<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, без засечек;font-size:8pt">Hi <br><br>I would like to set up a Tor Bridge but I have run into a few problems. Can anyone give me a few recommendations on what to do? <br><br>Raising maximum number of filedescriptors (ulimit -n) to 32768.<br>Starting tor daemon: tor...<br>ABORTED: Tor configuration invalid:<br>Mar 17 10:56:35.546 [notice] Tor v0.2.2.35 (git-73ff13ab3cc9570d). This is experimental software. Do not rely on it for strong anonymity. (Running on Linux i686)<br>Mar 17 10:56:35.548 [warn] Option 'SocksPort' used more than once; all but the last value will be ignored.<br>Mar 17 10:56:35.548 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Unknown option 'ServerTransportPlugin'. Failing.<br>Mar 17 10:56:35.548 [err] Reading config failed--see warnings above.<br><div><span><br></span></div><div><br></div>
<div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, без засечек; font-size: 8pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, без засечек; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">От:</span></b> Tobias Markus <tobias@markus-regensburg.de><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Кому:</span></b> Sebastian Urbach <sebastian@urbach.org> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Копия:</span></b> tor-relays@lists.torproject.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Отправлено:</span></b> понедельник, 17 марта 2014 10:37<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Тема:</span></b> Re: [tor-relays] New tor relay, some questions<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br clear="none">Hash:
SHA1<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Hi Sebastian,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">now that you say it -- yes, it seems we both choose the same quote :D<br clear="none">(Really, I didn't copy you. I've read it somewhere else a while ago<br clear="none">and adopted it because I liked it. But really, you didn't read<br clear="none">hundreds of quote books just to suddenly stumble on Franklin's quote,<br clear="none">did you?)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">But another thing: Do you still need participating relays for TTTT?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Tobias<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Am 17.03.2014 16:24, schrieb Sebastian Urbach:<br clear="none">> Hi,<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Great that it finally worked out, welcome to thd<br clear="none">> brother/sisterhood. And btw. what are you doing with my mail<br clear="none">> signature ? That seems to be the more important issue to me ;-)))<br clear="none">> <br
clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Hi,<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> just wanted to inform you that I could resolve the issue simply by <br clear="none">> deleting the tor data folder (thus getting a new fingerprint).<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> PS: I actually replied to Bryan, but forgot to CC tor-relays. Sadly<br clear="none">> I can't find the message anymore, otherwise I would have resent<br clear="none">> it.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> On 03/13/2014 11:08 PM, Tobias Markus wrote:<br clear="none">>> Hi, sorry for replying rather late! In response to 1): Thinking<br clear="none">>> about it, I think the main (possible) problem is that my MTA is<br clear="none">>> rejected by SMTP servers it connects to because of a Tor<br clear="none">>> blacklist. Is this probable? Has someone got experience running a<br clear="none">>> complete mail system and a (public) Tor
relay on the same<br clear="none">>> host/IP? About 2): That is indeed very unfortunate, but at the<br clear="none">>> same time a reason to start contributing to Tor! (Sadly, I am<br clear="none">>> presently occupied by various other projects, but I think Tor is<br clear="none">>> definitely worth a 'visit'.) Now about something else. I recently<br clear="none">>> had to restart my server for unrelated reasons. (The relay had<br clear="none">>> the Guard and Stable flag at that time.) I sadly forgot to add<br clear="none">>> the Tor service to the default runlevel, so it was not started at<br clear="none">>> boot time. I went to bed thinking everything was OK and was only<br clear="none">>> able to start Tor about 12 hours later. Unfortunately, my relay<br clear="none">>> got no flags since then -- not even "Running"! The Tor consensus<br clear="none">>> website confirms this: Three
Auths voted for all previous/normal<br clear="none">>> flags except Guard, the others only for Valid and V2Dir leading<br clear="none">>> to my relay getting no flags! I cannot really explain this to <br clear="none">>> myself. What is going on here? Tobias On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at<br clear="none">>> 07:32:17PM +0100, Moritz Bartl wrote:<br clear="none">>>> On 03/02/2014 04:06 PM, Tobias Markus wrote:<br clear="none">>>>> I've been running a new tor relay for about a week now<br clear="none">>>> <br clear="none">>>> Great. Thank you!<br clear="none">>>> <br clear="none">>>>> 1) I plan on running other services than tor on my server,<br clear="none">>>>> including a (private) mail system. Other than the general<br clear="none">>>>> possibility of tor having security holes and my server (and<br clear="none">>>>> its IP address) being
public and thus possibly target of<br clear="none">>>>> attacks, are there security implications I should consider?<br clear="none">>>> <br clear="none">>>> Unfortunately, many sites block Tor relay IPs regardless of<br clear="none">>>> their exit policy. So, if you share one IP between the relay<br clear="none">>>> and other services, your might be impacted. This is especially<br clear="none">>>> true for exit relays.<br clear="none">>>> <br clear="none">>>>> 2) I would be interested to eventually run a<br clear="none">>>>> directory/bandwith authority, so I read about them in [1] and<br clear="none">>>>> [2], but the places seemed a bit odd (hidserv-perf branch in<br clear="none">>>>> tor svn/torflow repo) so I thought I better ask here: Would I<br clear="none">>>>> really just have to follow the steps in [1] to become a<br
clear="none">>>>> dirauth? Is there currently a need for auths, would <br clear="none">>>>> contribution be welcomed?<br clear="none">>>> <br clear="none">>>> The offer is well appreciated. In the current design,<br clear="none">>>> directory authorities and bandwidth authorities play a very<br clear="none">>>> special role. There are several ideas on how to improve the<br clear="none">>>> situation and then open participation to the broader community,<br clear="none">>>> but for the time being, authorities can only be run by people<br clear="none">>>> very close to the core dev team.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none"><br clear="none">- -- <br clear="none"><br clear="none">Tobias Markus<br clear="none"><br clear="none">"They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little<br clear="none">temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."<br
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