<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello,</div><div><br></div><div>i have a relay at <a href="http://profitserver.ru">profitserver.ru</a> at their Chelyabinsk location and recently the relay fell out of the consensus.</div><div><br></div><div>I can ping all authorities with IPv4 and IPv6 and <a href="http://torproject.org">torproject.org</a> is not blocked.<br>I opened the ControlPort and tried to manually create circuits to the authorities.</div><div><br></div><div>extendcircuit 0 authoritynickname<br></div><div>getinfo circuit-status</div><div><br></div><div>I observed that i can successfully create circuits to no more than three authorities and it seems to change to which authorities i can create circuits.<br></div><div>The unsuccessful circuits stay in EXTENDED but never reach BUILT until Tor gives up eventually.<br><br>
Currently no other of my russian relays are affected.</div><div>I am not an expert with the ControlPort but i hope this is proving what i tried to prove.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Here is the conversation with the support:<br><br></div><div>me:<br>

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(251,251,251);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">Hello,</span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;background:rgb(251,251,251) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(251,251,251);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">I am running a (non-exit) Tor relay on the VPS and it stopped working a few weeks ago.</span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;background:rgb(251,251,251) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(251,251,251);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">I can ping the Tor authorities IP addresses but when i try to manually create a Tor circuit it seems to timeout 6 out of 9 times which indicates some blocking attempts on your (or your upstream providers) side.</span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;background:rgb(251,251,251) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(251,251,251);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">I have a couple of other Tor relays in russia and i have never seen routinely failing manually created circuits to the Tor authorities.</span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;background:rgb(251,251,251) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(251,251,251);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">Do you block Tor or do you otherwise mess with Tor traffic?<br><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(251,251,251);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">support agent:<br>

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">Hello, i can't say something about TOR network, now.</span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;background:rgb(255,255,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">We have black box from government, which can control traffic, and perhaps block TOR.</span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;background:rgb(255,255,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">Ourselves don't block TOR</span>

<br><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(251,251,251);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">me:<br>

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(251,251,251);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">Thanks for your answer.</span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;background:rgb(251,251,251) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(251,251,251);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">The TSPU from Roskomnadzor that is doing Deep Packet Inspection?</span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;background:rgb(251,251,251) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(251,251,251);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">I feel with you and all the russian citizens... :(</span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;background:rgb(251,251,251) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(251,251,251);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">Good luck</span>

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<br><br></div><div>support agent:<br>

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">Maybe it's a black box<br><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none"><font size="2">If this is indeed their blackbox messing with Tor traffic then it is quite subtile because it does not block <a href="http://torproject.org">torproject.org</a> and pings to the authorities are going through.<br>The relay suddenly was online for one consensus in the last weeks and i can still use it when i manually set it as a Guard in my Tor client.<br></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none"><font size="2"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none"><font size="2">So if you run a relay in russia and you experience weird stuff with it then you may not only want to check if you can reach the authorities by ping but you may want to try to manually craft a circuit to all of them.<br><br></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none"><font size="2"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none"><font size="2">Hope that helps anyone<br><br></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none"><font size="2">Cheers<br></font></span></div></div>