April 2018 - tor-relays - lists.torproject.org

VPNGate Project Exit Node Volunteers / I2P
by grarpamp 22 May '18

22 May '18

http://www.vpngate.net/ For those relay operators who may have extra non tor listed IP addresses and want to help a related projects / userbase. https://geti2p.net/ I2P also has an exit proxy function. " VPNGate: Free Access to World Knowledge Beyond Government's Firewall. VPN Gate Academic Experiment Project is an online service as an academic research at Graduate School of University of Tsukuba, Japan. The purpose of this research is to expand the knowledge of "Global Distributed Public VPN Relay Servers" . You can take these advantages by using VPN Gate: You can get through the government's firewall to browse restricted web sites (e.g. YouTube). You can disguise your IP address to hide your identity while surfing the Internet. You can protect yourself by utilizing its strong encryption while using public Wi-Fi. Unlike traditional VPN services, VPN Gate can get through most firewalls. VPN Gate is free of charge. Not a single registration is required " " I2P I2P is an anonymous overlay network - a network within a network. It is intended to protect communication from dragnet surveillance and monitoring by third parties such as ISPs. "

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New upcoming requirement for relays related to Ed25519 support
by nusenu 17 May '18

17 May '18

Dear tor relay operators, we want to inform you that in future*, tor directory authorities will enforce a new security measurement that disallows relays to drop Ed25519 support in case they ever supported it at some point. In practice that means that if you run tor 0.2.7.2-alpha or later you can not downgrade to an older tor version without Ed25519 support anymore. Tor directory authorities will reject such relays in the future. You are safe if you do _not_ downgrade from any tor version >= 0.2.7.2-alpha to a version older than that. We will send a second email to this list once we are near the actual enforcement of this new requirement (which will not be to soon from now). kind regards, nusenu * This will come into effect when the majority of tor directory authorities are on tor 0.3.4.x ticket: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/20522 -- https://mastodon.social/@nusenu twitter: @nusenu_

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DigitalOcean bandwidth billing changes
by Ralph Seichter 02 May '18

02 May '18

Looks like DigitalOcean has just begun measuring bandwidth usage "officially", starting yesterday: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/digitalocean-bandwidth-bil… "Based on our analysis of the historical usage patterns of our customers, less than one percent of users will exceed their pooled allowance." I had heard of the One Percent, but never thought I'd become a part of that illustrious group... :-) -Ralph

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create Tor-Guard and Tor-Middle
by dave` dave 29 Apr '18

29 Apr '18

i want to build my own Guard-Relay and Middle-Relay and use them. i already have Tor-Bridge and Exit-Relay and i want to add the Guard and Middle, but i don't know how.

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Tor relay marked as hibernating?
by Nathaniel Suchy (Lunorian) 29 Apr '18

29 Apr '18

Hi, The Tor relay https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/B0BF533DA3BC09DEEB4AF2BEC16F… of mine is marked as hibernating however I have not set a bandwidth limit. Any idea on why this is happening? Cheers, Nathaniel Suchy

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Timeframe for a relay to be removed from the consensus and tor metrics
by Nathaniel Suchy (Lunorian) 28 Apr '18

28 Apr '18

While setting up my fleet of Tor Relays, one relay IP Address 206.189.165.140 had a bad config so I decided to delete it from the cloud provider and setup a new one in its place. When will it be removed from the tor consensus and tor metrics for the downtime? Cheers, Nathaniel

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nyx tor controller password
by smichel0 27 Apr '18

27 Apr '18

Hello! I want to monitor my new tor relay (set up on a raspbian pi 3 by migrating my former relay incl. keys) with nyx. When try to start nyx by "nyx" in the command line "Tor controller password" is prompted. I can't find a password except the hashpassword in the torrc-file but that doesn't work. I tried to set a password by "tor --hash-password <password>" but it didn't work as well. When I start nyx with sudo it works and I can see that tor is doing well. Any solutions? Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.

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reminder: Tor 0.2.5.x LTS will reach its end-of-life in a few days on 2018-05-01
by nusenu 27 Apr '18

27 Apr '18

Hi, this is a reminder that in a few days the tor LTS branch 0.2.5.x will reach its end-of-life date [1]. Currently there are still over 440 relays (~3.2% of the network capacity) running that tor version [2]. Please upgrade to one of the currently supported tor versions: - 0.2.9.x - 0.3.1.x - 0.3.2.x If you are still on Debian oldstable (jessie) with tor 0.2.5.16 you have multiple options: - use the the torproject's debian repository (tor 0.3.2.10) https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en#ubuntu - use debian backports (tor 0.2.9.14) https://packages.debian.org/jessie-backports/tor - or upgrade to debian stable (stretch) (tor 0.2.9.14) [1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkTeam/CoreTor… [2] https://nusenu.github.io/OrNetStats/#tor-version-distribution-relays -- https://mastodon.social/@nusenu twitter: @nusenu_

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What's the timeline for a Tor relay to start routing a large amount of traffic?
by Nathaniel Suchy (Lunorian) 27 Apr '18

27 Apr '18

I started to run a few Tor Exit Relays (My exit policy only allows ports 80 and 443 only to minimize the amount of abuse) a few days ago. Currently Tor Metrics shows the relays are only advertising 700Kb/s despite the fact the minimum port speed on the VPSes I host on is 100Mb/s. I've been told by friends of mine it's because it's a new relay - at what point does the relay start to route a large amount of traffic equivalent to the port speed. I'm hoping to contribute to the Tor Project in a variety of ways over the next few months and the summer and starting relays is a first step. Cheers, Nathaniel

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FW: Relay unreachable by authorities (Was: Re:Questiononrelay allowed downtime)
by Keifer Bly 27 Apr '18

27 Apr '18

From: Keifer Bly Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2018 4:08 PM To: tor-relays(a)lists.torproject.org Subject: FW: [tor-relays] Relay unreachable by authorities (Was: Re:Questiononrelay allowed downtime) From: Keifer Bly Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2018 4:01 PM To: tor-relays(a)lists.torproject.org Subject: RE: [tor-relays] Relay unreachable by authorities (Was: Re:Questionon relay allowed downtime) That’s what’s strange. I have double checked the tor logs and the only warning that appears is the “tor cannot help you if you use it wrong” warning; that’s the only one that appears. I did some research, and according to https://serverfault.com/questions/145907/does-mac-os-x-throttle-the-rate-of…, Mac os does have a maximum amount of network connections it does allow at once. To find mine out, I tried running this in terminal Launchctl limit maxfiles The return was this: maxfiles 256 unlimited. I tried attaching a photo of the output but got a message back saying it was held because it was too big (the file was about 6mb). I wonder if this would mean mac os only allows 256 connections at once? How could I modify my torrc file to not go over the max allowed connections by mac os and still be a useable relay? Thank you. From: teor Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2018 3:38 PM To: tor-relays(a)lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Relay unreachable by authorities (Was: Re: Questionon relay allowed downtime) On 27 Apr 2018, at 08:23, Keifer Bly <keifer.bly(a)gmail.com> wrote: My apologies. The fingerprint is DB1AF6477BB276B6EA5E72132684096EEE779D30 Here are the contents of my torc file (the isp beeng run from is Charter Communications, the only isp that is available where I live. You might want to use a pastebin service for large files. Or cut out all the commented stuff before posting your torrc. I do not remember applying any descriptor limit and do not see one here. The file descriptor limit is imposed by the OS. The default can be low. Here is how you can find out: Please check the logs for warnings and notices. Sometimes tor logs a warning when it starts up (for example, low file descriptors), and then the issue happens later. What’s strange is my internet connection is working fine and I am able to visit websites, making it not seem like it is overloaded. Tor requires thousands of simultaneous connections. Tor requires constant uptime. Internet browsing requires a few connections. It works when the network is interrupted. Seems strange. Does Charter have any strange policies against running tor relays (has anyone ever had a documented here problem with running a relay on Charter before)? Thank you. You should ask your ISP. T

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