Re: [tor-relays] Snowflakes

Hi Toralf and Gus, Thanks for your replies!   On Wednesday, October 28, 2020 at 4:11 PM, Toralf Förster wrote:   On 10/26/20 5:32 PM, entensai...@use.startmail.com wrote: Hi everybody, I'm not sure this is the right list to ask, but is it useful to run snowflake proxies? I'd say yes. FWIW I

[tor-relays] Snowflakes

Hi everybody, I'm not sure this is the right list to ask, but is it useful to run snowflake proxies? I only recently realized they can be run by ordinary people. On the new website I don't see how you would find that out, there doesn't seem to be any link pointing to them. Metrics only shows

Re: [tor-relays] "Our IP Address has changed from" log lines

Dear Torix,   On Tuesday, August 11, 2020 at 12:10 AM, to...@protonmail.com wrote:   Dear list,   I get this on just one of my relays - "Our IP Address has changed from xxx toxxx; rebuilding descriptor (source: METHOD=GETHOSTNAME HOSTNAME=xxx). Aug 11 00:33:54.000 [notice] Your IP address seems

Re: [tor-relays] trouble with tor relay software on debian

Hi Keifer,   On Monday, July 20, 2020 at 7:45 AM, Keifer Bly wrote:   Hi all,   So my middel guard relay at    https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/79E3B585803DE805CCBC00C1EF36B1E74372861D     As well as my bridge at   https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/EF36AE38C162E96E06

Re: [tor-relays] >23% Tor exit relay capacity found to be malicious - call for support for proposal to limit large scale attacks

Hi list, First of all, why is email verification not used as an additional method for making family settings? (Additional meaning that operators could choose to either verify their mail address or write all their relays fingerprints in the config.) Wouldn't it be more convenient to verify the

Re: [tor-relays] >23% Tor exit relay capacity found to be malicious - call for support for proposal to limit large scale attacks

Hi,   On Sunday, July 5, 2020 at 8:45 PM, Imre Jonk wrote:   Hi nusenu, On Sun, 2020-07-05 at 18:35 +0200, nusenu wrote:   [...]   b) require a verified physical address for large operators (>=0.5% exit or guard probability) (manual verification, low number of operators). It is not required

Re: [tor-relays] Unused Relay - could it be because of new guards in the AS?

Hi people,   On Saturday, June 6, 2020 at 7:38 AM, petra...@protonmail.ch wrote:   Hello all, my relay is set up to support 42 Mbps, however does not get any real traffic routed through it (605EE4375EE4C38215C8949F5808863749FD4F4A). I checked anything I could think of but everything looks fine

Re: [tor-relays] Unused Relay - Why?

Hi friend,   On Saturday, June 6, 2020 at 7:38 AM, petra...@protonmail.ch wrote:   Hello all, my relay is set up to support 42 Mbps, however does not get any real traffic routed through it (605EE4375EE4C38215C8949F5808863749FD4F4A). I checked anything I could think of but everything looks fine

Re: [tor-relays] bridge down

Hi, On Friday, May 8, 2020 at 7:39 PM, Anonforpeace wrote:   I have the port forwarded. I've also noticed that the advertised bandwidth is only 248 KiB/s on the metrics page. This is a first and I'm not sure how to raise the bandwidth. Could this be what's causing it to stay offline?? No. Th

Re: [tor-relays] How to Limit Bridge Traffic

Hi,   On Thursday, March 5, 2020 at 8:24 PM, Imre Jonk wrote:   Hi Eddie, On Wed, 2020-03-04 at 12:34 -0800, Eddie wrote: Does BandwidthRate apply to bridges.  I can (hopefully) guess that RelayBandwidth doesn't. Does the AccountingMax apply. I am almost certain that all three options apply

Re: [tor-relays] New operator

  On Thursday, November 21, 2019 at 7:29 PM, Mario Costa wrote:     Il giorno 21 nov 2019, alle ore 15:49, Matt Traudt ha scritto: Thanks for running a bridge. Check Tor's logs to make sure it is actually running and doesn't report issues. Search its hashed fingerprint on https://metric

Re: [tor-relays] Short Research Survey

Hi! Most online surveys ask the participants to confirm that their replies can be used after the last question of the survey. I would recommend you to do that, too. Sometimes people give random answers because they are curious about the survey's questions. ;-)   Dear Tor relay operators,   We

Re: [tor-relays] Having Trouble With Speed Of OBFS4 Bridge

Hi Keifer!   On Sunday, January 27, 2019 at 8:23 AM, Keifer Bly wrote:   Hi, based on the heartbeat log, about 2 clients seem to use the bridge every six hours. The log says. "In the last 6 hours I have seen 2 unique clients. Tor's uptime is 12 hours, with 0 circuits open."   How are you

Re: [tor-relays] Bridge Relay Internet Speed Much Slower Than Actual Internet Speed

Hi Keifer, Hello List, my bridge relay at https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/148BD64BED9F2C27637D986DE032ECF14E5B9E9A Is reporting the relay speed is between 50 kb/s and 60 kb/s, when the speed of the internet connection it is running off of is actually much faster than this, gen

Re: [tor-relays] Question Re: firewall rules for obfs4 bridge relay

Hi Kenneth, find the answers here: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2018-July/015748.html It would be great to add that to the guide at https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/PluggableTransports/obfs4proxy ^^.   Hello, I'm in the process of setting up a couple of

Re: [tor-relays] bridge on the public server - IP reputation

  HI, I have a VPS server with fast internet connection. I would like to configure tor bridge on that machine. VPS server has configured some services already. If tor bridge service will run on that machine (IP), will it generate any impact for IP reputation ? I mean blacklisting. Greetings

Re: [tor-relays] bridge not accessible through obfs4 port

  Today I actually tried to connect to it and it is possible to connect to the bridge using the ORport. But when I tried to start tor browser with this setting to use obfs4: obfs4 12.345.67.89: (only with the right numbers)   it got stuck at "establishing an encrypted network connection

[tor-relays] bridge not accessible through obfs4 port

Dear friends, I am uncuccessfully running a bridge that uses obfs4 as pluggable transport. (At least it should.) Today I actually tried to connect to it and it is possible to connect to the bridge using the ORport. But when I tried to start tor browser with this setting to use obfs4: obfs4 12

[tor-relays] relay with IPv6 only

Hi people :) Recently I wanted to setup a relay and realized that I dont have an IPv4 address. (and that's not gonna change for the next two years.) So do you know if it is going to be possible to run an IPv6-only relay soon? Are there projects I could support already without having an IPv4 a

Re: [tor-relays] Publishing bridge contact information

  Am Montag, 12. Februar 2018 um 12:33 schrieb nusenu :   If you block the ORPort, won't the reachability check fail? Fine question. At least this has been the case in the past, though I know there was discussion and maybe development to overcome this weakness. But even if it's not possible ye