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Question about downtime
by Conrad Rockenhaus 21 Jan '18

21 Jan '18

Hello, Note - to others that have sent me emails about a proposed project, I will respond, I’m sorry I just got caught up in a huge emergency project. Anyway, I had a quick question, on the relay side I run ConradsOVHRelay01 (Relay) and ConradsOVHRelay02 (Exit). They’re running on CentOS, so I have to manually install the latest version of tor to keep up with the security updates. I am considering migrating to Ubuntu or Debian to make the update process simpler. To avoid downtime, would it be better to spin up two more boxes and migrate or would bringing them down for maintenance be acceptable? I would like to avoid downtime personally, as they’re stable, fast relays. I’m just looking for thoughts and ideas. Thanks, Conrad

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Increased cpu usage
by r1610091651 20 Jan '18

20 Jan '18

Hi AFter upgrade from 3.1.9 to 3.2.9, I've noticed that the cpu usage doubled for same throughput / conditions. Is anyone else seeing that too? Regards

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Re: [tor-relays] Good vsp providers
by Tyler Johnson 20 Jan '18

20 Jan '18

Are the advertised bandwidths from online.net what you will see in actual practice? For instance, if one of their LTS servers comes with 300Mbps, will you get close to that throughput? I have a few servers with oneprovider.com (online.net reseller I believe) and it's about 1/10 what is advertised, which is still good, considering the cost, but I'd like to run higher bandwidth relays. Also, does anyone know if the KVM offered through online.net have virtual media capabilities? Thanks, Tyler On Jan 19, 2018 03:16, "niftybunny" <abuse(a)to-surf-and-protect.net> wrote: Okay, you are from the US. Tor is legal in the US and legal in EU. You should be fine. I would not recommend running a Tor Exit if you are from Russia, UAE or Turkey. I used to have 20 Exists with Online.net and I got lots of abuse but they were fine after verifying me. And by the way, you dont have much choice with traffic flat and Tor exit friendly anyway. Markus On 19. Jan 2018, at 01:20, Fabian A. Santiago <fsantiago(a)garbage-juice.com> wrote: On January 18, 2018 6:26:40 PM EST, Mirimir <mirimir(a)riseup.net> wrote: On 01/18/2018 11:54 AM, niftybunny wrote: You will held responsible to your actions (traffic). So worst case scenario is: They give your personal data to a LEA and you are now in charge to explain to a LEO that this is a Tor Exit. Depends on your country if this is a good idea. If you dont want any personal data with your VPS, get a bulletproof VPS but even offshore ISPs ban Tor Exists together with CP and hate speech. Welcome to the wonderful world of Tor Exists. Enjoy your stay. Markus How about HostSailor? They accept Bitcoin, and don't authenticate customers. But I don't know how they'd handle Tor relays. On 18. Jan 2018, at 23:45, Fabian A. Santiago <fsantiago(a)garbage-juice.com> wrote: January 18, 2018 4:50 PM, "George" <george(a)queair.net> wrote: niftybunny: online.net <http://online.net> trabia.com <http://trabia.com> (ask first) both offer 100mbit for less than 5 euros This is a CSV file that TDP is slowly tinkering with. While it's focused on BSD-providing VPSs, most offer more. https://github.com/torbsd/torbsd.github.io/blob/master/docs/bsd-vps.md g -- 34A6 0A1F F8EF B465 866F F0C5 5D92 1FD1 ECF6 1682 _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays(a)lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays I asked online.net about their cloud ssd vps service and tor and have the following dialog going: " Hello. I'm interested in running a Tor relay exit node on your cloud SSD vps product. Is this allowed? I would be running a reduced reduced exit policy. Thank you. **************************************** Flavio Pastore 1/18/18 5:13 PM Hello, Thanks for your ticket. Our platform is a IaaS one. So, if you're willing to set up legal activities, you're more than welcome regardless of the service used. If not, you will reported accordingly. I hope I have this point clear, but we remain here at your entire disposal for any further information. Best regards, Flavio Online / Scaleway Looking for an amazing job? Join us NOW ! https://careers.scaleway.com/ **************************** Fabian.santiago(a)gmail.com 1/18/18 5:40 PM By legal services, do you mean a mechanism in order to respond to abuse reports? if so, i have covered that need by the following: 1.> i publish a tor readme html page on the server for anyone to browse to learn about tor and what my server is doing. it also includes links to the tor project's own pages with additional information. I would also be published in the tor atlas showing my node's information for all to see that i am a tor node. 2.> i publish contact information so that complaint concerns can be addressed to me directly as needed. will this suffice in your opinion? could you also make a note on your end that I would be running an exit relay so that you know, in case you do wind up receiving complaints about my node's traffic? I find (and have read) that with a reduced reduced exit policy the chance for complaint generating traffic is greatly minimized anyway. thank you. " so they seem to be kewl with it but in your opinions, what does he mean by "legal activities"? Thanks. -- Thanks, Fabian S. OpenPGP: 3C3FA072ACCB7AC5DB0F723455502B0EEB9070FC _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays(a)lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays(a)lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays(a)lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays Uggh, monthly recurring Bitcoin payments sounds painful. Nah. Maybe not a good idea then with online.net. they seem to offer vps' in Paris and Amsterdam and I have no idea what their LE would do when handed my info. So forget it. Ok, any decently priced unmetered providers with servers in the US? I am in the US. I'll check out the csv someone mentioned as well. Thanks. They also just added this response: " Flavio Pastore wrote: Hello, Thanks for providing us more information about what services you're going to use in your server. By the way, it is very difficult to give you an exhaustive reply in advance, there is not a full text explaining what can be considered as illegal and what legal instead. But we ensure to apply the EU law as general set of rules, and the French law as specific set of rules. Besides, it is impossible to give you all details about that unfortunately. Finally , regarding the exit policy, it depends on the abuse and our security team treats case by case according to the specific abuse committed. Best regards, " Thanks again everyone. -- Thanks, Fabian S. 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Good vsp providers
by Fabian A. Santiago 20 Jan '18

20 Jan '18

Does anyone here use a vsp hosting provider which offers unlimited bandwidth usage at a reasonable cost monthly? Would need to run / offer Ubuntu. Country is of little importance. Thanks. -- Thanks, Fabian S. OpenPGP: 3C3FA072ACCB7AC5DB0F723455502B0EEB9070FC

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Re: [tor-relays] [OrNetRadar] AS: "DigitalOcean, LLC" - 2018-01-16
by nusenu 19 Jan '18

19 Jan '18

I propose to reject these new DigitalOcean relays (no contact/MyFamily) +---------------------+------------------------------------------+-------------+---------+----------+----------+---------+ | first_seen | fingerprint | tor_version | or_port | dir_port | nickname | contact | +---------------------+------------------------------------------+-------------+---------+----------+----------+---------+ | 2018-01-16 01:00:00 | FD94F9A1FB940786691A7B8A266DCA50C6AE28F1 | 0.2.9.11 | 443 | 80 | Unnamed | NULL | | 2018-01-16 02:00:00 | 314E00247E8A661F3FB583275AD3F7B5466EFC99 | 0.2.9.11 | 443 | 80 | Unnamed | NULL | | 2018-01-16 03:00:00 | 0DDD78A986EDECA1E6FD36F8C4ACEFBCB95A90D7 | 0.2.9.11 | 443 | 80 | Unnamed | NULL | | 2018-01-16 03:00:00 | 3137D94063BA0F5D92BAD71EC4F452CA875D81D3 | 0.2.9.11 | 443 | 80 | Unnamed | NULL | | 2018-01-16 03:00:00 | AF1D8F02C0949E9755C0DF9C6761FBBF7AAB62C2 | 0.2.9.11 | 443 | 80 | Unnamed | NULL | | 2018-01-16 04:00:00 | 5C0C3F106C81BDA139DB1B5CD11E3E8E00C2ECF5 | 0.2.9.11 | 443 | 80 | Unnamed | NULL | | 2018-01-16 04:00:00 | B901626F9F7CD538B8B7812223F6614B1CFBDD78 | 0.2.9.11 | 443 | 80 | Unnamed | NULL | | 2018-01-16 04:00:00 | 26F2EE549E1BAE4979E15A432DBB63FC5148B31C | 0.2.9.11 | 443 | 80 | Unnamed | NULL | +---------------------+------------------------------------------+-------------+---------+----------+----------+---------+ ornetradar(a)riseup.net: > 2018-01-16 > > | Up | Ext | JoinTime | IP | CC | ORp | Dirp | Version | Contact | Nickname | eFamMembers | > |------+-------+------------+----------------+------+-------+--------+-----------+-----------+------------+---------------| > | 1 | 0 | 00:16:46 | 138.197.99.49 | us | 443 | 80 | 0.2.9.11 | None | Unnamed | 1 | > | 1 | 0 | 01:09:43 | 165.227.25.219 | us | 443 | 80 | 0.2.9.11 | None | Unnamed | 1 | > | 1 | 0 | 02:07:50 | 178.62.240.100 | nl | 443 | 80 | 0.2.9.11 | None | Unnamed | 1 | > | 1 | 0 | 02:11:33 | 159.89.192.117 | sg | 443 | 80 | 0.2.9.11 | None | Unnamed | 1 | > | 1 | 0 | 02:15:04 | 178.62.33.87 | gb | 443 | 80 | 0.2.9.11 | None | Unnamed | 1 | > | 1 | 0 | 02:53:44 | 139.59.135.196 | de | 443 | 80 | 0.2.9.11 | None | Unnamed | 1 | > | 1 | 0 | 02:56:53 | 165.227.38.141 | ca | 443 | 80 | 0.2.9.11 | None | Unnamed | 1 | > | 1 | 0 | 03:00:57 | 139.59.89.46 | in | 443 | 80 | 0.2.9.11 | None | Unnamed | 1 | > > https://nusenu.github.io/OrNetRadar/2018/01/16/a2 -- https://mastodon.social/@nusenu twitter: @nusenu_

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Re: [tor-relays] Tor 0.3.2.9 Linux - too slow to handle this many circuit creation requests
by rush23＠gmx.net 19 Jan '18

19 Jan '18

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Tor 0.3.2.9 Linux - first period fine, since today lots of: Your computer is too slow to handle this many circuit creation requests!
by Stijn Jonker 18 Jan '18

18 Jan '18

Hi All, Is this a "known" issue, my non-exit relay has been running for over a year, and although with the recent issues (attack / network issue or the likes) with some ipfilter kunfu it managed to get through the storm pretty well. Now all of a sudden since early today my logs are flooded with: Jan 18 11:34:44 tornode Tor[65839]: Your computer is too slow to handle this many circuit creation requests! Please consider using the MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option or choosing a more restricted exit policy. [204844 similar message(s) suppressed in last 60 seconds] First message is at Jan 18 07:17:13, last just Jan 18 11:37:44, when adding the # of circuits up, total in ~4 hours: 18033820 being 18 Million, which feels a bit much, but don't have any figures to compare. On the current hardware this never seemed to be an issue, not even by far it was normally (according to ESXi) at ~400-500mhz, now it's using 2 vCPU's at ~4000Mhz. Now of course I can lower the bandwidth, but if these are low bandwidth circuits then lowering the bandwidth from 10Mbyte/sec (peak 12,5Mbyte/sec) to a lower value might actually not resolve it. Anybody seeing this as well and/or ideas / advice etc? Stijn

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The Onion Box v4.1
by Ralph Wetzel 18 Jan '18

18 Jan '18

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tor 0.3.2.9 reached deb.torproject.org and FreeBSD repos
by nusenu 17 Jan '18

17 Jan '18

Since this has been a common question in the last few days.. -- https://mastodon.social/@nusenu twitter: @nusenu_

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Re: [tor-relays] Assigning BadExit to Exits failing to resolve hostnames starting on 2018-01-15
by nusenu 17 Jan '18

17 Jan '18

> Hello, > > Arthur and I have been emailing affected exit operators for a while > now and many operators fixed their exits but some minor number or exits > remain broken (even some that are running good tor versions). > > I believe it is reasonable to assign the BadExit flag to exits failing 100% > of DNS resolution attempts and have a CW > 200 (or any other value you like, > I just would not bother about exits with a CW of 20) starting with 2018-01-15, > if we did send them an email about the problem (if they have a contactInfo set). > > https://arthuredelstein.net/exits/ These are 4 exits failing 100% of DNS resolution attempts based on Arthur's scan data from 2018-01-16 05:10:00 UTC +------------------------------------------+-------------+-------+----------------------------------------------------+ | fingerprint | tor_version | CW | contact | +------------------------------------------+-------------+-------+----------------------------------------------------+ | 6F6586F1631CAC1115B9561656E7664D386B7F4B | 0.3.1.9 | 404 | Ins0mnia Shells <orwell1984.info AT gmail dot com> | | 34D3AF8DC4CF68BDEA354D21C24EFB2EAFD7191F | 0.3.1.7 | 2040 | tor(a)krosnov.org | | 92E3764D5485DC4AC01178271FB5A8A2D90DA9FF | 0.3.1.9 | 16700 | Random Person <tor-admin(a)portaltodark.world> | | 60A7451D512B647C0D05A2063CA7F329311347B5 | 0.2.5.16 | 21200 | NULL | +------------------------------------------+-------------+-------+----------------------------------------------------+ -- https://mastodon.social/@nusenu twitter: @nusenu_

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