<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr">On 1 Apr 2019, at 07:55, Alessandro Fiori <<a href="mailto:alefiori3@gmail.com">alefiori3@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div>I would like to share with the community some tests I've made for setting up a "swarm" of Tor relays.</div><div><br></div><div>I setted up 3 exit relays and 3 middle relays on the same IPv4 address, to make some testing, and the entire swarm works like a charm.</div><div><br></div><div>Due to Tor limitation, I have decided to build a template for preparing the cluster, and upload it to GitHub.</div><div><br></div><div>You can find the example mini-cluster here:</div><div><a href="https://github.com/randomtable/ChimeraOS/tree/master/TorSwarm">https://github.com/randomtable/ChimeraOS/tree/master/TorSwarm</a> </div><div><br></div><div>I have tested the exit capabilities on another network with different public IP address.</div><div><br></div><div>All the relays have published their own descriptors, I have prepared the containers as a single, separated machines.</div><div><br></div><div>The process is different from preparing a single relay, because of Docker build process.</div><div><br></div><div>I have disabled caching during the cluster process, so i have been able to modify torrc without issues.</div><div><br></div><div>Because its very interesting, attached to this e-mail there is the console Logs from the 6 relays.</div><div><br></div><div>All containers are read-only, so the entire relay will destroy at the end of session.</div><div><br></div><div>I hope this can be useful.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><br><div>Tor clients will only see 2 of your 6 relays, because the Tor directory authorities only publish 2 relays per IPv4 address.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, please use the <a href="http://deb.torproject.org">deb.torproject.org</a> repositories to get the latest version of tor:</div><div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Mar 31 19:57:08.000 [warn] Please upgrade! This version of Tor (0.3.3.9) is not recommended, according to the directory authorities. Recommended versions are: 0.2.9.15,0.2.9.16,0.2.9.17,0.3.4.10,0.3.4.11,0.3.5.7,0.3.5.8,0.4.0.1-alpha,0.4.0.2-alpha,0.4.0.3-alpha</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorRelayGuide/DebianUbuntu">https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorRelayGuide/DebianUbuntu</a></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">T</p></div></div></body></html>