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Upgrade your 'Bananenbakker' Tor relay?
by Roger Dingledine 03 Oct '19

03 Oct '19

Hi, You are running a Tor relay, which is great: http://rougmnvswfsmd4dq.onion/rs.html#search/5FA794BF301AF35E4AED185E939CBA… But that Tor version is obsolete, and because of old bugs, we will soon cut relays running those versions out of the network.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 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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Changes on the Tor Network - #31549
by David Goulet 03 Oct '19

03 Oct '19

Hello All! I've put a small set of people in CC that are involved in this change for now so we can make good progress forward! (and not stall) We are soon (some low values of "soon" hopefully) to reject all non supported relays, by tor version, from the network: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/31549 At this very point in time, this represents in total ~12.72% of the total bandwidth weight thus roughly 1/8th of the network will be removed (in terms of bandwidth capability). In terms of "relay volume", this change will remove about ~1/7th of the total network or 923/6349. Roger already emailed hundred(s?) of operators to ask them to upgrade and many have responded but as you can see, the total bandwidth weight has barely moved :S. Our nusenu volunteer also made it public on tor-relays@ mailing list: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2019-September/017711.html So let say for a journalist, or our millions of users, this will mean a "considerable" drop in the Metrics graph of total number of relays. Fortunately, we can explain it :). So lets be pro-active! I _strongly_ think we should do a blog post at minimum to tell the world what is about to happen and not silently do this. It should have a clear, simple, easy section of "If you run a relay, please upgrade by doing so ...". Hopefully, with a bigger microphone, we'll be able to drop the 12.72% to something much more acceptable. We have _good_ reasons to do it so this is not a public debate but rather an informative post. I'm voluntering to help draft this but since I'm not a native English speaker, I will need help. @stephw: What do you think here? Advice on how to proceed? Thanks! David -- gKCHWw6NdT9QtZbud0Uwm756HrH5xaSQ5vhmb6j2WUk=

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noisebridge01
by David Goulet 10 Sep '19

10 Sep '19

Hello Leif! Since you are listed as a Tor Admin for the Noisebridge Tor side, this email I hope finds its way to your Inbox. We are soon about to reject all non supported relays from the network mostly for stability and security reasons: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/31549 We are in the process of contacting relay _and_ bridge operators about it. It turns out that "noisebridge01" is in this category running Tor 0.3.3.9 which is End Of Life but also has a security issue. https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/21D96945B790F10D00071BB3336F… This bridge is particurlarly important because it is shipped as a default obfs4 bridge in Tor Browser. Depending on your OS, it would be grand to upgrade to our latest stable which is currently 0.4.1.5. You can find the list of our supported releases here: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkTeam/CoreTor… We are also starting a more long term effort to ask relay operators to keep up to date with our latest stable as much as possible (meaning _not_ the LTS) in order for the network to be able to upgrade faster and thus help reduce the very long migration path which is especially important for things like security issue at the protocol level. Of course, if you are running Debian/Ubuntu, deb.torproject.org is the right place to start with: https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en Let us know if we can help in any ways to make this transition easier. Huge thanks! David -- gKCHWw6NdT9QtZbud0Uwm756HrH5xaSQ5vhmb6j2WUk=

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Re: [network-health] Upgrade your 'glenda2' Tor relay?
by Jordan 04 Sep '19

04 Sep '19

> One note: Could the tor relay status be changed, so the bare stats can > be seen without javascript? Javascript is the main threat to anonymity > over tor. I am by default not turning on Javascript in my own browser. > The base stats could be shown and only the graphs show some hint to > turn on javascript. For what it's worth, I've been working on a Javascript-free Tor metrics implementation[1][2] for this reason. Relay listings are statically generated from a single hourly API request which puts considerably less strain on onionoo as well. [1] https://yui.cat/ [2] https://github.com/tempname1024/tor-metrics

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Upgrade your 'boomshop1' Tor relay?
by Roger Dingledine 03 Sep '19

03 Sep '19

Hi Markus, You are running a Tor relay, which is great: http://rougmnvswfsmd4dq.onion/rs.html#search/95D0B345ECC84FD2BF27A33B2765DF… 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 'AliasName' Tor relay?
by Roger Dingledine 03 Sep '19

03 Sep '19

Hi, You are running a Tor relay, which is great: http://rougmnvswfsmd4dq.onion/rs.html#details/AA3D9B4C423B337D6700B815F3DD2… 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 'BBSTor' Tor relay?
by Roger Dingledine 03 Sep '19

03 Sep '19

Hi, You are running a Tor relay, which is great: http://rougmnvswfsmd4dq.onion/rs.html#details/06C1EEE0EB1C1E18E9D1CFF068FB9… 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 '2cat' Tor relay?
by Roger Dingledine 03 Sep '19

03 Sep '19

Hi James, You are running a Tor relay, which is great: http://rougmnvswfsmd4dq.onion/rs.html#details/0781BDCA0A226DD51193FE924C99B… 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 'greedygertie' Tor relay?
by Roger Dingledine 03 Sep '19

03 Sep '19

Hi, You are running a Tor relay, which is great: http://rougmnvswfsmd4dq.onion/rs.html#details/2BC236D98EA38CF28AB59B7E76112… 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 'ZapekVixen' Tor relay?
by Roger Dingledine 03 Sep '19

03 Sep '19

Hi Dave, You are running a Tor relay, which is great: http://rougmnvswfsmd4dq.onion/rs.html#details/8279E4479FAEB5E532DAE53F31760… 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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