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

2019-07-07 Thread Tyler Durden
Thanks for confirmation! That's what I was suspecting. Tim Niemeyer: > Moin > > I just played a bit with the sources of this test system. > > At first I didn't get it work, but then I changed the hard coded guard > to one of my own and voila .. > > > I picked an exit with an error rate of 100%

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

2019-07-01 Thread Tyler Durden
I can't really understand why our relays should fail so often because the logs of our DNS daemon don't show anything and I haven't seen the warning about nameservers that failed for a long time... Maybe the script that checks about DNS failures on Exits is not reporting correctly? Greetings

Re: [tor-relays] 10 Years Torservers.net: Death or Future?

2019-05-07 Thread Tyler Durden
I'm very sad to read this but I totally understand you. Running such an organization is not easy and even a bit ungrateful. Never the less we from FVDE want to thank you and everybody behind torservers.net and Zwiebelfreunde e.V. It has been a hell of a ride and maybe you are right and the retreat

Re: [tor-relays] the intention of emails aiming to contact operators with no contactInfo

2019-02-11 Thread Tyler Durden
It would have helped if you contacted us again a week later when you didn't get a response from us because your mail has clearly not reached us and was lost (no trace of it in the logfiles) instead of directly going to the bad-relays list. That's simply putting us in a bad light for a problem th

Re: [tor-relays] plans to require ContactInfo to be non-empty

2019-02-10 Thread Tyler Durden
+1 Good to know that I'm not the only one finding this behavior of him wicked. Emilian Ursu: > Hi, > > I was planning to bring up this issue but the other way around, > ContactInfo, Nickname and Myfamily are non-enforceable so why > should tor rely on spoofable information for its operation? >

[tor-relays] Exit Node shutdown

2018-10-12 Thread Tyler Durden
Hi Our two exit nodes "chulak" and "aurora" will be terminated by the end of this month. Both are listed in the Fallback Directory Mirror list and need to be removed. Fingerprints: 379FB450010D17078B3766C2273303C358C3A442 B0279A521375F3CB2AE210BDBFC645FDD2E1973A The shutdown is due to an intern

Re: [tor-relays] lets stop using central big DNS resolvers (Google, Level3, OpenDNS, Quad9, Cloudflare)

2018-05-11 Thread Tyler Durden
t 10:37:00PM +, Tyler Durden wrote: >> The situation is very unlikely to change unless there is a major >player >> on "our side" which offers a free, censorship-free, resilient and >stable >> DNS Service. > >You are welcome to use our free, censorship-fr

Re: [tor-relays] lets stop using central big DNS resolvers (Google, Level3, OpenDNS, Quad9, Cloudflare)

2018-05-10 Thread Tyler Durden
All our nodes are using a local DNS caching server and only use google as a fallback. The situation is very unlikely to change unless there is a major player on "our side" which offers a free, censorship-free, resilient and stable DNS Service. Greetings nusenu: > Dear Exit Relay Operators, > > I

Re: [tor-relays] Relays not in cached consensus

2018-02-05 Thread Tyler Durden
teor: > >> On 5 Feb 2018, at 10:37, Tyler Durden wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> Just ~3 weeks before the 34C3, two of our newer Exits were thrown out of >> the consensus weight and since than never came back in. >> I'm talking about: >> ger

[tor-relays] Relays not in cached consensus

2018-02-04 Thread Tyler Durden
Hi Just ~3 weeks before the 34C3, two of our newer Exits were thrown out of the consensus weight and since than never came back in. I'm talking about: geri (geri.enn.lu) 93FAB6F91C2EF33D0ACEEF7448177FCA2CEB99A0 freki (freki.enn.lu) C8AB1B2AF0CBAAE3611A814B4C7D38DCE0CBFEB4 We tried to purge the To

Re: [tor-relays] companies and organizations running relays

2017-12-05 Thread Tyler Durden
Simply have a look at https://torservers.net/partners.html Greetings Christian Pietsch: > Please add: > > Digital human rights activist/advocacy NGO Digitalcourage e.V., Germany / > https://digitalcourage.de / > https://atlas.torproject.org/#search/family:9EAD5B2D3DBD96DBC80DCE423B0C345E920A7

Re: [tor-relays] Memory Problems with tor releay

2017-05-22 Thread Tyler Durden
Hi We do also experience high memory consumptions by Tor from time to time which result in a total halt of the system. I'm now testing several values in MaxMemInQueues... Greetings tor-relay.d...@o.banes.ch: > Dear all, > > we are operating two exit nodes with each two tor processes out of >

[tor-relays] Tor Relay Operators Meetup at hack.lu - 19.10. 16:00

2016-10-17 Thread Tyler Durden
Hi We are present at this years hack.lu together with a booth with the Chaos Computer Club Luxembourg. Should you guys happen to be around just come by and talk to us. ( We do have Mate, Mate Schnapps and Flora Power :P ) Tor Relay Operators Meet-Up Where: FVDE & C3L booth at the main hall Date:

Re: [tor-relays] Webiron at it again...

2015-12-15 Thread Tyler Durden
They are a pain in the ass. We did block them on our mail server and reported to our ISPs that they often send false-positives. Like UDP DDoS from our exit nodes. Stuff like that. This calmed our ISPs. We also tried to speak to them but they don't answer or when they did it was in a rude way. Ab

Re: [tor-relays] webiron requesting to block several /24 subnet

2015-11-16 Thread Tyler Durden
Dhalgren Tor: >> . . .I have to understand how my ISP reacts to this kind of things. > >> For the moment I will keep a low profile and I will block the >> mentioned IP range for a month. > > Webiron's system sends notifications to both the abusix.org contact > for the IP and to ab...@base-domain.

Re: [tor-relays] my provider null routed my exit. advice?

2015-07-31 Thread Tyler Durden
On 2015-07-31 05:30, Christopher Yeager wrote: > Hello, > > I run a 100mb exit hosted at server.lu since sometime in late 2013. There > have been a couple dozen abuse reports but normally they forward them to me > to deal with and nothing much happens. However a week or so ago, while I > was travel

Re: [tor-relays] Subpoena received

2015-04-24 Thread Tyler Durden
On 2015-04-24 18:15, Moritz Bartl wrote: > Hi, > > On 04/24/2015 10:19 AM, grarpamp wrote: >> While you're busy doing all this writing and signing you need >> to post the results up on the wiki, the tor relay banner page, >> EFF legal info/opinion page update, etc. > Looks like the problem with Ali

Re: [tor-relays] Subpoena received

2015-04-23 Thread Tyler Durden
On 2015-04-23 13:57, Moritz Bartl wrote: > On 04/23/2015 10:20 AM, Jan GUTH wrote: >> So, I'll get in touch with our lawyer & with EFF. Is there anyone else >> within EU, whom could certify them what Tor is and what it is capable of >> and what not? Moritz? > ... > > I'm happy to write something as

Re: [tor-relays] Subpoena received

2015-04-22 Thread Tyler Durden
ut to EFF and Moritz. > > I am surprised and saddened to hear this. > > Have you told your ISP about Tor? Did you tell them in advance of > setting up the relay what it is, and what it is not? > > > Kind regards, > > Matt > Speak Freely > > Tyler Durden: >

Re: [tor-relays] Subpoena received

2015-04-22 Thread Tyler Durden
Now Alistaro (our ISP) wants the IPs as well or they will probably shut down the server tomorrow. Well that escalated quickly. -- Sam Grüneisen - President Frënn vun der Ënn A.S.B.L. enn.lu ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org

Re: [tor-relays] Subpoena received

2015-04-20 Thread Tyler Durden
On 2015-04-20 22:29, Zack Weinberg wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Tyler Durden wrote: >> I just wanted to let you know that Washington sent us a subpoena >> regarding one of our exit nodes in Romania > Just FYI, "Washington" doesn't appear to have

[tor-relays] Subpoena received

2015-04-20 Thread Tyler Durden
Hi I just wanted to let you know that Washington sent us a subpoena regarding one of our exit nodes in Romania. They want to know the real IP behind the Tor Network. I mailed them what Tor is and why I can't help them in identifying this person. Nevertheless I will give you the link to the full sub

Re: [tor-relays] Tor in Spain

2015-01-09 Thread Tyler Durden
Have you informed EDIS in advance? As far as I know if you plan to run exit nodes on a EDIS server you have to tell them so you get into a private VLAN. Greetings On 2015-01-09 13:00, Torizen wrote: > Hello, > > I've been running a non-exit relay on a EDIS VPS located in Spain for 5 > months. >

Re: [tor-relays] Exit Nodes under DDoS attacks

2014-08-04 Thread Tyler Durden
My ISP detected it. They didn't specify which kind of traffic. I guess that it was a SYN-DDoS On 2014-08-04 19:04, Anders Andersson wrote: > On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Tyler Durden wrote: >> I just wanted to know from others how often your nodes are being DDoSed? >> Be

Re: [tor-relays] Exit Nodes under DDOS attacks

2014-08-04 Thread Tyler Durden
I don't think so because RX traffic skyrocketed, not TX traffic. Greetings On 2014-08-04 16:17, t...@t-3.net wrote: > We never had our exit nodes become the targets of DDOS attacks > HOWEVER, we occasionally see abuse complaints due to someone abusing > Tor to DDOS attack other targets. Perhaps

[tor-relays] Exit Nodes under DDoS attacks

2014-08-04 Thread Tyler Durden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi I just wanted to know from others how often your nodes are being DDoSed? Because this month one of our nodes has been targeted twice. Because DDoS sucks and most providers aren't very happen when this happens often. Greetings virii - enn.

Re: [tor-relays] Debian relay Puppet module

2014-06-15 Thread Tyler Durden
Hi We are not using puppet but a selfmade script. On 2014-06-15 17:22, Nusenu wrote: >> Did you take a look at the existing projects? >> >> https://github.com/search?q=tor+puppet >> >> Maybe you should merge your project with one of the existing ones? > Is anyone at torservers & partners or anyon

Re: [tor-relays] New obfsproxy transport: scramblesuit [bridge operators: please upgrade!]

2014-02-10 Thread Tyler Durden
On 2014-02-10 19:26, George Kadianakis wrote: > Grozdan writes: > >> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 6:54 PM, George Kadianakis >> wrote: >>> Grozdan writes: >>> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:04 PM, George Kadianakis wrote: > Greetings, > > a few days ago we integrated ScrambleSuit

Re: [tor-relays] Tor bridge on Amazon not doing much

2013-08-01 Thread Tyler Durden
Well you are just a bridge.. Don't expect tons of traffic. P.s: For a bridge this is already "a lot" of traffic. Greetings Am 01.08.2013 23:11, schrieb Shawn A. Miller: > I've been running a Tor bridge on the Amazon EC2 cloud computing > platform (per instructions at https://cloud.torproject.o

Re: [tor-relays] Address mismatch on received DNS packet

2013-07-05 Thread Tyler Durden
Looks like your DNS server is to slow to handle all the requests. TO change your DNS server, open /etc/resolv.conf If you are running an exit node yourself, try to install unbound as an DNS caching server and put 127.0.0.1 at the first place in resolv.conf http://wiki.enn.lu/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?Scri