October 2019 - network-health - lists.torproject.org

Upgrade your 'tarragon' Tor relay?
by Roger Dingledine 06 Apr '20

06 Apr '20

Hi William, You are running a Tor relay, which is great: http://rougmnvswfsmd4dq.onion/rs.html#details/1D4AB6248E3D7DF9C4FBE40DCFAA3… First: that Tor version is obsolete, and because of old bugs, we will soon cut relays running those versions out of the network. Please consider upgrading! Second: let us know if there is any way to help you bump up the bandwidth that you are allocating to the Tor relay. :) You can find Tor packages for your distro / OS here: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorRelayGuide#Platformspecifi… Ideally you will switch to keeping up with our stable releases, but if you need a stable that is especially stable, the Tor 0.3.5 branch will be maintained until Feb 2022: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkTeam/CoreTor… and you can see the lifetimes of other Tor versions on that table too. Let us know if we can do anything to make the process easier. And lastly, I am cc'ing the new network health mailing list (which has public archives), to help us stay synced: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkHealthTeam Thanks! --Roger

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Upgrade your 'halah' Tor relay?
by Roger Dingledine 19 Nov '19

19 Nov '19

Hi, You are running a Tor relay, which is great: http://rougmnvswfsmd4dq.onion/rs.html#details/30690AC40FCD074AF918A28BD7547… But that Tor version is obsolete, and because of old bugs, we will soon cut relays running those versions out of the network. Please consider upgrading! You can find Tor packages for your distro / OS here: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorRelayGuide#Platformspecifi… Ideally you will switch to keeping up with our stable releases, but if you need a stable that is especially stable, the Tor 0.3.5 branch will be maintained until Feb 2022: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkTeam/CoreTor… and you can see the lifetimes of other Tor versions on that table too. Let us know if we can do anything to make the process easier. And lastly, I am cc'ing the new network health mailing list (which has public archives), to help us stay synced: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkHealthTeam Thanks! --Roger

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Upgrade your 'rogemedic' Tor relay?
by Roger Dingledine 04 Nov '19

04 Nov '19

Hi, You are running a fast Tor relay, which is great: http://rougmnvswfsmd4dq.onion/rs.html#details/2D82EF77EB07AF2B3B1BC140AAB52… But that Tor version is obsolete, and because of old bugs, we will soon cut relays running those versions out of the network. Please consider upgrading! The Tor 0.3.5 long-term-stable branch will be maintained until Feb 2022: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkTeam/CoreTor… and you can see the lifetimes of other Tor versions on that table too. You can find Tor packages for your distro / OS here: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorRelayGuide#Platformspecifi… Let us know if we can do anything to make the process easier. And lastly, I am cc'ing the new network health mailing list (which has public archives), to help us stay synced: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkHealthTeam Thanks! --Roger

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Upgrade your 'treeltor' Tor relay?
by Roger Dingledine 24 Oct '19

24 Oct '19

Hi, You are running a Tor relay, which is great: http://rougmnvswfsmd4dq.onion/rs.html#search/46318685E48EA315588032426892D3… First: that Tor version is obsolete, and because of old bugs, we will soon cut relays running those versions out of the network. Please consider upgrading! Second: let us know if there is any way to help you bump up the bandwidth that you are allocating to the Tor relay. :) You can find Tor packages for many distros / operating systems here: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorRelayGuide#Platformspecifi… and/or here: https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/ Let us know if we can do anything to make the process easier. And lastly, I am cc'ing the new network health mailing list (which has public archives), to help us stay synced: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkHealthTeam Thanks! --Roger

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Upgrade your 'SatoshiNakamoto' Tor relay?
by Roger Dingledine 24 Oct '19

24 Oct '19

Hi Tomas, You are running a Tor relay, which is great: http://rougmnvswfsmd4dq.onion/rs.html#search/23F7759EBFA353E10F34A6DD69126F… First: that Tor version is obsolete, and because of old bugs, we will soon cut relays running those versions out of the network. Please consider upgrading! Second: let us know if there is any way to help you bump up the bandwidth that you are allocating to the Tor relay. :) You can find Tor packages for many distros / operating systems here: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorRelayGuide#Platformspecifi… and/or here: https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/guard/ Let us know if we can do anything to make the process easier. And lastly, I am cc'ing the new network health mailing list (which has public archives), to help us stay synced: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkHealthTeam Thanks! --Roger

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Re: [network-health] Upgrade your 'glenda2' Tor relay?
by Roger Dingledine 24 Oct '19

24 Oct '19

On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 03:52:47PM +0200, Christoph Lohmann wrote: > The nodes are now at version 0.4.1.6. Thanks for the hint about > deb.torproject.org. Thanks! Your upgraded relay looks good. I've started the process of unblacklisting the fingerprint. It will need a threshold of the directory authorities to pull the update, so it could be a couple of days until it takes effect, but hopefully it will be relatively soon. You can go to the bottom of https://consensus-health.torproject.org/#relayinfo and paste in your fingerprint or nickname to see progress. > Glenda1 and glenda2 are both dedicated VPS with 2 TB of traffic per > month, exclusively for the tor project. I increased all BandwidthRate > settings to the following values: > > RelayBandwidthRate 1 M > RelayBandwidthBurst 8 M > AccountingMax 2 TB > AccountingStart month 1 00:00 Looks reasonable. Be aware that some VPS providers count a byte in and a byte out as two bytes. So if that's your provider, you're on track to be double-spending for the month. See also "AccountingRule" in the man page. > What's more needed on the network? Servers, which allow high bursts and > then vanish or servers, wich offer constant bandwidth, but all the > time? It depends what bandwidthrate you're offering, but I think the answer in general is "somewhere in between": pick a bandwidthrate where you'll be around at least half of the month, and then maybe you'll be around for the whole month too: https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/faq#LimitTotalBandwidth Thanks, --Roger

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Upgrade your 'droideka' Tor relay?
by Roger Dingledine 24 Oct '19

24 Oct '19

Hi Damien, You are running a Tor exit relay, which is great: http://rougmnvswfsmd4dq.onion/rs.html#details/7B1807281CC74E54CC2144B87A78F… But that Tor version is obsolete, and because of old bugs, we will soon cut relays running those versions out of the network. Please consider upgrading! You can find Tor packages for your distro / OS here: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorRelayGuide#Platformspecifi… Ideally you will switch to keeping up with our stable releases, but if you need a stable that is especially stable, the Tor 0.3.5 branch will be maintained until Feb 2022: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkTeam/CoreTor… and you can see the lifetimes of other Tor versions on that table too. Let us know if we can do anything to make the process easier. And lastly, I am cc'ing the new network health mailing list (which has public archives), to help us stay synced: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkHealthTeam Thanks! --Roger

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Tor-relay 0.3.4.8
by Oskar Eriksson 24 Oct '19

24 Oct '19

Hi Amazing people I was, during like 2 weeks, successfully running a tor relay, but then it stopped working (nick: morerelays). I was just wondering if my version is EOL and not accepted anymore? I followed the install instructions on https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorRelayGuide for fedora, and that was the version I got, and I tried reinstalling but that is the version I get. Will I not be able to run a relay anymore? I certainly want to. Thank you kindly Your work matters Oskar

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Upgrade your 'dragonfly' Tor relay?
by Roger Dingledine 22 Oct '19

22 Oct '19

Hi, You are running a Tor relay, which is great: http://rougmnvswfsmd4dq.onion/rs.html#search/5CBD45394573828291C8FE9780232F… First: that Tor version is obsolete, and because of old bugs, we will soon cut relays running those versions out of the network. Please consider upgrading! Second: let us know if there is any way to help you bump up the bandwidth that you are allocating to the Tor relay. :) You can find Tor packages for many distros / operating systems here: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorRelayGuide#Platformspecifi… Let us know if we can do anything to make the process easier. And lastly, I am cc'ing the new network health mailing list (which has public archives), to help us stay synced: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkHealthTeam Thanks! --Roger

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Re: [network-health] Upgrade your 'glenda2' Tor relay?
by Roger Dingledine 16 Oct '19

16 Oct '19

On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 12:39:03PM +0200, Christoph Lohmann wrote: > thank you for noticing me. I have updated the debian on this node. It > is be the newest of tor in Debian now running there. Great. It looks like it is running Tor 0.2.9.16 though? That version ("old LTS") is still technically supported, but it will go out of support in a few months. It would be much better to move to the deb.torproject.org repository so you can keep up with the Tor stables better. > My nodes were running at full speed at the beginning and soon ranked > very high. The problem is, that when I give a maximum bandwidth, it is > used all the time. This of course soon takes up the maximum Terabytes I > have per VPS. My bandwidth is thus calculated to full usage all over > the whole month. > > If anything, like bigger bursts is required, I'd need some way to > configure when this is needed or maybe some way, to have pauses. I > haven't looked up since I set up the node, if something was developed > in tor for this case. I shouldn't be alone there. Check out the "AccountingMax" option: https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/faq#LimitTotalBandwidth You can set up AccountingMax to give it an overall monthly limit in each direction, and then throttle the bandwidth so it doesn't use it all too quickly, but this way you don't need to throttle it so much because it will turn itself off for the month when it's reached the limit. --Roger

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