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Middle Relay has no traffic
by starlight.2015q3＠binnacle.cx 14 Sep '15

14 Sep '15

>My middle relay seems to have minimal traffic. >Is there something I need to do or is my damn >IPS (Comcast) blocking me. > >Node name is gmojo02 > >gm Possibly the Comcast gateway NAT is unable to deal with lots of connections andj/or it may be an older, slow model that can't handle much traffic. Or possibly your connection is just at the low end of the bandwidth spectrum. You can see all the Comcast relays ranked by traffic by going to https: // torstatus dot blutemagie dot de and at the bottom of the page selecting Advanced Search: hostname contains comcast Some options: 1) have a new gateway swapped in 2) upgrade to faster service 3) switch to a static IP (an option for business customers) and configure the relay on the static IP so it bypasses the Comcast device's NAT 4) switch to Verizon FiOS, which is 5x better than Comcast for the same money 5) make sure the system running the relay is reasonably fast, i.e. 1.8GHz or better and had a decent quality NIC; run speedtest_cli.py and it should match your ostensible Comcast bandwidth w/r/t (4) check out what happened to my relay after switching from 3up/18down Comcast to 75up/75down FiOS https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/4F0DB7E687FC7C0AE55C8F243DA8B0EB27FBF… (keeping in mind the relay is well tuned) You can see all the FiOS relays on Blutmagie with hostname contains comcast

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Middle Relay has no traffic
by Greg Moss 14 Sep '15

14 Sep '15

My middle relay seems to have minimal traffic. Is there something I need to do or is my damn IPS (Comcast) blocking me. Node name is gmojo02 gm

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Experience hosting exit relay with Costa Rica Servers: crservers.com
by Patrick O'Doherty 13 Sep '15

13 Sep '15

hey all, I'm looking to host an exit relay in a country with a low node count. I came across crservers.com[0] via exotic VPS, and am considering using them to host a small exit node to start out. A quick glance at their ToS for VPS services[1] indidicates that their policies are pretty strict, but figured it'd be worth asking the list to see if anyone had personal experience with them before I rule them out. I've also contacted them about this. cheers, p [0] - https://crservers.com [1] - https://www.crservers.com/downloads/SHARED-SERVER-CONTRACT.pdf

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My VPS hoster (Zappie Host) understood!
by Billy Humphreys 12 Sep '15

12 Sep '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi all, When I asked my reverse DNS to be added for my Tor exit relay, they said that Tor nodes were disallowed due to the ToS, but didn't stop me. I messaged back a few times (in normal UK time, 3AM over there) and I got this reply: 'Hey there Thank you firstly of understanding our position that in almost most cases the end user that runs the tor exit does without a care in the world leaving the provider fully liable for all the crap that comes with it. In our ToS we state "any tor nodes" simply to cover our asses as its (for the most part) not worth the hassle and misunderstanding later down the track. Yes a relay node is fine. feel free to continue with that. If you want to continue with an exit node what I will do is edit the WHOIS details and put in for that specific IP that you are the operated the IP address as a Tor Exit node. (SWIP the IP) Please let me know if this is something you are interested in this plan or just settle for a relay node as is. Regards and thank you for understanding Adam' If you sign up and are wishing to run a Tor exit relay, PLEASE contact them to set it all up for you so that you will be classified as a Tor relay :P -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJV7kYBAAoJEHukJMVt72wmo84QAJSIrI70ca1xSEHmA7Am4k8E p9UhuqSfFftE0/5F631QeJJkdgw6y47ps+et9jUPjxv5i8omTWtCamI9qf0h1TcY 4ySOoxyLaRfEuz00hAKrDJZXSfHoJoF9mCIPcQpNPZ2NwZ4ZbXiOv40k5Rlpyu4M OGRV//RTunwbqIooCnaCOeNljhEGit57hWmDoGu5wNUsWIFXGWCd6On1xlSkRq2b jUKltQY96/nxNPWv12BlpOmKszXAWC0AwzfLsLUXBY8Mal0xgRgXxCBQhQ4HiBgX le/4oX9MxiL6+TN6GW4KM3yf7jIryJMDBWhfm/rjc92deXW7FVDxJdJjBGkZoX0S QC8ALSnqAysLj93wylaR59onco8jXIYDZNfOjZSuCB9v/zIqbCXWrovKexqa3xbU SCLCj0bDT+5KIrFbkI5+XBtNR114g1p6oeDmaRb5dl8OQOJh+l15x4dAxJTb4hTF zvJGfnFvwQcBCEXZq6u4sSItUjDQQ5Jsc1yWexDcHta/8PoYKSy9iZWrOM9Wo7ny Ka1jrdc+rhVpFyy73ntqFhYZxPOcJSabazBXbiOgIQlZKQPOjl99kW8g/0zCrZXX mXDED+fkb/tL7BwGl0xTV8NOKt5qPo7U9Xf8POy9X3L7Rrxpvw32zpTq1+ZS/vmc +KBRsFMQmtApo1RdmlAx =O3ur -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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First Tech CU apparently blocking all Tor nodes
by Tor Relay ＠ WeFu.Org 12 Sep '15

12 Sep '15

It appears that First Tech Federal Credit Union is blocking all Tor nodes (including non-exit nodes) from connecting to their website, http://www.firsttechfed.com This seems ... misguided on their part. Blocking exit nodes is one thing, but preventing random people who happen to run a Tor middle node from seeing anything on their website is rather over the top. They do not appear to be listed on https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/doc/ListOfServicesBlockin… yet. If other people also observe the blocking, they should probably be added. I wanted to check with the list to make sure it is not just me, and get suggestions about the best way to approach First Tech and encourage them to re-consider this overly broad blocking.

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criteria for why a relay is expected to be unmeasured
by nusenu 12 Sep '15

12 Sep '15

Hi, the tor network is currently doing quite well when it comes to the amount of unmeasured relays. I'd like to filter unmeasured relays for unexpectantly unmeasured relays only. Currently I have three criteria for why a relay is expected to be unmeasured: - relay is a directory authority - relay joined the network within the last three days - last_restarted is within the last three days (this is a strong simplification of "we assume this relay did not run enough to be measured within the last three days") At 2015-09-12 07:00:00 there were 116 unmeasured relays if we filter for unexpectantly unmeasured relays we are down to 12 unexpected unmeasured relays: +---------------------+---------------------+----------+ | first_seen | last_restarted | FP | +---------------------+---------------------+----------+ | 2014-04-08 19:00:00 | 2015-08-24 12:29:07 | 9BE65BAE | | 2014-04-16 20:00:00 | 2015-09-04 19:57:50 | 74BA3700 | | 2014-04-18 10:00:00 | 2015-08-27 17:14:42 | B34B40B3 | | 2014-05-14 14:00:00 | 2015-09-06 16:09:50 | 853D1645 | | 2014-05-29 13:00:00 | 2015-07-18 10:04:53 | D14A197E | | 2014-06-20 07:00:00 | 2015-09-07 06:15:49 | E96D712D | | 2014-09-26 11:00:00 | 2015-03-24 13:31:21 | B8D2E17F | | 2014-12-20 14:00:00 | 2015-08-04 22:07:28 | 1A397290 | | 2015-03-15 01:00:00 | 2015-09-07 10:53:21 | 9143307A | | 2015-04-23 03:00:00 | 2015-07-07 09:11:21 | 00F2D93E | | 2015-04-26 09:00:00 | 2015-07-19 20:41:26 | F2ED5032 | | 2015-08-21 06:00:00 | 2015-08-24 20:36:03 | 38B63BB8 | +---------------------+---------------------+----------+ If you have an opinion on why any of these relays are unmeasured for a specific reason please let me know so I can add that criteria to my list. thanks

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Deciding where to put new Tor relays
by Virgil Griffith 10 Sep '15

10 Sep '15

I'm at an APNIC conference in Jakarta, and they demoed a new tool which shows the interconnections (peering + transits) between AS numbers within a given country (will eventually work for regions). URL: http://labs.apnic.net/vizas/ Left-panel is IPv4 and right-panel is IPv6. Here is the fellow who built it: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/geoff-huston/42/828/891 For Tor, this tool helps us prioritize the ASs for new relays. To maximize censorship resistance, we would want relays on AS numbers in the middle (lots of interconnections) that do not currently have Tor relays. We can imagine giving out Roster bonus points depending on the AS-number. The points would go something like: AS_i_bonus_points = ASweight(i) / #_Tor_relays_on_AS ASweight(i) = k * \sum_{j=1}^n num_ips_routed_by_edge_i_j where k is an arbitrary constant (k=1 is reasonable). This could be very useful for deciding where to put new relays. I'll see if I can access to the raw data that generates these graphs so we have more than just pretty pictures. Much love, -V

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Vultr disallowing exit relays
by Carlin Bingham 08 Sep '15

08 Sep '15

I have just been informed by Vultr that they now do not tolerate exit relays. The wiki[0] suggested they were a good host for exits, and vultr's staff confirmed to me at the start of the year that exits are fine. They appear to have changed their mind. [0] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/ISPCorrespondence#Vultr -- Carlin

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Message from my relay
by DARKNET.IT 08 Sep '15

08 Sep '15

I need help to solve this message: possible syn flooding on port 80. sending cookies. check snmp counters Port 80 is the ORPort of the relay. Thanks for reply

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Relay Stats
by Billy Humphreys 08 Sep '15

08 Sep '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 I've sent and received almost 10GB and I've only been up for 2 days. I was first a exit relay, then non-exit (so many blue outbounds!) now I'm a exit relay again. Here's my ARM message: Tor's uptime is 1 day 18:00 hours, with 31 circuits open. I've sent 9.69 GB and received 9.35 GB. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJV7wGNAAoJEHukJMVt72wm83QP/RJpihJTntgCXAMJQZW48CDT oX7Z1SVFDQnfkzgW67JmZmoyOSVjgmuBLXdsdICB/kvI8+58HA5Hj0kJiCyN3m0K IeEMXiUaY+yajg6TggZ/lXVAbpp5T3Vd12RNsXQlwHna6rxKLwySxKSpdjR9HZgt ei4MotC7j6wor2hoIsMftuqKSmKicjrnnlfEt/H0dZ2+qCqZ4RUsLu+TC7m1EMwc uBL6d7GYgroaTQ6VH0QybYzJzhEAFPG4AaQzg4OVNPe3h+Af+FhKuvRpIoG0yZSl PfUP5K1lfKcGGh+KLMeCqVawQbUTZJXxcTtDpio6I6O+T0QdUas2ts0pE/cI0JxE eKITCq9Va13xj99/f3qV8R7gXhPTgNmwPVyRCk2dO1gUfKMkX94ScwTrNTxXb7Gy vD6ofnfmAh0OGA5rjfaKTCrsPWD9lFErAva1OeTVaxmxVZFap0tKykgNp2HeBIeS nQiHaujIEyJsu4WJTyFPQ370YuOVGuzEYo6AiQTVQFCesz7pnMLrG724HQljLQIp PdLXUsCy0QFvlScqWUr6IXzNWilt8wkH9UHjPp6LDsWiRdD6l0/gJomqoSJbNC5p Qzz9DOO6uEvBY7Tki2Kgo29mE00B7O0DP8cJBwkm1VCG8oj4u1ho+r4DX4DvGeyh GNoSM1mSWs6gMgid/2EQ =1rSF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Bots, love 'em or hate 'em?
by starlight.2015q3＠binnacle.cx 08 Sep '15

08 Sep '15

My relay says it receives about 50k v1/v2/v3 connections each day to the 60k v4 connections that come in. "Entry-ips" says it has about 35k guard- clients. Blutmagie says there are no pre-0.2.4 relays talking anything other than v4. So I'm left thinking that 95% or more of the bandwidth consumption and client count is from crusty old botnet bots running ancient versions of the Tor daemon. But all that bot traffic creates a lot of statistical "background noise," and so may be providing a service in making it more difficult for advanced adversaries to perform traffic correlation analysis. Thoughts anyone?

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My VPS hoster (Zappie Host) understood!
by Billy Humphreys 08 Sep '15

08 Sep '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi all, When I asked my reverse DNS to be added for my Tor exit relay, they said that Tor nodes were disallowed due to the ToS, but didn't stop me. I messaged back a few times (in normal UK time, 3AM over there) and I got this reply: 'Hey there Thank you firstly of understanding our position that in almost most cases the end user that runs the tor exit does without a care in the world leaving the provider fully liable for all the crap that comes with it. In our ToS we state "any tor nodes" simply to cover our asses as its (for the most part) not worth the hassle and misunderstanding later down the track. Yes a relay node is fine. feel free to continue with that. If you want to continue with an exit node what I will do is edit the WHOIS details and put in for that specific IP that you are the operated the IP address as a Tor Exit node. (SWIP the IP) Please let me know if this is something you are interested in this plan or just settle for a relay node as is. Regards and thank you for understanding Adam' If you sign up and are wishing to run a Tor exit relay, PLEASE contact them to set it all up for you so that you will be classified as a Tor relay :P -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJV7kYDAAoJEHukJMVt72wmclEP/1jjw+mvLldLFq0Q38c7+QRl U16jrWdf9r2ngiDFEEJAYo35mZB48K+80KUjLdKdycn2FxjYFZSpTubWuJYQN5/b NV/gHTeLKhIWTTGFBEHwVSvY71BzwrBcWO2M2Np7ax75TgYgd9KglIgyqc5ORzAW NaOtAOIcuRuRbeOd2+TKeoqqYmhyHA+yHRxI6tCE4ZIMdpQmx9JQ5r2uH0OAgxJZ dDxGqjNJEUoBAoftMx2qxCX73F6X4k9FJ5srIMQQHU1RTmbVdD/ehLs0uPCSAdpZ VB4mhtrKx6prZ6kWIpFPucBbhRF7kGzb5Er8n36R1eb50HgbA+ZIfHLoo3lEHUMr OIVLdtkIzENNetpe2dZTbOE5307fuPaAOYgJbJjVeAOBaJ1mirI9CvHGF2VbuiVy PIuyUXqT/UPfaxYP6EnhOX3tFnGeBQwYzp9l8o5NFBsnn+CEOuIh0C2268hd9vny be4xSLsO0wqpE61s+2o8qzx2LEcd1Q+pbLEboa7nP3+iQnz4zA7qvuTmg22vzrlw vSLdsboOslsFEJ9VhCe2j/L7DZVKALGxOHK4XJDBj6Cfab1cDTcQw2hvSaTLOhVC tcxKQiw3twXsNQe3kiIIExcnOp7/XketBkAaYTavFFOlJkGAerkMWQCc2T1V+cdg chO8fJUW9KdXTkiAeCPj =WpHn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Does Setting Up a Bridge Relay Disable the Browser?
by Kenneth Freeman 07 Sep '15

07 Sep '15

This may be a naïve question, but I've fired up my 64-bit Debian box now that the nights are cool, and editing the torrc to establish a bridge relay borks the browser. I provide anonymity much more than I use it myself, but is the bridge relay copacetic? Thanks in advance.

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Relay Speed
by Billy Humphreys 07 Sep '15

07 Sep '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 I'm happy - my Tor relay says it's advertised bandwith is 1.1MB/s and it is. Quote from Atlas: Bandwidth rate: 1073.74 MB/s Bandwidth burst: 2147.48 MB/s Observed bandwidth: 1.11 MB/s Hopefully if I can keep this up, I'll be qualifying for a shirt from Tor . -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJV7aL8AAoJEHukJMVt72wmTUgQAKq0tFA0ArP2LnGXy1/BNVus kpTooYAovokbnRV6PgKZoKGZsjU0AlRDMsRXuCYnyLPTdGZbGi3v5EljrlDdvL22 eCGSU3yryBG2Ity9OgIT/KuqdgL9DqisAsdL77WVMHfkOgMoFHTFwjCvseleMgZc H4tPR4J262PYTgJ1KwByIZYHXfpKwlSdHBlOEdUL1HVLCQZX9QscgGVmTTmOJqkI Qz7Be7HRXI8oGkK60CjnNs87rDTCBIDzc9hFs4MmBL7g3ogDMikQpO5OhoC0eN+/ QdtM31HS7EFIjqn/6cmLJCX8I3EBZ9bTsuvW7VSsC9xp6ZG2iaicv37zcn/lWuEd mMzZ7wqAh7wLQa4FGRTia99PGxYLVb9Sh+9EYVgrT8azjzCmPK+D9cXartXtf1yR pI7ISfhUsZlfz33CGkwiyIQBj8hvpOvaoVKA/4HvtAnnfmAikV+0TXHNn69Hg02a 7EaXjGnhvKhwPs8SRd/JpclUFHVw7N+Ft2zRW+y2GfTLaNtt4yKc3YqvTvO1KZ78 76QC2Lxzqlp0V/+4t4Wis41+g6ayt5DLt48jO8VK12rf5rm3Sg77IBqOqkzseTsm pbi2eUnh/MvXzxASUk44l+qEWUJDq3s+xayzN6O5LqaWvcmZEsoxio/mjw/FrZtg fBqqfYmgj8ct1Q4t7ypT =1BBs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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tor-relays] Experience hosting exit relay with Costa Rica Servers: crservers.com
by starlight.2015q3＠binnacle.cx 07 Sep '15

07 Sep '15

You might check for existing relays in their system. This Robtex seems to have much of their network, which they appear to lease from other providers: https://www.robtex.com/en/advisory/dns/cr/crservers/ And while they advertise many network blocks, it appears it's all slices of just a few large allocations: http://www.cidr-report.org/cgi-bin/as-report?v=4&as=AS3790 http://www.cidr-report.org/cgi-bin/as-report?v=4&as=AS2385 You can download CSV of all relays from https: // torstatus dot blutmagie dot de and look for matches. Otherwise, call or email them and ask how they feel about Tor exits. Hosting is competitive and if you run a relay with proper contact info and reverse DNS they might not mind. Ask them to automatically forward any complaints they receive to you.

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About Tor Weather
by Billy Humphreys 07 Sep '15

07 Sep '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 BTW to all people, I asked yesterday about Tor Weather, and why it wouldn't locate my relay. It now can (https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/9CBD228738FBB0293A348680DF241B606 069E2F9), I just had to wait a day. Hope this helps anyone who had these issues (signup for Tor Weather, so you get email notifications if it's down, if it's not running latest Tor, and even if you've earned a shirt :D - --Poke -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJV7S8ZAAoJEHukJMVt72wmNOAP/Rg1S+y3IU66QUrERPRjQ9mG iHYF5Gb3Ei7Ompp2VMY6AMAbB3MSOwtsgJgSwySDOZIN8Qk+2E/pJ7P/lfk41YJz j4OcyYvEL0fXx0aIAOua2JVZOy+0ATCPAs41zX4vccRW6iOX78oXRXaV24CNLW3z xuCHTsBHKx+5alEzfXMwc/+4oRGVAISYZIco3frn63xGktso2GewdQYm7VnDIqA7 j9FQjDLurNH6SeX9xYUQT9Ypis1hdS5p2Sz0rCvNJ82njhE7XcMEL2B0p9hB/eG0 uYAu0pGNLg5jpoNL5qNnHhM1bBnRiy1+P6a1s801NndbEgBoX3H1yDDRJNHgv1wo JGf7PsYeET+lqNK3hx4eZ/YdaApXxbkI6qMNoyl7FjMn2QG3Hd5W05In0uADNxPd mKy3LevM7BUBgTbgDMBg91Fm5kAu9n/rucWx6jiI9h+59zSqj/LabGDFCuSv4QC7 +pQ0MGyY94Gp5zQRDWQR5BGS9/Y3Yw0R0FV/Bi99ZgBal8Vm59Jk/8/OZqegVpIE e199Mub1tu16eIymxKtVuawY8cleKYpl6Q8lnG3tWTEmpR6L2QHuXcTUSkM6zzXz vUaFNo5v1gHsHsDwyAEchT56sd5OaqcK3CNulGwkIn2RgcBV2WtSV1wlLvouOow7 ZqmQZml9MqnxBHaEQuUi =hmIr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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New Tor Relay
by Billy Humphreys 06 Sep '15

06 Sep '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi, I got a new Tor relay running on my server. https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/9CBD228738FBB0293A348680DF241B606069E… is it's details. However, I have been having issues with Tor Weather saying that it cannot find my node. Is this normal? - --Poke -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJV7HEIAAoJEHukJMVt72wmYFMP/3MF7z04Z8EoZmCBSeB9zkUP ZIdDIc0wiZxJugwOko0qJugcMz63/A+BuOeWA6fQ4KMq6OYyVulz5E3yiS+cE+mR bj3rJ37gLwtINun/j/9ve/uHx2cF1ZfQ/7eCVxKPCKu1nAtKpciHwhRVeV3EbYWB DAufC/GbVIqvsZYoTvocAMHZEsjWstjGTZWh2rY5jcah5bASyE0cXkYcpCO36nKq q01BDGimfrVgTDtgvwHJeX9CKdUjkb6qh57H5mqaNzHrx0V23L6dMbakClsIr5uY pUUes3SL/J1QB0SJV/x/ruVshdDeXkTy5tJt6DrZHupjPRDYkhzqgVuvNHgf38+U dGSLI/v+KcVM00yj9MxSAlWhsWOxNakqnWFf4FXVI+8gWOrm/taxKF/Y/KpXyDqY WT3T7CSUn96wvOMsAFxwJPGgxl2kZvkjEduJoZI4ou0ji8m04/gn157v/eR7hOr5 Dkil4y5mw9Kn5PbBToherLesW5XXPJgFlV+/Zq6eUUjxUN/uBSWLGetjaxAF1w8G FhDkq5WprAV5X813YAOYPIehlFfYgGkfQ2eBpZOIBgSHqgoJaAyE/AR6P4jMJwn9 uwe4ZbtFLfqrEnoZ15hcBIq8dhNnwnvD4FLoJLPnDvTuMgdRNobtzyKCTMd3JYqo l1cJWImHgTKTHFq+cTQn =+TEW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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New Tor Relay
by Billy Humphreys 06 Sep '15

06 Sep '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi, I got a new Tor relay running on my server. https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/9CBD228738FBB0293A348680DF241B606069E… is it's details. However, I have been having issues with Tor Weather saying that it cannot find my node. Is this normal? - --Poke -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJV7HEGAAoJEHukJMVt72wmsJIQAMFvjoRtktt0Mrt+wMU1/CF7 +00QSg1vKnIcM6ztljK+DgJhi+NLiETTkcmzgkTod40+aLVkqPuupy8+jt5Q7O+I IXFOn38zePPkk17W3nkDUiuYFSWsIB9TOS58iUVLmu6LJizB9O2SVz+yIRtLeLgl z0zucRYeMtqvhaiRROElqnJ87xnESjQA+9wDazkSUoN5tP9Vlzurf61NQJJayvC6 gJO2LWmbmiXr/e4SWtyBvXlC9dhHJY3WS8q6s/4nnb/JMXOhXDAwqHG0r9/YFt2a YVoK/X1cdqd901+2vyWFd2rNRLEYC+3S94i9laEEq5fGj14UVCYdoIunGGjVzYo2 GRmcvEo6CCt1dOCQmH+fwzlU7mPfNO+8FluLAUpgyTpCYe5Bjubb3OyMe758zjhP 5kiQ+oHqhitMHTH6gs8MSVRye4JgcH1/Jgyv2g5/cQyh0E8s/X2HmXlplpnz81Vf WPJYnR2GradGPRxCJlggpeqxlnXkWPbJPONAUpMqPG1Hvp+UKAic9uHs5PASobT+ zEIOSXCISwd2Nl4K0dKfy6sHvPQ+UjBlYpEp5skTkMrRfNitXYr2zcXN3NPD8Vbq 3k4peCh3E8IpXb5jxVwQ2r/WovRZWBYwpbeLFAFLtMmgeft4NKWhvWdpKV9BmD+R 6iWdeUqqvzeXT+kbvQqq =rOHr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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New Tor Relay
by Billy Humphreys 06 Sep '15

06 Sep '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi, I got a new Tor relay running on my server. https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/9CBD228738FBB0293A348680DF241B606069E… is it's details. However, I have been having issues with Tor Weather saying that it cannot find my node. Is this normal? - --Poke -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJV7HEFAAoJEHukJMVt72wmgb4P/0ePquz5amcKLfRHeKSL3K6e l161rledwcz5TRRitlkjXktFY7AHT8xRQ9PAKqK32Lx2t3T0KBSAk5NDzk7C24xC DwkBFCuJ2UkQgf87K5pjZcKnKXsBYNyaijTzfjhx+yTFwbBY0djK3t+z/Ye+Adcx 9xnXD/CqZM8R9yv7bVfWVa9lfXtKcXE/P7UpI9IrzmrfTVr025PenoQzYxYRhFmX PY8XhtjE4b1AzlGLX4+DymsBWeJdKe7ylfPLaUQpYWS56SAzXBd5QljZCiZApSwg MLxsZBVEB/1D+nHPOAWMOdg/5qkXOtvdyJE6tOODo3ISbHKAOMnsY98N4k7sQejL ctXj5NrZeUi9T5+NGFFx9ja2DpUGUG6B7LVwmxrA2Ra7IKEMVP6Qna5JbP92uDPV s9CiUz/Bd/5VERF+j2ZNGQZSjjdIQYxrsgtZ6gFFhWPXkUoI1KRTQMF9L7il/7+L 4m+Cqy5U6ozdQVwI/uKNtUpCE2m/OR607HCrH7uspYnleRmnv9SZl3fUSN3Q2x7E fsKGMko0OV0MR21A9KSXc3q+dgI5be+3hrfpwJxJbOfFGw260V5N6AWMs/YYGz8R dLRwDGtnFRnRGvSBts4+zJd9yxpAn24NRXFiztpyWQidFXfRKHLpS+hBgWjTDYvm 0MYLZkvxTeyxPb7o3Q2X =CeMC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Calling for more Exit Relays
by s7r 04 Sep '15

04 Sep '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hello, In the last 48 hours we went under the 'psychological' threshold of 1000 Exit Relays in the consensus. Right now, Thu Aug 20 23:57:02 UTC 2015, we have: 6234 Running relays 954 Exit relays I think we can improve this balance. Let's do it! This is a call for everyone: Please run Exit relays, or if you are running a middle relay turn it into an Exit relay! I have been running high capacity Exit relays for a very long time, and I tell you it's not a headache and it will not attract any problems if you just take care of the abuse complaints. During this very long time, 98% of the abuse complaints were automated messages which can safely be ignored (fail2ban notifications, portscans, web CMS plugins sending reports about http fetches, etc.) and the rest were from very nice people who didn't know what Tor is and how it works, but after explaining to them they actually liked the idea - gives you a really nice feeling. Only 2 times I have received email from law enforcement agents (which are just normal people like us, doing a hard job) - a complete and clear explanation was all that it took for them to fully understand and eliminate any doubt that the server in question is somehow interesting to them. Tor is _legal_ in all sane countries! We as a community are here and I give you my word that me and others will personally assist, in the measure and ways we can, whoever runs into troubles because of running an exit, which is highly unlikely. It is recommended to reject in your policy port 25 (it's not needed and it will blacklist you for spam messages if you leave it open). Allow all other ports, or use the reduced exit policy from torproject.org if you want to allow only what is highly necessary. Don't think any longer about it ;) - - Email me directly any time if you need technical support in setting things up, hardening the server or need a customized setup adapted to certain conditions. - - Email me directly any time if you have the funds needed to run a Tor exit relay but don't know how to set it up, where to get it from or don't want to rent and run it under your real name. - - Email me directly any time if you need instructions about how to deal with abuse complaints and short templates for replies. For live chat come on IRC, OFTC network, #tor channel. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (MingW32) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJV1m+CAAoJEIN/pSyBJlsRhD8H/3NpZniYVIELenCvxKNKIEeR J6hvSIwsAJUzlk+Hm5v74f7uzeXoLwA8z/FtzKCBVACOvUoCo1b4/2hF3wBMDfcw CsSZC0AkkIdF+4ePSIsjAU8giOr2uXkCS9CSoRyDnIebmyx5RkSnFDXgTg6/QLJT YJBuTrAA2anxqCHmqL9xHEDM40JhTMP6N6CR3aR4CCPkVOeELyyLTSgb637rZzUs EuRkliktZifirhENxOHzvMVv4D4X60lXeSo1i347gdPwTGuNpiL5fPu+ET0E1sTh Ol8Prvi6XP9yBojW7Up0q1y6083JkguLTbxQDomnqEYT7LCCqAFVBwdc1xWUdg0= =kFIY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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clarification on what Utah State University exit relays store ("360 gigs of log files")
by nusenu 03 Sep '15

03 Sep '15

Hi Jesse, I found your email address in exit relay descriptors run at USU [1]. There has been an interesting comment on a recent boingboing post [2] that implies that USU exit relays store significant amount of logs without going into much detail: > dweller_below August 5, 2015 > > A very similar thing happened to USU. We received a summons from > Homeland/ICE to produce 3 months of records (plus identifying > info) for an IP that was one of our TOR exit nodes. > > I eventually managed to contact the Special Agent in charge of the > investigation. He turned out to be a reasonable person. I > explained that the requested info was an extremely active TOR exit > node. I said that we had extracted and filtered the requested data, > it was 90 4 gig files (for a total of 360 gigs of log files) or > about 3.2 billion log entries. [...] If you can confirm that the comment is authentic I'd be interested what kind of tor related data you are logging at your exit relays and why. thanks, nusenu [1] https://atlas.torproject.org/#search/contact:C20BEC80 [2] http://boingboing.net/2015/08/04/what-happened-when-the-fbi-sub.html

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Re: [tor-relays] bwauth graph for August 2015
by starlight.2015q3＠binnacle.cx 31 Aug '15

31 Aug '15

In addition to reducing Unmeasured=1 relays from ~350 to ~150, the combination of the new Torflow release and addition of the Faravahar BWauth have dramatically improved the reliability and stability of bandwidth measurements of relays, for both the individual BWauth values and consensus values. This shows up most clearly in the 3-month and 1-year Atlas graphs of consensus weights.

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bwauth graph for August 2015
by nusenu 30 Aug '15

30 Aug '15

Hi, I generated graphs for bwauth votes. The graph [1] shows that adding Faravahar (yellow) as 5th bwauth significantly reduced the amount of unmeasured relays (difference between red and blue), at least as long as it did provide measurements. [1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nusenu/tor-network-observations/master/pn…

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Botnet
by Heiko Tropartz 25 Aug '15

25 Aug '15

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Re: [tor-relays] How to Run High Capacity Tor Relays
by Magnus Hedemark 22 Aug '15

22 Aug '15

I think it's unfair to characterize the Tor community as a Linux club, or religious about operating systems. There is a whole big world of operating systems out there, and most (not all) have a very POSIX flavor to them that makes it pretty easy to generalize advice on running the service. The work that I'm doing right now is around packaging Tor for OmniOS (and writing doc around using them together), which is pretty obscure and has no relationship to Linux. There's definitely software out there that assumes you're building it on Linux, running it on Linux, but Tor is definitely not one of them. Windows is the only really prominent OS that I can think of off the top of my head that has no significant POSIX flavor to it. Its heritage is more from DOS and VMS than anything. It's an odd bird for people who otherwise work in POSIX platforms all of the time. Be thankful Tor runs there at all. Supporting Windows on a cross-platform app is no small feat. Maybe instead of throwing shade at the EFF, take a stab at fixing the problem yourself? The EFF is not some multi-billion dollar software company, isn't staffed with an army of engineers and tech writers looking for something to do. And, if they were, I've got doubts that the cost/benefit analysis on supporting Windows as a relay platform would turn out in your favor. If you're really dedicated to running a big Tor relay, and can't be bothered to help improve the documentation for Windows relay operators, time to learn a new tool and maybe not be so religious about running Windows for all the things? I think I've got 5 different OS's that I'm managing right now. No big deal. That's the beauty of the other side of the Windows fence. Once you learn one, it's easy to learn the rest. -M Sent from [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.ch), encrypted email based in Switzerland. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [tor-relays] How to Run High Capacity Tor Relays Time (GMT): Jul 22 2015 12:14:56 From: ben(a)reefsolutions.com To: tor-relays(a)lists.torproject.org Robert: you're right. The group in general isn't very knowledge about Windows. I'm a Windows sysadmin and spent a long time deciphering the Tor documentation on windows and it's poor. Best info was another operator who posted on the mailing list months ago. I've reached out to the website maintainers and gotten radio silence on updating the Wiki for Windows. I've added other things to the wiki though (on exits). I'm a bit perplexed on the OS religiousness since we need more inclusive for Tor relays. We need a status of liberty, and the EFF's push isn't enough. Sigh.... -Ben -----Original Message----- From: tor-relays [mailto:tor-relays-bounces@lists.torproject.org] On Behalf Of I Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 8:29 PM To: tor-relays(a)lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] How to Run High Capacity Tor Relays Moritz and all, I mean no offence to anyone since we're all in this for the greater good, but really approaching joining the Tor community is pretty hard if you are not a Linux wiz and know about servers or a number of other things. I have tried to look around the multitude of interconnecting links but a lot are out of sync slightly or are not clear because of presumed knowledge and understanding or are irrelevant because of evolution Wouldn't it be better to be clear and neat in the way Torservers guides are? Would someone presume the Torproject installation guide was not complete and know where to look? Robert > On 07/22/2015 01:34 AM, I wrote: >> https://www.torservers.net/wiki/setup/server has excellent guidance >> for setting-up relays seriously. >> Would those at Torproject think about linking to it from their >> installation guides? >> >> Robert > > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorExitGuidelines > links to it, as well as to > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorRelaySecurity . > Both these pages could use some overhaul, but they're not too bad. > > -- > Moritz Bartl _______________________________________________ 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

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