Re: [tor-relays] a couple noob questions

2024-08-20 Thread mail--- via tor-relays
Hi, To give some answers: Yes this is completely normal! It can take 2-3 months for a new guard relay to finally be 'ramped up'. Here you can read more about it: https://blog.torproject.org/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay/. Exit relays ramp up much faster in terms of bandwidth, but come with their own

Re: [tor-relays] An Internet backbone blocklisted my Tor server!

2024-08-20 Thread Tzanca via tor-relays
"I bet the reason that my server periodically goes offline is because it is being blocked and not because it is actually offline!" It can be the metrics server seeing server down but server actually being up. Seen this multiple times. On Sunday, August 18th, 2024 at 3:21 AM, Landon wrote: > T

Re: [tor-relays] a couple noob questions

2024-08-20 Thread Tzanca via tor-relays
Hello, Yes it's very normal. After 2 weeks you will see the speed increasing. You can read here about the lifecycle of a new relay https://blog.torproject.org/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay/ Kind regards, Tzanca On Monday, August 19th, 2024 at 9:01 PM, observatory123 via tor-relays wrote: > Dear

Re: [tor-relays] An Internet backbone blocklisted my Tor server!

2024-08-20 Thread boldsuck via tor-relays
On Dienstag, 20. August 2024 12:12:22 CEST Tzanca via tor-relays wrote: > > I bet the reason that my server periodically goes offline is because it is > > being blocked and not because it is actually offline! > > It can be the metrics server seeing server down but server actually being > up. Seen

Re: [tor-relays] DDOS alerts from my provider

2024-08-20 Thread boldsuck via tor-relays
On Sonntag, 14. Juli 2024 15:54:45 CEST Toralf Förster via tor-relays wrote: > On 7/12/24 00:14, boldsuck wrote: > > The idea is not bad. But can you simply discard every ≤ 50byte packet? > > Probably not > > > I drop fragments and uncommon TCP MSS values. > > ip frag-off & 0x1fff != 0 counter dr

[tor-relays] Next Tor Relay Operator Meetup - September 7th, 2024 at 19UTC

2024-08-20 Thread gus
Hi, Save the date: the next Tor Relay Operator will happen Saturday, September 7th, 2024 at 19 UTC! We're still working on the agenda for this meetup, however feel free to add your topics directly to this pad or just reply to the mailing list: https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-relayop-sept7th-meetup-k

[tor-relays] DMARC helps prevent Tor-exit from being abused for email SPAM.

2024-08-20 Thread boldsuck via tor-relays
Hi @all, I thought DMARC was unimportant for a small domain, but I played around with it a few days ago. There are some DMARC monitor sites that you can use for free & I was surprised when I saw that in 2-3 days about 1500 emails were sent via my exit subdomains. Then I set DKIM and SPF to str

Re: [tor-relays] DDOS alerts from my provider

2024-08-20 Thread boldsuck via tor-relays
On Donnerstag, 8. August 2024 22:20:35 CEST eff_03675...@posteo.se wrote: > Hi Rafo, > > My apologies for the late reply in your request for the code on banning > tor exits into *GUARDS or middle-relays* Before many people copy this, a note: A relay with exit flag is MOSTLY used for exit traffic