December 20, 2017 6:51 PM, "teor" <teor2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Relay Operators, > > Do you want your relay to be a Tor fallback directory mirror? > Will it have the same address and port for the next 2 years? > Just reply to this email with your relay's fingerprint. > > If your relay is on the current list, you don't need to do anything. > > If you're asking: > > Q: What's a fallback directory mirror? > > Fallback directory mirrors help Tor clients connect to the network. > For more details, see [1]. > > Q: Is my relay on the current list? > > Search [2] and [3] for your relay fingerprint or IP address and port. > [2] is the current list of fallbacks in Tor. > [3] is used to create the next list of fallbacks. > > Q: What do I need to do if my relay is on the list? > > Keep the same IP address, keys, and ports. > Email tor-relays if the relay's details change. > > Q: Can my relay be on the list next time? > > We need fast relays that will be on the same IP address and port for 2 > years. Reply to this email to get on the list, or to update the details > of your relay. > > Once or twice a year, we run a script to choose about 150-200 relays > from the potential list [3] for the list in Tor [2]. > > Q: Why didn't my relay get on the list last time? > > We check a relay's uptime, flags, and speed [4]. Sometimes, a relay might > be down when we check. That's ok, we will check it again next time. > > It's good to have some new relays on the list every release. That helps > tor clients, because blocking a changing list is harder. > > Q: What about the current relay DDoS? > > We don't think the DDoS will have much impact on the fallback list. > > If your relay is affected, please: > * make sure it has enough available file descriptors, and > * set MaxMemInQueues to the amount of RAM you have available per tor > instance (or maybe a few hundred MB less). > > We're also working on some code changes. See [5] for more details. > > [1]: > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/FallbackDirectoryMirrors > [2]: https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/tree/src/or/fallback_dirs.inc > [3]: > https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/tree/scripts/maint/fallback.whitelist > [4]: > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/attachment/ticket/21564/fallbacks_2017-05-16-0815-09cd78886 > log > [5]: > https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2017-December/013881.html > > -- > Tim / teor > > PGP C855 6CED 5D90 A0C5 29F6 4D43 450C BA7F 968F 094B > ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6n > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays well, i intend to keep mine up indefinitely (barring the unforeseen) so why not? 2 relays: D122094E396DF8BA560843E7B983B0EA649B7DF9 E911A899D51036A5D2A9DE0931A0A1E8DA4C6148 thanks. -- Thanks, Fabian S. OpenPGP: 3C3FA072ACCB7AC5DB0F723455502B0EEB9070FC _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
