Re: [tor-relays] Middle relay IP blocking

On 8/7/2023 1:28 PM, s7r wrote: li...@for-privacy.net wrote: On Samstag, 5. August 2023 08:40:42 CEST Marco Predicatori wrote: secureh...@gmail.com wrote on 8/4/23 01:46: I tried reporting a similar issue a few months ago (post wasn’t approved by moderator). I was running a relay from my ho

Re: [tor-relays] Relay Bandwidth Limit

I was never able to get the other bandwidth shaping parameters in tor to work how I wanted. So, for my bandwidth limited server, I ended up loading "wondershaper" so I could provide a limited bandwidth continuously throughout the month instead of an on/off/on/off/... connection. Cheers. On

[tor-relays] Bridge Questions, Best Practices

Hi, Just setting up a new bridge, on a new VPS, to complement the relay I run at home and have a couple of questions regarding best practices. I set the bridge up from scratch, so it has no connections back to my relay fingerprint etc. as I understand that's "a bad thing". I've seen a few c

Re: [tor-relays] Bridge Questions, Best Practices

Thanks for the follow up. On 12/18/2019 3:20 PM, Philipp Winter wrote: On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 12:12:03PM -0800, Eddie wrote: I've seen a few comments mentioning the lack of obfs4 bridges using port 443, so as I don't run any kind of webserver on the VPS I can do this.  I also wanted

[tor-relays] Is This Leap in Bridge Clients Normal

Hi, For about 6 weeks now, I've been running a couple of obfs4 bridges, one on port 80, the other port 443.  Up to yesterday, the port 80 one had seen zero traffic, when this started to be reported: Feb 09 13:46:19.000 [notice] Heartbeat: In the last 6 hours, I have seen 0 unique clients. Fe

[tor-relays] How to Limit Bridge Traffic

Hi, I'm quite happy to continue to run a couple of bridges on my VPC, but I need to understand how to manage the bandwidth so I'm not being charged for exceeding it's monthly allocation. Does BandwidthRate apply to bridges.  I can (hopefully) guess that RelayBandwidth doesn't. Does the Acc

[tor-relays] Is this probing normal for a bridge

Hi, On the VPS where I run a couple of bridges, I often see the following: tcp6   0  0 aaa.bbb.cc.dd:443 194.14.247.1:18913  SYN_RECV tcp6   0  0 aaa.bbb.cc.dd:443 54.93.50.35:18457   SYN_RECV tcp6   0  0 aaa.bbb.cc.dd:443 194.68.0.1:29917    SYN_RECV tcp6

Re: [tor-relays] obfs4 bridge port question

On 5/9/2020 1:06 PM, to...@protonmail.com wrote: I am looking at the post install instructions here after putting up my first bridge: https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/bridge/post-install/ and thought I would try out the bridgeline for it. |Bridge obfs4 : cert= iat-mode=0| I have al

[tor-relays] Tor is reporting my bridges as offline

Hi, I run 2 bridges on a hosted VPS.  Tor is currently showing both these as offline for the last hour or so, but I can still connect to them from a Tor Browser and looking at the local logs, they are both running quite happily. Any ideas why they are showing as offline: https://metrics.tor

Re: [tor-relays] Tor is reporting my bridges as offline

he service yo-yoing between on and off line. Cheers. On 6/30/2020 6:05 PM, Eddie wrote: Hi, I run 2 bridges on a hosted VPS.  Tor is currently showing both these as offline for the last hour or so, but I can still connect to them from a Tor Browser and looking at the local logs, they are

Re: [tor-relays] Tor is reporting my bridges as offline

ne and I'm waiting for a distribution mechanism to be assigned. Cheers. On 6/30/2020 6:05 PM, Eddie wrote: Hi, I run 2 bridges on a hosted VPS.  Tor is currently showing both these as offline for the last hour or so, but I can still connect to them from a Tor Browser and looking at the l

Re: [tor-relays] Tor bandwidth scanner "longclaw" slow to the US West Coast

Not sure if my relay is similar, but I've been seeing a slow fall in consensus weight and advertised bandwidth over the past few months even though absolutely nothing has changed at my end.  Well, apart from me *increasing* the RelayBandwidth settings. Also before I shut my relay down for a co

[tor-relays] Could Zoom be using the wrong dan-tor blacklist

Starting yesterday (maybe Saturday) we have been unable to initiate any Zoom calls.  They just sit "connecting".  According to Zoom, there are no issues that would lead to this. My investigation, traces I have run on the server, and using a VPN (on a tablet on my LAN) show the exact same sympt

Re: [tor-relays] Could Zoom be using the wrong dan-tor blacklist

Gus, It's "OnNoNotAnotherTorRelay"; D195E5CE8AE77BAC91673E6CFB7BD0AF57281646 Cheers. On 9/9/2020 7:44 PM, gus wrote: Hi Eddie, Could you inform your relay fingerprint? Thanks, Gus On Mon, Sep 07, 2020 at 11:54:47AM -0700, Eddie wrote: Starting yesterday (maybe Saturda

[tor-relays] Wildly Different BandWidth Numbers

Looking at the consensus health page for my relay D195E5CE8AE77BAC91673E6CFB7BD0AF57281646), I see wildly different values for bandwidth: bw=3060 bw=910 bw=340 bw=620 bw=5130 Why is there such a discrepancy.  I'm guessing this has something to do with my relay bouncing in and out of Guard sta

[tor-relays] Can't connect to bridge after rebuilding server

I had to rebuild my VPS today.  Before doing so, I copied off everything I thought I needed to rebuild my bridges.  Following the rebuild, the bridges appear to start correctly, according to both the logs and https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/OhNoAnotherBridge. However attempting to

Re: [tor-relays] Can't connect to bridge after rebuilding server

Cheers. On 2/8/2021 10:30 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 06:58:55PM -0800, Eddie wrote: Following the rebuild, the bridges appear to start correctly, according to both the logs and https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/OhNoAnotherBridge. However attempting to conn

Re: [tor-relays] Can't connect to bridge after rebuilding server

certs. Cheers. On 2/8/2021 10:30 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 06:58:55PM -0800, Eddie wrote: Following the rebuild, the bridges appear to start correctly, according to both the logs and https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/OhNoAnotherBridge. However attempting to co

[tor-relays] Huge increase in bridge connections

Just trying to understand if this is normal or if something else is going on. I have 2 bridges on a VPS.  One is designated as "moat", the other "email".  Until earlier today, for over a year, both averaged under 10 unique clients, per 6-hour reporting period. Today, the "moat" bridge, in a sing

Re: [tor-relays] Stable flag and client load

On 2/21/2021 7:16 PM, enrollado wrote: I am running a bridge, realseven, fingerprint 10B5293C71793DC1E56A5B17434C0539F70FBB38. It's been up for 71 days and has yet to get the stable flag or more than 3 or 4 connected clients. Is there something misconfigured? Bridges don't get the stable fla

Re: [tor-relays] Bridge operator iat_mode setting

On 2/24/2021 12:34 PM, William Kane wrote: Thank you for running obfs4 bridges with iat_mode != 0, only very few obfs4 bridges support the additional traffic obfuscation in both directions. Kudos to you my friend. - William Should I take this as a recommendation to update my bridges to support

Re: [tor-relays] Thoughts and insight before bridge moving

As well as the keys, be sure to also move/copy the pt_state folder and contents. Cheers. On 3/8/2021 8:07 AM, William Kane wrote: Hi, Every bridge is useful, and a possible chance for a tor user to circumvent censorship, you can't possibly know which bridges are already blocked for a user, s

Re: [tor-relays] bridge static or dynamic ip and multiple bridge config

But one that keeps changing IP will get very little, if any, traffic, based on how bridge information is distributed. Cheers. On 3/31/2021 2:19 PM, Volker Mink wrote: Bridge does not require static ip. You can run one at home. More than one —> use different ports Am 31.03.2021 um 22:14 schri

Re: [tor-relays] Is OVH a safe vps provider to run an exit relay on?

William, At (about) what number of relays per provider should we be considering looking elsewhere. Cheers. On 4/1/2021 12:53 AM, William Kane wrote: Hi, no, OVH is the second most commonly used hosting provider, another relay hosted there would hurt the network more than it would help: h

Re: [tor-relays] OS Upgrade

On 4/23/2021 11:50 AM, The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415/510] wrote: ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, April 23, 2021 2:01 AM, wrote:  Ubuntu 20.4 on my Digital Ocean droplet needs to be upgraded.  Can the upgrade be done without shutting down the relay. I  currently have six fla

Re: [tor-relays] Help with running a Tor Bridge

You might want to add "IPv4Only" to ORPort. Cheers. On 5/16/2021 12:49 AM, Cor.ling wrote: Hi, I have set up a bridge on Kubuntu following this guide: https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/bridge/debian-ubuntu/ In T

[tor-relays] tor fails on start-up after yum update

Running a CentOS 7.9 system, pulling tor updates from https://rpm.torproject.org/centos/$releasever/$basearch The last 2 times that tor has been yum updated, the restart of the service has just stopped, at exactly the same point: Jun 18 06:46:50.000 [notice] Tor 0.4.6.5 opening log file. Jun

Re: [tor-relays] Is my node dropping packets?

On 7/29/2021 7:57 AM, Marco Predicatori wrote: Hi, my Tor node is inside a local network protected by a firewall. Only port 9001 is NATted towards the Tor server. Moreover, I have iptables active on the Tor server itself. The outer firewall blocks any incoming packet except for packets on port 9

[tor-relays] Move or Recreate

I'm thinking of switching a couple of the VPS servers I have, where I'm running both relays and bridges.  (On separate VPSs, obviously). I know how to maintain the keys for both relays and bridges for the replacements, but was wondering exactly what does that buy me, as both will now be runnin

[tor-relays] Bridge showing offline

Looking at tor metrics, one of my bridges is showing as off-line: B080140DC1BAB5B86D1CE5A4CA2EF64F20282440 However, the log isn't showing any issues: Oct 14 00:00:28.000 [notice] Tor 0.4.5.8 opening new log file. Oct 14 00:00:28.000 [notice] Configured hibernation.  This interval began at 2021

[tor-relays] Loss of Guard and HS Dir flags

I currently run 3 relays, across different servers and today I noticed that one has now lost it's Guard and HS Dir flags.  What's surprising is that this particular relay has the highest Bandwidth and Consensus Weight of all 3 and has not been restarted for over a month. The stats for all 3 ca

Re: [tor-relays] Bridge showing offline

On 10/14/2021 2:44 AM, Bleedangel Tor Admin wrote: You are running 0.4.5.8, maybe updating to a newer version of tor will help? Sent from ProtonMail for iOS On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 03:02, Georg Koppen <mailto:g...@torproject.org>> wrote: Eddie: > Looking at tor metrics, one of m

Re: [tor-relays] Loss of Guard and HS Dir flags

On 10/13/2021 11:29 PM, Eddie wrote: I currently run 3 relays, across different servers and today I noticed that one has now lost it's Guard and HS Dir flags.  What's surprising is that this particular relay has the highest Bandwidth and Consensus Weight of all 3 and has not been res

[tor-relays] What is: Channel padding timeout scheduled

Noticed that one of my relays (OhNoAnotherRelay02) is showing as off-line.  Looking at the logs, I see a bunch of these messages: Oct 18 08:39:16.000 [notice] Channel padding timeout scheduled 143041ms in the past. Oct 18 08:39:21.000 [notice] Channel padding timeout scheduled 156925ms in the

Re: [tor-relays] Loss of Guard and HS Dir flags

On 10/18/2021 1:03 AM, Georg Koppen wrote: Eddie: On 10/13/2021 11:29 PM, Eddie wrote: I currently run 3 relays, across different servers and today I noticed that one has now lost it's Guard and HS Dir flags.  What's surprising is that this particular relay has the highest Ban

Re: [tor-relays] Relay MIGHTYWANG consensus issues and loss of STABLE flag

Welcome to the club: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/team/-/issues/128 Since Georg opened that (on my behalf) I too have lost the Stable flag. Cheers. On 10/29/2021 9:10 AM, Mighty Wang wrote: Hello fellow operators I have one pretty large relay, MIGHTYWANG which is an IP

Re: [tor-relays] Bridge showing offline

27;t check the metrics that often and the instance documented below didn't change the Uptime or Last Restart to indicate anything had happened.  So unless I notice while it's in this state, like now, I have no way of knowing if it happens regularly or not. Cheers. On 10/14/2021 1

[tor-relays] Moving Bridges

One of my bridges has just taken on a slew of new connections.  Over the last few days it's gone from an average of around 15 users to over 300 (according to tor metrics.  The logs show over 1,000 unique clients for the same period).  Unfortunately with the VPS provider I'm using, this isn't su

[tor-relays] Possible Connection Storm

Checking my relays after being away for a few days, noticed that one of them was showing as Overloaded, which I've never seen in over a year's running. Looking in the logs, it looks like there was a huge increase in connections, which has now settled down and I'm no longer showing as overload

Re: [tor-relays] Loss of Guard and HS Dir flags

Necro alert !! Again, the same server has exhibited the same thing.  It has lost the Guard, HS Dir, and Long-Lived (Stable) flags, despite being up for almost 5 months with no reduction in Bandwidth. Cheers. On 10/18/2021 9:42 PM, Eddie wrote: On 10/18/2021 1:03 AM, Georg Koppen wrote

[tor-relays] Identifying a relay

Have a question about how a server I connect to can tell I am running a guard/middle relay.  All I can think of is that they check the published list of tor nodes against the IP.  Or (maybe, but unlikely) portscan the IP and probe any open ports to determine the service.  Are there any other me

Re: [tor-relays] Identifying a relay

Unfortunately that option is very specifically disallowed as it's considered as trying to hide the source IP. Cheers. On 6/16/2022 1:33 AM, Gary C. New via tor-relays wrote: Eddie, When experiencing similar issues, the recommended solution I received, from this list, and that seems to

[tor-relays] Metrics shows my relay down. But it's not.

The metrics is showing one of my relays (40D13096BBD11AF198CE61DEE4EAECCE5472F2E7) as down for around the last 3 hours.  Logging in to it, I see everything running normally. This server has also lost a bunch of flags for no apparent reason, so I'm not sure if they're connected. Cheers. _

Re: [tor-relays] Tor bridges limit

It's not a good idea to run a bridge on the same node as a relay. All relay IPs are published and so anyone blocking relays would block your bridge as well. Cheers. On 7/21/2022 5:20 AM, Me via tor-relays wrote: Good day all. I am currently running two middle relays on my home network and wa

[tor-relays] How useful are bridges on ports other than 80 and 443

Unfortunately I've had to shut down my home based tor relay because my wife's employer is mis-categorising it as an exit node, instead of the middle/guard that it really is.  So, until she retires, in a few months, that relay will now be silent after about 5-years running (all of which her havi

[tor-relays] Metrics falsely showing my relay as offline

I have 1 relay (40D13096BBD11AF198CE61DEE4EAECCE5472F2E7) that according to the metrics is always bouncing between online and offline, sometimes multiple times per day.  The logs show it running the whole time and when the metrics also show it running, the uptime continues to increase correctly

Re: [tor-relays] Metrics falsely showing my relay as offline

On 8/19/2022 12:21 AM, Georg Koppen wrote: Eddie: I have 1 relay (40D13096BBD11AF198CE61DEE4EAECCE5472F2E7) that according to the metrics is always bouncing between online and offline, sometimes multiple times per day.  The logs show it running the whole time and when the metrics also show it

[tor-relays] Re: Question about middle relays and common web usage annoyances

Individual bridge IPs are not published anywhere and so cannot be blocked like this. Unless they are collateral damage from a block of IPs being banned because of relays.  Like all IPs from a VPS provider. Cheers. On 12/26/2024 4:02 AM, ndub via tor-relays wrote: I'm also facing the same pr

[tor-relays] Unable to bind to IPv6

2 [err] Reading config failed--see warnings above. Any ideas/help would be gratefully accepted. Cheers, Eddie ___ tor-relays mailing list -- tor-relays@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to tor-relays-le...@lists.torproject.org