Re: [tor-relays] Provider Suggestion, Scaleway

2017-02-24 Thread Eran Sandler
I can second that. I am running 2 nodes there. On in Paris and one in Amsterdam. Works like a charm. https://atlas.torproject.org/#search/tor4thepeople1 https://atlas.torproject.org/#search/tor4thepeople3 Eran On Fri, Feb 24, 2017, 12:14 Volker Mink wrote: > Hey there J > > I just want to nam

Re: [tor-relays] Save the date! Thursday, Dec 07 - Tor Meetup in NYC

2017-12-01 Thread Eran Sandler
Any meetups in the bay area happening any time soon? Eran On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 2:59 PM wrote: > Hello community! > > We are sending this 'save the date' note to let you know that on > Thursday December 7th on the 20th floor of 150 Broadway in the LMHQ > shared meeting space at 6:45 PM. > > Th

[tor-relays] Tor Relay Operators Needs

2018-06-20 Thread Eran Sandler
Hi everyone, My name is Eran Sandler and I'm the Operator of tor4thepeople1 (98F44299592FC31FD3F2F8969D27374D00E96B9B) and tor4thepeople3 (CEACA34874EAD103D27CA6A7650B16112F12B209) - tor4thepeople2 had to go away, unfortunately. I also developed the gonionoo (https://github.com/erans/gon

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Relay Operators Needs

2018-06-20 Thread Eran Sandler
On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 5:21 PM nusenu wrote: > Hi Eran, > > a developer offering to help relay operators > what better can we ask for :) > Certainly happy to help :-) > yes, this is on the radar of the relay advocate - Colin and maybe also the > Tor Metrics team to some extend - and they are

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Relay Operators Needs

2018-06-20 Thread Eran Sandler
On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 5:52 PM nusenu wrote: > > 1+2 (including template support) are implemented in > https://github.com/nusenu/ansible-relayor Thanks. I'll take a look. > > Yes DirPort does not speak TLS, but since 443 is also best used > for ORPort (because it is often one of the ports t

Re: [tor-relays] default exit notice HTML page on exits?

2018-06-20 Thread Eran Sandler
On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 6:00 PM nusenu wrote: > > > Eran Sandler: > >1. It requires configuration and doesn't come preconfigured. > > also: if you think DirPort on exits should ship a HTML file by default, > we can bring this up with tor developers in a trac ti

Re: [tor-relays] Contact info obfscation

2018-07-01 Thread Eran Sandler
If you are worried about putting a real address you can use a forwarding only address under a different domain. Do you think it would be useful if you had been given an address like aab...@torexitnode.net? As part of a different thread on this list I asked what are some of the services and thinga

Re: [tor-relays] Contact info obfscation

2018-07-02 Thread Eran Sandler
Nice. Perhaps nusenu can add that to the spec. The current spec has gpg support and keybase user, but perhaps there is a case for specifying the gpg server as well (like in Marco's case). Eran On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 10:30 AM Marco Predicatori wrote: > > > > Keifer Bly wrote on 30/06/2018 02:22:

Re: [tor-relays] ContactInfo-Information-Sharing-Specification - keyserver

2018-07-02 Thread Eran Sandler
Works just as well :) Eran On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 11:51 AM nusenu wrote: > > > Eran Sandler: > > Nice. Perhaps nusenu can add that to the spec. The current spec has gpg > > support and keybase user, but perhaps there is a case for specifying the > > gpg server as

[tor-relays] Free Domain for Tor Nodes

2015-10-24 Thread Eran Sandler
Hi all, I recently bought torexitnode.net to make it abundantly clear in reverse DNS lookup that this is a Tor exit node. I've set both of my exit relays tor4thepeople1.torexitnode.net and tor4thepeople2.torexitnode.net to use it and I was wondering if it would be interesting for other Tor relay

Re: [tor-relays] Free Domain for Tor Nodes

2015-10-26 Thread Eran Sandler
akes it reletively > scriptable, if desired. > > On 2015-10-25 12:26, Geoff Down wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 25, 2015, at 05:49 AM, Eran Sandler wrote: > >> If so, I'll write a small something that will allow adding new > >> subdomains > >> to it. So that y

Re: [tor-relays] Free Domain for Tor Nodes

2015-10-26 Thread Eran Sandler
I see. I guess I can simply ask the fingerprint of the node and try to verify with a reverse lookup (will take a while) that it points back to the domain (and subdomain) that was just allocated. Eran On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 3:56 AM teor wrote: > > > On 26 Oct 2015, at 09:27, NOC wrote: > > >

[tor-relays] One of my nodes seems down by its tunnel quite a bit of traffic

2015-10-27 Thread Eran Sandler
Hi all, I got a Tor Weather alert that my node is down: https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/98F44299592FC31FD3F2F8969D27374D00E96B9B Looking at it - it seems to have no flags at all (not sure why). It is tunnelling ~8-10Mb/sec so I assume its being used as a relay. Is there a way to understand

Re: [tor-relays] One of my nodes seems down by its tunnel quite a bit of traffic

2015-10-27 Thread Eran Sandler
Valid flags. The downtime says ~2.5 hours and current advertised > bandwidth of about 7.22 MB/s. > > - CJ > > On Wed, Oct 28, 2015, 00:20 Eran Sandler wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I got a Tor Weather alert that my node is down: >> >> https://atlas.

Re: [tor-relays] One of my nodes seems down by its tunnel quite a bit of traffic

2015-10-28 Thread Eran Sandler
Nevermind. Flags seems to be back now. So strange. Eran On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 8:37 AM Eran Sandler wrote: > When I go into the node and open "arm" I see there are no flags. So either > someone is not reporting the right data or there is a bug somewhere. > > On Wed, Oct

Re: [tor-relays] webiron requesting to block several /24 subnet

2015-11-16 Thread Eran Sandler
My hosting provider also go these requests. Their terms of service requires that I will answer something to acknowledge I got that. I just answer "ok, I'll handle it" and that's it. The reverse lookup of my nodes points to a hostname that shows the Tor text. The host name is tor4thepeople1.torexi

[tor-relays] Tor exit node companion

2015-11-16 Thread Eran Sandler
Hi guys, I had a thought about writing a small Tor exit node companion app. This would be a single executable that does 2 things: - Serve HTTP port 80 traffic on a specific host name and show the standard Tor web page for exit nodes - Serve port 25 (SMTP) and forwards ab...@mydomain.com

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Weather not working?

2015-11-21 Thread Eran Sandler
Who's managing the current Tor weather system? I'll be happy to help out if some maintenance (or some changes) are needed. Eran On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 2:11 PM Cristian Consonni wrote: > 2015-11-18 0:02 GMT+01:00 Green Dream : > > It seems to be working at least some of the time, as I did recei

[tor-relays] Handling abuse request about stopforumspam.com

2015-12-14 Thread Eran Sandler
Hi guys, One of my tor server seems to be getting a lot of abuse reports from the ISP from stopforumspam.com. http://www.stopforumspam.com/ipcheck/212.47.246.21 Any idea how to reduce those to a minimum in a reasonable way? Thanks, Eran ___ tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] Running an exit? Please secure your DNS with DNSCrypt+Unbound

2016-01-04 Thread Eran Sandler
Found this post about compiling and running DnsCrypt which is rather easy. https://gist.github.com/kafene/9699074 Just need to grab the newer libsodium and dnscrypt versions. It also includes an init script. Eran On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 9:46 AM Jesse V wrote: > On 12/26/2015 10:33 PM, 12xBTM

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Weather has been discontinued

2016-04-04 Thread Eran Sandler
I have played quite a bit with onionoo and wrote a wrapper in Go for it. I am willing to rewrite Tor Weather using Go (or python if you like). I'll go over the old code and this email again to make sure I understand the full scope of the project. As an operator I have relied on the Tor Weather a

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Weather has been discontinued

2016-04-04 Thread Eran Sandler
Eran On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 5:58 PM Eran Sandler wrote: > I have played quite a bit with onionoo and wrote a wrapper in Go for it. > > I am willing to rewrite Tor Weather using Go (or python if you like). > > I'll go over the old code and this email again to make sure I unde

[tor-relays] Blocking Tor - A case for more accuracy

2016-04-05 Thread Eran Sandler
https://blog.perimeterx.com/blocking-tor-a-case-for-more-accuracy/ There are certainly other ways of handling Tor traffic and measuring the real intention of a user. Disclaimer: The guys at PerimeterX are friends of mine. I sent them the CloudFlare post (as well as the post from the Tor blog) bec

Re: [tor-relays] Tor Weather has been discontinued

2016-04-11 Thread Eran Sandler
Thanks. I'll ping them. On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 12:12 PM Karsten Loesing wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/04/16 06:00, Markus Koch wrote: > > Any chance I could *buy* some t-shirts? I am running 4 tor middles > > nodes atm and 2 exit nodes coming soon and I woul

[tor-relays] Tor ContactInfo generator

2018-11-01 Thread Eran Sandler
Hi everyone, I've build a small website with nusenu's help to generate the Tor ContactInfo field value based on nusenu's specification: https://github.com/nusenu/ContactInfo-Information-Sharing-Specification Check out the website here: https://torcontactinfogenerator.netlify.com/ The code is i

Re: [tor-relays] Tor ContactInfo generator

2018-11-10 Thread Eran Sandler
I did this code with Python that parses and validates it. I can make something quickly in JS for that as well. Eran On Sat, Nov 10, 2018, 8:28 AM Iain Learmonth Hi, > > On 01/11/18 22:52, Eran Sandler wrote: > > Check out the website here: > > https://torcontactinfogen

Re: [tor-relays] Tor ContactInfo generator

2018-11-10 Thread Eran Sandler
I'll put it in a repo soon. I haven't published it yet. Eran On Sat, Nov 10, 2018, 9:25 AM Iain Learmonth Hi Eran, > > On 10/11/18 17:02, Eran Sandler wrote: > > I did this code with Python that parses and validates it. I can make > > something quickly in JS f

Re: [tor-relays] Tor ContactInfo generator

2018-11-23 Thread Eran Sandler
Ian, the Python code is here: https://github.com/erans/torcontactinfoparser Eran On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 3:03 PM Eran Sandler wrote: > I'll put it in a repo soon. I haven't published it yet. > > Eran > > On Sat, Nov 10, 2018, 9:25 AM Iain Learmonth >> Hi Eran