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Another relay is using the same name as mine.
by Alan 11 Jun '17

11 Jun '17

I just need some advice. I'm running 3 relays, one is called Andromeda. Today I find out there is another relay called Andromeda. https://atlas.torproject.org/#search/Andromeda mine is running from ip 144.217.161.119 Is it a problem with relays using the same name? Should I contact them and inform them of their error? Should I just leave it? Any advice would be very helpful. Alan.

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published descriptor missing from consensus
by Scott Bennett 09 Jun '17

09 Jun '17

This time I'm stumped. I confess I have not followed this list for a long time until the last few days, so it's possible that I've run afoul of something already discussed. Late Wednesday afternoon, I restarted my relay (MYCROFTsOtherChild), which changed it from 0.3.0.6 to 0.3.0.7. That was the only change I made. It went through a normal startup and published its descriptor. After a few hours, tor noticed that its descriptor was still not in the latest consensus, so it republished it. After several more hours had passed with each consensus lacking my relay's descriptor, I made a small change to an ExitPolicy line in torrc. In the meantime, I had read some recent postings to this list and had noted some remarks regarding mismatched RSA and ED25519 keys, so I renamed /var/db/tor/keys and restarted tor again, whereupon it generated new keys and appeared to proceed normally. Once again a new descriptor was published and has since been republished and updated with no apparent problem beyond some republications being told by one or more authorities that the descriptor was rejected as "not new". Nevertheless, my relay's descriptor still has not appeared in a consensus since the last time it ran 0.3.0.6. If an authority operator would be so kind as to check the authority's logs for any errors pertaining to my relay with either its old keys or its new keys and let me know what they say, I would be grateful. Thanks for any help or suggestions of things to try. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ********************************************************************** * Internet: bennett at sdf.org *xor* bennett at freeshell.org * *--------------------------------------------------------------------* * "A well regulated and disciplined militia, is at all times a good * * objection to the introduction of that bane of all free governments * * -- a standing army." * * -- Gov. John Hancock, New York Journal, 28 January 1790 * **********************************************************************

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2017-06-07 15:37: 65 new tor exits in 30 minutes
by nusenu 08 Jun '17

08 Jun '17

DocTor [1] made me look into this. _All_ 65 relays in the following table have the following characteristics: (not shown in the table to safe some space) - OS: Linux - run two instances per IP address (the number of relays is only odd because in one case they created 3 keys per IP) - ORPort: random - DirPort: disabled - Tor Version: 0.2.9.10 - ContactInfo: None - MyFamily: None - Joined the Tor network between 2017-06-07 15:37:32 and 2017-06-07 16:08:54 (UTC) - Exit Policy summary: {u'reject': [u'25', u'119', u'135-139', u'445', u'563', u'1214', u'4661-4666', u'6346-6429', u'6699', u'6881-6999']} - table is sorted by colmns 3,1,2 (in that order) - Group diversity: - 20 distinct autonomous systems - 18 distinct countries https://gist.githubusercontent.com/nusenu/81337aed747ea5c7dec57899b0e27e94/… Relay fingerprints are at the bottom of this file. This list of relays is NOT identical to the one from DocTor (even though the number is identical (65)): [1] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-consensus-health/2017-June/00796… https://twitter.com/nusenu_/status/872536564647198720 -- https://mastodon.social/@nusenu https://twitter.com/nusenu_

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08 Jun '17

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libzstd and/or liblzma
by Felix 07 Jun '17

07 Jun '17

>> Can somebody please help me understand the change log for >> 3.1.x: "Support for these algorithms requires that tor is >> built with the libzstd and/or >> liblzma libraries available." Is it AND or OR or something whatever >> different ? > > > Hi! Let me try to clear it up: > > If Tor is built with liblzma available, it will use liblzma when > appropriate. The lzma format is expensive to calculate, but it > provides very good compression, so we only use it for cases when we > can compress something once and server it many many times -- like > consensus documents, or consensus diffs. > > If Tor is built with libzstd available, it will use libzstd when > appropriate. The zstd format is cheap to calculate, but appears to > provide better compression than zlib on our data. > > If Tor is built with both libraries available, it will use either one > when appropriate. > > Of course, we can only use these compression formats when both sides > support them. Thanks. Clear to me. So 'Liblzma N/A' should not be an issue. -- Cheers Felix

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libzstd and/or liblzma
by Felix 07 Jun '17

07 Jun '17

Hi everybody Can somebody please help me understand the change log for 3.1.x: "Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available." Is it AND or OR or something whatever different ? Might ports archivers/zstd only do the job (OR-type): Tor 0.3.1.2-alpha (git-61625b8f26384a4a) running on FreeBSD with Libevent 2.1.8-stable, OpenSSL LibreSSL 2.5.3, Zlib 1.2.8, Liblzma N/A, and Libzstd 1.2.0 -- (And why says the notice message "OpenSSL LibreSSL" ?) Cheers, Felix

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Ahiker shutting down
by Ian Zimmerman 05 Jun '17

05 Jun '17

Hello, sadly I have to terminate my relay because it seems to interfere with the quotidian use of my server. I'll look for a way to help the community in other ways. -- Please *no* private Cc: on mailing lists and newsgroups Personal signed mail: please _encrypt_ and sign Don't clear-text sign: http://primate.net/~itz/blog/the-problem-with-gpg-signatures.html

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Only 3 bw auths available
by Felix 03 Jun '17

03 Jun '17

Uhh. Wasn't there a transition to use self reported bw below some threshold number ? -- Cheers, Felix

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Who is running the two biggest Exits in the network?
by Paul 01 Jun '17

01 Jun '17

Since about mid April there are just two similar Exits making up now about 4.5% exit probability together. Located in Panama, run in the okservers.net network, AS395978 ,they don’t give up any further information about themselves. Personally I would feel better at least having a contact or even better, knowing who is giving that much effort. Probably a MyFamily configuration should be placed as well? https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/29C92C854E0F6652A77F3A8B231D693299396… https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/2CA4B2F36C2DDECFCB0B5A0D3300ED30E68E2… Paul

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Questions about OfflineMasterKey
by Cristian Consonni 01 Jun '17

01 Jun '17

Hi, On 18/05/2017 10:45, nusenu wrote:>> Currently, my server hosting kitten1 and kitten2 (tor guard and fallback >> directory) is under seizure since 14/05 11h. butplease revoke >> immediatly kitten1 & kitten2 tor node. >> Those nodes are also fallback directory. > > I don't know any context or background but if you fear this could happen end to use tor's OfflineMasterKey feature (without > copying the master key to the server) with a short keylifetime (i.e. 7 > days), especially if it is a fallback dir > (which requires a tor source code change to remove it). This feature is interesting and I did not know about it. However, I have been reading the documentation page[1] and I have the impression that the more I read the less I understand how it works. If I look inside the DataDir of one of my relays - a standard Debian install - see this: ``` ed25519_master_id_public_key ed25519_master_id_secret_key ed25519_signing_cert ed25519_signing_secret_key secret_id_key secret_onion_key secret_onion_key_ntor secret_onion_key_ntor.old secret_onion_key.old ``` So, here some of the things I think I have understood: * Tor uses a ed25519 key to generate the other keys need to decrypt incoming traffic and route it to its next destination on the network. I don't know how this works in practice, but probably it is too much detail at the moment. * In the standard install the master key is the `ed25519_master_id_secret_key` above, which has no passphrase. * If in `torrc` we declare `OfflineMasterKey 1` then the `ed25519_master_id_secret_key` will not reside anymore on the relay but on a separate machine. * In the process of generating the master key (with the command `tor --keygen`, all the files above will be generated. * To run the node with `OfflineMasterKey 1` you need to copy all the files generated in the previous step *with the exception of the master key*. I had also a few questions: * is the above correct? * if I use the offline master key protected with a passphrase will I need to input the passphrase every time I restart Tor (I have in mind what Apache does when you restart it and have certificates protected with a passphrase)? * Assuming that I am going to use a separate machine to generate the master key I need to make sure that the version of Tor on the machine that I use to generate the key and the relay? Thanks for your help. Cristian [1]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorRelaySecurity/OfflineK…

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