October 2023 - tor-relays - lists.torproject.org

16 Oct '23

Hi all, I’ve been running my first relay for a few weeks now. The VPS provider I chose provides 5TB of bandwidth per month so I have set AccountingMax to “5 TB” and AccountingStart to

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snowflake prometheus metrics listen address
by Fran 03 Oct '23

03 Oct '23

Hey there, snowflake v2.6.1 offers a prometheus metrics endpoint `-metrics`.[1] Unfortunately I am unable to figure out how to let it listen to non-localhost address: tcp LISTEN 0 4096 127.0.0.1:9999 0.0.0.0:* users:(("snowflake",pid=402248,fd=6)) Any ideas? Thansk! f. [1] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow…

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Does Tor itself estimate how it can run as quota-utilizing as possible?
by telekobold 01 Oct '23

01 Oct '23

Hello together, today I apparently discovered an interesting feature of Tor I wasn't aware of: I'm running two relays at a large provider's data center having 20TB/month free outgoing traffic for each relay. However, this quota is often exhausted before the end of a month. In order to provide the Tor project with some bandwidth all the time, I configured "AccountingMax 20 TB" and "AccountingStart month 1 00:00" and, for the last few months, I used to switch off one of the relays on the first of a month and turn it on again a few days after the beginning of the month, so that one of the two relays is running all the time. I also connected the two relays using the "MyFamily" flag. Until last month, each of the relays simply continued to run after the end of the month. Today, however, I wondered why one of the relays shut itself down apparently which did not change after a restart. A look into /var/log/tor/notices.log provided the following entries: Oct 01 16:58:29.000 [notice] Configured hibernation. This interval began at 2023-10-01 00:00:00; the scheduled wake-up time is 2023-10-05 06:06:25; we expect to exhaust our quota for this interval around 2023-10-29 04:23:25; the next interval begins at 2023-11-01 00:00:00 (all times local) [...] Oct 01 16:58:49.000 [notice] Commencing hibernation. We will wake up at 2023-10-05 06:06:25 local time. Oct 01 16:58:49.000 [notice] Going dormant. Blowing away remaining connections. So apparently Tor learned from my behavior and calculated itself when to turn itself off and on again in order to use as much quota as possible based on the bandwidth used and/or some other metrics so I don't have to do this manually in future? Kind regards telekobold

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