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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:keifer.bly@gmail.com">Keifer Bly</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, April 26, 2018 4:08 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:tor-relays@lists.torproject.org">tor-relays@lists.torproject.org</a><br><b>Subject: </b>FW: [tor-relays] Relay unreachable by authorities (Was: Re:Questiononrelay allowed downtime)</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:keifer.bly@gmail.com">Keifer Bly</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, April 26, 2018 4:01 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:tor-relays@lists.torproject.org">tor-relays@lists.torproject.org</a><br><b>Subject: </b>RE: [tor-relays] Relay unreachable by authorities (Was: Re:Questionon relay allowed downtime)<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>That’s what’s strange. I have double checked the tor logs and the only warning that appears is the “tor cannot help you if you use it wrong” warning; that’s the only one that appears. I did some research, and according to<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://serverfault.com/questions/145907/does-mac-os-x-throttle-the-rate-of-socket-creation">https://serverfault.com/questions/145907/does-mac-os-x-throttle-the-rate-of-socket-creation</a>, Mac os does have a maximum amount of network connections it does allow at once.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>To find mine out, I tried running this in terminal<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Launchctl limit maxfiles<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The return was this: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>maxfiles 256 unlimited.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I tried attaching a photo of the output but got a message back saying it was held because it was too big (the file was about 6mb).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I wonder if this would mean mac os only allows 256 connections at once? How could I modify my torrc file to not go over the max allowed connections by mac os and still be a useable relay?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:teor2345@gmail.com">teor</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, April 26, 2018 3:38 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:tor-relays@lists.torproject.org">tor-relays@lists.torproject.org</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [tor-relays] Relay unreachable by authorities (Was: Re: Questionon relay allowed downtime)<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>On 27 Apr 2018, at 08:23, Keifer Bly <<a href="mailto:keifer.bly@gmail.com">keifer.bly@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>My apologies. The fingerprint is <span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Menlo",serif;background:white'>DB1AF6477BB276B6EA5E72132684096EEE779D30</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Menlo",serif;background:white'>Here are the contents of my torc file (the isp beeng run from is Charter Communications, the only isp that is available where I live.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>You might want to use a pastebin service for large files.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Or cut out all the commented stuff before posting your torrc.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Menlo",serif;background:white'>I do not remember applying any descriptor limit and do not see one here.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The file descriptor limit is imposed by the OS.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The default can be low.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Here is how you can find out:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Please check the logs for warnings and notices.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Sometimes tor logs a warning when it starts up (for example, low file</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>descriptors), and then the issue happens later.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Menlo",serif;background:white'>What’s strange is my internet connection is working fine and I am able to visit websites, making it not seem like it is overloaded.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Tor requires thousands of simultaneous connections.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Tor requires constant uptime.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Internet browsing requires a few connections.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>It works when the network is interrupted.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Menlo",serif;background:white'>Seems strange. Does Charter have any strange policies against running tor relays (has anyone ever had a documented here problem with running a relay on Charter before)? Thank you.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>You should ask your ISP.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>T<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>