January 2017 - tor-relays - lists.torproject.org

Run a bridge or relay?
by Sebastian Hoffmann 30 Jan '17

30 Jan '17

Hi all, I've been running a relay for several months now. In the last weeks I read a bit about the censorship in turkey and asked myself how to help if normal Tor services are blocked. Obfs4 could help. But on the pages from torproject about running a relay you are told to run a relay if you can and a bridge only under certain circumstances. But... are there enough bridges? If I were the turkey administration, I would try to block all the bridges I could find one by one. So... do we really have enough bridges out there?

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Updates removes status flags
by a tor op 30 Jan '17

30 Jan '17

Hi When a tor admin updates a tor node, what is the reasoning for punishing the status by removing flags like the guard flag? The node may have been up for months on end without issues and goes down for a few minutes during install and restart and comes up with a newer version, hence it is clearly updated. And the guard flag goes away. Doesn't seem really appropriate. Unless it's to indicate caution due to new version perhaps not being stable. But then that's what you do pre-prod testing in-house for. A TOR bridge op

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ae rises and rises
by Felix 29 Jan '17

29 Jan '17

Please check out https:// metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2015-10-22&end=20… vs https:// metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2015-10-22&end=20… -- I this cool or not?

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Atlas: Short term bandwidth charts missing ?
by mistral.relay＠posteo.net 28 Jan '17

28 Jan '17

Maybe it's just me - but I tried three different browsers and usually can't see the short term usage charts on Atlas, i.e. 3-days and 1 week bandwidth charts are usually just blank. Two random examples where I can't see the charts (but there is data; monthly and yearly charts showing up quite well): https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/F3F8B1A79C6781609B443CF0C1A130C85EB60… https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/7D278652898C38878F51D93969EB88C497BFB… Sorry, if this is my local issue but I just can't find the reason for it...

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Please enable IPv6 on your relay!
by Moritz Bartl 28 Jan '17

28 Jan '17

Hi! We still have a depressingly low number of relays that support IPv6 (currently only ~120 of ~1900 relays). If your host supports IPv6, please enable it, especially if you run an exit! This has to be done explicitly. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/IPv6RelayHowto In short, you add: ORPort [IPv6::address]:port IPv6Exit 1 ExitPolicy reject6 *:* (or a more open exit policy respectively) Thanks! -- Moritz Bartl https://www.torservers.net/

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Fwd: netbackup.gs tor relays: please specify 'MyFamily' in your torrc
by netbackup.gs 28 Jan '17

28 Jan '17

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Which is best for Tor: libevent v.2.0.22 or v2.1.8?
by Steve Snyder 26 Jan '17

26 Jan '17

With the long-awaited v2.1.8 of LibEvent recently released, this brings up the question: which is more suitable for use with contemporary versions of Tor, the older v2.0.22-stable or the shiny-new v2.1.8-stable? Thanks.

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Fwd: US-CERT Avalanche Notification INC000010
by Monkey Pet 24 Jan '17

24 Jan '17

I received the following email from my ISP, the IP belongs to the tor exit node. I am wondering if the DHS is sending it out to all tor exit nodes? We received a notice from Homeland Security that a device using your current IP address is infected the Avalanche Malware. The full details are below. Please run antivirus and network security software on all your devices immediately. Thank you, ISP A trusted third party notified the Department of Homeland Security United States National Cybersecurity & Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) that one or more machines on your network was infected with malware associated with the Avalanche botnet infrastructure during December 2016. Avalanche is a large global network hosting infrastructure used by cyber criminals to conduct phishing and malware distribution campaigns and money mule schemes. A system infected with Avalanche associated malware may be subject to malicious activity including the theft of user credentials and other sensitive data, such as banking and credit card information. Some of the malware has the capability to encrypt user files and demand a ransom be paid by the victim to regain access to those files. In addition, the malware may allow criminals unauthorized remote access to the infected computer. Infected systems could be used to conduct distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. For additional information, please see the following US-CERT Technical Alert (TA16-336A): https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA16-336A

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Network is unreachable?
by niftybunny 24 Jan '17

24 Jan '17

xxx@xxxx:~# wget https://www.torproject.org/dist/tor-0.2.9.9.tar.gz converted 'https://www.torproject.org/dist/tor-0.2.9.9.tar.gz' (ANSI_X3.4-1968) -> 'https://www.torproject.org/dist/tor-0.2.9.9.tar.gz' (UTF-8) --2017-01-23 22:12:32-- https://www.torproject.org/dist/tor-0.2.9.9.tar.gz Resolving www.torproject.org (www.torproject.org) 2620:0:6b0:b:1a1a:0:26e5:4810, 2001:858:2:2:aabb:0:563b:1e28, 2001:41b8:202:deb:213:21ff:fe20:1426, ... Connecting to www.torproject.org (www.torproject.org)|2620:0:6b0:b:1a1a:0:26e5:4810|:443... failed: Network is unreachable. Connecting to www.torproject.org (www.torproject.org)|2001:858:2:2:aabb:0:563b:1e28|:443... failed: Network is unreachable. Connecting to www.torproject.org (www.torproject.org)|2001:41b8:202:deb:213:21ff:fe20:1426|:443... failed: Network is unreachable. Connecting to www.torproject.org (www.torproject.org)|2a01:4f8:172:1b46:0:abba:5:1|:443... failed: Network is unreachable. Connecting to www.torproject.org (www.torproject.org)|82.195.75.101|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found Location: https://dist.torproject.org/tor-0.2.9.9.tar.gz [following] converted 'https://dist.torproject.org/tor-0.2.9.9.tar.gz' (ANSI_X3.4-1968) -> 'https://dist.torproject.org/tor-0.2.9.9.tar.gz' (UTF-8) --2017-01-23 22:12:36-- https://dist.torproject.org/tor-0.2.9.9.tar.gz Resolving dist.torproject.org (dist.torproject.org) 2620:0:6b0:b:1a1a:0:26e5:4810, 2001:41b8:202:deb:213:21ff:fe20:1426, 2a01:4f8:172:1b46:0:abba:5:1, ... Connecting to dist.torproject.org (dist.torproject.org)|2620:0:6b0:b:1a1a:0:26e5:4810|:443... failed: Network is unreachable. Connecting to dist.torproject.org (dist.torproject.org)|2001:41b8:202:deb:213:21ff:fe20:1426|:443... failed: Network is unreachable. Connecting to dist.torproject.org (dist.torproject.org)|2a01:4f8:172:1b46:0:abba:5:1|:443... failed: Network is unreachable. Connecting to dist.torproject.org (dist.torproject.org)|2a01:4f8:211:6e8:0:823:2:1|:443... failed: Network is unreachable. Connecting to dist.torproject.org (dist.torproject.org)|38.229.72.16|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 5534005 (5.3M) [application/x-gzip] Saving to: 'tor-0.2.9.9.tar.gz' tor-0.2.9.9.tar.gz 100%[===================================================================================================================>] 5.28M 9.89MB/s in 0.5s 2017-01-23 22:12:41 (9.89 MB/s) - 'tor-0.2.9.9.tar.gz' saved [5534005/5534005] Is this normal behaviour? niftybunny abuse(a)to-surf-and-protect.net

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Re: [tor-relays] 'MyFamily' .... torworld.org
by Paul 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

Hey, why don’t you just explain to the relay mailing list what it is all about..? Why are you different to "abuse [AT] torworld.org " and where are you probably the same ? What is your idea (business model) behind , why are supporting Tor in such a heavy way ? What are your driving forces...? Its not a must, but it would be less suspicious for somebody with you size! Thanks and Regards - to whom ever - Paul Am 19.01.2017 um 05:22 schrieb e: > Thanks for the heads up Paul.

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