Re: [tor-relays] Tor Relay Operators Needs

2018-06-22 Thread Matthew Glennon
On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 4:14 PM Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2018-06-21 08:25, Matthew Glennon wrote: > > > Relays intending to act as Guards choose port 443 because it (and 80) are > > usually reachable in the tightest of network security situations (where > > traffic destined for most all other po

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Relay Operators Needs

2018-06-21 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2018-06-21 08:25, Matthew Glennon wrote: > Relays intending to act as Guards choose port 443 because it (and 80) are > usually reachable in the tightest of network security situations (where > traffic destined for most all other ports is blocked at the > gateway/firewall.) At least that's my re

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Relay Operators Needs

2018-06-21 Thread Matthew Glennon
Relays intending to act as Guards choose port 443 because it (and 80) are usually reachable in the tightest of network security situations (where traffic destined for most all other ports is blocked at the gateway/firewall.) At least that's my reasoning for it. On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 11:16 AM nus

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Relay Operators Needs

2018-06-20 Thread nusenu
>> Yes DirPort does not speak TLS, but since 443 is also best used >> for ORPort (because it is often one of the ports that are allowed to pass >> through firewalls) >> - https is not possible on the same IP (when already used by the ORPort). >> > > Well... that's kind of a hack to handle ORPort

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Relay Operators Needs

2018-06-20 Thread Eran Sandler
On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 5:52 PM nusenu wrote: > > 1+2 (including template support) are implemented in > https://github.com/nusenu/ansible-relayor Thanks. I'll take a look. > > Yes DirPort does not speak TLS, but since 443 is also best used > for ORPort (because it is often one of the ports t

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Relay Operators Needs

2018-06-20 Thread nusenu
Eran Sandler: > I understand that but my issues with this feature are: > >1. It requires configuration and doesn't come preconfigured. >2. You need to manually edit the HTML to include various information >(maybe adding templating support will allow to embed certain ContactInfo >

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Relay Operators Needs

2018-06-20 Thread Eran Sandler
On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 5:21 PM nusenu wrote: > Hi Eran, > > a developer offering to help relay operators > what better can we ask for :) > Certainly happy to help :-) > yes, this is on the radar of the relay advocate - Colin and maybe also the > Tor Metrics team to some extend - and they are

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Relay Operators Needs

2018-06-20 Thread nusenu
Hi Eran, a developer offering to help relay operators what better can we ask for :) Eran Sandler: > Being a software developer by trade I've been thinking about projects and > services that might help Tor Relay Operators and Tor in general and have a > few ideas I wanted to pass along and see if

[tor-relays] Tor Relay Operators Needs

2018-06-20 Thread Eran Sandler
Hi everyone, My name is Eran Sandler and I'm the Operator of tor4thepeople1 (98F44299592FC31FD3F2F8969D27374D00E96B9B) and tor4thepeople3 (CEACA34874EAD103D27CA6A7650B16112F12B209) - tor4thepeople2 had to go away, unfortunately. I also developed the gonionoo (https://github.com/erans/gonionoo) an