[tor-relays] tor-relays] Experience hosting exit relay with Costa Rica Servers: crservers.com

2015-09-07 Thread starlight . 2015q3
You might check for existing relays in their system. This Robtex seems to have much of their network, which they appear to lease from other providers: https://www.robtex.com/en/advisory/dns/cr/crservers/ And while they advertise many network blocks, it appears it's all slices of just a few large

[tor-relays] Relay Speed

2015-09-07 Thread Billy Humphreys
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I'm happy - my Tor relay says it's advertised bandwith is 1.1MB/s and it is. Quote from Atlas: Bandwidth rate: 1073.74 MB/s Bandwidth burst: 2147.48 MB/s Observed bandwidth: 1.11 MB/s Hopefully if I can keep this up, I'll be qualifying for a shirt

Re: [tor-relays] Relay Speed

2015-09-07 Thread I
Mega bits perhaps? Mb rather than MB 8-) ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] Relay Speed

2015-09-07 Thread Billy Humphreys
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I think so. Also, is there a way to keep the fingerprint for my relay the same, just in case I have to move computers? If so, what files do I have to move? On 07/09/2015 15:54, I wrote: > Mega bits perhaps? Mb rather than MB 8-) > > >

Re: [tor-relays] Relay Speed

2015-09-07 Thread tor-server-creator
https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#UpgradeOrMove I want to upgrade/move my relay. How do I keep the same key? When upgrading your Tor relay, or running it on a different computer, the important part is to keep the same identity key (stored in "keys/secret_id_key" in your DataDirectory)

Re: [tor-relays] Relay Speed

2015-09-07 Thread Billy Humphreys
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Thank you! :D On 07/09/2015 16:50, tor-server-crea...@use.startmail.com wrote: > https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#UpgradeOrMove I want to > upgrade/move my relay. How do I keep the same key? > > When upgrading your Tor relay, or running

Re: [tor-relays] Bots, love 'em or hate 'em?

2015-09-07 Thread starlight . 2015q3
This is curious: Appears a large number of Tor client-bots have set UseEntryGuards 0 >From current relays that have never had the guard flag: extra-info moep DA8C1123CDB3ACD3B36CD7E7CEFBEA685DED2276 entry-ips us=360,de=296,fr=232,it=192,es=160,jp=104,ru=104,br=96,ir=96. . . extra-info moto

Re: [tor-relays] Does Setting Up a Bridge Relay Disable the Browser?

2015-09-07 Thread Kenneth Freeman
On 09/07/2015 12:17 AM, s7r wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for this. But why do you want to run your bridge instance among > the same Tor daemon as the one handling Tor Browser? I don't, necessarily. I should explain that I've been running a long-term relay on my 32-bit Ubuntu box (Anosognosia: 6473E3

Re: [tor-relays] Does Setting Up a Bridge Relay Disable the Browser?

2015-09-07 Thread Kenneth Freeman
On 09/07/2015 12:18 AM, Billy Humphreys wrote: > Well, people suggest that, unless you give <100KB/s, you should run a > relay, not a bridge, as more relays are used (and we have Tor weather > and such). You should be using Tor's daemon (apt-get install tor > tor-arm) for the relay or bridge itse

Re: [tor-relays] Does Setting Up a Bridge Relay Disable the Browser?

2015-09-07 Thread Zack Weinberg
On 09/07/2015 01:07 PM, Kenneth Freeman wrote: > On 09/07/2015 12:18 AM, Billy Humphreys wrote: >> Well, people suggest that, unless you give <100KB/s, you should >> run a relay, not a bridge, as more relays are used (and we have >> Tor weather and such). You should be using Tor's daemon (apt-get >

Re: [tor-relays] Does Setting Up a Bridge Relay Disable the Browser?

2015-09-07 Thread Kenneth Freeman
On 09/07/2015 12:25 AM, Roger Dingledine wrote: > Well, it depends what you put in the torrc file. I assume you edited > the torrc file that's inside the tor browser directory tree? Perhaps > you did something there that it didn't like. Maybe you followed one of > the instructions that suggested

Re: [tor-relays] Does Setting Up a Bridge Relay Disable the Browser?

2015-09-07 Thread Kenneth Freeman
On 09/07/2015 11:17 AM, Zack Weinberg wrote: > On 09/07/2015 01:07 PM, Kenneth Freeman wrote: >> On 09/07/2015 12:18 AM, Billy Humphreys wrote: >>> Well, people suggest that, unless you give <100KB/s, you should >>> run a relay, not a bridge, as more relays are used (and we have >>> Tor weather a

Re: [tor-relays] Does Setting Up a Bridge Relay Disable the Browser?

2015-09-07 Thread Kenneth Freeman
(The OSHER presentation is actually tomorrow. Duh!) 0xDD79757F.asc Description: application/pgp-keys signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bi

[tor-relays] My VPS hoster (Zappie Host) understood!

2015-09-07 Thread Billy Humphreys
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi all, When I asked my reverse DNS to be added for my Tor exit relay, they said that Tor nodes were disallowed due to the ToS, but didn't stop me. I messaged back a few times (in normal UK time, 3AM over there) and I got this reply: 'Hey there Thank

[tor-relays] My VPS hoster (Zappie Host) understood!

2015-09-07 Thread Billy Humphreys
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi all, When I asked my reverse DNS to be added for my Tor exit relay, they said that Tor nodes were disallowed due to the ToS, but didn't stop me. I messaged back a few times (in normal UK time, 3AM over there) and I got this reply: 'Hey there Thank

Re: [tor-relays] Bots, love 'em or hate 'em?

2015-09-07 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 11:11:59AM -0400, starlight.201...@binnacle.cx wrote: > So I'm left thinking that 95% or more of the > bandwidth consumption and client count is from > crusty old botnet bots running ancient versions > of the Tor daemon. Client count (for non guards), yes I think that's a f

Re: [tor-relays] Bots, love 'em or hate 'em?

2015-09-07 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 10:30:38AM -0400, starlight.201...@binnacle.cx wrote: > This is curious: Appears a large number of Tor > client-bots have set > > UseEntryGuards 0 > > From current relays that have never had the guard flag: > > extra-info moep DA8C1123CDB3ACD3B36CD7E7CEFBEA685DED2276