[tor-relays] my orphan relay

2014-05-14 Thread eliaz
o 7%. The bridge shows as running in OOo and Globe. There is no problem with the "Who has used my bridge" module(?): When I open a Tor client at a remote ISP, "Who has used my bridge" immediately lights up showing traffic from that client's country. Thanks fo

[tor-relays] Choosing to run vanilla or obfuscated bridge

2014-10-29 Thread eliaz
I know that vanilla bridges cannot carry obfsproxy traffic. But can obfsproxied bridges carry vanilla traffic? If not, are there criteria to help me decide which bridge configuration is useful at any particular time? - eliaz ___ tor-relays mailing list

[tor-relays] bridge pool assignments

2014-12-24 Thread eliaz
e bridge DB shows no pool assignment. Has anyone else experienced this? What's the remedy? If it would help anyone figure this out I can post details, graphs, etc. along as they don't compromise the bridge. - eliaz ___ tor-relays mailing list t

Re: [tor-relays] bridge pool assignments

2014-12-26 Thread eliaz
isis: > eliaz transcribed 0.9K bytes: >> Can a bridge carry client traffic even though the bridge hasn't been >> assigned to a pool? [snip] >> As I recall, for previous restarts I've seen pool assignments within >> a few hours. [...] But this last restart

Re: [tor-relays] bridge pool assignments

2014-12-27 Thread eliaz
Karsten Loesing: > On 27/12/14 04:03, eliaz wrote: >> isis: >>>> Can a bridge carry client traffic even though the bridge hasn't >>>> been assigned to a pool? >> [snip] >>> As I recall, for previous restarts I've seen pool assignments >

[tor-relays] IP addresses as false positives?

2015-01-04 Thread eliaz
esses from the port traffic. Thanks for any enlightenment - eliaz ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] IP addresses as false positives?

2015-01-05 Thread eliaz
grarpamp: > On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:30 AM, eliaz wrote: >> The antivirus program on a machine running a bridge occasionally >> reports like so: >> >> Object: https:// >> Infection: URL:Mal [sic] >> Process: ... \tor.exe >> &

Re: [tor-relays] IP addresses as false positives?

2015-01-05 Thread eliaz
nder tor. I've never gotten these alerts when running the client. - eliaz ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] IP addresses as false positives?

2015-01-05 Thread eliaz
han packet/traffic inspection. It was also >> very recent, within the last week. > > Gratuitous listing by AVG perhaps? > >> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:30 AM, eliaz wrote: >>> The antivirus program on a machine running a bridge occasionally >>> reports like

Re: [tor-relays] how to monitor traffick through a bridge

2015-01-05 Thread eliaz
ng a windows OS. If you are, let us know. Also let us know if you're running a tor bridge bundle or tor browser + standalone vidalia. - eliaz ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] IP addresses as false positives?

2015-01-06 Thread eliaz
grarpamp: > On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 11:15 AM, eliaz wrote: >> processes involved. Since they're private, I assume they're broadcasts & > > Private are RFC1918. Broadcasts are 255.255.255.255 or the > subnet based versions of same. \ Thanks!

Re: [tor-relays] IP addresses as false positives?

2015-01-06 Thread eliaz
t; sensitive to you) and the exit FP. I've gone back to my records. The .txt attachment gives what I'd gotten for three different IP addresses. I'm not panicked about this & don't expect anyone to put more time into my query. But the different results may interest someone. - eliaz

Re: [tor-relays] IP addresses as false positives?

2015-01-07 Thread eliaz
grarpamp: > On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 5:34 AM, eliaz wrote: >> for three different IP addresses. I'm not panicked about this & don't > > Those IP's are exits, no idea why they're being called out by avg. > What are the malware/virus id's, the

[tor-relays] updating obfuscations in windows bridges

2015-02-16 Thread eliaz
xy or flashproxy. Would torrc in windows accept obfs4 ? - thanks, eliaz [1] https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#TBB3.x ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] updating obfuscations in windows bridges

2015-02-16 Thread eliaz
Yawning Angel: On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 10:30:57 + eliaz wrote: >> s I read it, the tor browser bundle 3.x FAQ [1] implies that bridges >> on windows can use only obfs3 of the provided pluggable transports. >> Can someone let me know if this is correct? >Huh? What does a o

[tor-relays] guard-failing message

2015-02-24 Thread eliaz
ng on for a few days. The bridge usage display shows the usual traffic, but more anemic the past several days. To be on the safe side I did the following: * shut down the bridge, * reset my gateway address, * restarted the bridge after about 1/2 hour. Have I overreact

[tor-relays] guard-failing message

2015-02-26 Thread eliaz
ng on for a few days. The bridge usage display shows the usual traffic, but more anemic the past several days. To be on the safe side I did the following: * shut down the bridge, * reset my gateway address, * restarted the bridge after about 1/2 hour. Have I overreact

[tor-relays] Monitoring my bridge I

2015-03-27 Thread eliaz
SafeLogging 0 Maybe someone can see if the problem lies in this torrc, Or somewhere else. Or is this behavior just par for the course? Thanks - eliaz -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJVFZ+bAAoJEDqas5IE3vgrYuAH/2+xr8RRHnI7lds5BFvRHC5A S8J6thDyEBGMV40YiEL1l7KHi

[tor-relays] Globe offline

2015-03-28 Thread eliaz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Account suspended? Atlas isn't running so hot either. rats... - eliaz -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJVFl2RAAoJEDqas5IE3vgrpEkIAJhliXOS7VqXN36WkgEceHa+ h61MIFmulErgzlEcLJ71cJlgS9kEpPYlqVdNiOl6xEybjzwgOBfUP8Rg7wt

Re: [tor-relays] Globe works fine

2015-03-28 Thread eliaz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Nusenu: > eliaz: >> Account suspended? Atlas isn't running so hot either. rats... - >> eliaz > > works fine here (globe + atlas) Now atlas works but I still get "This Account Has Been Suspended" at http://gl

Re: [tor-relays] Globe works fine

2015-03-28 Thread eliaz
whois the > domain and email them. Thanks! Did it. - eliaz -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJVFt3hAAoJEDqas5IE3vgrfGEH/3swR1YRr0v1SKTrQpHF4Z5U 97001YSgUkNUQmq58Wu9rLhmund8he1r04HaZ6gYGFsC8SxPsRu16ZY5WL+5k0m4 C625Y5PTG3x/vQC5eSPaOFfNspTxEh5VLDbmNdZJz3p6QezK20KEgG116g0q9qKr vRWUih40L

[tor-relays] interpreting extra-infos

2015-11-09 Thread eliaz
Can anyone point me to a tutorial about how to read the extra-info output of CollecTor? I'm particularly interested in what bridge-ip-versions v4=0,v6=0 means and why bridge-ip-transports does not report the the pluggable transport proxies (obfs3, obfs4, etc.) for the bridge I'm running. _

[tor-relays] Is this bridge worth running?

2015-11-10 Thread eliaz
over five months of continuous running the written/read bytes reached 7K only once. Is this data telling me that the bridge is not carrying much traffic at all? Is there anything I can do to improve performance? And is there any way that I can get some idea of the actual traffic lo

[tor-relays] Reading check.torproject

2016-04-17 Thread eliaz
e drop-down but a different address w.x.y.z appeared on the page. Opening up atlas gave a "no results" error until I entered a.b.c.d manually; and w.x.y.z was no tor node; it turned out to belong to a VPN provider which was also poking my ports. Is this discrepancy normal? Should be

Re: [tor-relays] Reading check.torproject

2016-04-18 Thread eliaz
Tim Wilson-Brown - teor: > >> On 18 Apr 2016, at 14:14, eliaz wrote: >> >> In looking at the check.torproject.org page on the browser/machine that >> runs my bridge, I'm used to seeing the same IP address a.b.c.d on the >> check page ("Your IP address

[tor-relays] "support team" address?

2016-04-30 Thread eliaz
I'm having crashes when restarting tor. I get the error message "Tor unexpectedly exited Send a copy of Your Tor Log to the support team." So, what's the address? ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.

Re: [tor-relays] "support team" address?

2016-04-30 Thread eliaz
> On 4/30/2016 7:33:26 PM, Moritz Bartl (mor...@torservers.net) wrote: > > On 04/30/2016 04:51 PM, eliaz wrote: > > I'm having crashes when restarting tor. I get the error message "Tor > > unexpectedly exited Send a copy of Your Tor Log to the support &g

Re: [tor-relays] "support team" address?

2016-05-01 Thread eliaz
Thanks for the precise help, Roger. some relies interleaved: > On 4/30/2016 7:41:48 PM, Roger Dingledine (a...@mit.edu) wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 02:51:27PM +0000, eliaz wrote: > > I'm having crashes when restarting tor. I get the error message "Tor > > unex

Re: [tor-relays] "support team" address?

2016-05-01 Thread eliaz
> On 5/1/2016 4:52:12 AM, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor (teor2...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > On 1 May 2016, at 16:52, eliaz wrote: > >=20 > >=20 > >> On 4/30/2016 7:33:26 PM, Moritz Bartl (mor...@torservers.net) wrote: > >>> On 04/30/2016 04:51 PM, eliaz wrote:

[tor-relays] "who has used my bridge" in vidalia bridge bundle?

2012-04-21 Thread eliaz
After running bridge relays in the TBB for a long time I now get "who has used my bridge" results quite quickly after restarts. But in the stable bridge bundle, this function seems not to work - I've had the bundle running for well over a day and am still getting the msg "no clients have used your

Re: [tor-relays] "who has used my bridge" in vidalia bridge bundle?

2012-04-22 Thread eliaz
On 4/21/2012 1:08 PM, eliaz wrote: > After running bridge relays in the TBB for a long time I now get "who > has used my bridge" results quite quickly after restarts. But in the > stable bridge bundle, this function seems not to work - I've had the > bundle running for w

Re: [tor-relays] "who has used my bridge" in vidalia bridge bundle?

2012-04-23 Thread eliaz
On 4/23/2012 9:27 AM, Karsten Loesing wrote: > On 4/23/12 12:07 AM, eliaz wrote: >> On 4/21/2012 1:08 PM, eliaz wrote: >>> After running bridge relays in the TBB for a long time I now get "who >>> has used my bridge" results quite quickly after restarts. But

Re: [tor-relays] "who has used my bridge" in vidalia bridge bundle?

2012-04-23 Thread eliaz
I take back my statement that "BridgeRecordUsageByCountry is not enabled in the relay bundle by default." Karsten is correct. I was confusing the TBB & relay pkg data directories and also geoip & geoip-cache when switching from the one package to the other. Live & learn. -

[tor-relays] bridge usage summary in vidalia bridge bundle

2012-05-10 Thread eliaz
e separate folders in AppData\Local\ and Appdata\Roaming\ . Collecting these in one place would make it a bit easier for the user to reconfigure if necessary. - eliaz gpg: 0xE498E90D ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject

[tor-relays] Bridge relay: conversing with the message log

2012-09-20 Thread eliaz
I run a bridge relay on vista x64 through my ISP's router-modem firewall. I need some help in understanding a few lines in the message log. Replacing the name of machine on my LAN by and the IP addresses by and (= the bridge's address), the lines are: Sep 20 07:33:43.872 [Info] resolve_my_add

Re: [tor-relays] Bridge relay: conversing with the message log

2012-09-22 Thread eliaz
Stephen - I can't thank you enough for the clarification. I's a great help to my understanding of how Tor interacts with ISPs. - eli On 9/20/2012 3:24 PM, Stephen Mollett wrote: > Hi Eli, > > On Thursday, 20 September 2012, 13:25, eliaz wrote: > >> ...

[tor-relays] bridge usage-panel behavior

2012-09-22 Thread eliaz
Over the last week or so my bridge usage has been zero, whereas previously it would show clients for at least a few and usually many countries. The only exception is China, which comes up well within an hour of enabling the bridge. Usually the usage display stops at 1-8, but sometimes it shows co

Re: [tor-relays] Bridge relay: conversing with the message log

2012-09-26 Thread eliaz
at 08:25:05AM -0400, eliaz wrote: >> Despite these info lines Tor finally claims success. Does this mean >> that I can ignore the previous info lines? Or are they telling me that >> I have to do something? As far as I can tell my bridge is working fine. > > Tor logs at log

Re: [tor-relays] some questions

2012-09-26 Thread eliaz
I can't answer your questions, but to help with problems I've been having, can you say which version of the TBB you're running, & on what OS? - eli On 9/24/2012 1:37 PM, esolve esolve wrote: > Hi, all: > > I'm newbee here. I have some questions: > > I'm using tor with vidallia as a TO

Re: [tor-relays] Directory Port Reachability Test Failed?

2012-09-28 Thread eliaz
This link may be relevant: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6979 It relates to what seems to be the same problem, occurring on the latest version (ver .39, TBB for windows). - eli On 9/28/2012 12:48 PM, Mike Edwards wrote: [snip] > "[Fri Sep 28 14:23:28 2012] External IP Address C

[tor-relays] relay exposed?

2013-03-08 Thread eliaz
So, some hours ago I noticed a circuit on the network map consisting of a relay in my own country, another one 11,000 km away, and - surprise - my own bridge relay. Can this be so? I thought that bridges, though published, are anonymous. My TBB configuration seems fine, it's what I've used in prev

[tor-relays] Too-regular traffic

2013-03-30 Thread eliaz
My bridge relay often shows regular pulses in its bandwidth graph, as per the attached. Do these represent some housekeeping on the network? - eliaz<>___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/c

Re: [tor-relays] Too-regular traffic

2013-04-01 Thread eliaz
Never mind - I noticed the bookkeeping during a period when my bridge was carrying very low traffic. On 03.29.2013 eliaz wrote: > My bridge relay often shows regular pulses in its bandwidth graph, as > per the attached. Do these represent some housekeeping on the > network? [attachment

[tor-relays] onionoo

2013-09-02 Thread eliaz
Been having a devil fo a time keeping my bridge up this week. One question: With the bridge up & running, & the map showing it connecting to circuits, why is onionoo reporting "running":false, ? Should I worry about this discrepa

Re: [tor-relays] onionoo

2013-09-02 Thread eliaz
On 9/2/2013 9:58 AM, Karsten Loesing wrote: > On 9/2/13 3:52 PM, eliaz wrote: >> Been having a devil fo a time keeping my bridge up this week. One >> question: With the bridge up & running, & the map showing it connecting >> to circuits, why is onionoo reporting &quo

Re: [tor-relays] onionoo

2013-09-02 Thread eliaz
the pointer, globe is interesting. What is the latency of globe (and the browser bundle map, for that matter)? I've assumed that the circuits shown on the map are high-consensus, but I haven't been able to correlate globe's top 10 with rela

Re: [tor-relays] onionoo

2013-09-02 Thread eliaz
One doesn't have to go to the page to do a brute force attack. At the same time globe is useful in helping lower-level bridge operators such as myself get a better sense of what the information windows in the browser bundle are actually telling us. If I'm wrong in any of the above,

Re: [tor-relays] System Time

2014-01-17 Thread eliaz
ted support address) might be a good experiment. Even if a dedicated list is populated only amateurs it might help us keep running more consistently & intelligently. Yup, my bridge is down for now. Understanding what I'm doing has taken too much time away f

Re: [tor-relays] System Time

2014-01-20 Thread eliaz
On 1/17/2014 9:24 PM, nano wrote: > On 18/01/2014 12:30 PM, eliaz wrote: >> On 1/15/2014 8:19 AM, nano wrote: >>> On 15/01/2014 10:29 PM, Sebastian Urbach wrote: >>>> >>>> [...] >>>> >>> >> >> I've been thinking

[tor-relays] reading the captchas

2014-02-10 Thread eliaz
Would it be possible for someone to change the captcha images at the URL for getting bridges, without of course lessening their effectiveness? The present ones are pretty much unreadable, to this human at least. - eliaz --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus

Re: [tor-relays] reading the captchas

2014-02-10 Thread eliaz
On 2/10/2014 9:37:23 AM, Lunar (lu...@torproject.org) wrote: > eliaz: > > Would it be possible for someone to change the captcha images at the > URL > > for getting bridges, without of course lessening their effectiveness? > > The present ones are pretty much unreadable

[tor-relays] tor bridge on windows?

2020-05-17 Thread eliaz
Is tor running on windows again? On which win versions? I gave up trying to run a bridge when Vidalia 1 was dropped and tor.exe was integrated into Torbrowser. I was told at the time that windows implementations would no longer be supported. Thanks, eliaz

Re: [tor-relays] tor bridge on windows?

2020-05-18 Thread eliaz
called torland. https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/386E99371B8CD938248940B754F16AAC54B5712B You just need to make a self generated torrc.txt file with the bridge configuration. I can send you my torrc file if you want an example. --Keifer > On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 5:55 PM el