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Exit relay: ERROR -- No Descriptor Available
by raspitor 06 Aug '20

06 Aug '20

After running an exit relay for a few days I see the message: ERROR -- No Descriptor Available on the torstatus.rueckgr.at site, and the traffic of my exit node is almost zero, also seen in nyx. Rebooting the system restarts everything normal and it is listed on the ruckgraet site, but after a day or so the problem occurs again. What might ne the cause of this?

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Should I use Tor Alpha on my relays
by Sebastian Elisa Pfeifer 02 Aug '20

02 Aug '20

Hello, I am currently running Tor from the Tor Repositories on Debian Stable. Its working ok, but I was wondering if the network would benefit if I would start using Tor Alpha? Greetings, Sebastian

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Recently very low Consensus Weight
by tor_this_too＠aol.com 01 Aug '20

01 Aug '20

Hi everyone, this is my first ever post on a mailinglist, so bare with me if I'm doing it wrong... I've been running a relay for some time now and recently the traffic dropped neraly completely https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/564A7F1D0314125AF60096CDE0A8… Consensus Weight is down to 71 and I wonder why this is the case? The relay was recently rebooted (just in case) and all other traffic I may initiate from this server is without a problem and at max speed. Any ideas?

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Upgrading Linux Mint to Ulyana
by Anonforpeace 31 Jul '20

31 Jul '20

Hello: I am running my bridge on Linux Mint and there is an upgrade to the latest version, Linux Mint 20, Ulyana. I'd like to perform the upgrade, buy my question is, is there a way to do it without having to reconfigure the bridge entirely?

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Guard flag got removed after only 48 hours of downtime.
by William Kane 28 Jul '20

28 Jul '20

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Recover AccountingMax counter
by Camie Hethcote 28 Jul '20

28 Jul '20

Hi guys ! I had to reset tor service which led to AccountingMax counter reset. I'm already out of traffic limit so can I somehow recover this counter or should I wait until limit reset from my provider and then start tor service again? Thanks ! Camie

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Unable to Automate TOR Browser | Python
by ABDAL LALIT 27 Jul '20

27 Jul '20

Hi, I'm trying to automate TOR Browser for anonymous scraping using python. The code is given below: from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.firefox.firefox_profile import FirefoxProfile from selenium.webdriver.firefox.firefox_binary import FirefoxBinary binary = FirefoxBinary("C://Tor Browser//Browser//firefox.exe") driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_binary = binary) def interactWithSite(driver): driver.get("https://www.google.com") driver.save_screenshot("screenshot.png") This is the preliminary code I used as a building block. I am receiving an error message, while running the code as follows: The pop-up is as [image: image.png] While the error shown in the code is as follows [image: image.png] [image: image.png] [image: image.png] I request the team to kindly help me with this issue. I'm really stuck and thus am unable to build up my project further

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ContactInfo Information Sharing Specification Version 1 released
by nusenu 27 Jul '20

27 Jul '20

Hi, I'm happy to finally announce version 1 of the ContactInfo Information Sharing Specification: https://github.com/nusenu/ContactInfo-Information-Sharing-Specification This is an effort that started in 2017 as you can see on github. Tor's ContactInfo field was primarily intended to contain an email address and PGP key fingerprint but since this field accepts an arbitrary string it has been used for multiple other purposes (website urls, donation information, bitcoin addresses, ...). This is a specification to formalize the ContactInfo string to: - make provided information machine readable (could be used for Relay Search) - improve the ability to contact relay operators - allow the automatic attribution and verification that a relay is operated by a given entity - increase information sharing among tor relay operators Eran Sandler created a nice and simple to use generator based on the specification: https://torcontactinfogenerator.netlify.app/ If you used the generator and specification in the past, please regenerate your ContactInfo string, so it includes the version field. I'm particularly looking forward to seeing many use the verifyurl field. Overview of definied fields email pgp abuse operatorurl verifyurl keybase twitter mastodon matrix xmpp otr3 ricochet hoster cost uplinkbw trafficacct memory cpu virtualization bitcoin zcash donationurl offlinemasterkey signingkeylifetime sandbox os tls aesni autoupdate confmgmt dnslocation dnsqname dnssec dnslocalrootzone CIISSversion regards, nusenu -- https://mastodon.social/@nusenu

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Re: [tor-relays] Become a Fallback Directory Mirror (deadline: July 23)
by tor-operator 27 Jul '20

27 Jul '20

Dear Gus or whoever it may concern; I was unable to reply before the deadline due to an unforeseeable issue which came up. That has now been cleared up and I hope it'll be fine to participate. At any rate, here are the ones which I'd like to opt-in: k0nslNET14: https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/8C5155E33148B13CEF02197037D8… k0nslNET1488: https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/239E373B108E04912B3AF8C32E99… k0nslNET7: https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/F1B6FA0ED8C60E9C7317AF027E7C… k0nslNET1889: https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/0E8FD4368083BD7817A42F3ECEDE… They all support IPv6 as well. All the best! Faithfully -k0nsl

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an alternative to verifyurl
by nusenu 24 Jul '20

24 Jul '20

Hi, based on feedback I got about https://github.com/nusenu/ContactInfo-Information-Sharing-Specification I want to add an additional verification option based on DNS records to allow for the same verification as the verifyurl field provides but without the need to have a webserver and a proper TLS certificate. Explained by example: Lets say the operator has the domain example.com and runs a relay with fingerprint ABCF46A63F9C21FD315CD061B3EAA3EB05283ABC on IP addresses: 192.0.2.235 The operator would simply create the following DNS record for verification/linking: DNS A record: ABCF46A63F9C21FD315CD061B3EAA3EB05283ABC.example.com pointing to 192.0.2.235 If the relay has an IPv6 address as well an AAAA record is created for the same name pointing to the IPv6 address. Since we require a TLS certificate for verifyurl this will require DNSSEC to be enabled on the domain to be validated. Let me know if you have any feedback on this additional option. thanks! nusenu -- https://mastodon.social/@nusenu

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