[tor-relays] FW: What's a "useful" mailing list contributor? (was Re: What's a "useful" relay?)

Wow. I offer to maintain a FAQ for small relays and in return I get this. Unsubscribed. On 3 Jan 2017, at 17:57, Rana mailto:ranaventu...@gmail.com> > wrote: @teor I hereby volunteer to maintain a FAQ for operators of small relays (or noob operators). Which means I would be watchin

Re: [tor-relays] How can we trust the guards?

t of its 7K and moving to this limit. Therefore, the spare capacity of small relays could be used. Rana ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] Speed up of reconnections after IP Address change

Such script is one typical entry that I would put on the small relay operator Wiki (see my earlier post) Rana -Original Message- From: tor-relays [mailto:tor-relays-boun...@lists.torproject.org] On Behalf Of Dr Gerard Bulger Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2017 10:49 AM To: tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] What's a "useful" relay?

tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] What's a "useful" relay? > On 24 Dec 2016, at 18:56, Rana < <mailto:ranaventu...@gmail.com> ranaventu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > ... > > What is needed is a standardized feedback on WHY the relay ha

Re: [tor-relays] How can we trust the guards?

@teor >I think you are talking about a different network, which is not Tor as currently designed, implemented, and deployed. >In particular, how do you get decent throughput, reliability, and low- latency out of tens of thousands of devices? >This is an open research problem, which the Tor design d

Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP

] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP > On 28 Dec 2016, at 02:50, Rana wrote: > > Speaking of guards, could someone come with a theory pf what happened here? The IP is static, the relay exists for 18 days and has Stable flag since maybe 2 weeks, the measured bandwidth

Re: [tor-relays] How can we trust the guards?

Known to whom? Is there a Tor police that researches "unknown" guards? How do you measure "known"? How do they become "known"? Something akin to key signing parties? Secret meetings in Munich biergartens? Conversely, if someone installs a high performance relay, during the first 70 days is ther

Re: [tor-relays] How can we trust the guards?

Sorry -Original Message- From: tor-relays [mailto:tor-relays-boun...@lists.torproject.org] On Behalf Of Aeris Sent: Monday, January 02, 2017 3:56 PM >Currently, most of the major guard operators are well known people and no >doubt they’re not engaged with three-letter agencies. >https:/

Re: [tor-relays] Grizzly Steppe

relay to another IP. Rana From: tor-relays [mailto:tor-relays-boun...@lists.torproject.org] On Behalf Of Dr Gerard Bulger Sent: Monday, January 02, 2017 10:15 AM To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: [tor-relays] Grizzly Steppe I ran an exit node, but gave up after too many abuse reports

Re: [tor-relays] How can we trust the guards?

n't most of the time), a single employee could control the entire 7000. Where's the "huge investment"? Tor model breaks down when facing a modest government adversary for the simple reason that having only 7000 relays total, with a minority of

Re: [tor-relays] How can we trust the guards?

@Sebastian >> On 02 Jan 2017, at 07:28, Rana wrote: >> I think I already covered the "if it exists" part. Sticking to the original >> (old) design doc of Tor is not a practically useful strategy. I believe that >> Tor has MOSTLY such strong adversaries, the oth

Re: [tor-relays] How can we trust the guards?

rrent consolidation most of the Tor traffic in a small number of stable, high bandwidth relays was NOT anticipated by the Tor design paper and makes contamination of the majority of the network by rogue relays a very easy job indeed. Rana ___ tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] How can we trust the guards?

@Aeris I do not see how Sybil attacks relate to my question. The adversary will simply set up new nodes, without messing with attacking identities of existing ones. As to the rest of it, let us calculate. Assuming that the adversary wants to control 4000 nodes for 3 years, the 70d startup perio

[tor-relays] How can we trust the guards?

Sorry for the naïve question, but we have a total of about 7000 relays, many of them residential and thus practically unused or very lightly used. So the actual number of relays that carry most of the traffic is rather small, and many of them are middle relays, leaving an even smaller number of gua

Re: [tor-relays] "Graceful" Restart of Tor-Relay ?

@Sebastian >Tor has this functionality built-in, the timeout is configurable (30 seconds >by default). Setting too long a timeout is bad if you're a guard, because the >longer you wait to restart the more ?>clients will rotate away from you while >you're down - just restarting without any timeou

Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP

Speaking of guards, could someone come with a theory pf what happened here ? The IP is static, the relay exists for 18 days and has Stable flag since maybe 2 weeks, the measured bandwidth -153 KB/s - exactly equals

[tor-relays] Minimum requirements for becoming a guard

What are the absolute minimum requirements for becoming a guard? [I am not asking about being trustworthy which I am obviously not, only about bandwidth etc. :)] ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/c

[tor-relays] FW: What's a "useful" relay?

@balbea16 Correction: your relay has 1400 connections, mine has 1300. Therefore my relay has less than 1% of the weight of your relay while having ALMOST THE SAME number of connections. Go figure… From: tor-relays [mailto:tor-relays-boun...@lists.torproject.org] On Behalf Of Rana Sent

Re: [tor-relays] What's a "useful" relay?

@balbea16 >I am actually a little bit confused now. I am one of (as Rana knows) those Pi >3 based OR operators with daily changing IP address. My consensus weight is >about 5,000, with a max. of 1,400 connections. I would like to recomment, >that the TOR org should pub

Re: [tor-relays] What's a "useful" relay?

tomate the communication of the reasons to relay operators in clear, unequivocal and actionable terms? I get the feeling that people are trying to be "politically correct" here and it's a pity (although they DO respond fully and frankly when asked a direct question). Rana ___

Re: [tor-relays] [tor-r@elays] What's a "useful" relay?

ow if there are solid, TECHNICALLY SOUND opinions in favor of use of small relays. If running a small relay is just for feeling good and displaying political support for privacy rights, then I am outta here. I feel good already and I have other means of expressing my political support. Rana

[tor-relays] What's a "useful" relay?

So - what's the metric for calling a middle relay "useful"? Is it the total number of bytes that it relays daily? https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/707A9A3358E0D8653089AF32A097570A96400C C6 is sending about 0.85 GB every 24 hours. Is it a "useful" relay? ___

Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP

Thank you @Gamby for echoing my sentiment. While there can be a good tech reason for considering small relays useless, the small relay operators MUST be properly and openly advised about how useful or useless their relays are. I even have read about someone's suggestion of gamification of such

Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP

@grarpamp >Please see and contribute to the following... >https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/HardwarePerformanceCompendium The Pi info there is indeed totally out of date. I opened an account on the wiki. However, after 10 (!) tries to pass the totally unnecessary captcha which

Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP

discrimination of relays with dynamic IP On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 4:59 AM, Rana wrote: > A 20 mbps Pi relay has been reported here, still under-utilized. All these reports of this or that made in piles of random email ... serves no one past the typical few day participant convos. So ple

Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP

:24:25 (+0200), Rana wrote: >> >> 2. "Residential lines in particular ... hardware caves when too many >> connections are open in parallel" - this appears to be plain >> incorrect. [...] ith 1300 simultaneous connections. >His statement is right. 1300 connec

Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP

a decision to run a node. Nobody tells them that they should not run a bridge or a relay if they are on residential premises, let alone that this could actually do more damage than good. Rana ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP

@Andreas ... >> I realize there could be pros and contras. Among the contras there could be >> (for example) many small relays overloading the dirauths. I would like to >> hear more about the contras. >A Pi running at its line speed isn't exactly a small relay. Of course it isn't. A 20 mbps Pi

Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP

ation - negligible, total memory utilization (including Tor) 20%. No need to waste $35 on a Pi 3 which is grossly underutilized by the DirAuths. -Original Message- From: tor-relays [mailto:tor-relays-boun...@lists.torproject.org] On Behalf Of Rana Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2016 10:58 AM To

Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP

use of (nickname) GG2 that the dirauths and bwauths allow. -Original Message- From: tor-relays [mailto:tor-relays-boun...@lists.torproject.org] On Behalf Of Patrice Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2016 2:57 AM To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: [tor-relays] @Rana - with reference

[tor-relays] Report of home relay experience (cont'd)

ast 6 hours, all of them successful. The two relays run on identical Pies with the same configuration except the bandwidth limit (which is higher on ZG0 than on GG2) and negligible CPU and memory utilization. Comments? Rana ___ tor-relays mailing lis

Re: [tor-relays] Flags?

No. I have a dynamic address, my relay is clinically dead (nickname: ZG0) but I got a Stable flag and it never went away, From: tor-relays [mailto:tor-relays-boun...@lists.torproject.org] On Behalf Of balbea16 Sent: Monday, December 19, 2016 2:53 PM To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject:

[tor-relays] asymmetry in connections

On one of my relays I have 389 inbound, 38 outbound connections and 15 circuits What's the connection between these 3 numbers and why such asymmetry in inbound and outbound? ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torpr

Re: [tor-relays] Netflix overblocking non-exit Tor relays

In my experience this is a common enough phenomenon. Happened to me twice here. All kinds of sites employ “professional” services that keep them “safe” by letting them know when someone uses the service from a Tor address, or plain blocking such surfers. The problem is that these “professionals”

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment?

. Didn't like the noise, because it's running permanentely. However, you are right :-) Ursprüngliche Nachricht Von: Rana mailto:ranaventu...@gmail.com> > Datum: 15.12.16 09:34 (GMT+01:00) An: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org <mailto:tor-relays@lists.torproject

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment?

m). I don't cool it. Mike Von meinem Samsung Gerät gesendet. Ursprüngliche Nachricht Von: Rana mailto:ranaventu...@gmail.com> > Datum: 15.12.16 08:53 (GMT+01:00) An: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org <mailto:tor-relays@lists.torproject.org> Betreff: Re: [tor

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment?

home - end of experiment? Pls. refer to may answers after each of your questions. Ursprüngliche Nachricht Von: Rana mailto:ranaventu...@gmail.com> > Datum: 15.12.16 07:44 (GMT+01:00) An: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org <mailto:tor-relays@lists.torproject.org&g

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment?

>Hi There >This is a pretty interesting topic. I have been running a Rasp Pi 3 based >relay since August this year. By now, I am up to about 1,300 incomming and >outgoing connections, and a max of >about 21mbps. This is about 50% of the >max. upload speed. Consensus weight is between 3,000 and 6

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment?

schrieb Rana: >>They do, however, have different numbers as to how much traffic they can >>carry; which in view of the above IMHO can be attributed only to the >>difference in how well their respective IPSs connect >>with the ISPs in places where DirAuths are located. >

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment?

>Since the consensus weight is the low-median of 5 measurements spread around >the US and Western Europe, being in Germany only gets you one good >measurement: you need 3 good measurements >to get a high consensus weight. > >From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median : > > Because of this, the med

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment?

>> A. The fact that the Authorities are located in West Europe and North >> America does not mean that the USERS are there. >The question is what volume a relay can carry, and not how well it is >connected to a particular place in the world. I beg to differ. My experiment with two identical Pi

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment?

re tens of thousands of Pi owners who have their Pis just sitting there and many of them would be happy to run relays if Tor network would let them do so usefully. Not using this huge resource by discriminating against relays that are behind dynamic IPs or because they happen to have a poor

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment?

schrieb Rana: >> Any other advice / ideas welcome. >You have been asked for fingerpring or atlas link several times. The nicknames of the two relays are ZG0 and GG2, respectively ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.

[tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment?

bandwidth. His consensus is bw dead locked at 31 and never changes. He is getting Fast flag on and off, no Stable flag, his Atlas measured bandwidth is 150 KB/s. The traffic it relays is only slightly larger than mine, so I guess it is time to quit for this one, too. Any other advice / ideas

Re: [tor-relays] Inconsistent BW measurements of unused relay

> On 12 Dec. 2016, at 01:56, Rana wrote: > > OK Tim thanks for the answers, I appreciate your patience with me > [even though I "lack programming skills" :) ] > > The one answer of yours that still does not make sense to me is that > arm actually means Kbytes

Re: [tor-relays] Inconsistent BW measurements of unused relay

o 8000 bit/ sec or even 8000 bytes/sec as you suggested , this does not make sense... Rana ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] Inconsistent BW measurements of unused relay

>> On 10 Dec. 2016, at 07:12, Rana wrote: >> >> My relay remains severely under-used. One thing that bothers me are >> inconsistent bandwidth measurements. Here they are: >> Atlas “advertised” (which is actually supposed

[tor-relays] Inconsistent BW measurements of unused relay

My relay remains severely under-used. One thing that bothers me are inconsistent bandwidth measurements. Here they are: Atlas "advertised" (which is actually supposed to be "measured"?: 100 KB/s = ~ 800,000 bit/s "I have sent" reported in Tor log: on the averag

Re: [tor-relays] Connections from UNKNOWN relays

-Original Message- From: tor-relays [mailto:tor-relays-boun...@lists.torproject.org] On Behalf Of teor Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2016 2:54 PM To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Connections from UNKNOWN relays >> On 10 Dec. 2016, at 23:05, Rana

[tor-relays] Connections from UNKNOWN relays

Arm shows that my middle relay has incoming connections from UNKNOWN relays (no consensus data on them at all except locale). Are these bridges? There is also one outgoing connection to UNKNOWN but the address of that is 0.0.0.0:0 ___ tor-relays mailing

[tor-relays] Belarus (finally) bans Tor

https://ooni.torproject.org/post/belarus-fries-onion/ ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] Exploiting firmware

s delusion resulting in flawed threat models. Just modify your threat model with the compromised processor assumption, calculate the risk of your specific computer being targeted, mitigate to the extent possible and get on with your life. Rana _

Re: [tor-relays] Exploiting firmware

As long as CPU hardware is closed source, perfect privacy does not exist, full stop. Conspiracy theories are futile, the probability of microcode backdoor is 1. So there is no need to "worry" about hardware blobs. There is NO way that processors made by US chip manufacturers do NOT contain a bac

Re: [tor-relays] Is there a reason for all exit nodes being public?

otecting them is fine purpose and anyhow, Tor has no control over how people use the network and certainly not over why they use it. Rana ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] Is there a reason for all exit nodes being public?

, 2016 at 02:15:55PM +0200, Rana wrote: >>As of last April, FaceBook reported over a million users per month via Tor. I am sure that the 1 million FB users connect via Tor not because they want to hide their location but the want to hide WHO they are. Hence their authentication information is

Re: [tor-relays] Anonymous email (was: Is there a reason for all exit nodes being public?)

> >Protonmail supports receiving a verification code by email. Use a disposable >email provider that isn't blocked to receive the code. I _just_ made a >protonmail account to test. > >https://10minutemail.net/ worked for me just now. > >https://10minutemail.com did not work as protonmail recogniz

Re: [tor-relays] Is there a reason for all exit nodes being public?

>>> By the way, I just checked, Gmail works without problems over Tor (both Web >>> and IMAPS). >> Using Gmail over Tor when they already know who you are is self-defeating. >> Try to register an anonymous Gmail account using Tor. >Doable. They require a phone number for verification, but that's

Re: [tor-relays] Is there a reason for all exit nodes being public?

On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 11:51:34AM +, Matthew Finkel wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 01:25:59PM +0200, Rana wrote: >> > I mean, why aren't some exit nodes kept hidden, at least partially >> > and temporarily, like bridges? This would mitigate web services >

Re: [tor-relays] Is there a reason for all exit nodes being public?

>How would that work? First of all, the clients need to know which exit nodes >exist, so that they can build circuits. That list, as well as that of the >middle nodes, is public, otherwise you'd >have to manually request exits by >email/web service/… As a result you'd be limited to a few exits,

Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP

elays@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP On 07.12.2016 10:56, Rana wrote: > Calling "rude" people who, to make a point, use a bit of obvious and > harmless humor, is rude. Your getting on other people's nerves must *obviou

[tor-relays] Is there a reason for all exit nodes being public?

I mean, why aren't some exit nodes kept hidden, at least partially and temporarily, like bridges? This would mitigate web services denying service to Tor users (Gmail is the most recent example), plus would increase security. ___ tor-relays mailing list t

Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP

roject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP On 07/12/16 05:32, Rana wrote: > I can just imagine someone panting while dragging a sub-$35 old desktop > computer up the stairs after physically searching for it in a nearby > junkyard. A co

Re: [tor-relays] relays with dynamic IP - here Rasp2

>> Wow nice bandwidth you are pushing through Paul! You mean two Raspi 2's >> sharing an Internet connection, each relaying 27 Gbytes per day at 5.4 >> Mbit/s on the average?? Total 10.8 Mbit/s?? Or 2.7 Mbit/s each? > > It is just 1 single Rasp2 - running 2 tor instances on 1 IP, details > here

Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP

I can just imagine someone panting while dragging a sub-$35 old desktop computer up the stairs after physically searching for it in a nearby junkyard. A considerable level of destitution and a commendable commitment to the cause of Tor would be required. -Original Message- From: tor-r

Re: [tor-relays] Circuits from Tor relay?

relay? > On 7 Dec. 2016, at 08:07, Rana wrote: > > Arm reports that my relay has 15 circuits connected to my (middle only) > relay. Some of the circuits have one middle relay and some of them have two. > All the circuits are FROM my relay to exit nodes, and all have the same gu

[tor-relays] Circuits from Tor relay?

Arm reports that my relay has 15 circuits connected to my (middle only) relay. Some of the circuits have one middle relay and some of them have two. All the circuits are FROM my relay to exit nodes, and all have the same guard (first) relay. My relay has a small number of inbound connections and

Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP

3 has 33% more CPU power than your Raspi 2 and the same amount of memory. Rana ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP

r about ONE Raspi Tor operator who was allowed by DirAuths (or bwauths or whatever) to come even near 1 mbit/s bandwidth utilization Rana ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP

Russian) censors over big time, because they would be chasing an elusive army of Raspis with ever changing IPs... Counter-attacks and counter-counter-measures should be studied though, as adversaries could respond by establishing hundreds of rogue bridges with dyn

Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP

That was exactly my point, thank you Anemoi. This is the case all over the world, not just in Germany. Unfortunately there seems to be a culture of shooting the messenger here, or accusing him of being “aggressive”, “accusatory”, “claiming entitlement” or (my favorite) “lacking programming ski

Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP

-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP > On 5 Dec. 2016, at 08:15, Rana wrote: > > My international connectivity is just fine, connection speed is stable at 1.5 > mbps and I have a Stable flag. Three authorities vote

Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP

o:tor-relays-boun...@lists.torproject.org] On Behalf Of teor Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2016 11:34 PM To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP > On 5 Dec. 2016, at 08:11, Rana wrote: > > 5kbit/s traffic and conse

Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP

My international connectivity is just fine, connection speed is stable at 1.5 mbps and I have a Stable flag. Three authorities voted to give me HSDir and Fast. I have provided my Torrc. My consensus weight is stable for several days now, at 14. -Original Message- From: tor-relays [mailt

Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP

, 2016 10:52 PM To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP > On 5 Dec. 2016, at 02:39, Rana wrote: > >> For as little as $10.00 US there are VPS' with static ip's.. > > Attn: Kurt Besig > > W

Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP

in 6 hours). I have a Stable flag and am running for a month, the last 9 days with the same IP. Help will be much appreciated. Rana - Log notice file /var/log/tor/notices.log VirtualAddrNetworkIPv4 10.192.0.0/10 AutomapHostsSuffixes .o

Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP

ubject: Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP On 04.12.16 17:54, Rana wrote: > In short, if Tor Project does not want relays with dynamic IP, it > should say so and I would stop wasting my time. What's with the entitlement issues? You are free to

Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP

al Message- From: tor-relays [mailto:tor-relays-boun...@lists.torproject.org] On Behalf Of pa011 Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2016 8:38 PM To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP Rana, I don’t think ""submi

Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP

mailto:tor-relays-boun...@lists.torproject.org] On Behalf Of Sebastian Niehaus Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2016 7:05 PM To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP Am 04.12.2016 um 17:54 schrieb Rana: > In short, if Tor Pro

Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP

AM, Rana wrote: >> For as little as $10.00 US there are VPS' with static ip's.. > > Attn: Kurt Besig > > Well I kind o' like my Raspberry Pi that cost me $40 including box and power > supply and SD card and door to door delivery, with far more horsepower and

Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP

dynamic IP On 04.12.16 16:39, Rana wrote: > >I can think of many an Iranian or Turkish or Chinese or Russian > >dissident who could use 1.5 mbps bandwidth to communicate with the >> free world. >So just leave your relay running, and when other relays with better >connectivit

Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP

>For as little as $10.00 US there are VPS' with static ip's.. Attn: Kurt Besig Well I kind o' like my Raspberry Pi that cost me $40 including box and power supply and SD card and door to door delivery, with far more horsepower and memory than needed for running Tor relay, and my free and absolu

[tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP

I have been running a relay with dynamic IP for a month now and quite obviously my relay is severely punished for having a dynamic IP. The IP may change once in several days (currently running over a week with the same IP and I just got my Stable flag back again, about 3 weeks after losing it). The

Re: [tor-relays] Outgoing Connections to middle nodes?

So based on Michael's reply, I now understand (I also run a middle relay) why when I check connections in ARM I am getting 3 sections: inbound, outbound and circuits. None of the inbound or outbound connections' nodes participate in the circuits. For example, right now I have 9 inbound, 4 outbo