[tor-relays] Docker Snowflake Proxy Multiple IPs

Hello, I'm writing because I want to run a snowflake proxy in a docker container on a server with two IP addresses; the primary public IP I want the snowflake proxy hosted on, and a public anycast IP that's shared between other servers. I'm concerned the snowflake proxy may try listening on the

[tor-relays] Relay usage dropped 9x when enabling UFW. What UFW rules do other relay operators enact?

Hello all, I'm running relay 292FCACE773DC259B799914A23BE65A6A6178E8F and have noticed traffic drops when enabling UFW. Around 2024-01-15, I enabled UFW on this server. I noticed a 9x drop in traffic (10.88M -> 1.708M), and coughed it up to relay weirdness. This is about when my relays Guard st

Re: [tor-relays] 7000 concurrent connections

Just try it! Tor will limit the amount of connections it accepts based on how much RAM you have. \ Original Message On Feb 20, 2024, 06:16, snowmanonahoe--- via tor-relays < tor-relays@lists.torproject.org> wrote: > > > > Hello all, > > > > > I'm interested in running a rela

Re: [tor-relays] request for receipes MULTI-instances of ethe4 Guard, Bridge, Exits, snowflake , Tunnel, or both DEBIAN and OpenBSD

You can have 2 separate relays on the same IPv4 address. Are you running into issues? On Wednesday, February 7th, 2024 at 16:41, eff_03675...@posteo.se wrote: > > > > Hi, > > I have been looking too far and for too long on solving multiple > imstances / nodes per ONE IPv4, > and foun

Re: [tor-relays] Relay that's been running for a long time suddenly saying it's new?

I had this issue too. It resolved itself shortly within a few hours. Original Message On Jan 15, 2024, 05:23, Petrarca via tor-relays wrote: > Just to confirm - the same happens to my relay, so this seems to be a general > issue. > > Keifer Bly schrieb am Montag, 15. Januar 20

Re: [tor-relays] Comcast blocks ALL traffic with tor relays

If we could get EFF to announce a boycott of any corporation known to act maliciously against Tor or other privacy-friendly technology (such as VPNs), that would go a long way. I will also write to EFF.  I have donated money to them, so maybe they will listen.  If they won't support a boycott

Re: [tor-relays] GPG Signatures

Hi there, I have seen a couple of emails from Tor Project with the signature.asc file attached. I was wondering how I would go ahead and recreate this for myself. Any help would be great, Kind regards, Leon The content of this email is confidential and intended for the recipient specifie

[tor-relays] (No Subject)

Hi there, I currently own a Tor Relay that has been running since 2022-05-24. A day ago it restarted, which was a bit strange. Recently I found that the Relay has changed to a Guard Relay, which I am pleased about. I was wondering why the restart occurred as the VPS Server has been online sin

Re: [tor-relays] Debian is not allowing tor to update despite it being listed as a trusted respritory

Your sources.list file entry looks incorrect.  I would definitely not recommend using trust=yes for a repo like tor, as it bypasses apt's security checks. According to the instructions you linked , your source for the tor packages should be li

Re: [tor-relays] Newbie needs help

Tor project recommends 16Mbits/s in each direction minimum so you should be fine. However note the concurrent connections requirement, which can "overwhelm consumer-level routers."   That might be something to watch. On 3/22/22 0

Re: [tor-relays] Crashed Relay

If you upgraded tor as a package on your Linux OS recently, it may have overwritten your torrc with defaults? It’s a long shot!Sent from ProtonMail for iOS On Sat, Nov 6, 2021 at 12:52, sysmanager7 via tor-relays wrote: I was notified by Uptime Robot that relay

Re: [tor-relays] Overloaded state indicator on relay-search

The problem is that it’s *not* currently overloaded, there’s nothing to see. Maybe you can check your syslogs for anything out of the ordinary system-wide? Sent from ProtonMail for iOS On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 10:09, Arlen Yaroslav via tor-relays wrote: > I am n

Re: [tor-relays] Overloaded state indicator on relay-search

Did you use a lot of ram or cpu power recently? I got flagged as overloaded when I was compiling something and used a lot of cpu.Again, the problem here is that even if you fix it, you won’t know for 3 days. Therefore if you try multiple methods to fix it you won’t know what the problem is.I who

Re: [tor-relays] Bridge showing offline

You are running 0.4.5.8, maybe updating to a newer version of tor will help?Sent from ProtonMail for iOS On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 03:02, Georg Koppen wrote: Eddie:> Looking at tor metrics, one of my bridges is showing as off-line:> B080140DC1BAB5B86D1CE5A4CA2EF64F20282440>>

Re: [tor-relays] Overloaded state indicator on relay-search

been very lax at documentation--both creation and updating.> I've never seen a thorough site map or directory published. I think this> discourages folks who would like to start a tor relay.Mmm. I'm a stupid hobby admin with no IT background. Tor entry servers werethe first thing I

Re: [tor-relays] Overloaded state indicator on relay-search

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 This is much more informational. Great job! As someone with mystery "overloaded" problems, i'd recommend / request / beg for the following: 1) When the relay is overloaded, a yellow indicator appears on the web page. This indicator remains for 72

Re: [tor-relays] Overloaded state indicator on relay-search

Agreed . My relay is wellBelow all of the thresholds for “overloaded”, for gods sake 64gb ram and 12 cpus should be adequate for a tor relay? 10gb connection?I’ve asked multiple times for help trying to figure this out and have gotten zero response. It seems to be very difficult to get any help

Re: [tor-relays] Overloaded state indicator on relay-search

and report overloaded states, but I only know so much about Tor.Hope this helps.Respectfully,Gary On Tuesday, September 28, 2021, 10:28:42 AM PDT, Bleedangel Tor Admin wrote:

Re: [tor-relays] Overloaded state indicator on relay-search

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I am having a lot of trouble figuring out why my relay keeps showing as overloaded on the search page. I believe I have more than enough memory and cpu power to not be overloaded on hardware. My server internet connection is 10GB up/down unmetered

Re: [tor-relays] Overloaded state indicator on relay-search

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Agreed, can the thresholds be published publicly for easy reference? Sometimes i get the overloaded flag but i have nothing in my logs, and my cpu/memory is abundant.  It would be much easier to ascertain the cause of this if we knew what we were

Re: [tor-relays] Overloaded state indicator on relay-search

My relay was showing as overloaded and I couldn’t figure out why, system utilization was extremely low, only using a tiny bit of ram, network throughout was problem free, I was scratching my head until I realized it shows for 72 hours, and I had been doing a heavy distcc compile on my server on

[tor-relays] Need help with Dir Address and Exit Address

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi all I have an exit relay running, and all is working well. I am a stickler though, and i notice when i search my relay on the metrics page, the following two items are listed as 'none': Dir Address  Exit Address Can anyone help me to get thes

[tor-relays] Moving Exit Node

Hi at all. Yesterday i was kicked by my hosting provider urdn (https://urdn.com.ua) kicked me because "someone we can't name here, wasn't happy" about what i did on a non urdn server. That's why they nullrouted my ipv4 and made the Exit Node inaccessible. After a talk with the support over jabb

Re: [tor-relays] [release] ExoneraTor 4.0.0

It's all public information that is being collected by anyone who wants to anyway. The point of exonerator is to collect this information in a way that could possibly be used in court as evidence to absolve an operator if incorrectly accused of a crime. It's good work and I for one as an exit oper

Re: [tor-relays] [release] ExoneraTor 4.0.0

It's all public information that is being collected by anyone who wants to anyway. The point of exonerator is to collect this information in a way that could possibly be used in court as evidence to absolve an operator if incorrectly accused of a crime. It's good work and I for one as an exit oper

Re: [tor-relays] FYI: Subpoena Received

d Tor-savvy ISP (Hurricane Electric) was a big plus. * Having an attorney designated who is familiar with Tor /in advance/ would have saved time. Your mileage may vary. On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 08:42, Vasilis wrote: > Hi IPfail, > > "IPfail (Tor Admin)": > >> T

Re: [tor-relays] FYI: Subpoena Received

> > > > On 06/08/2018 01:42 AM, "IPfail > (Tor Admin)" wrote: >> FYI, I received a subpoena from a US based court to > produce information >> about individual(s) who were using one of our exit > nodes at a specific >> date/time. In the nearly 3 mont

Re: [tor-relays] FYI: Subpoena Received

Yes, the relays are US-based. On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 23:10, I wrote: > Are and or the relay in USA? > >> FYI, I received a subpoena from a US based court to produce information >> about individual(s) who were using one of our exit nodes at a specific >> date/time. In the nearly 3 months that

[tor-relays] FYI: Subpoena Received

FYI, I received a subpoena from a US based court to produce information about individual(s) who were using one of our exit nodes at a specific date/time. In the nearly 3 months that these exits have been in operation, this is the first subpoena and only the second complaint received. For purpo

[tor-relays] Thank you to directory operators

Good morning, Relay operators often receive gratitude on this list for running relays, but let's not forget the directory operators - those individuals/organizations who are more central to The Tor Network and run their directory servers at a higher personal risk level than the relay operators.

Re: [tor-relays] Feedback wanted: letter to my university's library

Hi AJ, First, thank you for supporting Tor! Second, you're smart to contact the library, as IT would immediately shut down the idea as they don't want to receive more abuse emails than they already do (I know we did when I worked in academia). An additional resource you may wish to research is t

Re: [tor-relays] About relay size

Hi there, If your exit node has been online for more than two months with little hassle from the ISP, be sure to update the wiki at https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/GoodBadISPs with your exit node's ISP information. And thank you for your contribution to the Tor network. Than

Re: [tor-relays] keepyourprivcay: Introducing a new 100 mbit/s relay

Hi Boris, I would welcome the opportunity to tie my name to my exit nodes, if it weren't for the 1%-3% of illegal traffic that could land me in jail for the uneducated LEAs. And if it weren't for that 1%-3%, I would encourage a movement for residential users to set up exit nodes in their homes

Re: [tor-relays] Two new exit nodes online

-relays-boun...@lists.torproject.org] On Behalf Of Dakota Hourie Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2017 5:42 AM To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Two new exit nodes online Hi, I'd first off like to thank you for running your exits. On Jun 29, 2017 3:25 AM, "Tor

[tor-relays] Two new exit nodes online

Good morning, I have brought two new exit nodes online, ephesys0 and ephesys1 . Both are registering on atlas, and both have picked up the exit flag, so I'm providing notice for those who want to take a look at them and provide feedback on their configuration. Make your day great, Isaac,

[tor-relays] Tor relay

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[tor-relays] Shutdown of TorLand1

Hi all, after 5 years of operation I will shutdown TorLand1 (https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/E1E922A20AF608728824A620BADC6EFC8CB8C2B8) on February 17 2017. During the time of operation it pumped almost 6 PetaByte of exit traffic. Compared to the amount of traffic, the number of complai

Re: [tor-relays] DoS from my tor guard VPS

On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 12:41:09PM -0800, Arisbe wrote: > One of my tor guard relays is a medium size VPS operating in the Czech > Republic. It's been up and stable for several years. Several weeks ago I > was notified that my VPS was a source of UDP DoS traffic. It was shut down. > Logs showed

Re: [tor-relays] Research project - comparing abuse complaints on Tor exits to those of regular ISPs

On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 02:20:06PM +0200, Volker Mink wrote: >Mine is running for close to two years now and i got 2 regular complaints >with specific accusation (torrent...) from known german lawyers. >And one really common from my ISP - "we detected illegal activities. >please per

Re: [tor-relays] The Onion Box v3.0: Web Interface for your Tor relay

It's working now. The problem was that I was using 8080. It just wasn't working with the default port, even though I've opened the port. With 8081 everything is fine. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: tor-relays [mailto:tor-relays-boun...@lists.torproject.org] Im Auftrag von Ralph Seichter

[tor-relays] The Onion Box v3.0: Web Interface for your Tor relay

Hello, first of thank you for your project! I've been looking for something like this since a long time. I’m not exactly sure what I’m doing wrong, but I can’t get access to the Webinterface. I’ve changed the config and opened the port. The Interface is running and is listening to the

Re: [tor-relays] DigitalOcean pricing (Re: tomhek - the (new) biggest guard relay operator)

I’m using Webtropia at the moment. There are worlds between a Rasperry Pi1 and the DigitalOcean VPS. $5 is dirt cheap. What provider do you use? Sent from my iPad ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torp

Re: [tor-relays] DigitalOcean pricing (Re: tomhek - the (new) biggest guard relay operator)

ike you're running a Rasperry Pi 1 with an SSD and a good Network for 5$/month. Am Di., Sept. 13, 2016 15:04 schrieb Tristan : Well, if $5 a month is high for you, I don't know what to say. On Sep 13, 2016 4:01 AM, "Admin Kode-IT" wrote: Is there something special about D.O.

Re: [tor-relays] DigitalOcean pricing (Re: tomhek - the (new) biggest guard relay operator)

Is there something special about D.O.? The server prices are quite high in my opinion. ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] DigitalOcean pricing (Re: tomhek - the (new) biggest guard relay operator)

Is there something special about D.O.? The server prices are quite high in my opinion. ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] How to include files into torrc?

On Friday 09 September 2016 20:22:47 Ralph Seichter wrote: > # /etc/tor/torrc > ORPort 443 > # Policies are kept in separate file for readability > Include /etc/tor/policies > There is a ticket that handles this feature: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/1922 Regards, torl

Re: [tor-relays] interesting network sockets pattern

On Friday 26 August 2016 14:37:48 Toralf Förster wrote: > On 08/25/2016 07:02 PM, Toralf Förster wrote: > > This is a fresh new Tor exit, setup 4 days ago, > > https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/BE2FA9FCB6242567B93ED99FEC5543FC517 > > C9276 , where I do wonder how to interpret the attached scree

Re: [tor-relays] [WARN]Failing because we have 4063 connections already. Please read doc/TUNING for guidance

On Sunday 21 February 2016 12:02:49 nusenu wrote: > > since I upgraded the torland relay from 2.6.7 to 0.2.7.6 I get the > > following warnings: > > > > 09:20:30 [WARN] Failing because we have 4063 connections already. Please > > read doc/TUNING for guidance. [101144347 similar message(s) suppress

Re: [tor-relays] [WARN]Failing because we have 4063 connections already. Please read doc/TUNING for guidance

On Sunday 21 February 2016 12:57:52 Julien ROBIN wrote: > When I had 2 tor clients running (the second launched manually by a user > named "tor2"), I modified the "limits.conf" file, adding those 2 lines at > the end : > > #* softcore0 > #roothardcore

Re: [tor-relays] [WARN]Failing because we have 4063 connections already. Please read doc/TUNING for guidance

On Sunday 21 February 2016 11:56:37 Jonas Bergler wrote: > https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/tree/doc/TUNING Thanks Jonas for the link. file descriptors should be set to ulimit -n 65535 in the tor startup script. I thought that would work. But checking /proc/PID/limits I saw that file descri

[tor-relays] [WARN]Failing because we have 4063 connections already. Please read doc/TUNING for guidance

Hi all, since I upgraded the torland relay from 2.6.7 to 0.2.7.6 I get the following warnings: 09:20:30 [WARN] Failing because we have 4063 connections already. Please read doc/TUNING for guidance. [101144347 similar message(s) suppressed in last 21600 seconds] Google only spits out https://t

[tor-relays] Abuse messages from IPs marked as rejected in the exit policy

Hi all, I am receiving abuse messages for the Torland1 relay for IPs that are blacklisted in the exit policy. For example as https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/E1E922A20AF608728824A620BADC6EFC8CB8C2B8 shows, 62.67.194.0/24 is blocked. But I am getting abuse messages out of this IP range. C

Re: [tor-relays] pinning relay keys to IPs (or not)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 teor: > >> On 27 Jul 2015, at 01:30 , starlight.201...@binnacle.cx wrote: >> >> Perhaps a way to do it is reset the consensus for a relay if its >> IP address moves to a different Autonomous System. >> >> Is rare that dynamic IP causes relays to h

Re: [tor-relays] Multi-core Support

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I have to agree with that, multicore support is really important and should be on the top of the priority list. Thomas White: > Have there been any updated ETAs concerning the development/support > of multi-core for the core tor workloads? If not, i

Re: [tor-relays] Changes in network traffic pattern

On Friday 06 February 2015 11:32:42 Hu Man wrote: > First thought was DDOS but traffic is not high enough to cause any problems. > I did some digging and in a 5 minute period received the following requests > to the port tor is listening on (number of requests and source ip address) > [... removed

[tor-relays] nearly no bandwith usage with high Consensus Weight?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi since some days my relays dropped to nearly zero bandwith but the consensus weight is still high. I never saw a behaivier like this before, maybe somebody can tell me what is going wrong here? Thanks for help https://atlas.torproject.org/#detail

Re: [tor-relays] how to monitor traffick through a bridge

On Monday 05 January 2015 17:40:09 mattia wrote: > Hi, I would like to know how one can monitor traffic that goes > through a bridge. I have set one up and would like to know whether it > is being used or not, and how much. Thanks! You might try arm: https://www.atagar.com/arm/ A nice ncurses bas

Re: [tor-relays] Possible DDoS

On Friday 26 December 2014 15:48:20 Christian Burkert wrote: > Furthermore, I wondered if the attackers were attracted to my system > because of the Tor service, or were just randomly picking targets. > But from your previous descriptions, I rather deduce that it is more > like the latter, rather r

Re: [tor-relays] doc/HARDENING Draft

On Monday 24 November 2014 18:09:34 Libertas wrote: > Here's the relevant ticket: > > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/13703 > > A specific topic of conversation is how much of the advice should be > in the document itself as opposed to linked sources. > > It could also use more O

[tor-relays] [warn] No unused circIDs found on channel without wide circID support

Hi, since upgrading torland to 0.2.5.8-rc I see the below warnings. Is this something to worry about? Regards, torland -- Sep 28 16:07:24.000 [warn] No unused circIDs found on channel without wide circID support, with 0 i

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

Since I started operating the Torland1/Torland2 nodes in 2011 I noticed less than 20 DDOS attacks that lasted usually only a couple of minutes. I was never contacted by my provider. regards, torland On Monday 04 August 2014 14:53:12 Tyler Durden wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Ha

Re: [tor-relays] Traffic limitation

Both has downsides but I think daily is better, if it starts to get a lot traffic than it will serve the network for a few hours every day, but in monthly if it use the all available bw in 4 days, it won't do anything for 26 days. I'm sure you can get a better answer for it from someone who limi

Re: [tor-relays] "as well as block BitTorrent after repeated offenses..."

Hi, I'll happily block BitTorrent it before any offenses start. Just tell me how. Regards, =-John-= Spencer Neitzke spake thusly: as well as block BitTorrent after repeated offenses -- Using Opera's mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ __

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Relay Performance

There a couple of sysctrl parameters that Moritz described here: https://www.torservers.net/wiki/setup/server#sysctlconf Without setting them my relays were not able to handle really large numbers of concurrent connections. Regards, torland On Monday 24 March 2014 20:02:15 Sebastian Urbach w

Re: [tor-relays] How long from enabling ExitPolicy's to getting the Exit flag?

Once you allow exiting traffic you get immediately the flag. There is no delay as far as I know, apart from the time it takes for the authorities voting process. Regards Torland On Wednesday 26 February 2014 14:26:17 David Serrano wrote: > Hi, > > I finally decided to accept some ports in my

Re: [tor-relays] TTTT, multiple runs

Hi, It seems to me that on http://datarepo.cs.illinois.edu/relay_scoreboard.html you list under "Mesureing IPs" the IP from where the data was uploaded via ssh, but that must not be the correct IP if the script was run with option -c 'trace -S SRCADD' Regards, torland On Wednesday 19 Februa

Re: [tor-relays] Repeated "failed to get unique circID." in the log

I can confirm that on my relays too with 2.5.2 Am 20.02.2014 10:26 schrieb "Patrick ZAJDA" : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > > I updated my tor relay to Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha (git-7d29e36edb6d0cf0) > yesterday, using Tor repository for Ubuntu. > > I checked the log, and

Re: [tor-relays] using Arm to manage nodes

On Friday 07 February 2014 20:43:10 ja...@icetor.is wrote: > Additionally does anyone know what effects the client locale statistics > on page 2? I've had those statistics come and go and I can't figure out > what causes them to disappear. Your relay needs have have the Guard flag in order to see t

Re: [tor-relays] Trying Trusted Tor Traceroutes

On Friday 07 February 2014 22:05:41 Sebastian Urbach wrote: > Dear list members, > > The Trying Trusted Tor Traceroutes project is coming closer to the next > data review (03/2014). > > Basically every relay (except Bridges) can help to evaluate the Tor Routes. > Please consider that one complete

Re: [tor-relays] using Arm to manage nodes

On Friday 07 February 2014 18:24:20 ja...@icetor.is wrote: > Hello all, > This is something that's bothered me for quite some time. I often use > arm (https://www.torproject.org/projects/arm.html.en) for monitoring my > relays and to keep a quick eye on things like overall bandwidth > consumed, tra

Re: [tor-relays] Scoreboard enhancements / Trying Trusted Tor Traceroutes

On Sunday 26 January 2014 16:27:12 renke brausse wrote: > The needed time (even for the default of scamper with 1000 pps) is imho > a rather good explanation to torland's question why only 68 of nearly > 300 participating IPs finished the whole measurement at least once. I launched the script from

Re: [tor-relays] Scoreboard enhancements / Trying Trusted Tor Traceroutes

On Sunday 26 January 2014 12:48:34 Sebastian Urbach wrote: > But here the good news. The live scoreboard was modified. There is now a > new column which shows the number of completed runs per IP and also at the > bottom a value which displays the total sum of systems who completed at I am wonderin

Re: [tor-relays] Torservers awarded $250,000 by Digital Defenders

On Saturday 14 December 2013 13:28:52 Christian wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hej! > > Torservers.net has been awarded $250,000 over two years by the Digital > Defenders Partnership to strengthen and improve the Tor network, the > anonymity system crucial to journal

Re: [tor-relays] Amazon abuse report

On Thursday 31 October 2013 19:14:47 Andy Isaacson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 09:52:41PM -0400, Roger Dingledine wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 06:12:47PM -0700, Andy Isaacson wrote: > > > That's correct, it takes a deliberate action on the part of the > > > administrator to become a rela

Re: [tor-relays] What happens with the time on turtles 76.73.17.194?

Thanks. Sorry for the noise. Should have checked trac first. On Saturday 21 September 2013 06:21:50 Roger Dingledine wrote: > On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 12:19:42PM +0200, tor-admin wrote: > > Hi Mike, > > > > I am seeing many of these messages in the logs of torland1/torland2:

[tor-relays] What happens with the time on turtles 76.73.17.194?

Hi Mike, I am seeing many of these messages in the logs of torland1/torland2: Sep 21 12:09:34.000 [warn] Received NETINFO cell with skewed time from server at 76.73.17.194:9090. It seems that our clock is ahead by 15969 days, 10 hours, 9 minutes, or that theirs is behind. Tor requires an accur

Re: [tor-relays] Upgrade your relay to 0.2.4.17-rc?

On Thursday 05 September 2013 22:27:53 tor-admin wrote: > Updated torland family. Hope that the new version helps. One of the last > messages before update to 0.2.4.17-rc: > > Sep 05 21:06:29.000 [warn] Your computer is too slow to handle this many > circuit creation requests!

Re: [tor-relays] Upgrade your relay to 0.2.4.17-rc?

Updated torland family. Hope that the new version helps. One of the last messages before update to 0.2.4.17-rc: Sep 05 21:06:29.000 [warn] Your computer is too slow to handle this many circuit creation requests! Please consider using the MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option or choosing a more r

Re: [tor-relays] A bit more evidence on circuit creation storms

You could modify the tor init script to limit the memory usable by /usr/sbin/tor as described here: http://jlebar.com/2011/6/15/Limiting_the_amount_of_RAM_a_program_can_use.html But I don’t know if this works on RaspPi platform and what happens when the tor process hits the memory limit. Regar

Re: [tor-relays] DigitalOcean, cheap VPS that's ok with middle relays

On Tuesday 08 January 2013 20:51:52 Moritz Bartl wrote: > Thanks for the hint. In general, I don't see why VPS providers would not > allow internal Tor relaying, and I would not even bother to ask first. > Interesting values to know about VPS providers are bandwidth allowance > ("unlimited" is quit

Re: [tor-relays] Registration of a Tor node at the German Bundesnetzagentur

On Sunday 06 January 2013 20:35:25 Markus Drenger wrote: > the guys from opentracker told us at 24c3 that they have made good > experiences with informing their upstream provider about their > activities. that way their provider forwarded all abuse-mails directly > to them. > > events.ccc.de/congr

Re: [tor-relays] Registration of a Tor node at the German Bundesnetzagentur

On Wednesday 02 January 2013 13:34:27 Fabian Keil wrote: > While I was living in Overath I "registered" my relays with the > Police in Rösrath (who always acted very professionally and respectful). Good point. I never thought about pro actively informing the local police about my nodes. Will check

Re: [tor-relays] Registration of a Tor node at the German Bundesnetzagentur

On Wednesday 02 January 2013 14:56:59 Moritz Bartl wrote: > There is a fundamental legal difference between operating Internet > Access Providers and Internet Service Providers. As a Tor exit, you > should and want to be judged as a service provider. The key difference > is that Access Providers gi

[tor-relays] Registration of a Tor node at the German Bundesnetzagentur

Hi, this is a question more specific for the German jurisdiction. At the 29C3 in Hamburg I attended a interesting talk about open WIFI (http://is.gd/9G8AVA unfortunately in German) who was given by Reto Mantz (http://www.offenenetze.de/). He gave the advice to register open WIFIs which are op

[tor-relays] Traffic pattern on Tor relay

Hi, I am monitoring the network interface of my tor server with nload. From time to time nload shows strange traffic patterns: http://i.imgur.com/0Wr9h.png The graph is updated every second so one hash mark corresponds to one second. The most recent traffic value is on the right side. The graph

Re: [tor-relays] Suggestions for Tor Relay Operators after a Police interaction

On Friday, 30. November 2012, 09:14:34 Andrew Lewman wrote: > 2. Find legal representation. A list of possible legal advisers can be > found here, > https://blog.torproject.org/blog/start-tor-legal-support-directory. If > none of these people are in your country, or close to you, ask either > the E

Re: [tor-relays] How to get client locale statistics without arm?

On Wednesday, 28. November 2012, 14:47:05 Damian Johnson wrote: > Have you tried tweaking the query rate options in your armrc? > > https://gitweb.torproject.org/arm.git/blob/HEAD:/armrc.sample No I have not yet tried this. > > > Switching to the connection panel lets arm often freeze. Is the

[tor-relays] How to get client locale statistics without arm?

Hi, I would like to know from which countries my nodes are mostly used. I tried to use arm for this but on high capacity relays arm eats the same cpu resources as the tor process it monitors, if the connection panel is activated. Switching to the connection panel lets arm often freeze. Is there

Re: [tor-relays] Permissible traffic volume log density (was:    Announcing the Walla Walla Project)

Andreas, also to you, sorry for responding late. Please see my comments inline. On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:16:06 +0200 Andreas Krey wrote > As far as I understood Jacob asked you how many traffic data point you > log, and I asked him how many are acceptable. (And pointed out that the

Re: [tor-relays] Announcing the Walla Walla Project

13:38:05 +0200 Moritz Bartl wrote >Hi, > >Thank you for the Walla Walla! :-) > You're welcome. Thanks a lot btw for the Twitter post! >On 18.10.2012 13:29, admin wrote: >> So, in fact, hourly, daily and monthly stats all get updated hourly on every >> VPS

Re: [tor-relays] Announcing the Walla Walla Project

Hi Andreas, Jacob, On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:40:35 +0200 Andreas Krey wrote >On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:21:57 +, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: >... >> Could you confirm that you do not keep finger grain logs than the >> following vnstat? > >What is the acceptable granularity here? > >> h

Re: [tor-relays] Announcing the Walla Walla Project

Hi Jacob, On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 02:21:57 +0200 Jacob Appelbaum wrote >admin: >> Hi, >> >> I'm representing the Walla Walla Project, a volunteer initiative that >> aims to support the Tor network by contributing (exit-)relays and >> bridg

[tor-relays] Announcing the Walla Walla Project

Hi, I'm representing the Walla Walla Project, a volunteer initiative that aims to support the Tor network by contributing (exit-)relays and bridges to the network, and I would like to quickly announce today's (initial) launch of our humble project to the Tor relay operator mailinglist. Without

[tor-relays] Need help: High capacity exit relay does not get traffic

Hi, I am operating two 1 GBit/s servers which host 7 exit nodes. One server is located in GB with torland1 https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/4E377F91D326552AAE818D5A17BC3EF79639C2CD torland2 https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/332895D092C2524A3CDE8F6E1498FFE665EBFC34 torland1 is configur

[tor-relays] Massive ongoing google groups spamming

Hi all, there is a massive spamming of google groups ongoing. I received several complains as below. From the domain list it seems that all major Tor exit nodes are affected. Running an Exit without custom WHOIS, all abuse message are received by my ISP and forwarded. So I have to temporarily

Re: [tor-relays] Using aes-in in Tor

On Wednesday, August 15. 2012, 14:33:34 Moritz Bartl wrote: > Yes, that is correct. That is what " OpenSSL 1.0.1 does not come with an > extra module and should directly support AES-NI. " in the wiki was meant > to say. I will revise the section a bit. Thanks for clarification. I already supposed

Re: [tor-relays] Using aes-in in Tor

On Wednesday, August 15. 2012, 10:43:05 Robert Ransom wrote: > > #openssl version > > OpenSSL 1.0.1 14 Mar 2012 > > OpenSSL 1.0.1 uses AES-NI by default if it is available. > Does this mean that the command #openssl engine (rsax) RSAX engine support (dynamic) Dynamic engine loading support does

[tor-relays] Using aes-in in Tor

Hi, I am struggling setting up aes-in support with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I enabled aes in bios. cat /proc/cpuinfo shows the aes flag. #lsmod |grep aes aesni_intel55664 0 cryptd 20530 1 aesni_intel aes_x86_64 17208 1 aesni_intel shows that the module is lo

Re: [tor-relays] Help the Tor Project by running a fast unpublished bridge

On Monday, August 13. 2012, 00:55:45 Roger Dingledine wrote: > This discussion really goes back to a simple question: is it better to > use our funding for more design and development, or for strengthening > the network? For exit relays, I think choosing "strengthen the network" > is a great and wo

Re: [tor-relays] Help the Tor Project by running a fast unpublished bridge

ON Saturday, August 11. 2012, 18:25:03 Roger Dingledine wrote: > The constraints are: > * 100mbit+ connectivity, though in practice I expect they will spend > most of their time doing far less than that. > * No more than 2 bridges per /24. If you're running fast (100mbit+) > exits (which is more im

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