[tor-relays] an alternative to verifyurl

2020-07-24 Thread nusenu
Hi, based on feedback I got about https://github.com/nusenu/ContactInfo-Information-Sharing-Specification I want to add an additional verification option based on DNS records to allow for the same verification as the verifyurl field provides but without the need to have a webserver and a proper

Re: [tor-relays] ContactInfo Information Sharing Specification Version 1 released

2020-07-24 Thread nusenu
Thank you for your feedback. mpan: > Can’t providing *any* contact info be > obligatory? What’s the point of making specifically the email address > required? What are benefits of having it *over other contact info*? I'd argue that email is the most accessible? The Tor Project used to use email

Re: [tor-relays] Call for Testing - New Feature: Relay IPv6 Address Discovery

2020-07-24 Thread nusenu
Dr Gerard Bulger: > Where do we get daily builds? See the nightly repos here (debian based only): https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/dists/ -- https://mastodon.social/@nusenu signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tor-rela

Re: [tor-relays] ContactInfo Information Sharing Specification Version 1 released

2020-07-24 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 20:17:24 +0200 nusenu wrote: > > What is the advantage over the torrc config value "MyFamily" ? > > MyFamily is somewhat orthogonal to the idea behind the verifyurl field. Still not getting what advantage do you propose to ones who choose to also maintain the latter. It re

Re: [tor-relays] Become a Fallback Directory Mirror (deadline: July 23)

2020-07-24 Thread David Goulet
On 08 Jul (13:36:57), gus wrote: > Dear Relay Operators, > > Do you want your relay to be a Tor fallback directory mirror? > Will it have the same address and port for the next 2 years? Greetings operators! First off, we got 225 relays to volunteer for this round which is incredible so thank y

Re: [tor-relays] Become a Fallback Directory Mirror (deadline: July 23)

2020-07-24 Thread David Goulet
On 24 Jul (13:30:31), David Goulet wrote: > > The new list has been generated and can be found here: Apology, clarification needs to be made: > > https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/fallback-scripts/-/blob/master/fallback_offer_list > Diff: > https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/fallback-

Re: [tor-relays] ContactInfo Information Sharing Specification Version 1 released

2020-07-24 Thread nusenu
Roman Mamedov: > On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 20:17:24 +0200 > nusenu wrote: > >>> What is the advantage over the torrc config value "MyFamily" ? >> >> MyFamily is somewhat orthogonal to the idea behind the verifyurl field. > > Still not getting what advantage do you propose to ones who choose to also >

Re: [tor-relays] Heartbeat: It seems like we are not in the cached consensus.

2020-07-24 Thread torix
Dear Fran, I now see no entry at all to your relay in the tor metrics. Am I correct in saying that you are running ipv6 as well as 4? I have had problems with a host's ipv6 connectivity and discovered somewhere in the docs a ping6 test of all the bwauths you might try: ing6 -c2 2001:858:2:2:

Re: [tor-relays] Call for Testing - New Feature: Relay IPv6 Address Discovery

2020-07-24 Thread Paul Geurts
hi Gerard, you can find the instructions via the link provided in the original email: [2] https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en gr. Paul On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 11:48 PM Dr Gerard Bulger wrote: > Where do we get daily builds? > > -Original Message- > From: tor-relays O

Re: [tor-relays] ContactInfo Information Sharing Specification Version 1 released

2020-07-24 Thread Ralph Seichter
* nusenu: > https://github.com/nusenu/ContactInfo-Information-Sharing-Specification > This is an effort that started in 2017 as you can see on github. In section "Defined fields" you write: Non-ASCII characters are not supported. I'm not sure if this applies only to keys or also to values? Wi

Re: [tor-relays] ContactInfo Information Sharing Specification Version 1 released

2020-07-24 Thread mpan
> I'm also fine with making it optional in the upcoming version 2 > to lower the barrier for adoption. My goal is not to make contact info optional. I do understand value of such information. The problem is choosing one specific means of communication as mandatory, instead of letting the operator

Re: [tor-relays] ContactInfo Information Sharing Specification Version 1 released

2020-07-24 Thread Mighty Wang
On 21/07/20 18:16, nusenu wrote: Hi, I'm happy to finally announce version 1 of the ContactInfo Information Sharing Specification: https://github.com/nusenu/ContactInfo-Information-Sharing-Specification This is an effort that started in 2017 as you can see on github. ... regards, nusenu

Re: [tor-relays] Become a Fallback Directory Mirror (deadline: July 23)

2020-07-24 Thread Michael Gerstacker
Am Fr., 24. Juli 2020 um 19:36 Uhr schrieb David Goulet < dgou...@torproject.org>: > > In tor binary: > > > https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/blob/master/src/app/config/fallback_dirs.inc > > The generated list that ended up in the binary. Thus this list needs to be > reviewed for accura