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

Two-step abuse management?
by Moritz Bartl 15 Sep '17

15 Sep '17

Hi! tl;dr: We're thinking about introducing an auto responder to abuse mail which then requires clicking a link or replying to the mail again before the complaint actually reaches a human. What do you think? Can you help us set this up? So far, we do not have any auto responder for abuse mails. I always thought it was important to be friendly and get back to everyone individually, even if at the core we're reusing mail templates. There is a difference if a human gets back to you within a few hours, or you immediately get clearly a auto-sent something that basically tells you there's not much that can be done. But actually, most of what we're seeing is automated notification mail, and lately we also see more and more spam that survives the spamassassin. An ideal system would track used addresses, and only send an auto-response from our end once per sender every few months. We have very limited resources for abuse management, and it would be great to filter out the noise better than we currently do. Did anyone set up an infrastructure like that before? How would you do it? Also, if you just want to help with our abuse management, let me know! We can always use one or two more hands, it's fun, and it teaches you a lot about Tor exit operation. -- Moritz Bartl https://www.torservers.net/

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Launching a Tor relay with Docker in seconds (x86-64, armhf, arm64)
by Rodrigo Martínez 14 Sep '17

14 Sep '17

Hi all, This is my humble contribution. There are prebuilt images for launching Tor relays for x86-64, armhf and arm64 architectures in seconds. The repo contains scripts for building those images and for launching a relay (bridge, middle or exit). Default configuration is provided for each type. Contributions are welcome. GitHub repo: https://github.com/brunneis/tor-relay-docker Docker Hub repo: https://hub.docker.com/r/brunneis/tor-relay/tags/ Regards, Rodrigo

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Would you also like to have family-level atlas pages?
by nusenu 14 Sep '17

14 Sep '17

Hi, Iain - the atlas maintainer - asked on twitter if relay operators at the relay operators meetup in Montreal have feature requests for atlas [1]. I suggested family-level pages where an operator of more than one relay can see all the relays of his family including aggregated (stacked) graphs for the graphs that are already available on a per-relay level. Before filing this as a trac ticket - as Iain - suggested, I wanted to ask around if others would find that useful as well because it probably makes only sense to implement it if there are more people actually finding it useful. So let us know if you do. thanks, nusenu [1] https://twitter.com/iainlearmonth/status/907003817434271746 -- https://mastodon.social/@nusenu https://twitter.com/nusenu_

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Re: [tor-relays] HOW-TO: Simple DNS resolver for tor exit operators
by jpmvtd261＠laposte.net 13 Sep '17

13 Sep '17

My idea is designed to protect the exit node against a DNS attack from the owner of the DNS server. Not from the ISP or an attacker monitoring the traffic going in and out of the ISP data center. On 12/09/2017 19:38, Ralph Seichter wrote: > On 12.09.17 21:17, jpmvtd261(a)laposte.net wrote: > >> My idea is to make more DNS queries than necessary, in order to hide >> the useful DNS queries among useless DNS queries. > > I'm not sure what you are trying to accomplish. Usually, a DNS query is > followed by an outbound connection to the returned IP address. Your ISP > can always monitor these connections from your exit node, no matter what > additional "query noise" you might introduce. > > This is not fiction. One of my ISPs sends me automated tickets every > once in a while, about network scans that abuse my exit nodes. Not only > are connections recorded, they are analysed for patterns. > > -Ralph

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Re: [tor-relays] HOW-TO: Simple DNS resolver for tor exit operators
by jpmvtd261＠laposte.net 13 Sep '17

13 Sep '17

On 12/09/2017 20:25, Ralph Seichter wrote: > I'm not certain what you consider a "DNS attack". > > Many exit node operators run a caching DNS resolver on their exits, > which is easily done. Lacking that, you can use the resolvers run by > your ISP, who can monitor all outbound traffic anyway, as I mentioned. > An attacker can try to find what websites a Tor user has visited, by comparing : - the timing of Tor user home connection traffic and - the timing of DNS queries happening on DNS servers controlled by the attacker On this webpage, the author talks about "correlation" attack : https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/10/05/unmasking-tor-users-with-dns/

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Email suggesting to send DNS requests to a specific open DNS
by jpmvtd261＠laposte.net 13 Sep '17

13 Sep '17

Hello, Recently, I installed a new Tor exit node. A few days later, I received an email on the address given in the node contact information. This email suggests to change the DNS server my node use, and gives me a specific IP address to use. Here is the mail (obfuscated with sharps) : EMAIL BEGIN *********************************** * Sender : info AT backplanedns DOT org * Subject : Your TOR node * Body : ** ** Hello, ** ** I came across your TOR relay on atlas. I run a few relays myself ** along with a bunch of DNS resolvers which are a part of the Open ** Root Server network (ORSN.org) - aimed to fight internet ** censorship and circumvent government surveillance programs ** (ie. prism). ** ** I hope you may be interested in using our anonymous open DNS ** resolvers on your relays. ** ** https://BackplaneDNS.org ** ** Resolver - 172.98.193.4# ** ** Resolver - 162.248.241.9# ** ** ------------------------------------------------------ ** ** Hostmaster@: ** Mr. D##### E#### H##### ** ** Phone: ** +1 (###) ###-#### ** ** E-Mail: ** info AT backplanedns DOT org ** abuse DOT backplanedns DOT org ** ** Linkedin: ** http://linkedin.com/in/d####-######-#########/ *********************************** EMAIL END I think it could be an attack. If this person send this email to every new exit node operators, there may be a small percentage of rookie operators who will make the change. I found this webpage about Tor exit nodes and DNS : https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/10/05/unmasking-tor-users-with-dns/ What do you think about this email ?

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Re: [tor-relays] HOW-TO: Simple DNS resolver for tor exit operators
by jpmvtd261＠laposte.net 13 Sep '17

13 Sep '17

On August 7, 2017 20:07:05 UTC, Igor Mitrofanov <igor.n.mitrofanov at gmail.com> wrote: > The DNS issue is in the "long tail" - rare/unique websites > are unlikely to be cached, yet they likely represent the > most interesting targets. > I do agree that running dnsmasq (or a similar caching resolver) is probably > sufficient to make DNS attacks too unreliable to invest in. I have an idea to improve the efficiency of this solution (DNS cache). My idea is to make more DNS queries than necessary, in order to hide the useful DNS queries among useless DNS queries. What do you think about this ? A basic implementation of that improvement would be a script run as a daemon that fetches the IP of a random domain name at a random time. The domain name being built from random characters or chosen from a list of valid (rarely visited) domain names. The average number of dummy DNS queries per day being equal to the number of useful DNS queries the exit node has to do per day (it doubles the DNS traffic). The list of valid (rarely visited) domain names needs to be changed over time (one entry at a time). A more advanced implementation of that improvement is to only allow the exit node to perform DNS queries by bunch of three. Of the three queries, two are dummy and random, one is useful. The position of the useful query in the bunch (position 1, position 2, or position 3) is chosen randomly.

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Re: [tor-relays] Email suggesting to send DNS requests to a specific open DNS
by jpmvtd261＠laposte.net 12 Sep '17

12 Sep '17

Thanks. I should have look for previous discussion about this. On 12/09/2017 16:24, Tyler Johnson wrote: > This guy sure is persistent! > > Check out this recent thread: > https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2017-September/012934.html

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Re: [tor-relays] Would you also like to have family-level atlas pages?
by Tyler Johnson 12 Sep '17

12 Sep '17

I realize now why I don't tend to voice my opinion on these lists... I'm an idiot :( After seeing the below example, I think it's a great idea. Sorry for the noise On Sep 11, 2017 21:37, "John Ricketts" <john(a)quintex.com> wrote: Roger, The kind folks at Nos Oignons gave me the code. I still have it if you can't find it. https://nos-oignons.net/Services/index.en.html is an example. John On Sep 11, 2017, at 20:55, Roger Dingledine <arma(a)mit.edu> wrote: On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 10:10:00PM +0000, nusenu wrote: I suggested family-level pages where an operator of more than one relay can see all the relays of his family including aggregated (stacked) graphs for the graphs that are already available on a per-relay level. Good idea. The Nos Oignons folks had some scripts you can hack together to measure and visualize your group of relays, but I spent a while hunting and I couldn't find it now. While we're doing feature requests, once the "per family" view exists, I would want to use the same view on other groups of relays, like "per country" and "per AS". I can fake some of that with Compass: https://compass.torproject.org/ but it would be great to have it in a site that's maintained. :) Thanks! --Roger _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays(a)lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays(a)lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

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Re: [tor-relays] Would you also like to have family-level atlas pages?
by Tyler Johnson 12 Sep '17

12 Sep '17

Hey everyone, I haven't been a relay operator for very long, so please pardon my ignorance, but doesn't Atlas already link to all family members, where you can click on each and view that relays statistics? I can see the suggested benefit of having all that info on one landing page (so to speak), but I really appreciate the simplicity of the site in its current form. My vote would be for a top 100 (or higher) option in the drop down menu that actually works. Overall, I think the site is great, keep up the great work tor project! Thanks, Tyler On Sep 11, 2017 17:11, "nusenu" <nusenu-lists(a)riseup.net> wrote: Hi, Iain - the atlas maintainer - asked on twitter if relay operators at the relay operators meetup in Montreal have feature requests for atlas [1]. I suggested family-level pages where an operator of more than one relay can see all the relays of his family including aggregated (stacked) graphs for the graphs that are already available on a per-relay level. Before filing this as a trac ticket - as Iain - suggested, I wanted to ask around if others would find that useful as well because it probably makes only sense to implement it if there are more people actually finding it useful. So let us know if you do. thanks, nusenu [1] https://twitter.com/iainlearmonth/status/907003817434271746 -- https://mastodon.social/@nusenu https://twitter.com/nusenu_ _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays(a)lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

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