Re: [tor-relays] BridgeDB currently up but non-functional?

2019-06-28 Thread Rick Huebner
It's working much better now. Things started improving just a few hours after I posted my previous message, around last Friday afternoon PDT. The web page and email channels started giving out vanilla bridges again (usually 2), and I consistently got 2 obfs4 bridges via Moat and the web page. I

Re: [tor-relays] BridgeDB currently up but non-functional?

2019-06-22 Thread Rick Huebner
Hi, Phillip. Thanks for the response, and for taking on these issues. I also sent a more detailed direct report to frontd...@torproject.org. It apparently crossed with your reply to this thread in the mail, I wasn't intending to nag. I assume that'll end up forwarded to you as well, hopefully t

[tor-relays] BridgeDB currently up but non-functional?

2019-06-19 Thread Rick Huebner
Hi, all. While skimming /r/tor on Reddit I saw a couple of posts saying they hadn't been able to get any usable bridges for several days, and thought I'd check into it. I downloaded & installed a fresh copy of the Windows TBB 8.5.1 and had it ask for bridges via Moat, and received 2 (not 3?) ob

[tor-relays] Circuit padding timeouts

2018-01-04 Thread Rick
nings and the relay is stable. Is this reason for concern? Rick ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] Recent wave of abuse on Tor guards

2017-12-27 Thread Rick
bian 8 Stable in a AS provided VM with 1GB of RAM. Typical CPU load is ~40%, and typical RAM use is ~50%. Rick ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] Do less-secure pluggable transports on bridges render more-secure types useless?

2016-01-17 Thread Rick Huebner
So far, the GFW blocks the bridges it discovers by IP:port. Therefore, you can run two bridges on your machine and if one gets discovered, the other one should still be reachable. Of course, that could change any moment. Wow, that's a pretty huge and inexplicable oversight on their part. Hard

[tor-relays] Do less-secure pluggable transports on bridges render more-secure types useless?

2016-01-17 Thread Rick Huebner
I've read that obfs4 and scramblesuit are very resistant ("immune" is so optimistic) to such things as active probes performed by the Great Firewall, which can quickly probe and detect older transports (and of course vanilla ORports), plus the older transports and ORports are subject to relativ

[tor-relays] Low reported bandwidth

2014-11-14 Thread Rick Kunze
Hi all, I'm brand new to this, so I'll apologize in advance if this is a silly question. I've just recently set up a Tor box on Debian, all looks well, logs show it's happy. I've got it setup for 100 Meg bandwidth, 200M burst. My confusion is because when I look it up on Globe or Atlas, it

Re: [tor-relays] Unstable router

2014-10-16 Thread Rick
ry trusting these days of manufacturers' binary blob firmware. Good luck, Rick ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

[tor-relays] New router, new IP address

2014-08-07 Thread Rick
#x27;t care less about my LAN. :-\ Thanks Rick ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] Bridge clients don't *really* update dynamic bridge IPs from fingerprints?

2014-06-25 Thread Rick Huebner
It may be partially related, in that I've seen it take weeks to gradually gain a new set of clients after an IP change, which is why I think it's so important to not be abandoning all your clients each time but instead let them update their bridge entries to your new address. If you've been up

[tor-relays] Bridge clients don't *really* update dynamic bridge IPs from fingerprints?

2014-06-23 Thread Rick Huebner
I run a bridge from a "semi-static" home internet account, where the address is dynamically assigned but only changes when either the ISP or my hardware router goes down and forces a reconnect, which only happens maybe once every several months. I've read in a few places that Tor bridges with d

[tor-relays] Bridge still advertising removed pluggable transport?

2014-06-23 Thread Rick Huebner
Hi. I removed the recently-deprecated obfs2 transport from my (0.2.4.22) bridge's torrc, but after restarting, it seems to still be advertising support for it. It correctly doesn't appear as a "Registered server transport obfs2" line in the tor log file, and it's not listed in the TOR_PT_SERV

Re: [tor-relays] Best price/efficiency ratio

2014-03-22 Thread Rick Ross
Question how long you'll stay in the Top 50. Maybe you are lucky but probably the ISP will end your contract for "abusing" fair use policies/TOS. Best case they'll throttle you down. Let us know in 30 days :) Am 22.03.14 21:51, schrieb Trigger Happy: > Hi list, > > I'm running tor-relay (middle) o

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

2013-10-04 Thread Rick
On 10/04/2013 04:31 AM, 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.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mai

Re: [tor-relays] Reimbursement of Exit Operators

2013-09-18 Thread Rick
Still, for big guys who do have financial considerations and are probably better positioned to handle risk this could make sense. I'm sure Torproject would love to have a few thousand more folks like me, but that's a marketing issue that probably spins around getting T

Re: [tor-relays] TBB on same system as relay?

2011-10-21 Thread Rick Huebner
OK, never mind, I figured it out. The only points of conflict between my relay and the TBB are that the control ports and Socks listener ports for the two Tor instances both default to the same values. So I changed the ControlPort in Data\Vidalia\vidalia.conf to 9151 and added SocksPort 9150

[tor-relays] TBB on same system as relay?

2011-10-20 Thread Rick Huebner
I run a relay 24/7, but sometimes also want to use Tor myself as a client. Until now, I've been using the Tor Button in my normal Firefox browser to switch in and out of Tor mode as needed, but now I see that going forward, the standalone Tor Browser Bundle is the only recommended way of using

[tor-relays] Metrics portal problems?

2011-10-19 Thread Rick Huebner
Is the metrics portal at https://metrics.torproject.org/ partly down, or undergoing maintenance or something? I see that some of the stats don't seem to have been updated in the last week or so. Many of the graphs are truncated, e.g. https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html?graph=direct-user

Re: [tor-relays] max / burst speed

2011-09-27 Thread Rick Huebner
On 9/27/2011 1:37 PM, "Steve Snyder" wrote: Either there is simply not enough traffic to saturate all available middle nodes or Tor's node selection algorithm is, um, sub-optimal. I just started my relay a month ago, so I've done some research, and it seems to be pretty complicated. Please

Re: [tor-relays] max / burst speed

2011-09-27 Thread Rick Huebner
On 9/27/2011 1:37 PM, "Steve Snyder" wrote: Also, I have come to distrust TorStatus. Why? Because difference sites will have different numbers while supposedly monitoring the same network. One of my nodes is currently showing an Observed bandwidth of 10KB (yes, ten) at torstatus.blutmagie

Re: [tor-relays] max / burst speed

2011-09-27 Thread Rick Huebner
On 9/27/2011 1:37 PM, tor-relays-requ...@lists.torproject.org wrote: No idea what shaping algorithm Tor uses, nor any clue on recommended burst ratios under said algorithm. Anyone???. I believe Tor uses a token bucket algorithm (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Token_bucket) for t