tor-relays November 2024

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Raspberry Pi 4
by Keifer Bly 05 Nov '24

05 Nov '24

Hi, So I am wondering, is a Raspberry Pi 4 a recommended device to run a tor relay on? In terms of traffic load, etc? Thanks. --Keifer

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Please check if your relay has fallen out of the consensus
by Roger Dingledine 02 Nov '24

02 Nov '24

Hi folks! We're hunting down a mystery where two of our big university relays are having troubles reaching the Tor directory authorities: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/analysis/-/issues/86 Can you check to see if your relay is in a similar situation? In particular, the situation to look for is "Tor process is still running fine from your perspective, but, relay-search (https://atlas.torproject.org/) says you are no longer running." If your relay is in this situation, the next step is to check your Tor logs, try to rule out other issues like firewall rules on your side, and then (if you're able) to start exploring traceroutes to the directory authority IP addresses vs other addresses. If you need more direct help, we can help you debug or answer other questions on #tor-relays on IRC. Thanks, --Roger

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"When you pay peanuts, you get monkeys"
by mick 01 Nov '24

01 Nov '24

Hi there. I found the title of the above blog post highly ironic. I run a Tor relay (middle and guard node). You appear to be sending automated "abuse" reports to other ISPS as a result of what is obviously (well obvious to anyone who studies the network traffic properly) spoofed source address connections to SSH port 22 on random servers around the net. These "abuse" reports cause the ISP hosting the /real/ address of the spoofed server to do one of two things. Either they just pass the report on to the server admin for investigation, or they simply shut down the srevr in question and lock the account of the operator. In either case the perfectly innocent Tor server admin is highly inconvenienced and the bad actor(s) doing the spoofing scans get the Tor relay addresses blacklisted. This is detrimental to the health of the Tor network. Please look carefully at your automated abuse reporting system and add some intelligence to it - preferably by getting a properly skilled network administrator to look at the traffic /before/ firing off a spurious report. (Oh and BTW, SSH scanning at scale is so much part of the background noise on the 'net that I am astounded that you should pay much attention to it at all. I don't.) Best Mick --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mick Morgan gpg fingerprint: FC23 3338 F664 5E66 876B 72C0 0A1F E60B 5BAD D312 blog: baldric.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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