Re: [tor-relays] OS diversity of tor relays (was Re: Relay uptime versus outdated Tor version)

2017-08-22 Thread Jonathan Proulx
How this got off into TorBrowser puzzles me. Presumably the goal for clients is to reach them where they are. Certainly providing a diversity of clients is a "good goal" but beyon dreaching more users I fail to see how it helps the network writ large. I suppose indvitual users woudl be mroe secu

Re: [tor-relays] Individual Operator Exit Probability Threshold

2017-09-22 Thread Jonathan Proulx
To the initial question for a honest operator who's open about their ownership and enters proper family membership data I can't see how more exit volume is a problem. TOR needs to be resilient against malicious operators who don't disclose, nto sure what the current value of "global" is but I sho

Re: [tor-relays] Feedback wanted: letter to my university's library

2017-10-02 Thread Jonathan Proulx
Hi AJ, not sure if anyone's brought this up, but you may want to look at: https://libraryfreedomproject.org/ " Library Freedom Project is a partnership among librarians, technologists, attorneys, and privacy advocates which aims to address the problems of surveillance by making real the promise

Re: [tor-relays] SSH Bruteforce Attempts

2017-10-04 Thread Jonathan Proulx
Here's my version of the same: Hello, The source address 128.52.128.105 is a Tor exit node, and is not the origin point for the traffic in question. See http://tor-exit.csail.mit.edu (which is the host in your logs) for details. Any action taken on this node would simply result in the problem t

Re: [tor-relays] SSH brute force attempts to connect to my Middle Relay IP address

2017-10-04 Thread Jonathan Proulx
On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 02:32:10PM +0100, Robin wrote: :I restrict SSH access with iptables allowing only access from two IP addresses (work, and home). :I also disable root login (as many already do), as well as use the AllowUsers option in SSH. Hard for me to tell if my Tor nodes get any more

Re: [tor-relays] So long and thanks for all the abuse complaints

2017-12-04 Thread Jonathan Proulx
On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 01:55:56PM -0500, Zack Weinberg wrote: :For the record, those daily complaints about abusive SSH scanning were :serious reports requiring a reply. And they were not all from the :same source. The only reply ever required is a form letter stating this is a Tor exit, here's

Re: [tor-relays] So long and thanks for all the abuse complaints

2017-12-04 Thread Jonathan Proulx
On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 02:57:25PM -0500, Jonathan Proulx wrote: :The only reply ever required is a form letter stating this is a Tor :exit, here's a link to how to block tor exits if that's what you want. I recognize this doesn't help with "meta-complaints" from h

Re: [tor-relays] Become a Fallback Directory Mirror

2018-01-03 Thread Jonathan Proulx
A bit late to the party but A53C46F5B157DD83366D45A8E99A244934A14C46 -Jon -- signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] Handling abuse - like to get your help please

2016-06-20 Thread Jonathan Proulx
On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 04:05:23AM +0300, s7r wrote: :Hello, : :Thanks for running an exit relay. :That is just an automated email message. You do not want to reply to :every single automated message you receive, firstly because these :replies go into a black hole and they are not read by any human

[tor-relays] Relay no longer acting as a gaurd node?

2023-11-09 Thread Jonathan Proulx
Hi All, A little while ago one of my relays switched from usually acting as a guard node to never acting as a guard node: https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/9715C81BA8C5B0C698882035F75C67D6D643DBE3 Doesn't matter to me if it's a guard or not jsut want to understand what's changed and

Re: [tor-relays] Tor project helping to attempt to cancel Richard Stallman

2021-03-26 Thread Jonathan Proulx
On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 09:02:02PM +0500, Roman Mamedov wrote: :On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 11:26:16 -0400 :Chris Dagdigian wrote: : :> telling new female undergrads and grad students to ensure that they never, :> ever, were placed in a room alone with him. : :It is a bad idea to stay alone in a room wit

Re: [tor-relays] Lots of dropped onion skins

2022-10-09 Thread Jonathan Proulx
With a bit of help from list archieves I found https://github.com/Enkidu-6/tor-ddos which does prevent the "drops" I remain curious why it seemed to be dropping before hitting cpu or memory limits. Though clearly there's no point in burning CPU on DDoS processing, so I don't feel a great urgenc

Re: [tor-relays] Tor relays source IPs spoofed to mass-scan port 22?

2024-10-29 Thread Jonathan Proulx
New one today though, apparently spoofed web exploit probing. That's probably going to trigger a bigger reaction if it becomes more wide spread than a few ssh packets. -Jon -- Jonathan Proulx (he/him) Sr. Technical Architect The Infrastructure Group MIT CSAIL ___