<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /></head><body>Not sure if related, but I noticed today one of my exit relays was not operating properly. Turned out the bind server was not resolving properly. I turned off dnssec and it started working again...<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On January 2, 2015 6:45:30 PM EST, tor-relays-request@lists.torproject.org wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">Send tor-relays mailing list submissions to<br /> tor-relays@lists.torproject.org<br /><br />To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br /> <a href="https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays">https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays</a><br />or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br /> tor-relays-request@lists.torproject.org<br /><br />You can reach the person managing the list at<br /> tor-relays-owner@lists.torproject.org<br /><br />When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br />than "Re: Contents of tor-relays digest..."<br /></pre><p style="margin-top: 2.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; border-bottom: 1px solid #000"></p><pre class="k9mail">Today's Topics:<br /><br /> 1. Reduced number of HSDir's (Sebastian Urbach)<br /> 2. Re: Reduced number of HSDir's (Austin Bentley)<br /> 3. Re: Reduced number of HSDir's (Kura)<br /> 4. Re: Reduced number of
HSDir's (Sebastian G. <bastik.tor>)<br /> 5. Help - My relay consensus has been stripped back to 20<br /> (bigbudtor@Safe-mail.net)<br /> 6. Re: Help - My relay consensus has been stripped back to 20 (s7r)<br /></pre><p style="margin-top: 2.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; border-bottom: 1px solid #000"></p><table style="border: 0"><tbody><tr><th style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">From:</th><td>Sebastian Urbach <sebastian urbach.org="urbach.org"></sebastian></td></tr><tr><th style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">To:</th><td>tor-relays@lists.torproject.org</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Sent:</th><td>Fri Jan 02 12:25:06 EST 2015</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Subject:</th><td>[tor-relays] Reduced number of HSDir's</td></tr></tbody></table><pre class="k9mail">Hi,<br /><br /><a href="https://metrics.torproject.org">https://metrics.torproject.org</a> shows a big nose dive recently regarding the
<br />number of HSDir's. Did i miss anything relevant in the last days ? That <br />seem to be the reason why i see increasing download numbers on my system.<br /><br />Thanks for any lind of info.<br />--<br />Sincerely yours / Sincères salutations<br /><br />Sebastian Urbach<br /><br /><hr /><br />Definition of Tor:<br />10% luck, 20% skill, 15% concentrated<br />power of will, 5% pleasure, 50% pain and<br />100% reason to remember the name!<br /><hr /><br /><br /><br /><br /></pre><p style="margin-top: 2.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; border-bottom: 1px solid #000"></p><table style="border: 0"><tbody><tr><th style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">From:</th><td>Austin Bentley <ab6d9 mst.edu="mst.edu"></ab6d9></td></tr><tr><th style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">To:</th><td>tor-relays@lists.torproject.org</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Sent:</th><td>Fri Jan 02 13:29:33 EST 2015</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align: left; vertical-align:
top;">Subject:</th><td>Re: [tor-relays] Reduced number of HSDir's</td></tr></tbody></table><div dir="ltr">No clue. I wonder if there's some backlash from a anti-attack mechanism of some sort? There was a few attempted attacks against the Tor network, but it wasn't anything worth discussing. Check out the post on the 31st from <a href="http://blog.torproject.org">blog.torproject.org</a>.<br /></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br /><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Sebastian Urbach <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sebastian@urbach.org" target="_blank">sebastian@urbach.org</a>></span> wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br />
<br />
<a href="https://metrics.torproject.org" target="_blank">https://metrics.torproject.org</a> shows a big nose dive recently regarding the number of HSDir's. Did i miss anything relevant in the last days ? That seem to be the reason why i see increasing download numbers on my system.<br />
<br />
Thanks for any lind of info.<br />
--<br />
Sincerely yours / Sincères salutations<br />
<br />
Sebastian Urbach<br />
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power of will, 5% pleasure, 50% pain and<br />
100% reason to remember the name!<br />
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<p style="margin-top: 2.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; border-bottom: 1px solid #000"></p><table style="border: 0"><tbody><tr><th style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">From:</th><td>Kura <kura kura.io="kura.io"></kura></td></tr><tr><th style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">To:</th><td>tor-relays@lists.torproject.org</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Sent:</th><td>Fri Jan 02 13:47:51 EST 2015</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Subject:</th><td>Re: [tor-relays] Reduced number of HSDir's</td></tr></tbody></table>
<font size="2" face="Tahoma" color="#000000 ">I think something must have happened, I restarted half a dozen or so of my relays over a week ago and none of them have been given the HSDir flag, which if I remember rightly is a 21 hour flag? I may be mistaken but, I would have expected that flag to be back with over a week of uptime.<br /></font><font size="2" face="Tahoma" color="#000000 "></font><div><font size="2" face="Tahoma" color="#000000 "><br /></font></div><div class="mb_sig">--<div>Kura</div><div><br /></div><div>t: <a href="https://twitter.com/kuramanga">@kuramanga</a></div><div>w: <a href="https://kura.io/">https://kura.io/</a></div><div>g: <a href="http://git.io/kura">@kura</a></div></div><blockquote class="history_container" type="cite" style="border-left-style:solid;border-width:1px; margin-top:20px; margin-left:0px;padding-left:10px;">
<p style="color: #AAAAAA; margin-top: 10px;">On 02/01/2015 18:30:00, Austin Bentley <ab6d9@mst.edu> wrote:</p><div dir="ltr">No clue. I wonder if there's some backlash from a anti-attack mechanism of some sort? There was a few attempted attacks against the Tor network, but it wasn't anything worth discussing. Check out the post on the 31st from <a href="http://blog.torproject.org">blog.torproject.org</a>.<br /></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br /><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Sebastian Urbach <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sebastian@urbach.org" target="_blank">sebastian@urbach.org</a>></span> wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br />
<br />
<a href="https://metrics.torproject.org" target="_blank">https://metrics.torproject.org</a> shows a big nose dive recently regarding the number of HSDir's. Did i miss anything relevant in the last days ? That seem to be the reason why i see increasing download numbers on my system.<br />
<br />
Thanks for any lind of info.<br />
--<br />
Sincerely yours / Sincères salutations<br />
<br />
Sebastian Urbach<br />
<br />
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Definition of Tor:<br />
10% luck, 20% skill, 15% concentrated<br />
power of will, 5% pleasure, 50% pain and<br />
100% reason to remember the name!<br />
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<p style="margin-top: 2.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; border-bottom: 1px solid #000"></p><table style="border: 0"><tbody><tr><th style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">From:</th><td>"Sebastian G. <bastik.tor>" <bastik.tor googlemail.com="googlemail.com"></bastik.tor></bastik.tor></td></tr><tr><th style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">To:</th><td>tor-relays@lists.torproject.org</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Sent:</th><td>Fri Jan 02 14:51:26 EST 2015</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Subject:</th><td>Re: [tor-relays] Reduced number of HSDir's</td></tr></tbody></table><pre class="k9mail">02.01.2015, 19:47 Kura:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> I think something must have happened, I restarted half a dozen or so<br /> of my relays over a week ago and none of them have been given the<br />
HSDir flag, which if I remember rightly is a 21 hour flag? I may be<br /> mistaken but, I would have expected that flag to be back with over a<br /> week of uptime.<br /></blockquote><br />It used to be a 25 hour flag. 1 day plus an additional hour.<br /><br />I think (yes, that says I don't know) the period being longer than 24<br />hours had something to do with an attack to get relays under adversary<br />control in the right position to become a HSDir for some<br />hidden-services. If one pays for a relays by days an additional hour is<br />an additional day for an attacker.<br /><br />I may have missed something, but maybe it was raised.<br /><br />I do remember that changes to Guards took place, like requiring them to<br />have more bandwidth and to reducing the number of Guards clients would<br />use. This was due to research.<br /><br />Regards,<br />Sebastian<br /><br /></pre><p style="margin-top: 2.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; border-bottom: 1px solid #000"></p><table
style="border: 0"><tbody><tr><th style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">From:</th><td>bigbudtor@Safe-mail.net</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">To:</th><td>tor-relays@lists.torproject.org</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Sent:</th><td>Fri Jan 02 18:28:48 EST 2015</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Subject:</th><td>[tor-relays] Help - My relay consensus has been stripped back to 20</td></tr></tbody></table><pre class="k9mail">On the 29th December one of our relays, bigbud (6911888F83565892FE23F1B03EB501D80E1E8780) which had a consensus of 630+ and had been running for nearly 18 months (100 days uptime running 2.5.8) suddenly started receiving much less traffic. <br /><br />I have seen a gradual reduction in traffic over the course of the last year but on the 29th the drop off was very significant and I saw in Atlas that the consensus is dropped to 20. When I look at the consensus files
it shows that bigbud has a consensus of 20 and that Unmeasured was set to 1.<br /><br />Any ideas please? I upgraded Tor to 2.5.10 after I noticed the consensus drop. Is this something to do with the Lizard new relay flood or something or is there an actual problem with the relay?<br /><br />On a related note the relay lost guard status too a few months ago and I couldn't see why that would be.<br /><br /></pre><p style="margin-top: 2.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; border-bottom: 1px solid #000"></p><table style="border: 0"><tbody><tr><th style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">From:</th><td>s7r <s7r sky-ip.org="sky-ip.org"></s7r></td></tr><tr><th style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">To:</th><td>tor-relays@lists.torproject.org</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Sent:</th><td>Fri Jan 02 18:39:52 EST 2015</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Subject:</th><td>Re: [tor-relays] Help - My relay consensus has been stripped
back to 20</td></tr></tbody></table><pre class="k9mail">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br />Hash: SHA1<br /><br />This was reported yesterday 01.01.2015 in IRC too, for this relay:<br /><br />3D7E274A87D9A89AF064C13D1EE4CA1F184F2600<br /><br />The same it was pushing good amounts of traffic and the consensus<br />weight dropped to 20 with no modifications made to the Tor config file<br />or anything. You are the 3rd person who reports this, seams like worth<br />investigating further.<br /><br />I can see both of them are exits, but doubt this has anything to do<br />with it.<br /><br />Could it be a measurement problem from the bandwidth authorities? Why<br />would it happen only to very few relays in this case?<br /><br />On 1/3/2015 1:28 AM, bigbudtor@Safe-mail.net wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> On the 29th December one of our relays, bigbud<br />
(6911888F83565892FE23F1B03EB501D80E1E8780) which had a consensus of<br /> 630+ and had been running for nearly 18 months (100 days uptime<br /> running 2.5.8) suddenly started receiving much less traffic.<br /> <br /> I have seen a gradual reduction in traffic over the course of the<br /> last year but on the 29th the drop off was very significant and I<br /> saw in Atlas that the consensus is dropped to 20. When I look at<br /> the consensus files it shows that bigbud has a consensus of 20 and<br /> that Unmeasured was set to 1.<br /> <br /> Any ideas please? I upgraded Tor to 2.5.10 after I noticed the<br /> consensus drop. Is this something to do with the Lizard new relay<br /> flood or something or is there an actual problem with the relay?<br /> <br /> On a related note the relay lost guard status too a few months ago<br /> and I couldn't see why that would be. <br /><hr />tor-relays mailing<br /> list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org <br /> <a
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