Re: [tor-relays] New on relays and Tor

2017-11-13 Thread Vasilis
Hi Alfredo, Alfredo Bollati: > Hi all I just started investigating and getting involved with Tor project. > I have configured my router to port forwarding on one of its ports. Is > there a way or some steps to follow in order to confirm that my bandwidth > is being used by the relay? This mailing

Re: [tor-relays] Tor 0.3.2.4-alpha - debian packages available (important for fast exits)

2017-11-13 Thread nusenu
nusenu: > If you want to stay with stable releases have a look at the following > resolv.conf options: > > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/DnsResolver#TuningeventdnscomponentofTorDaemon since many seem to be confused about the "nameserver 127.0.0.1" line. Do not use that line

[tor-relays] HS and relay - same server different tor instance

2017-11-13 Thread blaze glory
Hi, Hopefully this list is the right address for this question. I know that running a hidden service and relay from the same tor instance is not advisable to say the least (https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/8742) but what about running a relay and HS on the same ip, different instance

Re: [tor-relays] HS and relay - same server different tor instance

2017-11-13 Thread teor
> On 14 Nov 2017, at 10:54, blaze glory wrote: > > Hi, > > Hopefully this list is the right address for this question. I know that > running a hidden service and relay from the same tor instance is not > advisable to say the least > (https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/8742) but

[tor-relays] PSA: exclude /var/lib/tor/diff-cache/ from your backups

2017-11-13 Thread Roman Mamedov
Hello, Turns out that dir is highly variable, and judging from the name, also disposable. In my case it was responsible for about 20 GB of churn over a month, i.e. it took 25 GB to keep incremental backups of two Tor nodes with only 2 GB each in root FS (and I was wondering what's going on with m