[tor-relays] Introduction from lokodlare

2021-12-12 Thread abuse--- via tor-relays
Hello Tor relay operators, I joined this mail list recently and wanted to take the opportunity to shortly introduce myself. My name is Kristian, I am based in Europe, and I operate all nodes behind the domain lokodlare.com. “Lökodlare” is Swedish for “onion farmers”, which is pretty much what I

Re: [tor-relays] is my tor bridge running ok ?

2021-12-12 Thread xplato via tor-relays
My suggestion would be to install Nyx if I am understanding your question. Sent from ProtonMail for iOS On Sat, Dec 11, 2021 at 12:47 PM, Natus wrote: > hi > > just setup a tor bridge. how can I validate it is up and running ? > > logs look fine: > >> [notice] You can check the status of your b

Re: [tor-relays] Fw: is my tor bridge running ok ?

2021-12-12 Thread Natus
hi Torix, The logs are indeed meaningful, I am confident my bridge is used : Dec 11 23:23:13.000 [notice] Heartbeat: In the last 6 hours, I have seen 5 unique clients. Dec 12 05:23:13.000 [notice] Heartbeat: In the last 6 hours, I have seen 3 unique clients. > There is a bridge tester page at

[tor-relays] bridge distribution mechanism

2021-12-12 Thread potlatch via tor-relays
Hello Tor universe, One of the bridges I recently set up shows the Bridge distribution mechanism as https: Question: Is this an issue or does it impact the functionality of the bridge? Or maybe I made a boo boo during setup. Most of my bridges report Moat as the mechanism. Just trying to learn so

Re: [tor-relays] bridge distribution mechanism

2021-12-12 Thread trinity pointard
Hi, There are multiple bridges distributions mechanism. One is chosen at random when your bridge first come to life, each being perfectly fine : - moat: distributed automatically to Tor Browser users - https: distributed on bridge-db website after solving a captcha https://bridges.torproject.org/

Re: [tor-relays] Introduction from lokodlare

2021-12-12 Thread nusenu
Welcome to the tor-relays list, I was already wondering about that domain - registered 2 days ago at the time I looked it up in Nov 2021. preferably at less common providers and/or in niche countries Great to see someone cares about network diversity. In that case I'd recommend to stay away f

Re: [tor-relays] Fw: is my tor bridge running ok ?

2021-12-12 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
On Sunday, December 12, 2021, 1:32:09 AM PST, Natus wrote: >> As for finding out if anyone is using it or not, I use: >> netstat -n |grep ESTA|wc -l >This one does not limit to tor bridge Pipe the bridge's destination port (i.e., ) through grep as well: netstat -anp | grep : | grep EST |

Re: [tor-relays] Introduction from lokodlare

2021-12-12 Thread Gary C. New via tor-relays
Welcome to tor-relays, Kristian. It's nice to meet a fellow Tor Farmer. It sounds like you are fairly seasoned with quite an extensive deployment of Tor Relays. Are you performing any loadbalancing with Tor Nodes or are they Individually, Distributed Tor Relays? I have a Single Tor Relay compris