[tor-relays] New relay questions

Hi Relay Operators, I am trying to run a non exit relay for the first time and have some questions: FYI, I have 2 virtual CPU s and 1.256 GB RAM with ‘unlimited’ bandwidth on a rented VPS running Debian 11. The logs report success and the Relay Search shows my relay (Nickname: code9nRelay) run

[tor-relays] Setting a relay as an HSDirectory?

Hi all, Thanks for the last answers, it's all running nicely now. Now I want to set the relay to act as a Hidden Services Directory as well and reading the torrc file I'm not sure how to do it. Do I just uncomment the lines 10 and 11 of the extract below? Or just line 10? Or lines 10, 11, 13,1

[tor-relays] Money for relay operators and email addresses

tl;dr: Paying relay operators - yes, once it's decided how to share out the money. Requiring valid email addresses - yes. imo s. It goes against the purely altruistic bit of me to say this but I definitely see the advantage of paying relay operators. I run one pretty powerful relay on a commerc

[tor-relays] Correction to Good Bad ISPs, UK

Hi, This is probably the wrong place but here is a minor update to the Good / Bad ISPs page: http://xmrhfasfg5suueegrnc4gsgyi2tyclcy5oz7f5drnrodmdtob6t2ioyd.onion/relay/community-resources/good-bad-isps/index.html The company HostWorld in the UK does allow guard and middle relays but just refu

[tor-relays] response to zimmer family hitting max descriptor size

Hi, re. # Questions & Answers * Q: zimmer family hitting max descriptor size https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/issues/40837 Any news on a possible solution to this ongoing issue? tl;dr: more powerful relays rather than large numbers of them. *Please note I have very little idea what

[tor-relays] simple instructions to the expiredkey issue, pls.?

Hi, I know I should have sorted this some weeks ago but can anyone tell me a simple method of dealing with the: bullseye InRelease: The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG 74A941BA219EC810 deb.torproject.org archive signing key issue, please? Thanks.__

[tor-relays] Re: Strange UFW logs from another Tor node - update.

GINT if the process is > running in the background, or simply press CTRL + C.. both ways lead to a > graceful exit of tcpdump: > > > kill --signal 2 tcpdump > > > Now you can inspect the traffic using a GUI to

[tor-relays] What're these ufw block logs saying?

Hi, re. my (guard / middle relay) : 181.215.226.65 : 443 : http://hctxrvjzfpvmzh2jllqhgvvkoepxb4kfzdjm6h7egcwlumggtktiftid.onion/rs.html#details/41D4F82AB54AE5C5FB8D3CD24B4FC84350EFEF03 I'm getting traffic from another (non-exit) relay : 155.138.146.249 : 9001 : http://hctxrvjzfpvmzh2jllqhgvvko