Re: [tor-relays] Tor Process Being Killed on VPS

2016-02-26 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 22:56:05 + Toralf Förster wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > Stephen R Guglielmo: > > NTPd is not running (I've tried, but the kernel does not have permission to > > set the clock; I assume this is due to the hyp

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Process Being Killed on VPS

2016-02-26 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
starts Tor whenever it's killed. `free -m`: totalusedfree shared buff/cache available Mem:489 303 16 8 169 124 Swap: 0 0 0 I'll look into enabling swap and ensuring SELinux

[tor-relays] Tor Process Being Killed on VPS

2016-02-25 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
Hello, I have a VPS with 512 MB RAM. I run nothing on it except nginx and a Tor relay. The relay is an entry guard and moves about 20 MB/s. It seems that the kernel is killing the Tor process with "out of memory" errors. Are there any tips for mitigating this? I don't have the money right now t

Re: [tor-relays] Cheap exit-friedly VPS provider

2015-06-09 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 22:35:28 -0700 Alexey Nayden wrote: > Hello everybody, > > A couple of months ago I decided to run a Tor exit relay. I contacted > several VPS and dedicated providers and ended up using PulseServers, > because they offered unmetered fast channel for ~$13/month and were > Tor-fr

Re: [tor-relays] Tor-node/relay: System installation vs. TorBrowser

2015-03-16 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 11:48:34 +0100 "Lars Edman @ LinuxSuSE" wrote: > I found they today absolutely discouraged from the use of such a > "system installation" when using tor as a client. When it came to > using tor as a node/relay or running a server they referred the > question to you. > > Do you

Re: [tor-relays] PGP-Key for Debian Repo

2015-03-12 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
On Thu, 12 Mar 2015 17:49:15 +0100 Sven Reissmann wrote: > I'm not able to fetch the pgp key for the debian repo, as described > here: https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en > > $ gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv 886DDD89 > gpg: requesting key 886DDD89 from hkp server keys.gnupg.net

Re: [tor-relays] Legal situation of tor in Europe

2015-03-09 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
On Mon, 09 Mar 2015 06:16:25 + oneoft...@riseup.net wrote: > Can someone point me to an overview of the different legal situations > for running tor relays in European countries? I'm especially > interested how the situation differs per country. Not exactly what you wanted, but this may be re

Re: [tor-relays] Ports 443 and 80 are open, but 443 not Tor reachable

2015-03-04 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
On Wed, 04 Mar 2015 16:31:27 +0100 oseump wrote: > With ORPort 443 Tor could not confirm the port was reachable even > though it was wide open to online port checkers and nmap -sT -O > localhost shows ports 22/tcp, 80/tcp, 443/tcp to be open. Where are you running this from? You said a Raspberry

Re: [tor-relays] 7 relays gone because of spammers

2015-02-25 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Speak Freely wrote: > Hello fellow relay runners, > > This morning OVH decided to kill 7 of my relays due to spamming, and > block all access to all services. I ran the Reduced Exit policy for > all of my relays. I run one relay with OVH and one with DigitalOcean.

Re: [tor-relays] "Very Safe" Exit Policy

2015-02-10 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 17:21:05 -0600 Jeremy Olexa wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Stephen R Guglielmo > wrote: > "safe": > > > This would be my first time running an exit relay and I'd be happy > > to hear advice and suggestions! > > Acco

[tor-relays] "Very Safe" Exit Policy

2015-02-10 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
Hi list, I was looking for suggestions/discussion on very conservative policies for an exit relay. I run a relay now that is "reject *:*" and I wanted to open up a few exit ports. I don't want to open up major ports due to potential abuse issues. My server host states that, although they do allow

Re: [tor-relays] tor weather not sending emails?

2015-02-10 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
On February 10, 2015 7:34:56 AM EST, Nusenu wrote: >As far as I know tor weather is basically unmaintained but I filed a >bug >anyway: >https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/14842 > >FYI: >info discl. in tor weather/website: >https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/14841 I jus