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don't publish detailed metrics about your relays
by nusenu 20 Aug '20

20 Aug '20

Don't publish detailed metrics about your relays. Here is a good example what NOT to do with your relays: http://51.77.135.89:19999/#menu_net_submenu_eno1;theme=slate http://51.75.144.43:19999/#menu_net_submenu_eno1;theme=slate The relay guide has detailed guidelines on what granularity is considered safe. -- https://mastodon.social/@nusenu

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"Our IP Address has changed from" log lines
by torix＠protonmail.com 17 Aug '20

17 Aug '20

Dear list, I get this on just one of my relays - "Our IP Address has changed from xxx toxxx; rebuilding descriptor (source: METHOD=GETHOSTNAME HOSTNAME=xxx). Aug 11 00:33:54.000 [notice] Your IP address seems to have changed to xxx (METHOD=GETHOSTNAME HOSTNAME=xxx). Updating." This is 99% of my tor log. What's going on? Is this normal for a middle relay and somewhere I've set the log level to be too sensitive? My torrc log line: Log notice file /var/log/tor/notices.log # location to log notices, warnings, and errors: But my other relays have the same line. I was looking at this relay because it only seems to connect with the bwauths every few days to a week - now not showing at all. It has stayed at 200 connections for the last 6 weeks as a result. It is currently missing completely from the tor metrics list. But I have no idea if these 2 things are related. I have run it with and without ipv6 with the same results. Any help I would appreciate, --Torix

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Possible to run multiple tor instances from one machine?
by Keifer Bly 16 Aug '20

16 Aug '20

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need help with riseup account
by potlatch 14 Aug '20

14 Aug '20

Hello server operators, I have a favor to ask of someone with a riseup.net email account. I have an account but screwed something up changing passwords. Riseup won't/can't help me fix the problem or issue new access codes. My anonymous email account is useless. This would not be a problem but I travel (pre and post Covid) to countries where I have exit relays. [1-9] Exit relays in some of these countries are problematic--it's why I put them in hard-to-reach places. I would like to re-establish my riseup email account before I travel again. Will someone volunteer to provide me with a riseup access code? Thanks [1] Romania/exit 4061C553CA88021B8302F0814365070AAE617270 [2] Finland/exit 9B31F1F1C1554F9FFB3455911F82E818EF7C7883 [3] Moldova/exit 742C45F2D9004AADE0077E528A4418A6A81BC2BA [4] Moldova/exit B06F093A3D4DFAD3E923F4F28A74901BD4F74EB1 [5] Seattle 2F642EAB773CE94EF218C0CB38604040283F347A [6] bridge 4D5A781282C3FCC3EEE3E63FAE69032BD10F1879 [7] Albania/exit 373BF7A2CD16E86D4C5BEC591A41945C9AED392D [8] Albania/exit D78D1B4489CF4FFB0FD74014BDF2D600D8EE5B05 [9] Chile F120F1B939C7ED8FD62347A800F2B67BE84D84DA Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.

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Cookie Authorization files
by Kathi 13 Aug '20

13 Aug '20

I have no Idea where to go with this, a little help please! :-) I'm trying to set up and operate a bridge. Thank You for any help!! Kathi I get this repeated error message in nyx: specify an explicit cookieauthfile to make it group readable (3 dups) TORRC says: CookieAuthentication 1 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable 1 -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com

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wrong country in METRICS
by tor-operator-sahara-it 11 Aug '20

11 Aug '20

Hello. I am very new tor operator. For now i have only two relays. And one of them show wrong country in METRICS. I run in Estonia, but it shown as Germany. The same AS has another two relays, both in Estonia. IP-lookup shows Estonia. How change contry in METRICS? Thank you.

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Guard flag got removed after only 48 hours of downtime.
by William Kane 11 Aug '20

11 Aug '20

Please discard the previous (empty) email, it was an error on my end. Today, I noticed that my guard flag has been taken away: https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/47E1157F7DA6DF80EC00D745D73A… Does this have to do with the recent two, major downtime's of the relay? While I wasn't monitoring the server, the kernel decided (or rather oom-killer did) to reap the tor process for consuming too much memory (keep in mind, this is a virtual machine with only 1GB of RAM which running another daemon consuming about ~92MB's of RAM). I promptly restarted the relay, but the same thing happened again yesterday. So today, I manually set a lower MaxMemInQueues value instead of letting Tor calculate one for me - 640MB's instead of 732MB's. Still, I am confused as for why the guard flag has been taken away - I recently opted in to be a fallback directory mirror, does this have anything to do with it? The relay was stable and online for almost a year, so only 48 hours of downtime shouldn't affect the variables qualifying a relay to become and stay a guard that much? If this is because of the directory mirror thing, then please take my relay out of that pool - I want to stay a guard for a number of reasons - mainly because my host is only hosting about 10 tor relays unlike all the other big hosters that are commonly used - network variety is very important or so I've been taught, especially when it comes to guard relays. If this is a mistake on Tor Project's end, I please ask for it to be resolved - however, if it's the Directory Authorities disqualifying my relay, then there's nothing to be done except to wait. Greetings, William Kane

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why non-exit node becomes last in the circuits?
by tor-operator-sahara-it 11 Aug '20

11 Aug '20

Hello. On Tails: Today i found that my jabber messenger (with server in *.onion) use onion circuit with three nodes, and two times from two exit-nodes were very strange. https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/92E807AC5E23CCD9FE623EA4DC02… https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/AC5CECEF6AF649F2A7F047D102FE… They havnt exit-flag. Why it happen?

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This would be better in bold, methinks - IPv6 troubleshooting
by torix＠protonmail.com 10 Aug '20

10 Aug '20

An important piece of mental furniture that I never needed to know until months later when a relay stopped working is right here in Step 7: Check IPv6 Availability of page https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/post-install/ "If you enable IPv6 without working IPv6 connectivity your entire relay will not be used, regardless if IPv4 is working." This seems to me to be quite idiosyncratic to tor, and easily forgotten - not the first thing I would think about when troubleshooting, nor is the post-install page quite where I would look for help when a relay stopped. As we move more and more to including IPv6 in our relay setups, this will come up more often. But we should at least add bold here. --Torix Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.

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Relay dropped all traffic
by Sebastian Elisa Pfeifer 08 Aug '20

08 Aug '20

Hey, so one of my relays [0] dropped all traffic. Tor Metrics says its down for 4 days now, but "last restarted" correctly states today at 19:06. Also, on the metrics page is has the flags Fast, Guard, Running, Stable, V2Dir, Valid and ReachableIPv6, but when I SSH into it and look in nyx, it says there "flags: none". I tried rebooting multiple times. The Log tells me "Aug 07 02:36:12.000 [notice] Heardbeat: It seems like we are not in the cached consensus." I have attached the log with the events since the last restart today at 19:06 Should I just generate new keys? Greetings, Sebastian [0] https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/A4DEEE8F4467621C0A3CB7F4E25C…

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