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Re: [tor-relays] Speed up of reconnections after IP Address change
by balbea16 03 Jan '17

03 Jan '17

'tor service start' disconnects all connections, START uses the new IP address. Which is important. I am not sure if Sighup does the same. I assume it only reloads the config file. Any ideas?

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consensus-health
by Felix 03 Jan '17

03 Jan '17

https:// consensus-health.torproject.org/ (observed 2017-01-03 16:00:00 and 2017-01-03 17:00:00) shows * dannenberg: Missing entirely from consensus * faravahar: Missing Signature! Valid-after time of auth's displayed consensus: 2017-01-03 15:00:00 * moria1: Sees only 2620 relays running Is https:// lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-consensus-health/2017-January/date.html ok ? -- imho - like always

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Re: [tor-relays] Speed up of reconnections after IP Address change
by balbea16 03 Jan '17

03 Jan '17

Hi ThereI've just written a simple bash script which verifies (in a while loop) every 2 minutes if the OR address has been changed by my ISP. If so, it stops and then restarts the Tor service again. Then it sleeps for 24 hours and starts the 2 minute loop again. Not very sophisticated, but it might work. Mike

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how to generate relay keys manually (before actually running the relay)
by nusenu 03 Jan '17

03 Jan '17

>> Tipp: If you are planing to grow beyond your 31 relays I recommend >> you preemptively generate the keys for your upcoming relays so you >> don't have to touch all other relays everytime you add a single >> relay (to the MyFamily line). > How do you pregenerate keys? Id be interested as Im spinning up > quite a few soon create a folder per tor instance: mkdir future-relay1 future-relay2 ... then invoke tor manually (this will just generate keys and exit after that): tor --PublishServerDescriptor 0 --orport auto --list-fingerprint --datadirectory future-relay1 --Log "err stdout" tor --PublishServerDescriptor 0 --orport auto --list-fingerprint --datadirectory future-relay2 --Log "err stdout" ... In these folders you will then find the fingerprint that you can use in MyFamily, so you don't have to touch your existing relays anymore once you actually use these generated keys on new relays. Make sure you take care of filesystem permissions when using these keys on the actual relay.

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Container tor relay
by Sec INT 03 Jan '17

03 Jan '17

Had a search but cant find much info on running tor relays in containers specifically by proxmox lxc containers - I have a free server atm but dont really want to spinup a load of vms when I could do containers instead - its a load test for me but would mean quite a few relays running with gbps network card (all their own ip's) Anyone tried this yet? Cheers Mark B Snaptor.co.uk (non commercial)

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what to expect with baby exitnodes?
by stinkyonion＠sigaint.org 03 Jan '17

03 Jan '17

well the subject sums it up really I couldn't find a solid explanation. I believe it was ARMA that explained the life cycle of a relay, so I'm curious does this apply for exit nodes? thanks for the clarification

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what to expect with baby exitnodes?
by stinkyonion＠sigaint.org 03 Jan '17

03 Jan '17

well the subject sums it up really I couldn't find a solid explanation. I believe it was ARMA that explained the life cycle of a relay, so I'm curious does this apply for exit nodes? thanks for the clarification

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Speed up of reconnections after IP Address change
by balbea16 03 Jan '17

03 Jan '17

Hi There,I only have a dynamic IP address and my ISP changes it almost every time after 24 hours. It is somehow sad to see 1.400 connections drop to almost none. After the change it takes 20 minutes until my OR notices this (our IP Address has changed from ...). It than takes another hour until the connections start to actualy rebuild. This means it takes more than an hour (every per day) to reach the normal operating Mode. Is there any way to speed up this process? Could adjust the torrc script for instance? TNX Mike

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Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP
by balbea16 03 Jan '17

03 Jan '17

Hi There I evaluated some relays with newly assigned (red) guard flags. All of them had already the stable flag assigned. And (so far I could see) all of them had (almost) static IP addresses. In my case, this may be the reason why I don't get a guard flag. My ISP changes it every 24 hours. However, I'd be fine with "just" operating a fast middle node. I will keep an eye on this. Mike

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_AceLewis tor relays: please specify 'MyFamily' in your torrc
by nusenu 03 Jan '17

03 Jan '17

Hi Lewis, thanks for adding your 6 tor relays to the network! Please do not forget to set the MyFamily parameter in your torrc configuration to tell clients your relays belong to a single operator. If you need help with the MyFamily option let us know. thanks, nusenu +------------+-----------+-----------------+----------------+ | first_seen | nickname | IP | eMyFamilyCount | +------------+-----------+-----------------+----------------+ | 2016-12-27 | acelewis4 | 138.197.131.213 | NULL | | 2016-12-27 | acelewis | 188.226.129.48 | NULL | | 2016-12-27 | acelewis3 | 207.154.205.226 | NULL | | 2016-12-27 | acelewis5 | 139.59.160.33 | NULL | | 2016-12-27 | acelewis6 | 139.59.42.48 | NULL | | 2016-12-27 | acelewis2 | 139.59.252.170 | NULL | +------------+-----------+-----------------+----------------+

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