matt Westfall
IPv6 at the OS Side is not difficult whatsoever. My node is running IPv6, I have 2Gbps Comcast Fiber. It's literally no different than configuring IPv4 other than its hexidecimal and a lot more digits :-D Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. Everything Computers and

Re: [tor-relays] Measuring the Accuracy of Tor Relays' Advertised Bandwidths

2019-07-30 Thread Matt Westfall
confirm/verify available bandwidth versus just using whatever 'ol configuration value is set. But it's definitely kind of slowed nodes down in general :( Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. Everything Computers and Networks 804.592.1672 -- Original Message -

Re: [tor-relays] Unutilized bandwidth

2019-07-30 Thread Matt Westfall
he -stable- flag so it's leaned on more. That doesn't really affect the underlying issue of tor nodes with TONS of bandwidth not being utilized a little more. But I'm happy to donate whatever the tor protocol decides it wants to use :( Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutio

Re: [tor-relays] Unutilized bandwidth

2019-07-14 Thread Matt Westfall
were basically is what it is and I mean we're still helping the network by running a node, Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. Everything Computers and Networks 804.592.1672 -- Original Message -- From: "Alec Larsen" To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Sen

Re: [tor-relays] exit operators: overall DNS failure rate above 5% - please check your DNS resolver

2019-06-30 Thread Matt Westfall
Just set your exit relay DNS to 8.8.8.8 and 1.1.1.1 I mean dns traffic isn't bulk traffic, let google and CloudFlare do the "work" Thanks, Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. Everything Computers and Networks 804.592.1672 -- Original Message -- From:

Re: [tor-relays] Setting Tor Relay to Hibernate After 100Mbits

2019-06-04 Thread Matt Westfall
the relay bandwidth & burst rates. It will prevent it from using more than 100 Mbps so you won't go over. Thanks, Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. Everything Computers and Networks 804.592.1672 -- Original Message -- From: "Keifer Bl

Re: [tor-relays] Onionoo and ASN Number/AS Name

2019-06-02 Thread Matt Westfall
ding- in a whole ASN though, you'll probably just have to wait for it to filter through. Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. Everything Computers and Networks 804.592.1672 -- Original Message -- From: "teor" To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Sent: 6/2/2

Re: [tor-relays] Relay Consensus Low

2019-06-02 Thread Matt Westfall
ut that's still way more than 9 :-D Guess we'll see what happens. I didn't see if anyone answered if I need a separate IP or if I can create another tor instance on different ports but on the same IP, to increase the load I'm handling. Thanks, Matt Westfall President &

Re: [tor-relays] Relay Consensus Low

2019-06-01 Thread Matt Westfall
puu.sh/DA4Sh/6e27417c74.png I tried to run chutney tests to see what hardware supports but haven't quite figured out what the command line I should be using is. Any help with that would be appreciated. Thanks, Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. Everything Computers and

Re: [tor-relays] Relay Consensus Low

2019-05-30 Thread Matt Westfall
? If I can't access the file system is there any way to get what I need from "somewhere" to retain my fingerprint? Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. Everything Computers and Networks 804.592.1672 http://ecansol.com On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 2:58 AM wrote: &g

[tor-relays] Relay Consensus Low

2019-05-25 Thread Matt Westfall
ow bursts up to 200KB/s (1600Kbps) DirPort 9030 # ExitPolicy reject *:* # no exits allowed ExitPolicy reject6 *:* Any suggestions appreciated. Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. Everything Computers and Networks 804.592.1672 ___ tor-