Re: [tor-relays] Speed up of reconnections after IP Address change

2017-01-03 Thread balbea16
'tor service start'  disconnects all connections, START uses the new IP address. Which is important. I am not sure if Sighup does the same. I assume it only reloads the config file. Any ideas? ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproje

Re: [tor-relays] Speed up of reconnections after IP Address change

2017-01-03 Thread balbea16
Hi ThereI've just written a simple bash script which verifies (in a while loop) every 2 minutes if the OR address has been changed by my ISP. If so, it stops and then restarts the Tor service again. Then it sleeps for 24 hours and starts the 2 minute loop again. Not very sophisticated, but

Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP

2016-12-27 Thread balbea16
Hi There I evaluated some relays with newly assigned (red) guard flags. All of them had already the stable flag assigned. And (so far I could see) all of them had (almost) static IP addresses. In my case, this may be the reason why I don't get a guard flag. My ISP changes it every 24 hours

Re: [tor-relays] What's a "useful" relay?

2016-12-23 Thread balbea16
Hi There I am actually a little bit confused now. I am one of (as Rana knows) those Pi 3 based OR operators with daily changing IP address. My consensus weight is about 5,000, with a max. of 1,400 connections.  I would like to recomment, that the TOR org should publish minimum requirements

[tor-relays] Speed up of reconnections after IP Address change

2016-12-21 Thread balbea16
Hi There,I only have a dynamic IP address and my ISP changes it almost every time after 24 hours. It is somehow sad to see 1.400 connections drop to almost none. After the change it takes 20 minutes until my OR notices this (our IP Address has changed from ...). It than takes another hour

[tor-relays] Flags?

2016-12-19 Thread balbea16
Hi There, I assume, that this has been discussed here already pretty often. However, it seems to be, that the "stable flag" is only assigned to relays with a static, or at least long lasting, IP address. It also seems to be, that the stable flag is mandatory to get the guard flag. If so, t

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment?

2016-12-15 Thread balbea16
Hi J. I know. But I need a fan on top of the sinks. Just the heat sinks are not efficient enough.  Ursprüngliche Nachricht Von: Rana Datum: 15.12.16 11:19 (GMT+01:00) An: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Betreff: Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experime

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment?

2016-12-15 Thread balbea16
ell out an additional $1.20 for a Pi case. Your 20 mbps relay has some value, you do not want to step on it accidentally J  From: tor-relays [mailto:tor-relays-boun...@lists.torproject.org] On Behalf Of balbea16 Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2016 10:24 AM To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment?

2016-12-15 Thread balbea16
tions on another computer is probably a big waste of money. Comments welcome.  From: tor-relays [mailto:tor-relays-boun...@lists.torproject.org] On Behalf Of balbea16 Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2016 9:04 AM To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment?

2016-12-14 Thread balbea16
Hi Peter unfortunately your message is empty, it only shows the signature. This occurs with all signed messages. I have no idea how to solve the problem.Mike Ursprüngliche Nachricht Von: Peter Ludikovsky Datum: 15.12.16 07:22 (GMT+01:00) An: tor-relays@lists.torprojec

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment?

2016-12-14 Thread balbea16
on your Pi 3, what’s your memory utilization?  about 513 MB  >What’s the total traffic the Pi sends every 6 hours (reported in the Tor log >file /var/log/tor/notices.log and, for the previous time window, in >/var/log/tor/notices.log.1)? About 19 GB in the last 6 hour period,

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relay from home - end of experiment?

2016-12-14 Thread balbea16
Hi ThereThis is a pretty interesting topic. I have been running a Rasp Pi 3 based relay since August this year. By now, I am up to about 1,300 incomming and outgoing connections, and a max of about 21mbps. This is about 50% of the max. upload speed. Consensus weight is between 3,000 and 6,

Re: [tor-relays] Second relay on same ESX

2016-12-11 Thread balbea16
at 17:08, balbea16 wrote: > > Hi > Are you actually talking about identical relays, i.e. with the same > fingerprint? That would be interessting for me, as I'd like to run a second > Rasp Pi in parallel for redundency reasons. > Mike Please don't run a second rela

Re: [tor-relays] Second relay on same ESX

2016-12-11 Thread balbea16
Hi Are you actually talking about identical relays, i.e. with the same fingerprint? That would be interessting for me, as I'd like to run a second Rasp Pi in parallel for redundency reasons.Mike Ursprüngliche Nachricht Von: Patrick DERWAEL Datum: 12.12.16 06:41 (GMT+0

Re: [tor-relays] Outgoing Connections to middle nodes?

2016-12-03 Thread balbea16
: [tor-relays] Outgoing Connections to middle nodes? On 2016-12-03 at 12:56, balbea16 wrote: > Hi There, > I've got a quick question. I have been running a tor relay since 3 > months. I don't have a guard flag, however many outgoing connections > to non exit relays  (i.e.

Re: [tor-relays] Outgoing Connections to middle nodes?

2016-12-03 Thread balbea16
TNX for the fast response. Unfortunately I can't open .asc files on my mobile phone. I've to try this later at home.  Von meinem Samsung Gerät gesendet. Ursprüngliche Nachricht Von: nusenu Datum: 03.12.16 13:12 (GMT+01:00) An: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Betref

[tor-relays] Outgoing Connections to middle nodes?

2016-12-03 Thread balbea16
Hi There, I've got a quick question. I have been running a tor relay since 3 months. I don't have a guard flag, however many outgoing connections to non exit relays  (i.e. that should be middles than). Does that mean I run an entry node  (without having guard status)? How come?TNX Mike  __

Re: [tor-relays] IP address change

2016-10-24 Thread balbea16
t.org Betreff: Re: [tor-relays] IP address change > On 24 Oct. 2016, at 23:12, balbea16 wrote: > > Hi There > My ISP changes my IP address about every 24 hours. It takes 10 minutes until > my tor server recognises this, and an hour until all usual connections are > reestab

[tor-relays] IP address change

2016-10-24 Thread balbea16
Hi There  My ISP changes my IP address about every 24 hours. It takes 10 minutes until my tor server recognises this, and an hour until all usual connections are reestablished. How can I speed this up? Does it help to use a DNS? To pay for a static address is not an option. Any ideas? Than