<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br><div>On 20 Dec 2017, at 20:59, Conrad Rockenhaus <<a href="mailto:conrad@rockenhaus.com">conrad@rockenhaus.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="">ConradsAWSRelay was started back up on a new AWS instance running Amazon Linux and it’s hash is now <font color="#454545" face="Helvetica Neue" class="">9F7F05699131E1E2A22F70B83E8CBB4671F5FEE2. I have upgraded to Tor 0.3.1.9…. I had issues with getting the libevent development header dependencies resolved on Amazon Linux so I just compiled it on Red Hat and brought it over. More than likely I overlooked something and caused a cascade of failures from there, anyway, it’s up.</font></div><div class=""><font color="#454545" face="Helvetica Neue" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#454545" face="Helvetica Neue" class="">Additionally, I brought up ConradsAWSExit, 1B47E33F9D422CC97BD2DDA1F082BFF2FC58E79A, to help out with that area. I may bandwidth limit this one depending on load, I will have to wait and see how much traffic it gets since I don’t have unlimited $$$ to allocate to my new hobby :).</font></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, running nodes at AWS can be expensive.</div><div>I'm also interested to see what abuse complaints you get.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class=""><font color="#454545" face="Helvetica Neue" class="">If someone could take another look and provide me any feedback/constructive criticism about these two nodes, I would greatly appreciate it.</font></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Since you control multiple relays, please set MyFamily on all of them:</div><div><br></div><div>MyFamily fingerprint1,fingerprint2</div><div><br></div><div>This is important because they are in different IPv4 /16s.</div><div>(It will be even more important if one has the Guard flag, and the other</div><div>has the Exit flag.)</div><div><br></div><div>Does AWS have native IPv6 yet?</div><div><br></div><div>If so, please set on both relays:</div><div><br></div><div>ORPort [IPv6]:Port</div><div><br></div><div>And on the Exit:</div><div><br></div><div>IPv6Exit 1</div><div><br></div><div>You could connect to IPv6 using a nearby free tunnel service</div><div>(Hurricane Electric is good, and has good peering with AWS),</div><div>but this is not as fast or reliable as native IPv6.</div><div><br></div><div>But as a learning experience, it's a good way to get IPv6.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class=""><font color="#454545" face="Helvetica Neue" class="">Thank you for everyone’s advise! I also appreciate the input regarding the revitalization of the Cloud project again. Another person has also volunteered to assist in the project so hopefully things should start moving here pretty soon!</font></div></div></blockquote><br><div>That's exciting.</div><div>It would be great for people to be able to choose between multiple</div><div>providers. Free VPSs are a great way to learn how to set up a relay.</div><div><br></div><div>The biggest issue with the cloud image was that it wasn't kept up</div><div>to date. I wonder if there's a way of doing that automatically.</div><div><br></div><div>I also wonder if there's a way of giving people a BSD image option</div><div>as well.</div><div><br></div><div>T</div></body></html>