Re: [tor-relays] How to find (and test) my obfs4 bridge?

2016-07-27 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
n87 > > Kind regards > Tor-node.net > > ___ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP C855 6CED 5D90

Re: [tor-relays] Bridge Authority closure

2016-07-20 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
tors from the new authority, but as far as I know, bridge descriptor updates aren't essential for clients to continue to use a bridge. (I may be wrong about this.) Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP C855 6CED 5D90 A0C5 29F6 4D43 450C BA7F 968F 094B OTR 8F39BCAC 9C9DDF

Re: [tor-relays] Best bandwidth setup for exit node

2016-07-14 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
; > ___________ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP C855 6CED 5D90 A0C5 29F6 4D43 450C BA7F 968F

Re: [tor-relays] interesting tor platform string or tor bug?

2016-07-10 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
hanks, > Seongmin > > [1] http://ina.kaist.ac.kr/~dongsuh/paper/kim-hotnets2015.pdf > [2] http://ina.kaist.ac.kr/~dongsuh/paper/opensgx.pdf > > 2016-07-08 9:07 GMT+09:00 Tim Wilson-Brown - teor : > > > On 8 Jul 2016, at 09:48, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote: > > > > >

Re: [tor-relays] in/out bandwidths and packet sizes

2016-07-09 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
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Re: [tor-relays] interesting tor platform string or tor bug?

2016-07-07 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 8 Jul 2016, at 09:48, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote: > > >> On 8 Jul 2016, at 09:41, nusenu wrote: >> >> Hi Seongmin, >> >> out of curiosity I was wondering whether your so called tor "platform" >> string ("??B`?\u000

Re: [tor-relays] interesting tor platform string or tor bug?

2016-07-07 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
ys mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP C855 6CED 5D90 A0C5 29F6 4D43 450C BA7F 968F 094B ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6n signature.asc Description: Message

Re: [tor-relays] Darknet Shenanigans [was: suspicious "Relay127001" relays]

2016-07-06 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
rking on it, and it's called "next generation hidden services". Until then, relays get banned for this behaviour. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP C855 6CED 5D90 A0C5 29F6 4D43 450C BA7F 968F 094B ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6

Re: [tor-relays] which DirPort should be advertised ?

2016-07-05 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 5 Jul 2016, at 19:23, Toralf Förster wrote: > > Signed PGP part > On 07/05/2016 04:01 AM, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote: > > In 0.2.8.3-aplha, "clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an > > encrypted begindir connection for directory requ

Re: [tor-relays] which DirPort should be advertised ?

2016-07-04 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
connections are made over the ORPort. This means that in 0.2.8 clients no longer use any DirPort, and relays only use the IPv4 DirPort. IPv6 clients and bridge clients use the IPv6 ORPort. In 0.2.7 and before, clients and relays only use the IPv4 DirPort. IPv6 bridge clients use the IPv6 ORP

Re: [tor-relays] [tor-dev] Usability Improvements for Atlas (was Re: Globe is now retired)

2016-06-29 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
estions for small changes before merging. > > Thanks, > Iain. > > [1]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5430 > [2]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6787 > _______ > tor-dev mailing list > tor-...@lists.t

Re: [tor-relays] Usability Improvements for Atlas (was Re: Globe is now retired)

2016-06-29 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
t; > [1]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5430 > [2]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6787 > ___ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/m

Re: [tor-relays] Bridge torrc custom + socks

2016-06-29 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
EBE2 3AE5 > > > ___ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6n

Re: [tor-relays] Bridge torrc custom + socks

2016-06-28 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
e something to add, to remove ?! Another eye is always cool to be sure > ! > > Many thx for your lights :) > > -- > Petrusko > PubKey EBE23AE5 > C0BF 2184 4A77 4A18 90E9 F72C B3CA E665 EBE2 3AE5 > > ___ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.or

Re: [tor-relays] suspicious relays

2016-06-24 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
similar for "involuntary" FTP servers before. Bonnet? Or a honeypot. Or a series of cloned servers. It's hard to tell. But there do seem to be a large number of them, 55 in a recent consensus. And no contact info, either. We might want to remove these relays from the network before th

Re: [tor-relays] Multiple fingerprints for same IP:Port combo

2016-06-22 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
ther code that assumes 1 key = 1 IPv4.) Tim > > Simon > ___ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094

Re: [tor-relays] Opt-In Trial: Fallback Directory Mirrors

2016-06-21 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
can help tor clients use the Tor >> network. Please opt-in! >> >> > > ___ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B ricoche

Re: [tor-relays] Relay Fingerprint Changed After Updates

2016-06-21 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
lue but > heartbeat notices. I have also reviewed system logs and can find nothing > out of the ordinary. > > Any thoughts on this? Any help would be appreciated. I will also open a > bug report if needed. > > Thanks! > > //Brian > <0x5E17D55A.asc>_______

[tor-relays] Fwd: Enable relay as trusted directory & entry guard

2016-05-26 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
node) by the directory authorities if it has enough stability and bandwidth over time. For more information, please read: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay Your relay is already a directory mirror, because you have configured a DirPort. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) t

Re: [tor-relays] TOR router install without access to root

2016-05-25 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
ust change the tor startup script and torrc. Tim > > Sebastian > > ___ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays Tim Wilson-Brow

Re: [tor-relays] New month, new TOR exit servers, need ELI5 pls

2016-05-22 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
53 is only useful for clients that want to run their own DNS over TCP, or use port 53 for something else. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6n signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail ___

Re: [tor-relays] What's this Abuse

2016-05-20 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
lays-boun...@lists.torproject.org] On Behalf > Of Tim Wilson-Brown - teor > Sent: 20 May 2016 16:49 > To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > Subject: Re: [tor-relays] What's this Abuse > > >> On 20 May 2016, at 11:12, Dr Gerard Bulger wrote: >> >> >> M

Re: [tor-relays] What's this Abuse

2016-05-20 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
don't want our mailing list messages to go against this goal. (Even if the Internet users involved are not using Tor or another IP anonymisation method.) Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6n si

Re: [tor-relays] Cannot Access Tor

2016-05-08 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
Tor users, it's for Tor relay operators. For any more emails on this question, please reply to tor-t...@lists.torproject.org. Have you tried whitelisting the other processes that tor runs, like tor.exe? You might also need to ask Norton how to properly whitelist Tor Browser, rather than askin

Re: [tor-relays] "support team" address?

2016-05-01 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 2 May 2016, at 09:51, eliaz wrote: > >> On 5/1/2016 4:52:12 AM, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor (teor2...@gmail.com) wrote: >>>> On 1 May 2016, at 16:52, eliaz wrote: >>> =20 >>> =20 >>>> On 4/30/2016 7:33:26 PM, Moritz Bartl (mor...@tors

Re: [tor-relays] "support team" address?

2016-05-01 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
;catch all" than tor-relays. > [snip] > > I neglected to mention that tor crashes upon restart when I'm running my > bridge. Restarting in client mode works fine. So should I send the > details to tor-talk or tor-relays? Please log a bug at https://trac.torproject.org

Re: [tor-relays] Search warrant and house search because of an exit in DE

2016-04-30 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
he proxy service access to all your Exit's traffic. > > Gerry > > ___ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays Tim Wilson-Brown (

Re: [tor-relays] Announcing a shutdown of a relay

2016-04-28 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
1:36, Dr Gerard Bulger a écrit : >> What if you want to shutdown forever. >> >> I am in the process of moving mine to another server. How do I stop tor >> atlas listing the old one? >> >> >> -Original Message----- >> From: tor-relays [mailto:tor

Re: [tor-relays] Announcing a shutdown of a relay

2016-04-28 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
ts will stop using it when they find it's down, or within 5 hours. Tim > > > -Original Message- > From: tor-relays [mailto:tor-relays-boun...@lists.torproject.org] On Behalf > Of Tim Wilson-Brown - teor > Sent: 28 April 2016 10:30 > To: tor-relays@lists.torprojec

Re: [tor-relays] Announcing a shutdown of a relay

2016-04-28 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
t 30 seconds) for clients to choose a new guard. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6n signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relay

Re: [tor-relays] does it make sense to close unused ports at a tor relay with iptables ?

2016-04-28 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 28 Apr 2016, at 19:18, Toralf Förster wrote: > > Signed PGP part > On 04/28/2016 11:14 AM, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote: > > Ports in, or ports out? > Ports in I meant, sry. > > > Closing inbound ports is a security precaution > The question is - if the

Re: [tor-relays] does it make sense to close unused ports at a tor relay with iptables ?

2016-04-28 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
er Tor relays can choose any port for their ORPort and DirPort. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6n signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail ___ tor-relays mailin

Re: [tor-relays] MaxMemInQueues is set to 256 MB

2016-04-27 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
sses. Using swap for Tor may slow things down more. > If in case I cant use the whole 100Mbit/s - what would be the minimum > requirement in memory I would need as the CPU is just working on a 20 > percent level? We typically recommend 512MB, but your experience may vary depending on your

Re: [tor-relays] IPv6 bridges (without IPv4 ORPort but IPv4 connectivity)

2016-04-24 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
v4 address may be blocked in some jurisdictions, but not others. So it still could be useful for some users. And the bridge's IPv6 address is far less likely to be blocked, so it will be useful by itself. Please also note that you can have a maximum of 2 relays per IPv4 address (or a relay

Re: [tor-relays] I am failing with newbie stuff :((((

2016-04-20 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
r destination. Does tor start as a client? If so, it's likely that you failed to copy the torrc file. Does tor fail to start? If so, it helps to let us know the warning messages it prints out. Perhaps the files were corrupted on the way, or something else happened. Tim Tim Wilson-Bro

Re: [tor-relays] [tor-dev] prop224: HSDir caches question with OOM

2016-04-18 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
disk DoS risk here, particularly for relays with smaller disks. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6n signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail ___ tor-relays maili

Re: [tor-relays] Reading check.torproject

2016-04-17 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
settings on your bridge. It's normal for tor to change exits occasionally. Do you know which exit your tor client was actually using during that time? If so, report it to bad-rel...@lists.torproject.org Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B ricochet:ekmygaiu

Re: [tor-relays] Opt-In Trial: Fallback Directory Mirrors

2016-04-15 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
elay will be considered as a fallback when we next rebuild the list. Thanks Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6n signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail ___ tor-

Re: [tor-relays] Opt-In Trial: Fallback Directory Mirrors

2016-04-15 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
0.2.8-rc, your relay was excluded as a fallback because the key had changed. Will you be keeping the new key for the next 2 years? If so, I'll update the fallback list with the new key, and your relay will be considered as a fallback when we next rebuild the list. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (te

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Relays Support of tor-relays Digest, Vol 63, Issue 20

2016-04-10 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
lications/tor-design.pdf Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6n signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org ht

Re: [tor-relays] Private Tor Research Network

2016-04-08 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
figure the user and permissions correctly? Tor also has more specific requirements for security reasons, this protects the keys from other users on the system. It's hard to give more advice without more specific details. If this advice doesn't help, please copy and paste the configurat

Re: [tor-relays] No Daily Digest Anymore

2016-04-07 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
emails sent to you bounce? Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6n signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torpr

Re: [tor-relays] Relays with broken DirPorts

2016-04-01 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
t was going on. That said, the list of relays in "Relays with broken DirPorts" consistently failed over repeated attempts. (The relays in "Relays with very slow DirPorts" might have been slow on my end, and might just have been slow once.) Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) te

Re: [tor-relays] Relays with very slow DirPorts

2016-03-30 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
Dear Relay Operators, Please see below for an updated list of slow relay DirPorts. > On 31 Mar 2016, at 11:13, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote: > > While I was checking fallback directory mirrors for #17158, I encountered > some relays that took more than a minute to serve a con

Re: [tor-relays] Relays with broken DirPorts

2016-03-30 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 31 Mar 2016, at 11:42, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote: > > >> On 31 Mar 2016, at 11:23, Michael McConville > <mailto:mm...@mykolab.com>> wrote: >> >> You'll probably get through to more people if you include nicknames with >> IP addres

Re: [tor-relays] Relays with broken DirPorts

2016-03-30 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
would do that for me, I'm a little snowed under at the moment. Tim > > Thanks for this, > Mike > > Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote: >> Dear Relay Operators, >> >> Also while working on #17158, I found some relays whose DirPort responses >> made my py

[tor-relays] Relays with broken DirPorts

2016-03-30 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
mp / Wireshark check, but I don't have time at the moment. Would anyone like to follow this up? This is an incomplete list of broken relay IPs and DirPorts, starting with those with the highest consensus weight: 217.23.14.190:1194 151.80.164.147:80 148.251.255.92:80 78.142.19.59:80 Thanks T

[tor-relays] Relays with very slow DirPorts

2016-03-30 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
highest consensus weight: 217.198.117.122:80 212.47.250.44:80 158.69.112.86:80 50.7.178.34:80 191.101.251.172:80 51.254.249.177:80 188.165.232.40:80 104.236.38.231:8080 89.163.225.184:9030 185.31.230.69:9030 81.7.14.227:9030 62.210.238.33:9030 164.132.56.137:9030 212.107.149.145:9030 94.23.165

Re: [tor-relays] Running 5000 relays...

2016-03-21 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 22 Mar 2016, at 08:14, Toralf Förster wrote: > > Signed PGP part > Tim Wilson-Brown - teor: > > * if the AccountingRule is not "in". > Ah, > AccountingRule in > was meant. I did not set that config option in the past due to the impact of

Re: [tor-relays] Running 5000 relays...

2016-03-21 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 22 Mar 2016, at 04:22, Toralf Förster wrote: > > Signed PGP part > Tim Wilson-Brown - teor: > > In 0.2.8, every relay is potentially a hidden service directory and > > a directory mirror. > But with this configuration : > > # 20 TB/month: echo "20

Re: [tor-relays] Running 5000 relays...

2016-03-21 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
led. Relays use the DirPort directly, but they typically use the authorities for directory documents. (Some obscure relay configurations will use the fallback directory mirrors.) Tim > > > > Am Sonntag, 20. März 2016 02:54 schrieb Tim Wilson-Brown - teor > : >

Re: [tor-relays] Exitmap module to count CloudFlare CAPTCHAs

2016-03-20 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
cy is not winning proposition. I meant "a website using CloudFlare that has the "Block" option selected for Tor". Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B teor at blah dot im OTR CAD08081 9755866D 89E2A06F E3558B7F B5A9D14F signature

Re: [tor-relays] Exitmap module to count CloudFlare CAPTCHAs

2016-03-20 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
<https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/203306930-Does-CloudFlare-block-Tor-> (URL likely unavailable from some Tor Exits.) Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B teor at blah dot im OTR CAD08081 9755866D 89E2A06F E3558B7F B5A9D14F signature.asc De

Re: [tor-relays] Running 5000 relays...

2016-03-19 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
s a DirPort or not). This used be controlled by the HidServDirV2 option, but that's now obsolete. See ticket 16543 and commit 2f8cf524b. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B teor at blah dot im OTR CAD08081 9755866D 89E2A06F E3558B7F B5A9D14F signature.asc D

Re: [tor-relays] please send me your hosters

2016-03-19 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
t;> not really add anything new to that site. >> >> It'a always a good idea to ask. > > I don't think it is worth the effort for non-exits. Since that should not > botter the hoster at all. Some hosters are bothered by (or do not support) high numbers of connection

Re: [tor-relays] What IPs does Torbrowser need?

2016-03-19 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
resolution is performed by the Exit. So technically, there are no DNS packets until the Exit queries its DNS servers for the server name provided by the client. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B teor at blah dot im OTR CAD08081 9755866D 89E2A06F E3558B7F B5A9D1

Re: [tor-relays] Ticket #18489

2016-03-08 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
recover from the Valencia meeting, > I expect this one will be easy to resolve. I am still in an airport, and I believe others are still on post-dev-meeting leave. Give us a week or so to look into it. We should be able to get a fix in the next alpha. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor23

Re: [tor-relays] relay maintenance without losing consensus weight?

2016-03-08 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 9 Mar 2016, at 05:26, Michael McConville wrote: > > Zwiebel wrote: >> Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote: >>>> Zwiebel wrote: >>>> is there a way to shut down Tor relays for a short time without >>>> losing consensus weight or band

Re: [tor-relays] Hibernation Expectations

2016-03-08 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
d reasons to run a fast relay. If you're very close to your bandwidth cutoff, why not decrease it slightly, and run all the time? Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B teor at blah dot im OTR CAD08081 9755866D 89E2A06F E3558B7F B5A9D14F signature.as

Re: [tor-relays] relay maintenance without losing consensus weight?

2016-03-08 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
ut Tor won't let me. Networks need extra capacity - it increases average speeds, and absorbs sudden usage spikes. Consider starting a second tor instance on other ports to use the extra capacity on your server. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B teor at blah

Re: [tor-relays] Network Bandwidth Fine Tuning

2016-03-02 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
circuit are on different /16s. (But it's still good to set MyFamily so it's clear which relays are controlled by the same person.) Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B teor at blah dot im OTR CAD08081 9755866D 89E2A06F E3558B7F B5A9D14F signature.asc De

Re: [tor-relays] What do the huge providers have to do within tor circuits?

2016-02-29 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
-how is huge. And > their ability to draw information from any sort of internet traffic is > unparalleled. Please check your torrc and your entry in globe to make sure you're a non-exit relay. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B teor at blah dot

Re: [tor-relays] tor-relays Digest, Vol 61, Issue 41

2016-02-28 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
nd connections to stay under about 3/4 of the memory you have. Try 1GB. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B teor at blah dot im OTR CAD08081 9755866D 89E2A06F E3558B7F B5A9D14F signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail _

Re: [tor-relays] biggest guard operator apparently left the tor network

2016-02-28 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
osen, and try new guards if all previously chosen guards are down. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B teor at blah dot im OTR CAD08081 9755866D 89E2A06F E3558B7F B5A9D14F signature.asc Description: Message signed with Open

Re: [tor-relays] Network Bandwidth Fine Tuning

2016-02-28 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
cated 2TB > of bandwidth per month from my VPS What processor is on your VPS? How fast is it? Does it have AES-NI? Is your OpenSSL compiled optimised for your processor and for the encryption that Tor uses? How much RAM does your VPS have? Have you read the torservers.net Tor tuning advic

Re: [tor-relays] Notices.Log Message

2016-02-27 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
0A9E71ADFC2FB1C80E64EF851A4B905450105' > > Tor Version 0.2.7.6 (Installed today) > Debian 7.0 Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B teor at blah dot im OTR CAD08081 9755866D 89E2A06F E3558B7F B5A9D14F signature.asc Description: Message si

Re: [tor-relays] Feedback

2016-02-26 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
ers find that new address? (For some users, the bridge authority might tell them when provided with the bridge's fingerprint, but only if their other bridges work.) > (Of course they could > still simply block the whole /16 or whatever your ISP has) Typically only the IP and port are b

Re: [tor-relays] Feedback

2016-02-25 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
e middle of a circuit, and for rendezvous points for short-lived hidden service circuits. So it's not disruptive or useless. (It might slow down a few clients who try your relay for the few hours each day it takes to find its new IP address.) Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2

Re: [tor-relays] Stable Flag Question

2016-02-25 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
t for 0.2.6.) Give it time, and enough authorities should believe your relay is stable. Perhaps you could consider upgrading it from 0.2.4? Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B teor at blah dot im OTR CAD08081 9755866D 8

Re: [tor-relays] Mexico ISP blocking authority nodes and preventing exit relays.

2016-02-18 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 18 Feb 2016, at 22:16, Mirimir wrote: > > On 02/18/2016 03:47 AM, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote: >> >>> On 18 Feb 2016, at 14:40, Ricardo Malagon Jerez wrote: >>> >>> I don't know how and why, but since January is impossible to have an exit

Re: [tor-relays] Mexico ISP blocking authority nodes and preventing exit relays.

2016-02-18 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
. Relays need to be able to post their descriptors to the authorities. So they have to be able to reach at least one authority - they can't use only fallback directory mirrors. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B teor at blah dot im OTR CAD08081 9755866D

Re: [tor-relays] TOR service wont start with ORPort enabled

2016-02-14 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 15 Feb 2016, at 00:10, Volker Mink wrote: > > I think I found something. > >>> could not bind to 0.0.0.0:9001: address already in use > > Where can i set the binding? Is your old Tor process still running? Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail

Re: [tor-relays] TOR service wont start with ORPort enabled

2016-02-14 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
torrc-file enabled. > Port 9001 is forwarded at my router and the Pi is also in the DMZ. Can you please send us the Tor log messages? They usually say why Tor won't start. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B teor at blah dot im OTR CAD08081 9755866D 89E2A06F

Re: [tor-relays] Should Onionoo consider relays with the same ip# to be part of the same family?

2016-02-05 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> -V > > On Friday, 5 February 2016, Karsten Loesing <mailto:kars...@torproject.org>> wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> [Removing metrics-team@ to avoid cross posting.] >> >> On 28/01/16 21:22, Tim Wilson-Brow

Re: [tor-relays] Nameservers fail and come back at the same time?

2016-01-31 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
Tim > On Jan 31, 2016 3:27 PM, "Tim Wilson-Brown - teor" <mailto:teor2...@gmail.com>> wrote: > >> On 1 Feb 2016, at 08:19, SuperSluether > <mailto:supersluet...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> I'm not sure how many DNS servers are configur

Re: [tor-relays] Nameservers fail and come back at the same time?

2016-01-31 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
DNS requests. A drawback is that your VPS company then sees your DNS requests and your traffic, but they could do this anyway.) Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B teor at blah dot im OTR CAD08081 9755866D 89E2A06F E3558B7F B5A9D14F signature.asc Description: M

Re: [tor-relays] Nameservers fail and come back at the same time?

2016-01-31 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
vers? Typically, by editing /etc/resolv.conf. But some platforms automatically generate it using the files in /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/ It should be fairly straightforward, if not, search the Internet for a HOWTO for your platform. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com P

Re: [tor-relays] Should Onionoo consider relays with the same ip# to be part of the same family?

2016-01-28 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 29 Jan 2016, at 07:20, Roman Mamedov wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 06:33:51 +1100 > Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote: > >> Tor already considers relays in the same IPv4 /16 to be in the same family. > > Maybe a step further in this would be to autoextend manual

Re: [tor-relays] Should Onionoo consider relays with the same ip# to be part of the same family?

2016-01-28 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
another matter. Perhaps it could imitate Tor, and have a separate field called "network family"? Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B teor at blah dot im OTR CAD08081 9755866D 89E2A06F E3558B7F B5A9D14F signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenP

Re: [tor-relays] What does this message mean in my tor logs?

2016-01-28 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
67A1BA4EF1D13A617AEFB416CB9E44331B223A > > <https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/FE67A1BA4EF1D13A617AEFB416CB9E44331B223A> Thanks for the fingerprint, Atlas confirms your relay is an Exit. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B teor at blah dot im OT

Re: [tor-relays] EventDNS error

2016-01-25 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
that happened over the weekend? > I have never seen it before. This error is logged when Tor sends a DNS query to an address, but gets a reply back from a different address. This could be an attack, or a misconfigured DNS server, or simply a multihomed DNS server. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teo

Re: [tor-relays] [warn] Bad password or authentication cookie on controller.

2016-01-21 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
;s warnings. Search the mailing lists, source code or Internet? Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B teor at blah dot im OTR CAD08081 9755866D 89E2A06F E3558B7F B5A9D14F signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail __

Re: [tor-relays] Revised Opt-In Trial: Fallback Directory Mirrors

2016-01-18 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 13 Jan 2016, at 11:21, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote: >> On 13 Jan 2016, at 10:33, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor > <mailto:teor2...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> At 19:20 1/12/2016 +0100, Aeris wrote: >>>> ... >>>> After grepping some logs, seems 13/

Re: [tor-relays] Opt-In Trial: Fallback Directory Mirrors

2016-01-17 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 18 Jan 2016, at 11:07, Roman Mamedov wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 10:16:40 +1100 > Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote: > >> I think if a client is just using it for bootstrap, any extra latency >> shouldn't be an issue. >> But IPv6 clients may also

Re: [tor-relays] Revised Opt-In Trial: Fallback Directory Mirrors

2016-01-17 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
er, with my others nodes > (kitten[1-4])). Hi Aeris, kitten3 doesn't have a DirPort configured. Relays need a DirPort to be a fallback directory mirror. Let me know if you are able to configure a DirPort for it. Also let me know if you want to opt-in or opt-out other relays in that fami

Re: [tor-relays] Opt-In Trial: Fallback Directory Mirrors

2016-01-17 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 19 Dec 2015, at 05:53, Felix wrote: > ... > I'm happy to bring in the relay Doedel22 > '8FA37B93397015B2BC5A525C908485260BE9F422'. Hi Felix, There are some other relays in that family, did you want to opt-in or opt-out for them? Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor)

Re: [tor-relays] Opt-In Trial: Fallback Directory Mirrors

2016-01-17 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 18 Dec 2015, at 09:23, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote: >> On 18 Dec 2015, at 06:31, ]V[ > <mailto:mart...@beekhuis.org>> wrote: >> Able! >> > > ... > Thanks, can you let me/us know the names your relay(s)? > (I need to know the names to add th

Re: [tor-relays] Opt-In Trial: Fallback Directory Mirrors

2016-01-17 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
tunnels? Tim [0]: We're working on it in https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/17840 <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/17840> Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B teor at blah dot im OTR CAD08081 9755866D 89E2A06F E3558B7F B5A9D

Re: [tor-relays] Opt-In Trial: Fallback Directory Mirrors

2016-01-17 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
hat family, should they be opt-in or opt-out? Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B teor at blah dot im OTR CAD08081 9755866D 89E2A06F E3558B7F B5A9D14F signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail _

Re: [tor-relays] Opt-In Trial: Fallback Directory Mirrors

2016-01-17 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
47A05BFBCF91,$5BFDECCE9B4A23AE14EC767C5A2C1E10558B00B9 Hi, Thanks for the opt-in, but these relays have no DirPort configured. Relays need a DirPort to act as fallback directory mirrors. If you are able to configure a DirPort on these relays, please let me know, and I'll add them to the list. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor

Re: [tor-relays] Opt-In Trial: Fallback Directory Mirrors

2016-01-17 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
I'm working on IPv6 client bootstrap in Trac Ticket #17840, hopefully it will make it into 0.2.8.) https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/17840 <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/17840> Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B teor a

Re: [tor-relays] Tor being blocked by mayor ISP in Mexico?

2016-01-17 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
(or fallback directory mirrors) when bootstrapping. This makes bootstrap more reliable when only a few directory authorities are reachable. (It also doesn't help relays, because they need to be able to reach the authorities.) https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/4483 <http

Re: [tor-relays] Revised Opt-In Trial: Fallback Directory Mirrors

2016-01-12 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 13 Jan 2016, at 10:33, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote: > > >> At 19:20 1/12/2016 +0100, Aeris wrote: >>>> Are you *absoultely* certain that the config >>>> was not fiddled with at the time of this event? >>> >>> After greppin

Re: [tor-relays] Revised Opt-In Trial: Fallback Directory Mirrors

2016-01-12 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
~62 seconds after the ORPort self-test? (Or, strictly, after the first descriptor was submitted?) That would explain the behaviour we're seeing here. (And it shouldn't be grounds for exclusion as a fallback directory, let me see what I can do.) Logged in trac as #18050. https:

Re: [tor-relays] Opt-In Trial: Fallback Directory Mirrors

2016-01-12 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
;> for this trial. > > I realise it's been a while since the last post in this thread, but > I'd like to opt-in. That's OK, we're still taking opt-ins. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B teor at blah dot im OTR CAD08081 9755866D

Re: [tor-relays] Revised Opt-In Trial: Fallback Directory Mirrors

2016-01-12 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
[2]: <https://github.com/teor2345/tor.git>https://github.com/teor2345/tor.git > > ___ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays Tim Wilson-Brown (teor)

[tor-relays] Revised Opt-In Trial: Fallback Directory Mirrors

2016-01-11 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
ackDirectoryMirrors <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/FallbackDirectoryMirrors> [2]: https://github.com/teor2345/tor.git <https://github.com/teor2345/tor.git> Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B teor at blah dot im OTR CAD08081 9755866D 89E2A06F E3558B7

Re: [tor-relays] Opt-In Trial: Fallback Directory Mirrors

2016-01-11 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 12 Jan 2016, at 12:11, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote: > > >> On 12 Jan 2016, at 10:14, starlight.201...@binnacle.cx >> <mailto:starlight.201...@binnacle.cx> wrote: >> >> Found a serious bug in the >> >> updateFallbackDirs.p

Re: [tor-relays] Opt-In Trial: Fallback Directory Mirrors

2016-01-11 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
tory of each relay rather than the > 120 days requested. > > This results in 145 relays left > off the list as too-old history is > averaged into the percentages. Thanks, logged as #18035 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18035 <https://trac.torproject.org/project

Re: [tor-relays] Why is Tor trying to check the wrong ORPort/DirPort addresses?

2016-01-08 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
dress, ORPort and DirPort lines (or the entire torrc, if you're able) * The debug-level log output for the first and second calls to resolve_my_address() * there will be a lot of output here, and it can reveal sensitive info - don't leave debug logging on all the time! Tim Tim Wil

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