May 2020 - tor-relays - lists.torproject.org

Recommended router for 200+ Mb/s relay
by Secure Node 12 May '20

12 May '20

Thank you for all response. Old PC can be good, but it's not power efficient ;) Looks like Mikrotik: https://mikrotik.com/products/group/ethernet-routers have quite cheap hardware, but question is - For 1 Gb/s broadband with tor relay (set for up to 250 Mb/s - maybe more in future) - any of this small router will be enough? Example: hEX PoE lite It's powerful enough or I will need something much more enterprise grade? On my current setup with my home grade 1 Gb/s router my relay works quite stable, but with working TOR I can reach speed up to 450 Mb/s (150 Mb/s for relay and up to 300 Mb/s for other services or tests). When I stop relay - I can reach easily 950 Mb/s If I understand it correctly - my router CPU can't handle more packages / connections, currently nyx reporting: Connections (3053 inbound, 4151 outbound, 1 control) which is a lot ;) I really want to avoid using big rack type mount, noisy router with separate PSU. > On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 at 23:07, Logforme <m7527(a)abc.se> wrote: > On 2020-04-29 17:13:49, "Secure Node" <admin(a)securenode.pl> wrote: > >> I'm looking for new router for good price which can handle more >> connections and traffic ;-) >> Can you recommend any specific models? Should I avoid some products >> lines or companies? >> > If you have an old PC with 2 ethernet ports laying around or you can > get > one cheap I suggest you build your own: > https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/04/the-ars-guide-to-building-a-linux-r…

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Exit stops after one year, then again after few days
by ylms 12 May '20

12 May '20

Hello all As written above, I run an Exit (for many years, with the current setup since 04.2019) but on 30. March 2020 it stopped, I was unable to determine any reason. So I installed updates and since there were some Kernel updates I also rebooted the machine. The Exit was back up and ran again till ~36h ago. Same situation again, I have no idea why it stopped. I now activated "Log notice syslog", I think this was in the standard torrc which is installed with the package of Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS anyway, but there is not entries in journalctl. Only Start/Stop/Reload events are shown in the journal for unit tor.service since 100 day ago. Can someone help me to troubleshoot this problem, could the fingerprint be blacklisted? In this case would the Exit come back up running for a few days as described above? Regards and thank you very much for any support. yl

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Does OVH cloud support exit relays?
by Keifer Bly 11 May '20

11 May '20

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obfs4 bridge port question
by torix＠protonmail.com 11 May '20

11 May '20

I am looking at the post install instructions here after putting up my first bridge: https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/bridge/post-install/ and thought I would try out the bridgeline for it. Bridge obfs4 <IP ADDRESS>:<PORT> <FINGERPRINT> cert=<CERTIFICATE> iat-mode=0 I have all the parts mentioned in the text except for <PORT>. I have ExtORPort set to auto, so I never picked a port in my torrc. How do I get there from here? TIA, --Torix Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.

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bridge down
by Anonforpeace 11 May '20

11 May '20

Apologies for the length but detail is important. My bridge pc's internal power supply had to be replaced, and was down for a week. After the replacement, I restarted the daemon and the tor service. Everything seemed normal except that it's not reachable from outside. No configurations have been changed. The only difference I see is a message in the log indicating that the network speed has changed/slowed down. The forwarded port in the router is the same. The torrc file has not changed. I can surf the web. Literally the only change is the replaced power supply. Any ideas? Thanks

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Re: [tor-relays] bridge down
by entensaison＠use.startmail.com 09 May '20

09 May '20

Hi, On Friday, May 8, 2020 at 7:39 PM, Anonforpeace <anonforpeace(a)protonmail.com> wrote: > I have the port forwarded. I've also noticed that the advertised > bandwidth is only 248 KiB/s on the metrics page. This is a first and > I'm not sure how to raise the bandwidth. Could this be what's causing > it to stay offline?? No. The advertised bandwidth tells you how much traffic you were able to handle in the last week. For bridges the advertised bandwidth doesn't influence how much traffic you receive. If you were offline for a week and your relay is still not reachable from the outside that's the reason why your advertised bandwidth remains low. Can you share the log lines that show your issue? Are you able to run a "normal" web service on that computer that is accessible from the internet? > -------- Original Message -------- > On May 8, 2020, 12:35 PM, Paul Geurts wrote: >> >> Option: Dynamic internal ip address so the FW rule does point to the >> right internal ip address? >> Machine has been off for a week so the lease could be expired. >> >> On Fri, May 8, 2020, 18:19 Anonforpeace <anonforpeace(a)protonmail.com> >> wrote: >>> Apologies for the length but detail is important. My bridge pc's >>> internal power supply had to be replaced, and was down for a week. >>> After the replacement, I restarted the daemon and the tor service. >>> Everything seemed normal except that it's not reachable from >>> outside. No configurations have been changed. The only difference >>> I see is a message in the log indicating that the network speed has >>> changed/slowed down. The forwarded port in the router is the same. >>> The torrc file has not changed. I can surf the web. Literally the >>> only change is the replaced power supply. Any ideas? >>> >>> Thanks

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Question on Unanttended Upgrades
by Keifer Bly 05 May '20

05 May '20

Hello, I am wondering, does using Unattended upgrades on Linux, when relay is configured using this configurator: https://tor-relay.co/ install tor updates automatically when they are released? Does the relay need to be restarted? Thanks very much. --Keifer

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IPV6
by Dr Gerard Bulger 05 May '20

05 May '20

Is there any work going on which would allow Tor to work with IPV6 alone? i.e. no IPV4 OR ports etc. Gerry

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Liberation Day article on running a relay
by Imre Jonk 05 May '20

05 May '20

Hi all, Today the Netherlands celebrates the 75th anniversary of our liberation from Nazi Germany by allied troops in 1945. Normally there would be festivities around the country with presence from organizations like Bits of Freedom and Amnesty, but those are cancelled because of the ongoing pandemic. That means that we celebrate from home this year, which leaves me with time to finish this article: https://www.imrejonk.nl/running-a-tor-relay/ The goal of the article is to answer frequently asked questions that aspiring relay operators might have, while linking to authoritative documentation of the Tor Project as well as this list for further information. Hope you enjoy reading it, feedback is welcome :) Imre

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Feature request to aide bridge operators
by nottryingtobelame＠protonmail.com 05 May '20

05 May '20

I brought up a new bridge and thought everything was fine according to the logs (OR port accessible, check, server descriptor published, check, etc.). I didn't see any activity on it after awhile, so I tried to test it and was unable to connect. Turns out, I forgot to open the randomized server transport port. I think it would be really nice if there was a log entry confirming the OBFS4 port is open and accessible. Currently the only entry you get related to this is "[notice] Registered server transport 'obfs4' at '[::]:35375'". Wondering how the community feels about this. Thanks.

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