On 2 Dec 2017, at 05:09, Gunnar Wolf gwolf@debian.org wrote:

Jens Kubieziel dijo [Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 06:35:54PM +0100]:

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Hi,

I was contacted by a user from Mexico. Is anyone on this list who can offer some advice when it comes to running a relay from your home connection?

I am in Mexico City (about to leave for the weekend to Chile ☺, and shortly afterwards will disappear a few weeks for family vacations). I operate a relay on my work (university) network, but yes, I can confirm I was unable to set one up at home with the country's biggest ISP.

I do intend to work on this when I have some free time, but so far I have been unable to get it to work.

About two years ago on tor-relays, we got an email from a relay operator talking about the same issue. It seems that many Mexican ISPs block the Tor directory authorities.

The fallback directory mirror feature helps Tor clients connect, and we got good feedback when Tor Browser added this feature (Tor 0.2.8).

But that doesn't help relays, because they need to contact the authorities directly.

The user might be able to run a bridge. And we should check that this works. I opened #24483 so we remember to do this.

If running a bridge doesn't work, maybe they can use a server on a better network to run a relay?

T