Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay IP blocking

att power consumption only costs 3 Euros a year. > > > > Snowflake almost uses no data with a few occasional users. I 'd like to use > > my 100 Megabits more efficient. > > > > Regards, me. > > > > > Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2023 02:32:03 -0400 >

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay IP blocking

On Tuesday, August 8, 2023, 10:24:44 AM MDT, wrote: On Dienstag, 8. August 2023 00:30:38 CEST Gary C. New via tor-relays wrote: > > In addition to network diversity, there is the fact that most individuals > > find it necessary to run an at Home internet connection 24 x 7 x 365. So... > > Ot

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay IP blocking

0 Megabits more efficient. > > Regards, me. > > > Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2023 02:32:03 -0400 > > From: Roger Dingledine > > To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > > Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay IP blocking > > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/p

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay IP blocking

Euros a year. Snowflake almost uses no data with a few occasional users. I 'd like to use my 100 Megabits more efficient. Regards, me. > Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2023 02:32:03 -0400 > From: Roger Dingledine > To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Middle

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay IP blocking

On Dienstag, 8. August 2023 00:30:38 CEST Gary C. New via tor-relays wrote: > In addition to network diversity, there is the fact that most individuals > find it necessary to run an at Home internet connection 24 x 7 x 365. So... > Other than for the reasons inspired by the subject of this post, w

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay IP blocking

On 8/7/2023 1:28 PM, s7r wrote: li...@for-privacy.net wrote: On Samstag, 5. August 2023 08:40:42 CEST Marco Predicatori wrote: secureh...@gmail.com wrote on 8/4/23 01:46: I tried reporting a similar issue a few months ago (post wasn’t approved by moderator). I was running a relay from my ho

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay IP blocking

On Mon, Aug 07, 2023 at 11:28:32PM +0300, s7r wrote: > While all the above is true, a thing to remember is to make sure we don't > end up all renting too many VPS'es or dedicated servers in the same places / > same AS numbers - we need network diversity, it is a very important factor, > more AS num

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay IP blocking

On Montag, 7. August 2023 22:28:32 CEST s7r wrote: > While all the above is true, a thing to remember is to make sure we > don't end up all renting too many VPS'es or dedicated servers in the > same places / same AS numbers - we need network diversity, Especially at the exits, which unfortunatel

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay IP blocking

On Monday, August 7, 2023, 2:28:56 PM MDT, s7r wrote: li...@for-privacy.net wrote: > On Samstag, 5. August 2023 08:40:42 CEST Marco Predicatori wrote: >> secureh...@gmail.com wrote on 8/4/23 01:46: >>> I tried reporting a similar issue a few months ago (post wasn’t approved >>> by >>> moderat

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay IP blocking

li...@for-privacy.net wrote: On Samstag, 5. August 2023 08:40:42 CEST Marco Predicatori wrote: secureh...@gmail.com wrote on 8/4/23 01:46: I tried reporting a similar issue a few months ago (post wasn’t approved by moderator). I was running a relay from my home ISP. After a short while certain

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay IP blocking

On Samstag, 5. August 2023 08:40:42 CEST Marco Predicatori wrote: > secureh...@gmail.com wrote on 8/4/23 01:46: > > I tried reporting a similar issue a few months ago (post wasn’t approved > > by > > moderator). I was running a relay from my home ISP. After a short while > > certain websites became

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay IP blocking

secureh...@gmail.com wrote on 8/4/23 01:46: I tried reporting a similar issue a few months ago (post wasn’t approved by moderator). I was running a relay from my home ISP. After a short while certain websites became inaccessible from other computers in my home network that shared the same public

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay IP blocking

On Thu, 3 Aug 2023, 15:57 Roman Mamedov, wrote: > On Tue, 1 Aug 2023 23:14:28 +0200 > Eldalië via tor-relays wrote: > > > Hello there! > > I've been running for over 1.5 year a middle relay on an IP address I > also use > > to browse, withous issues. However it's now some weeks since many > webs

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay IP blocking

I tried reporting a similar issue a few months ago (post wasn’t approved by moderator). I was running a relay from my home ISP. After a short while certain websites became inaccessible from other computers in my home network that shared the same public IP. After trial and error with other IP add

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay IP blocking

As an at-Home, Middle-Relay operator, I experienced similar issues. Initially, I attempted to solve the problem by using dnsmasq + nginx to reverse proxy the blacklisted sites through a dedicated vpn, which worked... with some issues. As the issues increased, I decided to secure a new IP Address

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay IP blocking

Hi, On 03.08.23 14:22, Logforme wrote: My "solution" for now is to use my phone's internet sharing when I have to contact these sites. Since it only is a few sites which I contact rarely this works, but as more and more sites outsource their security to third parties I expect this to be a gro

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay IP blocking

On 2023-08-01 23:14, Eldalië via tor-relays wrote: My guess is that some widely used black list started including middle relay IPs, but I have no proofs. Has anyone had similar experiences? Any thoughts on this? I run a non-exit relay at home and have run into the same issue. Some Swedish gover

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay IP blocking

On Tue, 1 Aug 2023 23:14:28 +0200 Eldalië via tor-relays wrote: > Hello there! > I've been running for over 1.5 year a middle relay on an IP address I also use > to browse, withous issues. However it's now some weeks since many websites > that > always refused tor traffic started to also refuse

Re: [tor-relays] middle relay connexions dropped in half

Thanks; this was a really helpful reply; when the electricity goes off, one tends to check one's own plug rather than think the main transformer just died. Especially the capacity/latency part; I would never have gotten that by myself. ​Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email.​ ‐‐‐ Original Me

Re: [tor-relays] middle relay connexions dropped in half

On 14.03.2018 03:56, teor wrote: On 13 Mar 2018, at 20:51, mytormail wrote: I just doesn't feel right if donated capacity isn't used. Oh, but your relay's spare capacity *is* used. Just not the way you think. Hi teor, Thanks for your reassuring words. :) I just wait a few weeks and see w

Re: [tor-relays] middle relay connexions dropped in half

> On 13 Mar 2018, at 20:51, mytormail wrote: > > I just doesn't feel right if donated capacity isn't used. Oh, but your relay's spare capacity *is* used. Just not the way you think. A congested relay is a slow and unstable relay. A relay with extra capacity has lower latency, and can deal wit

Re: [tor-relays] middle relay connexions dropped in half

Yes, I have experienced the same thing; my throughput is slower as well. Not only have I dropped from about 2,000 connexions to 1, 000; my rate has gone down as well: #vnstat -d 02/21/201816.83 GiB | 16.59 GiB | 33.42 GiB |3.24 Mbit/s 02/22/201818.73 GiB | 18.49

Re: [tor-relays] middle relay connexions dropped in half

Hi, I am curious if your relay is back on speed now. I experience the same thing. Since the latest update my two "fast" relay's (around 5100KB) have now dropped to half the speed and seem to go slower as time goes by. Processor is hardly used, memory is no issue, logs seem okay. My other two r

Re: [tor-relays] middle relay connexions dropped in half

Hello, On 11 March 2018 at 22:02, wrote: > Thanks, Gary; I was just wondering, since I think of mine as a typical > small relay, and wondered if others had noticed the same differences. > > Before December, my accountingmax was 3GB, I had to increase it to 8GB stop it from hibernating midday. No

Re: [tor-relays] middle relay connexions dropped in half

Thanks, Gary; I was just wondering, since I think of mine as a typical small relay, and wondered if others had noticed the same differences. Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On March 11, 2018 6:52 AM, Gary wrote: > Hello > > On 11 Ma

Re: [tor-relays] middle relay connexions dropped in half

Hello On 11 March 2018 at 02:50, wrote: > Dear All, > On March 5 I changed to the newest version 3.2.10 on a middle relay I > run. I went away for a few days, checked today, and found that my traffic > is down, and my connexions, which were around 2,000 since December, are now > about 1,000. C

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay still an useful contribution?

When seeing stats, a middle guard relay in a datacenter looks like ok ;) Some months are needed to have a good consensus score, then some Terabits will be routed every months ;) Here is a graph since the beginning on this relay... yearly graph > Not trying to dissuade you from running a bridge,

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay still an useful contribution?

> On 18 Jan 2017, at 09:14, Steve Snyder wrote: > > Note that a bridge is not guaranteed to be used. I've seen plenty of bridges, > both plain-vanilla and obfs4, with or without IPv6, regardless of geography, > that use only a few megabytes of bandwidth per month. Everything seems good > in t

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay still an useful contribution?

Note that a bridge is not guaranteed to be used. I've seen plenty of bridges, both plain-vanilla and obfs4, with or without IPv6, regardless of geography, that use only a few megabytes of bandwidth per month. Everything seems good in terms of connectivity yet there is basically just housekeepin

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay still an useful contribution?

I thinking about a bridge too. But which port is not censored in China? I have read an article about the firewall of China. They doing DPI and filtering all encrypted traffic. Obfsproxy should be a good choice. A short test give me some experience for tor connections, but more traffic inside as out

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay still an useful contribution?

Hi Ortez, On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 10:32:44AM -0500, Ortez wrote: > Not right now. I know bridges are needed for users in countries like china > and so on, but are they used much? Yes. A bridge will utilize your server's bandwidth just as nicely as an exit relay would. Someone recently posted imp

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay still an useful contribution?

Not right now. I know bridges are needed for users in countries like china and so on, but are they used much? On 17, 2017 at 4:15 PM, Peter Ludikovsky <'pe...@ludikovsky.name'> wrote: On 01/17/2017 03:59 PM, Ortez wrote: > Hello tor relay operators, > I'm thinking about creating another tor midd

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay still an useful contribution?

On 01/17/2017 03:59 PM, Ortez wrote: > Hello tor relay operators, > I'm thinking about creating another tor middle relay, but i'm not sure > if this is still a good contribution to the tor network. When i'm > looking at some of the relay stats out there, there are so many middle > relays, which get

Re: [tor-relays] Middle Relay changed to Exit Relay Bandwidth Change

It's very normal for exit relays to pick up *much *more traffic than middle or guard. Because exit relays have to deal with the abuse complaints of Tor users, there are much fewer exit relays than middle and guard: http://rougmnvswfsmd4dq.onion/relayflags.html Even though there is plenty of bandwi

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay

Jep. Give it a try - only the fastest relays get a guard flag. ~Andrea On 9/20/2016 1:15 PM, Jim Electro House wrote: > So it is only a matter of speed? > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 5:59 PM, Andrea > wrote: > > > > On 9/16/2016 4:22 PM, Jim Electro House wrote: >

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay

On 20.09.2016 13:15, Jim Electro House wrote: > So it is only a matter of speed? If you have 1 Gbit/s bandwidth on offer but configure Tor accounting to only let 100 MB of data pass per day, I doubt your relay will receive a guard flag, no matter the "speed". The same goes for relays that are onl

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay

So it is only a matter of speed? On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 5:59 PM, Andrea wrote: > > > On 9/16/2016 4:22 PM, Jim Electro House wrote: > > Hi to all! > > I'm running a non-exit relay and I'd like to configure it to run _only_ > > as a middle relay. Do you know which conf should I add on my torrc f

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay

On 9/16/2016 4:22 PM, Jim Electro House wrote: > Hi to all! > I'm running a non-exit relay and I'd like to configure it to run _only_ > as a middle relay. Do you know which conf should I add on my torrc file? My relay never got the guard flag. Usually fast relays only get that flag. I donate a p

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay

Marcel Krzystek: > Add the following to your .torrc file: > > ExitPolicy reject *:* It's non-exit, not a "middle-only" relay. Jim probably doesn't want to become a Guard. I'm not aware of such option. btw, we've recently discussed in #19625 [1] possibility of setting "peering policy". If this wo

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay

It takes time to get the guard flag. See the relay life cycle for more details: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay On Sep 16, 2016 9:29 AM, "Jim Electro House" wrote: > I saw one relay not being a guard one, only middle.. :/ > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 5:27 PM, Matt Traudt

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay

I saw one relay not being a guard one, only middle.. :/ On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 5:27 PM, Matt Traudt wrote: > ExitRelay 0 > and/or > ExitPolicy reject *:* > > to prevent being an exit. > > I don't know that you can prevent yourself from getting the Guard flag > and being a guard. > > https://www

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay

ExitRelay 0 and/or ExitPolicy reject *:* to prevent being an exit. I don't know that you can prevent yourself from getting the Guard flag and being a guard. https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-relay-debian.html.en Matt On 9/16/16 10:22, Jim El

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay

Add the following to your .torrc file: ExitPolicy reject *:* On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 8:22 AM, Jim Electro House < torelectroho...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi to all! > I'm running a non-exit relay and I'd like to configure it to run *only* > as a middle relay. Do you know which conf should I add on

Re: [tor-relays] Middle Relay has no traffic

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I've checked the Atlas page - you ave ~235.82KB/s. However, you may not get AS MUCH traffic in the beginning, because you are a non-exit relay, and you have to wait for your Tor Relay to be added to the network. Publish the directory aswell if you ca

Re: [tor-relays] Middle Relay has no traffic

As starlight said, you are getting the appropriate amount of traffic according to the bandwidth authority measurements for your relay. Right now, the middle/entry nodes are relatively lightly utilized. This is a good thing, since it makes for a much better user experience. With high utilization

Re: [tor-relays] Middle Relay has no traffic

back up. I did it again just confirm and the same shit happened. gm -Original Message- From: tor-relays [mailto:tor-relays-boun...@lists.torproject.org] On Behalf Of Dedalo Sent: Monday, September 14, 2015 11:05 AM To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Middle Relay

Re: [tor-relays] Middle Relay has no traffic

You should see ToS of Comcast, maybe It could be making Tor Slow. http://business.comcast.com/customer-notifications/acceptable-use-policy in technical restrictions, they say something about encryption circumvention devices. D. El 14/09/15 a las 12:26, Greg Moss escibió: > Comcast modem is in br

Re: [tor-relays] Middle Relay has no traffic

Starlight - I see your advertised BW is 7.26MB = 58.08 Mb with globe showing 2 to 4 Mb traffic. Maybe I will up the advertised BW on the relay and see if that helps. gm -Original Message- From: tor-relays [mailto:tor-relays-boun...@lists.torproject.org] On Behalf Of starlight.201...@binn

Re: [tor-relays] Middle Relay has no traffic

Comcast modem is in bridge mode with ASA doing the NAT (showing at times upwards to 6,000 connections. Believe the ASA is rated to 10,000 + currently showing 220 connections). It's a Comcast business line with relay having its own static IP. I will have a look at the link provided. gm -Origin

Re: [tor-relays] Middle Relay has no traffic

Behalf Of 9fb299478a6d0cca Sent: Monday, September 14, 2015 10:00 AM To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Middle Relay has no traffic This informative article explains why relays might be "slow" in the beginning: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/lifecycle-of-a

Re: [tor-relays] Middle Relay has no traffic

r arm package but will have a look at it. > > -Original Message- > From: tor-relays [mailto:tor-relays-boun...@lists.torproject.org] On Behalf > Of Billy Humphreys > Sent: Monday, September 14, 2015 7:43 AM > To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > Subject: Re: [tor-relays]

Re: [tor-relays] Middle Relay has no traffic

, 2015 7:43 AM To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Middle Relay has no traffic -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 What's the fingerprint? Have you tried using arm for Linux (tor-arm package on debian and probably other distros) - it can tell you exact

Re: [tor-relays] Middle Relay has no traffic

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 What's the fingerprint? Have you tried using arm for Linux (tor-arm package on debian and probably other distros) - it can tell you exactly :p On 14/09/2015 01:34, Greg Moss wrote: > > My middle relay seems to have minimal traffic. Is there somethi

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay

On 02/04/2014 09:31 PM, Tora Tora Tora wrote: >>> Is it correct to assume that if I am running a locked-down IP address >>> behind the firewall, it means my relay would connect to a very limited >>> number of other relays that also run standard ports? Would that would >>> affect anonymity? >> A rel

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay

OK, I got it. So open outgoing connections, but restrict incoming connections to my ports, e.g, 9001 and 9030, correct? On 02/04/2014 02:00 PM, Moritz Bartl wrote: > On 02/04/2014 07:20 PM, Tora Tora Tora wrote: >> Is it correct to assume that if I am running a locked-down IP address >> behind th

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay

On 02/04/2014 07:20 PM, Tora Tora Tora wrote: > Is it correct to assume that if I am running a locked-down IP address > behind the firewall, it means my relay would connect to a very limited > number of other relays that also run standard ports? Would that would > affect anonymity? A relay *must*

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay

Is it correct to assume that if I am running a locked-down IP address behind the firewall, it means my relay would connect to a very limited number of other relays that also run standard ports? Would that would affect anonymity? Also, what is the right to deal with this issue without compromising

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay

That depends on what the other relay operators have configured their hosts to talk to. It's a common thing to set relays on other ports to obscure the kind of traffic, and to work around certain firewall rules. On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Tora Tora Tora wrote: > I am trying to run a midd