Re: [tor-relays] Call for setting up new obfs4 bridges

2019-07-20 Thread Ben Riley
Thanks :) It appears to still be running happily this morning. Low activity, but that's ok. Interestingly, the fingerprint is now showing the previous relay one. As in I originally named my relay: MelbTORbox - 9F19251CEE17B1E05084898D164F0544CCB095DD then when I switched to a bridge, MelbTORbridg

Re: [tor-relays] Limiting Tor Relay To Run On Google Cloud VPS

2019-07-20 Thread friendlyexitnode
This question ties into something I've wondered for a while: Is there a minimum preferred bandwidth rate for relays? I had done some rough calculations a while ago that a $5 VPS from something like Digitalocean could provide approximately 2MiB/s while not exceeding the allotted bandwidth.At that

Re: [tor-relays] Call for setting up new obfs4 bridges

2019-07-20 Thread dmz21
> On July 19, 2019 at 1:44 PM Ben Riley wrote: > > > To follow up my previous email, I found the "Firewall" app and I've > manually opened 9051 & 8531 in that, and when I tested those via the online > port checking tools, they are now open. > > Restarted TOR (sudo systemctl restart tor) and th

Re: [tor-relays] Relay authority

2019-07-20 Thread torjoy
The making of a bridge authority desire is from the observation that here in South America we haven't any authority and I think this can help tor to improve the network metrics on South America side. Also maybe in another countries too. Of course, all the current authorities are good but maybe w

Re: [tor-relays] Call for setting up new obfs4 bridges

2019-07-20 Thread Michael Gerstacker
Hi, i wanted to run my bridge on 443 too but i had the same problem on Raspbian Buster with Tor 0.4.0.5 I asked Google but choosing a port above 1024 was the only thing that made it working for me. Am Fr., 19. Juli 2019 um 11:52 Uhr schrieb : > > On July 19, 2019 at 6:36 AM Ben Riley wrote: > >

Re: [tor-relays] Limiting Tor Relay To Run On Google Cloud VPS

2019-07-20 Thread niftybunny
2MB * 60 * 60 * 24 *31 = 5356800 megz $5 will give you 1 TB with DigitalOcean ... This will not work out. I would recommend pushing Italy a little. There are datacenter with no traffic limits. > On 20. Jul 2019, at 01:13, friendlyexitnode > wrote: > > This question ties into something I've