Re: [tor-relays] "Very Safe" Exit Policy

2015-02-17 Thread Chris Patti
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 6:21 PM, Jeremy Olexa wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Stephen R Guglielmo > wrote: > "safe": > >> This would be my first time running an exit relay and I'd be happy to >> hear advice and suggestions! > > According to the spec, your relay will never gain the exit

Re: [tor-relays] "Very Safe" Exit Policy

2015-02-18 Thread Chris Patti
y car insurance works in the US with 'points' might make sense, but that would totally break the whole point of Tor - to provide anonymity for its users. Bleah. Pesky humans :) -Chris On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Roger Dingledine wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:02:45AM

Re: [tor-relays] 7 relays gone because of spammers

2015-02-25 Thread Chris Patti
I'm having a similar situation. Linode issued a ToS violation because my linode on which I run a relay was a source of spam. Very strange because I had reject *.* (no exit) set in my torrc. Anyway I've had to give up and shut down FiatLux. Kind of a bummer, I really enjoyed contributing to Tor.

Re: [tor-relays] Tor node monitoring

2013-04-16 Thread Chris Patti
Sending your tor process a 'kill -USR1' yields a wealth of interesting info in the logs, although this isn't what you want I know :) On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Alex Beal wrote: > Hello All, > > I was wondering what, if any, software you use for monitoring your relays. > It would be nice

Re: [tor-relays] Sitevalley is no longer Tor-friendly

2013-07-30 Thread Chris Patti
That stinks. Linode has the same policy WRT exit relays. If they get too many abuse complaints, they ask you to stop running a relay. The way US law is structured, I can't actually blame them for this. However they don't care if you're running a middle node. Your bandwidth/VPS, your call. A *