[tor-relays] Failed to load Scramblesuit

s --log-min-severity=debug --log-file=/home/me/obfs.log won't even create the logfile so that obfsproxy fails from the very beginning. But, as I said, obfs3-only works without problems. Any ideas? Thank you in advance. Kind regards christian ___ t

[tor-relays] Fwd: WG: Tor is starting without the -f /etc/tor/torrc option

p of tasty coffee that Tor on Ubuntu looks for /etc/torrc and not for /etc/tor/torrc, but I always lose when I'm willing to bet, so I guess it's just a little stubborn. Greetings to you all. Christian Gesendet mit meinem HTC - Reply message - Von: "Billy Humphreys"

[tor-relays] [Fwd: Re: I'm Running A Tor Exit But Never Initiated It]

Weitergeleitete Nachricht > Von: Christian Adam > An: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > Betreff: Re: [tor-relays] I'm Running A Tor Exit But Never Initiated > It > Datum: Mon, 30 May 2016 22:14:51 +0200 > > Dear Percy, > > I read all of your mes

[tor-relays] Failed to bind one of the listener ports / V. 2.3.17

eally appreciate your kind help and thank you in advance. Greetings, christian ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinf

[tor-relays] Failed to parse/validate config: failed to bind one of the listener ports

stem/cpu/ which I granted both. I'm not so really competent with computers and therefore grateful for any help. Strange. No error logs, no function, no topic on the web.. Kind regards, christian ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torp

Re: [tor-relays] Failed to parse/validate config: failed to bind one of the listener ports

I > granted both. > > I'm not so really competent with computers and therefore grateful for > any help. > Strange. No error logs, no function, no topic on the web.. > > Kind regards, > > christian > ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

[tor-relays] Failed to parse/validate config: failed to bind one of the listener ports

ilms. ;-) Again, thanks a lot for your help! Thankfully christian ca@delusions:~$ sudo service tor restart [sudo] password for ca: * Stopping tor daemon... [ OK ] * Starting tor daemon... Jul 01 06:00:13.321 [warn] Could not unlink /v

Re: [tor-relays] tor-relays Digest, Vol 18, Issue 1

y NoAdvertise > > > > Is this ipv6 bind attempt the one causing problems? > > > > The ipv6 bind attempt was a try to solve the problem. Problem persists with and without ipv6 bind attempt. Thanks a lot! christian > Send tor-relays mailing list submissions to >

Re: [tor-relays] tor-relays Digest, Vol 18, Issue 2

. Greetings and thanks to everyone considering to think about the issue. And Roger, great work so far. I came to hear concerned people talk about personal implications of societies and politics so different from what I'm used to... It was quite impressing. Greetings christian > Send to

[tor-relays] Failed to parse/validate config: failed to bind one of the listener ports

competence. ;-) Kind regards, christian Am Sonntag, den 01.07.2012, 16:50 +0200 schrieb Christian: > Hi Roger, > > > > Who owns that socket file? > /var/run/tor/control is owned by debian-tor. > > > > Anything else in that other default config file? > T

[tor-relays] Tor marked as "enforced" process in Apparmor, but also "unconfined"

hat have a profile defined" when typing "sudo aa-status". Anybody who can see clear in this issue? Any help is appreciated and thanks in advance. christian P.S.: I really did a "sudo service apparmor reload" ;-) ___ tor-r

Re: [tor-relays] Problems with Debian package and low ports (Chris Baines)

you run tor as the default user debian-tor, but lets your machine be available on port 443 although hibernating might be a bad idea for a tor node. ;-) If you use a home ISP with small bandwidth, maybe you'd better be a bridge (sufficient uptime also appreciated). I hope this could help. Sinc

[tor-relays] Unbalanced send/recieve

about something? In the past, I always used to recieve a quart more than I sent which I couldn't quite explain, but now... Thanks for an answer. Sincerly christian ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject

[tor-relays] Torservers awarded $250,000 by Digital Defenders

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hej! Torservers.net has been awarded $250,000 over two years by the Digital Defenders Partnership to strengthen and improve the Tor network, the anonymity system crucial to journalists and human rights defenders using the Internet.

Re: [tor-relays] Metrics for assessing EFF's Tor relay challenge?

On 04.04.2014 19:13, Karsten Loesing wrote: > Christian, Lukas, everyone, > > I learned today that we should have something working in a week or two. > That's why I started hacking on this today and produced some code: > > https://github.com/kloesing/challenger >

Re: [tor-relays] Metrics for assessing EFF's Tor relay challenge?

On 07.04.2014 10:43, Karsten Loesing wrote: > On 06/04/14 21:29, Christian wrote: >> On 04.04.2014 19:13, Karsten Loesing wrote: >>> Christian, Lukas, everyone, >>> >>> I learned today that we should have something working in a week or two. >>> T

Re: [tor-relays] Syslog: Kernel TCP: Too many orphaned sockets

is a good idea. Any advice? Is this warning more than an annoyance? Cheers, Christian On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 09:12:12PM -0500, Tristan wrote: > My default setting was 2048. I changed it to 200,000 for now. I haven't > really played with sysctl at all. The only change I've ev

Re: [tor-relays] Politically correct?

ngers, too. So I tend to agree with Green Dream and Ed Snowden on this matter. Cheers, C: -- Christian Pietsch · volunteering for Digitalcourage e.V., Marktstr. 18, D-33602 Bielefeld, Germany Tel: +49-521-1639 1639 | Fax: +49-521-61172 | m...@digitalcourage.de https://digit

[tor-relays] EOMA68 as a platform for trustworthy computing? / was: Exploiting firmware

re AES acceleration of the A20 SoC called Security System (SS) <http://sunxi.montjoie.ovh>. Is this still the case? Greetings from Bielefeld, Germany! Christian -- Christian Pietsch · volunteering for Digitalcourage e.V., Bielefeld, Germany https://digitalcourage.de | https://bigbrother

[tor-relays] Is EOMA68 a good platform for Tor relays?

ld, Germany! Christian -- Christian Pietsch · volunteering for Digitalcourage e.V., Bielefeld, Germany https://digitalcourage.de | https://bigbrotherawards.de Vorratsdatenspeicherung? Nicht schon wieder! Unterstützt unsere Verfassungsbeschwerde: https://digitalcourage.de/weg-mit-vds Rettet den

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay still an useful contribution?

ntly posted impressive diagrams to illustrate this, but I cannot find them now. In addition, please try to install a pluggable transport such as obfs4 to make your bridge more censorship-resistant! Thanks for asking! C: -- Christian Pietsch, volunteering for Digitalcourage e.V., Bielefeld, Germany

Re: [tor-relays] Fwd: US-CERT Avalanche Notification INC000010

r project offers an RBL containing all current exit relays, so we would ask the sender of these e-mails to consult that list and stop bothering people who run Tor exit relays. Cheers, Christian -- Digitalcourage e.V., Marktstr. 18, D-33602 Bielefeld, Germany https://digitalcou

Re: [tor-relays] companies and organizations running relays

folks on this list can help me by confirming the > organizations that they know of running relays. -- Christian Pietsch | library IT by day, otherwise volunteering for Digitalcourage e.V., Marktstr. 18, D-33602 Bielefeld, Germany https://digitalcourage.de | https://bigbrotherawards.de H

[tor-relays] Middle relays stopping because of "SYN flood"?

yor - one example below. The VMs are running at the time the relays go offline and even a network restart doesn´t fix the issue so I have to restart the VM to get the relays up and running again. Any hints would be much appreciated, if any more infos are needed just ask. Cheers, Christian CO

Re: [tor-relays] Middle relays stopping because of "SYN flood"?

it works out. Cheers, Christian ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] lets stop using central big DNS resolvers (Google, Level3, OpenDNS, Quad9, Cloudflare)

run it since 2009. It has been overloaded recently, and we recommend that people switch to dns2. Cheers, C: -- Christian Pietsch | volunteering for Digitalcourage e.V. https://digitalcourage.de | https://bigbrotherawards.de How to avoid Google: https://pad.foebud.org/google-alternatives

Re: [tor-relays] One IPv4 address, 1Gbit connection

Since you do not use hardware accelerated crypto, your transfer speed should be much lower. Anway my relays are also cpu limited due to the fact that tor isn't really utilizing much more than one cpu core. - Christian 2014-06-30 13:05 GMT+02:00 Tom van der Woerdt : > Hi, > > I'm

Re: [tor-relays] Bandwidth usage for an established relay node

(rx / tx / total / avg. rate) - tor only: Jun '14179.69 TiB | 188.55 TiB | 368.24 TiB |1.18 Gbit/s Limited by CPU (Core i5-3570 /w AES-NI), multithreaded tor relay software would help to improve bandwidth utilization. Am 01.07.2014 23:24, schrieb Tom van der Woerdt: Hi Kali, It dep

Re: [tor-relays] Close friend

On 18/08/2014 4:26 p.m., Rex Wolf wrote: On 17/08/2014 9:11 PM, IceFish ThreeTwo wrote: I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that the Family option in torrc is used so that nodes administrated by the same person never make a circuit with each other, which somehow protects anonymity. Should my friend

Re: [tor-relays] reaching out to relay ops that run outdated versions

On 08/19/2014 12:37 AM, krishna e bera wrote: > On 14-08-18 03:30 PM, Nusenu wrote: >> ja...@icetor.is: >>> actually after poking at this for a bit tonight it looks like >>> newer packages haven't been rolled out for deb.torproject.org >>> repo's yet. I'll be waiting for them first. -Jason >> >> co

[tor-relays] TOR exit notice (not USA)

Hi there, I've just installed the tor-exit-notice.html (from contrib/) on my exit node, and read it carefully. I think this is great to have such a text, but 2 paragraphs are USA specific, the one about ECPA and the following one about DMCA. I would like to know if anyone knows about equivale

Re: [tor-relays] TOR exit notice (not USA)

On 2/09/2014 2:39 p.m., Lunar wrote: Christian Gagneraud: I've just installed the tor-exit-notice.html (from contrib/) on my exit node, and read it carefully. I think this is great to have such a text, but 2 paragraphs are USA specific, the one about ECPA and the following one about DMC

Re: [tor-relays] request at Hetzner

On 11/09/14 07:07, Toralf Förster wrote: 3 things: 1. = This is what I get few days ago from Hetzer Support: Guten Tag Herr Förster, laut Deutschem Recht sind Tor Server im Moment nicht verboten. Aus diesem Grund sind Tor Server bei uns auch nicht verboten. Aus Erfahrung raten wir je

Re: [tor-relays] Understanding Reduced Exit Policies..?

On 12/09/14 15:02, Jeremy Olexa wrote: Hello, I've setup a non-exit node so that I can contribute and understand the TOR network somewhat better. I've only had my node (jolexarelay1) up for a few weeks so it is still becoming a part of the network at guard status. So, as I understand my ISP, I

Re: [tor-relays] Multithreading

I'm waiting for this for years.. meanwhile i've shutdown my relays. Anyway, i don't think we will see this soon. "Opened 4 years ago" "At least the relay crypto part of this shoulderstand happen in 0.2.3.x" "Milestone changed from Tor: 0.2.4.x-final to Goal: unspecified" See https://trac.torproje

Re: [tor-relays] exit relay not receiving flag

ved the Exit flag now. It usually takes a while, so don't wonder if you have to wait. First your relay has to prove that exiting works, then the directory authorities need to agree on that and in the end atlas has to display it, all taking some time. Great that you run an exit relay! :) -- Christ

Re: [tor-relays] Need Routing Info on Relays

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Am 2014-10-09 um 22:11 schrieb Tor Zilla: > Also a quick question jumped in.. Say i have a Raspberry PI which > is converted to a TOR router and i connect my machine to this > router. Will this make the entire traffic go via TOR including > someth

Re: [tor-relays] My VPS relay has just been hacked

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Nick, most has already been said - and reinstall would be your best option anyways because you can´t trust the VPS anymore. But one thing has not been mentioned yet I think: Am 26.10.2014 um 19:53 schrieb Nick Sheppard: [...] > As for how it got

Re: [tor-relays] Bwauths Measures question, friends.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You may want to read the following, which should make this more clear. https://blog.torproject.org/blog/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay Cheers Am 01.11.2014 um 10:46 schrieb Rafael Rodriguez: > Anyone knows how often bwauths measures a relay? I don't > und

Re: [tor-relays] Relay's clock settings off no matter what

On 14/11/14 17:59, Austin Bentley wrote: Hello everyone, I have an interesting problem. I am monitoring my relay using arm. I am getting the following warnings: >05:56:12 [WARN] Received directory with skewed time (server '154.35.32.5:80'): It seems that our clock is behind by 1 hours, 0 minut

[tor-relays] Possible DDoS

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi *, I'm running a non-exit Tor node for a few months now on a virtual server hosted in a professional datacenter. That's the node: https://globe.torproject.org/#/relay/4C246EA9C950B872FD77F761CEAAB41D93D9764D Yesterday, December 25th, the suppor

Re: [tor-relays] Possible DDoS

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Firstly, thanks for your advise. Since I'm personally fed up with this provider, I'll move my Tor node anyway. This last DDoS handling was just the last straw. But before I discourage others from choosing this hosting provider, I wanted to check th

Re: [tor-relays] Relay is down

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Actually there are 10 dir auth servers, see [1] Cheers, Christian [1] https://atlas.torproject.org/#search/flag:authority Am 2014-12-31 um 01:01 schrieb Josef 'veloc1ty' Stautner: > Hi List, > > maybe it's a little bi

[tor-relays] Strong bumps in traffic with 0.2.6.3

Hello, I noticed on my Tor relay that deploying 0.2.6.3 resulted in the bandwidth going up an down a lot which can be seen here: https://globe.torproject.org/#/relay/CE75BF0972ADD52AF8807602374E495C815DB304 It looks like I am not the only one. This CCC hosted relay (different OS, provider, etc.

Re: [tor-relays] Preventing wp-admin related abuse report

On 16/09/15 08:36, but...@gmx.de wrote: Hey, I also had a lot of problems with my ISP concerning abuse reports. They shutted down my exit relays several times. I got a last chance, before they notice the contract. So I decided to go a controversial way - I installed an IDS/IPS + strong firewall r

Re: [tor-relays] Preventing wp-admin related abuse report

On 16/09/15 07:42, spiros_spi...@freemail.gr wrote: Greetings community, Over last eight weeks a Tor exit that I operate has attracted more and more abuse reports and the VPS data centre is starting to lose their patience with the amount of tickets they open for each incident. Almost all

Re: [tor-relays] Exit Node with Onion Pi

it is better to run Tor exits in data centers instead of your home. Misguided police might confiscate all electronic devices and storage media they find at your home. Cheers, Christian -- Digitalcourage e.V., Marktstr. 18, D-33602 Bielefeld, Germany Tel: +49-521-1639 1639 | Fax: +

Re: [tor-relays] IP-Echelon complains about claimed infringement

Hi all, On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 10:04:14AM +0100, Martin Kepplinger wrote: > Those Mails just keep coming. I replied to hundreds of them and never > heard back. They're a normal part of maintaining my exit relay :) We also get several e-mails from IP-Echelon every day. When it started, we replied

Re: [tor-relays] Opt-In Trial: Fallback Directory Mirrors

I would like to opt-in my relay, which is on the candidate list. pixelminer CE75BF0972ADD52AF8807602374E495C815DB304 ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

[tor-relays] Location of private key on Android?

Hey guys, I'm running Orbot as a relay on my otherwise unused mobile. It works great! https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/B47A49120A51D28A6191BE9A67F102AA96F5F454 But in case I ever need to move the relay to a real computer, or start using the mobile, I'll need the private key, but I can't see

Re: [tor-relays] I'm Running A Tor Exit But Never Initiated It

master move. So I might just as well upload this one. -- Peter Palfrader Mon, 4 Jul 2005 17:53:48 +0200 ------ end quote from the Debian changelog -- Cheers, Christian -- Christian Pietsch · volunteering for Digitalcourage e.V. Marktstr. 18, D-33602 Bielefe

Re: [tor-relays] Too little traffic on my #2 non-exit relay

hehe, thanks :) I've also checked this but my ip was reachable from my test ips. I've now checked it with host-tracker dot com and told it my server hoster. They now have fixed the problem. - Christian 2013/9/19 Roger Dingledine > On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 06:57:54PM +0200, Chris

Re: [tor-relays] Relay bandwidth usage drop

Same here, midnight of September 20 bandwidth drop from 153.97 Mbit/s to 134.81 Mbit/s. And then, midnight of September 22 bandwidth drop from 136.91 Mbit/s to 95.50 Mbit/s. Non exit relay. Low CPU usage. Full bandwidth available. About 2 days ago, around midnight of September 20, bandwidth usa

[tor-relays] Cheap non exit relay recommendation

I hope this is allowed, to due the fact that this is advertising. Currently i'm running two tor relays on a single dedicated server, pushing 404 mbit/s atm. (myTOR1 & myTOR2) I will cancel it at beginning of november due to the fact that i miss tor relay multi core suppo

[tor-relays] Need help to set up Tor + Router: ORPort and DirPort unreachable

Hi I am running tor 0.2.4.20 from official RPM repositories on my local machine (Fedora 20). I can use it to surf the web and https://check.torproject.org/ (besides others) tells me that tor is running. I had the same problem with 0.2.3.25 from fedora's own repository. According to `netstat -tulp

Re: [tor-relays] How effective is "NumCPUs"?

I've got arround 200 mbits with an Intel Xeon E3-1230v2 (not over 30% total cpu usage - 1 core at ~100%). Pretty slow for an dedicated gigabit connection, due to this fact i've killed my nodes. The ticket for this "problem" is still not solved, after 3 1/2 years. :[ quote from the ticket(would

Re: [tor-relays] Tails 0.22.1~rc1

On 01/30/2014 10:52 PM, K. Besig wrote: Is anyone having luck setting up a mid-relay within the latest Tails build? I'm finding no joy.. You might find more joy with tor-ramdisk. Tails seems to be targeting the client side. http://opensource.dyc.edu/tor-ramdisk/ _

Re: [tor-relays] disable moderation on tor-relays again?

I would like to make you aware of a compromise option: Last time I checked, Mailman gave moderators the option to allowlist the sender when accepting a post. This feature could be used more often to avoid those frustrating delays for a growing number of participants. C: Am 14. Februar 2023 0

Re: [tor-relays] german plans on banning TOR

justified considering the gravity of the crime. The plenary will decide on 15 March which recommendations to follow. --->8--- -- Christian Pietsch | volunteering for Digitalcourage e.V. Nein zu Uploadfiltern: https://aktion.digitalcoura

[tor-relays] Hardware specs for a high-bandwidth Tor exit?

will attend the Tor meetup in Brussels on Friday <https://blog.torproject.org/events/tor-meetup-brussels> and the subsequent Freedom Not Fear event <https://www.freedomnotfear.org/>. Cheers, Christian -- Christian Pietsch | volunteering for Digitalcourage e.V., Germany Digitalco

[tor-relays] announcing new exit relays run by Digitalcourage in Germany

. They served as fallback directory mirrors. I will soon write to gus to tell him which new fingerprints could replace them. Cheers, Christian -- Christian Pietsch | volunteering for Digitalcourage e.V., Germany Digitalcourage: https://digitalcourage.de/en BigBrotherAwards Germany: https

[tor-relays] Update on New Australian Law Against Domestic Hosts

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/takeover-accounts-federal-police-to-get-powers-to-tackle-the-dark-web-20201202-p56jt2.html -- Regards, Christian Heinrich http://cmlh.id.au/contact ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Relay Operator Meetup (Saturday, March 5th @ 2000 UTC)

Cheers, Christian On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 08:37:42PM +0100, li...@for-privacy.net wrote: > My ISP mirrors the Tor website and Tor Browser can be downloaded from there: > https://debian.netcologne.de/torproject.org/ > https://mirror.netcologne.de/torproject.org/ > > > We have a Telegram

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Relay Operator Meetup (Saturday, March 5th @ 2000 UTC)

Thanks, Marco and Frank! We have added this mirror to our multilingual instructions now. At least in Germany, downloads are much faster from NetCologne. Cheers, Christian On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 06:17:19PM +0200, li...@for-privacy.net wrote: > On Monday, March 14, 2022 8:46:23 PM CEST Christ

[tor-relays] Is ExoneraTor still alive?

/ This page returns the following error whenever I submit an IP address: https://metrics.torproject.org/exonerator.html | Server problem | | Unable to connect to the database. Please try again later. If this problem persists, please let us know! Can it be revived? Can I help? Cheers, Christian

[tor-relays] Why are my relays flagged?

Hello everyone, I'm wondering why both of my Tor relays are flagged for running an unstable or outdated version or Tor. I'm running my relays on Ubuntu 18.04 and I get Tor from the deb https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org bionic main repository. Both of my relays run Tor version 0.3.4.8.

[tor-relays] AirTor/ATOR continues to pester Tor relay operators, promising donations

ypo. I am writing this to let you know that it's best to ignore e-mails like the one below. In the meetup, Roger made it increasingly clear that he does not believe that AirTor are acting in good faith. Cheers, Christian - Forwarded message - From: AirTor T