[tor-relays] removal from the Fallback Directory list

2019-08-18 Thread contact-tor-turing
hello, I managed until now the relay tor-turing -  8456DFA94161CDD99E480C2A2992C366C6564410 - ip 62.210.254.132 for four years and it was in the list of Fallback Directory. However he did not answer for 2 weeks, the support of my hosting provider told me that the motherboard is out of order an

[tor-relays] Attack on Tor exit and back-up directory server

2019-08-18 Thread potlatch
Hello All, I commented and questioned earlier about significant slowing of one of my Finnish exit relays [1] and potential DoS attack. I took the server off line and did the best job I could hardening it. The host does not have DoS protection and uses Xen OpenVZ as his VPS manager. I was gett

Re: [tor-relays] Measuring the Accuracy of Tor Relays' Advertised Bandwidths

2019-08-18 Thread Toralf Förster
On 7/26/19 4:18 PM, Rob Jansen wrote: > I am planning on performing an experiment on the Tor network to try to gauge > the accuracy of the advertised bandwidths that relays report in their server > descriptors. Hi, does this by any chance caused the lost of the "guard" flag ? Observed here now

[tor-relays] Very high CPU Load and low Traffic since Sunday

2019-08-18 Thread Tim Niemeyer
Hello I've noticed a reduction in tor traffic about 50% since Sunday. The cpu load stayed almost same. The amount of TCP Sessions increased from ~34k to ~65k. Also the abuse rated about network scans got increased since Sunday. Does anyone knows what's there going on? My guess is that since Sund

Re: [tor-relays] Emerald Onion's new relays

2019-08-18 Thread NOC
On 15.08.2019 00:50, teor wrote: Hi, On 14 Aug 2019, at 03:42, NOC mailto:t...@afo-tm.org>> wrote: On 12.08.2019 23:39, teor wrote: On 13 Aug 2019, at 05:08, Roman Mamedov > wrote: On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 00:46:50 + Christopher Sheats

[tor-relays] Fwd: Emerald Onion's new relays

2019-08-18 Thread teor
Hi, We didn't clear the moderation queue last week, and this message was dropped from the queue. We'll make sure someone is looking at the queue every 1-3 days in future. T Begin forwarded message: >> On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 09:02:58PM +0200, li...@for-privacy.net wrote: >>> On 12.08.2019 02:4

Re: [tor-relays] removal from the Fallback Directory list

2019-08-18 Thread teor
Hi, > On 14 Aug 2019, at 22:50, contact-tor-tur...@g0b.eu wrote: > > hello, I managed until now the relay tor-turing - > 8456DFA94161CDD99E480C2A2992C366C6564410 - ip 62.210.254.132 for four years > and it was in the list of Fallback Directory. However he did not answer for 2 > weeks, the sup

Re: [tor-relays] Measuring the Accuracy of Tor Relays' Advertised Bandwidths

2019-08-18 Thread teor
Hi, > On 17 Aug 2019, at 18:11, Toralf Förster wrote: > > Signed PGP part > On 7/26/19 4:18 PM, Rob Jansen wrote: >> I am planning on performing an experiment on the Tor network to try to gauge >> the accuracy of the advertised bandwidths that relays report in their server >> descriptors. > >

Re: [tor-relays] Attack on Tor exit and back-up directory server

2019-08-18 Thread teor
Hi, > On 16 Aug 2019, at 04:22, potlatch wrote: > > One question remains: At any time I look there are 20-150 Iranian IP > addresses trying to access the Tor server. Their IP range is from 5.113.x.x > to 5.126.x.x. None have hashed fingerprints. Is it okay to let these guys > go? Can the

Re: [tor-relays] Emerald Onion's new relays

2019-08-18 Thread teor
Hi, > On 16 Aug 2019, at 01:02, NOC wrote: > > On 15.08.2019 00:50, teor wrote: >> >> On 14 Aug 2019, at 03:42, NOC wrote: >> >>> On 12.08.2019 23:39, teor wrote: On 13 Aug 2019, at 05:08, Roman Mamedov wrote: > On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 00:46:50 + > Christopher Sheats