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

Random Relay Reset On Mac OS + OS Support Question
by Keifer Bly 17 Aug '18

17 Aug '18

Hello, So something strange happened recently with my relay running on Mac OS via homebrew at https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/DB1AF6477BB276B6EA5E72132684… Just this morning, my relays uptime had been reset to 0 days. When I checked the software it indeed said the uptime was back to six hours. This is odd as I did not reset thee software within the last 24 hours (that I remember), there was a brief time when my network went down due to an ISP glitch however has been working fine ever since. I am wondering, do newer versions of the tor relay software automatically reset if they detect the internet is unreachable? I also have one more question, around when does tor / homebrew drop support for older versions of an OS? I am asking this because the computer that runs this relay is a 2011 iMac, and Apple has confirmed it will run the new MacOS coming this year (Movari) however versions of macos afterwards are unconfirmed. Thanks all.

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Shutdown by ISP / Hoster? [was Albania]
by grarpamp 16 Aug '18

16 Aug '18

When these ISP's give their shutdowns and excuses, regardless of size of ISP, you could in turn... - Offer to work there, they probably need the help, and you get something from the experience. - Start your own, customers probably need the services, and would be willing to pay. Why vote with only your own customer dollars, when you can add your brain and voice into the production.

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Albania Hosting suspended my two relays
by arisbe 15 Aug '18

15 Aug '18

Greetings Tor Users, I wanted to pass along the death of two of my relays, one was a fallback directory and one exit, both on VPS hardware operated by Albania Hosting sh. a. I successfully operated the guard/middle node for three years without an abuse report. [0] Based on that success, I asked and was granted permission to operate an exit relay. [1] That relay went six months before the first abuse report. I responded to the first report promptly reviewing logs, checking for intrusion, etc. The second abuse report got me suspended. Both abuse reports were of the automated type. I did not see the second report until after suspension and by requesting it be forwarded. In the second instance there was reported one ftpd attack attempt over a period of 3600 seconds. Apparently, no further attempts were made. I was the first Tor relay in Albania and the first Tor exit relay as well so I'm very sad that this will end. I think the issue with Albania Hosting was not so much the automated abuse reports but the inconvenience dealing with me. To quote a recent Hosting email: "Actually we will not fight with such abuses, it is really not worth any penny." So, RIP... [0] TorNodeAlbania D3E5EDDBE5159388704D6785BE51930AAFACEC6F [1] TorExitAlbania 516D1B9E22484202322828D8CAC30325030017E2

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ExoneraTor has moved to Tor Metrics; [release] ExoneraTor 3.0.0
by Karsten Loesing 14 Aug '18

14 Aug '18

Hi, the ExoneraTor service (where one can "enter an IP address and date to find out whether that address was used as a Tor relay") has moved to the Tor Metrics website: https://metrics.torproject.org/exonerator.html Requests to the previous location are automatically redirected to the new location, which includes all permanent links written/printed on previous lookup results. The current plan is to leave redirects in place for the next 6 to 12 months, but if there's a good reason to keep them for longer, please let us know. Just in case you're wondering why we're making this change, it is part of a more long-term effort to bundle all user-facing Tor Metrics content on the Tor Metrics website. Over the past months and years this has affected the Onionoo protocol specification, CollecTor files, the Relay Search service, and now the ExoneraTor service, all of which have been moved over to the Tor Metrics website. At the same time of changing the location of Exonerator, we're releasing ExoneraTor 3.0.0 which redirects all requests to Tor Metrics. However, redirects can easily be disabled in src/main/resources/web.xml, if requests are supposed to be handled locally. Please direct any comments or questions to the (public) metrics-team mailing list: https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/metrics-team All the best, Karsten

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Onionoo protocol broken?
by Ralph Wetzel 14 Aug '18

14 Aug '18

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Re: [tor-relays] [tor-talk] anonymous file storage was "freehaven question".
by Lluís 14 Aug '18

14 Aug '18

Hi, Thanks for the information, pretty useful. I have visited Tahoe-LAFS, seems interesting. I couldn't contact "Aktie" however, maybe they block tor connections ? We should discuss it at "tor-talk", moderators could tell us we are off-topic. Cheers, Lluís mlnl: > Hi, > >> Maybe "anonymous file storage" is a better subject ? >> >> I'm posting it on tor-talk too, and we can follow the discussion >> there. >> >> And back to the topic, maybe it would be possible to set up a >> pilot-test so one could see how many use cases free haven could >> properly solve. >> >> If I didn't understand from "freehaven.net", just cyphering and >> splitting a file among many servers could be useful. > > I have used the Aktie application > <http://i2pwiki.i2p/index.php?title=Aktie> and Tahoe-LAFS with I2P for > filesharing some time and both worked fine. Something like that or OFS > or an distributed, "global OnionShare" (not only friend-to-friend), > povided over a Tor Onion Service client, would be imo fine to store, > share or online-backup files. Or is a more centralized anonymous data > (cloud) haven meant to store files permanently? >

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Will have to keep a close eye on this...
by Paul Templeton 14 Aug '18

14 Aug '18

In the Bill at https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about/consultations/assistance-and-access-bi… 137CF322859E400455E457DB920F65FFDD222CDF

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Question On Running A Tor Bridge Relay
by Keifer Bly 13 Aug '18

13 Aug '18

Hi All, So given that I am running my relay off of a home internet router (a Netgear Orbi Router) I am considering switching to running an obfuscated bridge. I am not sure I will do this, but have noticed that when my relay (torland at http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/router_detail.php?FP=db1af6477bb276b6ea5e7213…) Gets a lot of use, this can cause my computer I am running it on to get hot (It is a mid 2011 iMac with 8GB Ram running Mac OS High Sierra). It does not happen often, but does from time to time. I have also noticed that not often but occasionally when my relay is running, my router will lock up either for a few minutes or until I restart it. I do not know if this is related to my relay (I checked with Netgear support and was told the router is capable of about 60,000 simultaneous connections, 65,000 being the absolute maximum). The ISP is Charter Communications, and the internet speed generally alternates between 500-800 kb/s. I will maybe try running a bridge to cut down on the maximum number of connections I get, and have three questions. I have been running a public relay off my listed ip for some time but have a Dynamic IP so it should change from time to time. 1. What would be the most helpful PT to run? Obfs4 is the one I would most likely choose, and what countries are these being used in the most? 2. I looked on the tor website and could only find the instructions for installing PT on Linux at https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/PluggableTransports/obfs4…. Is there currently a way to install the PT for Obfs4 on Mac OS High Sierra (this would be installed via homebrew)? 3. Would it be possible to keep my current relay fingerprint? Thanks very much.

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Could/should I run a bw scanner authority?
by gustavo panizzo 12 Aug '18

12 Aug '18

Hello I run a relay (milanese) and an exit (sorrentini), both are located in Asia so the bw authority measures of their bw are not great. In one of the sites where i run this relays i have spare bandwidth to use (and i can't run an exit there) I'm thinking on running a bw authority to help mine and other's relays in Asia It is feasible to do that? Could a "regular" relay administrator run bw auth? Would somebody running a directory auth would scan my bw auth to check the results? How hard is the maintenance of this service? The setup is more complex than a relay but nothing that i cannot handle. However i wonder about the ongoing maintenance. I'd run it on a VM on Linode, I don't have access to physical hw thanks! -- IRC: gfa GPG: 0X44BB1BA79F6C6333

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public relay stats
by nusenu 11 Aug '18

11 Aug '18

Hi, if you are publishing traffic/bandwidth stats for your relays, please send me a pointer to them (off-list) thanks, nusenu -- https://twitter.com/nusenu_ https://mastodon.social/@nusenu

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