<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><div class="">Normalcitizen: E51620B90DCB310138ED89EDEDD0A5C361AAE24E</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote class="protonmail_quote" type="cite"><div class="">-------- Original Message --------<br class=""></div><div class="">Subject: [tor-relays] Become a Fallback Directory Mirror<br class=""></div><div class="">Local Time: 21 December 2017 12:50 AM<br class=""></div><div class="">UTC Time: 20 December 2017 23:50<br class=""></div><div class="">From: <a href="mailto:teor2345@gmail.com" class="">teor2345@gmail.com</a><br class=""></div><div class="">To: <a href="mailto:tor-relays@lists.torproject.org" class="">tor-relays@lists.torproject.org</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">Dear Relay Operators,<br class=""></div><div class=""> <br class=""></div><div class=""> Do you want your relay to be a Tor fallback directory mirror?<br class=""></div><div class=""> Will it have the same address and port for the next 2 years?<br class=""></div><div class=""> Just reply to this email with your relay's fingerprint.<br class=""></div><div class=""> <br class=""></div><div class=""> If your relay is on the current list, you don't need to do anything.<br class=""></div><div class=""> <br class=""></div><div class=""> If you're asking:<br class=""></div><div class=""> <br class=""></div><div class=""> Q: What's a fallback directory mirror?<br class=""></div><div class=""> <br class=""></div><div class=""> Fallback directory mirrors help Tor clients connect to the network.<br class=""></div><div class=""> For more details, see [1].<br class=""></div><div class=""> <br class=""></div><div class=""> Q: Is my relay on the current list?<br class=""></div><div class=""> <br class=""></div><div class=""> Search [2] and [3] for your relay fingerprint or IP address and port.<br class=""></div><div class=""> [2] is the current list of fallbacks in Tor.<br class=""></div><div class=""> [3] is used to create the next list of fallbacks.<br class=""></div><div class=""> <br class=""></div><div class=""> Q: What do I need to do if my relay is on the list?<br class=""></div><div class=""> <br class=""></div><div class=""> Keep the same IP address, keys, and ports.<br class=""></div><div class=""> Email tor-relays if the relay's details change.<br class=""></div><div class=""> <br class=""></div><div class=""> Q: Can my relay be on the list next time?<br class=""></div><div class=""> <br class=""></div><div class=""> We need fast relays that will be on the same IP address and port for 2<br class=""></div><div class=""> years. Reply to this email to get on the list, or to update the details<br class=""></div><div class=""> of your relay.<br class=""></div><div class=""> <br class=""></div><div class=""> Once or twice a year, we run a script to choose about 150-200 relays<br class=""></div><div class=""> from the potential list [3] for the list in Tor [2].<br class=""></div><div class=""> <br class=""></div><div class=""> Q: Why didn't my relay get on the list last time?<br class=""></div><div class=""> <br class=""></div><div class=""> We check a relay's uptime, flags, and speed [4]. Sometimes, a relay might<br class=""></div><div class=""> be down when we check. That's ok, we will check it again next time.<br class=""></div><div class=""> <br class=""></div><div class=""> It's good to have some new relays on the list every release. That helps<br class=""></div><div class=""> tor clients, because blocking a changing list is harder.<br class=""></div><div class=""> <br class=""></div><div class=""> Q: What about the current relay DDoS?<br class=""></div><div class=""> <br class=""></div><div class=""> We don't think the DDoS will have much impact on the fallback list.<br class=""></div><div class=""> <br class=""></div><div class=""> If your relay is affected, please:<br class=""></div></div><ul class=""><li class="">make sure it has enough available file descriptors, and<br class=""></li><li class=""><div class="">set MaxMemInQueues to the amount of RAM you have available per tor<br class=""></div><div class=""> instance (or maybe a few hundred MB less).<br class=""></div><div class=""> <br class=""></div><div class=""> We're also working on some code changes. See [5] for more details.<br class=""></div><div class=""> <br class=""></div><div class=""> [1]: <a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/FallbackDirectoryMirrors" class="">https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/FallbackDirectoryMirrors</a><br class=""></div><div class=""> [2]: <a href="https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/tree/src/or/fallback_dirs.inc" class="">https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/tree/src/or/fallback_dirs.inc</a><br class=""></div><div class=""> [3]: <a href="https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/tree/scripts/maint/fallback.whitelist" class="">https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/tree/scripts/maint/fallback.whitelist</a><br class=""></div><div class=""> [4]: <a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/attachment/ticket/21564/fallbacks_2017-05-16-0815-09cd78886.log" class="">https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/attachment/ticket/21564/fallbacks_2017-05-16-0815-09cd78886.log</a><br class=""></div><div class=""> [5]: <a href="https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2017-December/013881.html" class="">https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2017-December/013881.html</a><br class=""></div><div class=""> <br class=""></div><div class=""> --<br class=""></div><div class=""> Tim / teor<br class=""></div><div class=""> <br class=""></div><div class=""> PGP C855 6CED 5D90 A0C5 29F6 4D43 450C BA7F 968F 094B<br class=""></div><div class=""> ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6n<br class=""></div></li></ul><div class=""><hr class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> <br class=""></div><div class=""><hr class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><br class=""></body></html>