[tor-relays] simple relay setup

I need some help. My dedicated server is running debian and is new, set up by my serverhoster. I want to run a TOR-Relay: - It should always update to latest stable automatically. - It should be save. I will edit the torrc by myself. What i need is simple copy+paste codeline for: - isntall a

Re: [tor-relays] simple relay setup

thanks do i have to install something in first line to perform this gpg lines? you say "| apt-key add -" torproject.org says  "| sudo apt-key add -" doesnt sudo matter cause im useing root? is it possible to just deactive login/ssh to be save or is it just better/necessary to deal with rsa key?

[tor-relays] descriptions still valid?

dear relayoperators, i wonder if descriptions on http://www.torservers.net/wiki/setup/server are still valid for debian jessie dist? particular chmod 700 ~/.ssh and wget https://www.torservers.net/misc/config/sshd_config thanks for helping out. cheers ___

[tor-relays] Job for tor.service failed.

hi there. 0.2.5.12 on debian jessie: "service tor reload" causes message: "Job for tor.service failed. See 'systemctl status tor.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details." it says something like "failed to start LSB"? any advice for me please? cheers

Re: [tor-relays] Job for tor.service failed.

ty, ill do my best getting machines up again :/   On Thursday, May 14, 2015 7:24 AM, grarpamp wrote:   On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 6:51 PM,   wrote: any advice for me please? Learn additional unix system administration, read the manuals, attend a user group. That way you can understand and do simp

[tor-relays] a line "enable IPv6 on your relay"

hi, about that following lines in the mail from Moritz Bartl. [tor-relays] Please enable IPv6 on your relay! In short, you add: ORPort [IPv6::address]:port IPv6Exit 1 ExitPolicy reject6 *:* shouldnt there be a "a" in the first line? how important ist the letter a? i guess some operators just

[tor-relays] [Fwd: Re: a line "enable IPv6 on your relay"]

sorry, i confused something. "relay should show in the consensus as an "a" line." does not mean a "a" is required in torrc. i got confued cause of the headline "1.1 Ordinary relays" stupid me, pardon   -- Original-Nachricht -- Betreff: Re: [tor

Re: [tor-relays] [Fwd: Re: a line "enable IPv6 on your relay"]

hi, its very easy: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/IPv6RelayHowto just put your IPv6 adress somewhrere within square brackets into torrc. ORPort [2001:DB8::1]:9050 - afaik it shouldnt matter where you put it into torrc - also put IPv6Exit 1 ExitPolicy reject6 *:* somewhere in. -

Re: [tor-relays] tor network "loses" ~50 relays/day due to bw auth problem

indeed, thanks for you promptly interverntion. it feels good to see the mb/s rising! also tor websurfing already responds faster subjectively to me GIGGITY ((:   Am Montag, 25. Mai 2015 16:32 schrieb Marcus :   Hey, thank’s a lot my relay is now also able to support Tor. After over 2 weeks con

[tor-relays] IPv6 adress valid?

hi, is that IPv6 adress valid for example "becks" [2a01:4f8:162:7345::2]? how do i know if IPv6 is correct and reachable? thanks ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] Bridge Usage and Setup

    I want to investigate why obfs4 is nearly never used.   hi, may you want to have a look into tails bug #9268 adressing some obfs issue   ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/list

[tor-relays] avira exits as24875

hey seems like avira is joining us running 24 exits through as24875. seems to be about double the size of mozillas relays. Yay! ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

Re: [tor-relays] avira exits as24875

any publication out there about that great effort? whos involved?   Am Sonntag, 7. Juni 2015 19:06 schrieb nusenu :   -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512   seems like avira is joining us running 24 exits through as24875. seems to be about double the size of mozillas relays. Yes, th

[tor-relays] exit to youtu.be via germany gema

german exit for https://youtu.be/ is breaking functionality due to disunity between google and gema. since years now. anyhow german exits shouldnt block youtube ip's, now should they? ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://l

Re: [tor-relays] exit to youtu.be via germany gema

exact, thats what im talking about   Am Dienstag, 23. Juni 2015 23:28 schrieb cacahuatl :   On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 08:00:53PM +0200, tor-server-crea...@use.startmail.com wrote: german exit for https://youtu.be/ is breaking functionality due to disunity between google and gema. since years no

Re: [tor-relays] BWauth no-consensus state in effect

  Am Mittwoch, 5. August 2015 13:26 schrieb Tim Sammut :   Thank you for the note, Roman. On 08/05/2015 12:07 PM, Roman Mamedov wrote: On Wed, 5 Aug 2015 10:58:30 +0100 Tim Sammut wrote:   That said, it raises the partially-rhetorical question: should I spend my $x/month on running a relay

Re: [tor-relays] Bots, love 'em or hate 'em?

Would be interesting to have an outdate-consensus handling deprecated relays just for statistics or maybe also to set them all to flagged as bad or throttle them somehow?   Am Mittwoch, 19. August 2015 17:11 schrieb starlight.201...@binnacle.cx:   My relay says it receives about 50k v1/v2/v3

Re: [tor-relays] Bots, love 'em or hate 'em?

Just thoughts: To throttle how about assign twisted consensus weight to outdated versions? Highest consensus weight to slowest relays and vice versa? Wouldnt they overload/throttle themselfes nicely?   Am Sonntag, 23. August 2015 10:24 schrieb tor-server-crea...@use.startmail.com:   Would be

Re: [tor-relays] Calling for more Exit Relays

hi, what do you think about high restricted exits? i thought about solely accept some single ips. like so accept:* berlin.ftp.media.ccc.de:                195.54.164.50                           2001:67c:20a0:5:0:0:0: eff.org                            69.5

Re: [tor-relays] Calling for more Exit Relays

may relays could hard- implement some common exitting ips like those from torproject and tails? to take some exit-load from the network. for example activate exitting by gaining guard to some trustet ips or implement an torrc-option commonexit 0/1     Am Donnerstag, 3. September 2015 07:09 sch

Re: [tor-relays] Experience hosting exit relay with Costa Rica Servers: crservers.com

probably they will at least detect some traffic to porn-sites? but there still is a "can" in the sentence: "CRSERVERS can suspend or terminate unilaterally this hosting contract immediately and with no Refunds, if the customer incurs in one or several of the following" you should reduce your ex

Re: [tor-relays] Relay Speed

https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#UpgradeOrMove I want to upgrade/move my relay. How do I keep the same key? When upgrading your Tor relay, or running it on a different computer, the important part is to keep the same identity key (stored in "keys/secret_id_key" in your DataDirectory)

Re: [tor-relays] Why are Globe/Atlas not showing my upgraded (& advertised) bandwidth

Indeed you are. Be patient for 2-3 weeks. Consensus weight will not raise prompt. A relay should be stable in the first place, not changeing every now and than. See also: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay regards and all the best for your relay   Am Sonntag, 20. Septembe

Re: [tor-relays] Flipping from guard and back again

but you shouldnt be concerned, its ok if your relay looses guard flag it acts as middle so no worrys, youre just fine (:   Am Mittwoch, 23. September 2015 16:32 schrieb 12xBTM <12x...@gmail.com>:   Your bandwidth is too low. Guards must be in the top 25% of the network by bandwidth, and that's

Re: [tor-relays] 130 "11BX1371" relays joined on 2015-10-30

should relays add some lines to torrc like reject *.fingerprint?   Am Sonntag, 1. November 2015 12:58 schrieb nusenu :   Here is the OrNetRadar email for that event including all FPs in the last line: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.onion-routing.ornetradar/433 http://bgp.he.net/AS291

Re: [tor-relays] 130 "11BX1371" relays joined on 2015-10-30

If someone really wants to help the network she would set MyFamily config and/or answer requests. btw i would be happy to not see this topic on broader public like TWN     With intentions and scenarios unknown, it could also be someone who wants to help, there /was/ a call for exits not too lo

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

whos then receiving home-addresses from longtime relay-owners earned t-shirts?!   Am Dienstag, 17. November 2015 21:00 schrieb nusenu :     tor weather hasn't been working for me for a long time and AFAIK it is not maintained... ___ tor-relays mai

Re: [tor-relays] Unbelieveable

  Am Freitag, 4. Dezember 2015 08:57 schrieb Josef 'veloc1ty' Stautner :   Have you restarted Tor after you made changes?   Yes. After ive done changes i always restart the Server hard. Tor is Running As Daemon so hours after restart i just do a check at atlas.torproject.org if its up&running

[tor-relays] authority signatures consensus-health

hi, wondering what happened to consensus lately? weight-drops, list says was missing authority signatures ? thanks ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

[tor-relays] Mozilla11

seems like one instance didnt made it from 02510 to 0275: Mozilla11 - probably the other instances will handle the unused bandwidth but its a bit of a pity isnt it... if its running some hundret days we should poke now still its known by consensus otherwise its waste of electricity. thanks Mozi

Re: [tor-relays] Unused Tor exit nodes capacity

Hi, are you useing cat7 cable? Did you configure a DNS fall-back 8.8.8.8 to be on the safe side? Ok, with (1000 mBit x2=) 2000mBit you are handling 114,3 MB/s 16,8 +2,7 +9,6 +19,7 +26,2 +7,0 +22,6 +9,7 = 114,3 MB/s Thats already good. Did you declare a cut-off? You can experimentally try my fol

[tor-relays] relays possible sybil

hi, just wondering whats the matter with these 66+ relays "cloudvps" ... guess they get vote, should we discard some iprages? thanks ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-r

Re: [tor-relays] relays possible sybil

since not declaring $family could cause risk to Tor-Network: action should take place if relayoperator is not responding&changing config, right?   Am Dienstag, 19. Januar 2016 20:28 schrieb nusenu :     just wondering whats the matter with these 66+ relays "cloudvps" ... guess they get vote

Re: [tor-relays] Running 5000 relays...

By setting "DirPort: 0" the relays wont get flaged as Dir. So: Should be set to 0 in this case, no?   Am Sonntag, 20. März 2016 02:54 schrieb Tim Wilson-Brown - teor :     On 9 Mar 2016, at 09:29, nusenu wrote:   - maybe run without DirPort so you do not become HSDir for to many HSes Hmm