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Interested in running a FreeBSD Relay on Cogent?
by Conrad Rockenhaus 21 Aug '18

21 Aug '18

Would you like to trial a FreeBSD Relay on Cogent until October 1st? Yes, it has to be FreeBSD, because I use Bhyve as my hypervisor and some of my blades don’t support UG, which means, I support FreeBSD only on these series of servers. If you’re interested in a Model “A” (25GB HDD, 1vCPU, 2GB RAM, burstable up to 1gbit of bandwidth/unlimited transfer) running FreeBSD and would like to try it out until October 1st, just send me your Public Key. My hope is you will keep it online and hopefully increase the BSD Relay percentage to 7%. After October 1st its only $15/mo, which is my costs alone. You don’t have to worry about abuse complaints, I handle that for you. You just worry about running your exit and maintaining your OS. I take care of everything else. If you’re interested, send me a public key. Thanks, Conrad

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contact for relay in AS64484
by nusenu 20 Aug '18

20 Aug '18

please drop me an email if you are the operator of F0AA2DB7B4B2E7927F88286788773844B68E2C01 Unnamed at 191.96.249.110 thanks! -- https://twitter.com/nusenu_ https://mastodon.social/@nusenu

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Rendezvous on non-OR circuit?
by tor-markus 20 Aug '18

20 Aug '18

I've been running a tor relay for several days now (C65EF5E06B8338CF976D376048BE2C8FBD499C9C). During my regular checks I noticed something odd within the tor log files. [WARN] Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit with purpose Acting as rendevous (pending) It occurs several times per hour and I couldn't find anything except the [bug tracker](https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/15618) which seems to be outdated (newest message is four weeks old). I'm concerned that this could be some kind of "attack" that could compromise users, as I'm running an exit node. Does somebody have more information on this matter?

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question related to consensus weight fraction calculation
by Toralf Förster 19 Aug '18

19 Aug '18

I do wonder about any changes in the algorithm which drops the cw of a relay [1] by a magnitude within 1 year as seen in [2]? [1] https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/1AF72E8906E6C49481A791A6F8F8… [2] https://screenshotscdn.firefoxusercontent.com/images/040958f1-a5be-4630-955… -- Toralf PGP C4EACDDE 0076E94E

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How long before a new relay shows up in Relay Search?
by hanzer＠riseup.net 17 Aug '18

17 Aug '18

Hello, I've recently set up a new relay: Tor 0.3.3.7 (git-035a35178c92da94) on a FreeBSD-11.2 machine. The Tor server's identity key fingerprint is: 'Chiron420 9C7BB4BCB58AC876D83B67277A0CF3BC73F4FDF6' A search for this relay on the metrics site says "No Results found!" <https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/Chiron420%209C7BB4BCB58AC876D…> Is this typical or might there be something awry in my setup? Thanks!

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Random Relay Reset On Mac OS + OS Support Question
by Keifer Bly 17 Aug '18

17 Aug '18

Hello, So something strange happened recently with my relay running on Mac OS via homebrew at https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/DB1AF6477BB276B6EA5E72132684… Just this morning, my relays uptime had been reset to 0 days. When I checked the software it indeed said the uptime was back to six hours. This is odd as I did not reset thee software within the last 24 hours (that I remember), there was a brief time when my network went down due to an ISP glitch however has been working fine ever since. I am wondering, do newer versions of the tor relay software automatically reset if they detect the internet is unreachable? I also have one more question, around when does tor / homebrew drop support for older versions of an OS? I am asking this because the computer that runs this relay is a 2011 iMac, and Apple has confirmed it will run the new MacOS coming this year (Movari) however versions of macos afterwards are unconfirmed. Thanks all.

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Shutdown by ISP / Hoster? [was Albania]
by grarpamp 16 Aug '18

16 Aug '18

When these ISP's give their shutdowns and excuses, regardless of size of ISP, you could in turn... - Offer to work there, they probably need the help, and you get something from the experience. - Start your own, customers probably need the services, and would be willing to pay. Why vote with only your own customer dollars, when you can add your brain and voice into the production.

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Albania Hosting suspended my two relays
by arisbe 15 Aug '18

15 Aug '18

Greetings Tor Users, I wanted to pass along the death of two of my relays, one was a fallback directory and one exit, both on VPS hardware operated by Albania Hosting sh. a. I successfully operated the guard/middle node for three years without an abuse report. [0] Based on that success, I asked and was granted permission to operate an exit relay. [1] That relay went six months before the first abuse report. I responded to the first report promptly reviewing logs, checking for intrusion, etc. The second abuse report got me suspended. Both abuse reports were of the automated type. I did not see the second report until after suspension and by requesting it be forwarded. In the second instance there was reported one ftpd attack attempt over a period of 3600 seconds. Apparently, no further attempts were made. I was the first Tor relay in Albania and the first Tor exit relay as well so I'm very sad that this will end. I think the issue with Albania Hosting was not so much the automated abuse reports but the inconvenience dealing with me. To quote a recent Hosting email: "Actually we will not fight with such abuses, it is really not worth any penny." So, RIP... [0] TorNodeAlbania D3E5EDDBE5159388704D6785BE51930AAFACEC6F [1] TorExitAlbania 516D1B9E22484202322828D8CAC30325030017E2

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ExoneraTor has moved to Tor Metrics; [release] ExoneraTor 3.0.0
by Karsten Loesing 14 Aug '18

14 Aug '18

Hi, the ExoneraTor service (where one can "enter an IP address and date to find out whether that address was used as a Tor relay") has moved to the Tor Metrics website: https://metrics.torproject.org/exonerator.html Requests to the previous location are automatically redirected to the new location, which includes all permanent links written/printed on previous lookup results. The current plan is to leave redirects in place for the next 6 to 12 months, but if there's a good reason to keep them for longer, please let us know. Just in case you're wondering why we're making this change, it is part of a more long-term effort to bundle all user-facing Tor Metrics content on the Tor Metrics website. Over the past months and years this has affected the Onionoo protocol specification, CollecTor files, the Relay Search service, and now the ExoneraTor service, all of which have been moved over to the Tor Metrics website. At the same time of changing the location of Exonerator, we're releasing ExoneraTor 3.0.0 which redirects all requests to Tor Metrics. However, redirects can easily be disabled in src/main/resources/web.xml, if requests are supposed to be handled locally. Please direct any comments or questions to the (public) metrics-team mailing list: https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/metrics-team All the best, Karsten

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Onionoo protocol broken?
by Ralph Wetzel 14 Aug '18

14 Aug '18

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Re: [tor-relays] [tor-talk] anonymous file storage was "freehaven question".
by Lluís 14 Aug '18

14 Aug '18

Hi, Thanks for the information, pretty useful. I have visited Tahoe-LAFS, seems interesting. I couldn't contact "Aktie" however, maybe they block tor connections ? We should discuss it at "tor-talk", moderators could tell us we are off-topic. Cheers, Lluís mlnl: > Hi, > >> Maybe "anonymous file storage" is a better subject ? >> >> I'm posting it on tor-talk too, and we can follow the discussion >> there. >> >> And back to the topic, maybe it would be possible to set up a >> pilot-test so one could see how many use cases free haven could >> properly solve. >> >> If I didn't understand from "freehaven.net", just cyphering and >> splitting a file among many servers could be useful. > > I have used the Aktie application > <http://i2pwiki.i2p/index.php?title=Aktie> and Tahoe-LAFS with I2P for > filesharing some time and both worked fine. Something like that or OFS > or an distributed, "global OnionShare" (not only friend-to-friend), > povided over a Tor Onion Service client, would be imo fine to store, > share or online-backup files. Or is a more centralized anonymous data > (cloud) haven meant to store files permanently? >

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Will have to keep a close eye on this...
by Paul Templeton 14 Aug '18

14 Aug '18

In the Bill at https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about/consultations/assistance-and-access-bi… 137CF322859E400455E457DB920F65FFDD222CDF

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Question On Running A Tor Bridge Relay
by Keifer Bly 13 Aug '18

13 Aug '18

Hi All, So given that I am running my relay off of a home internet router (a Netgear Orbi Router) I am considering switching to running an obfuscated bridge. I am not sure I will do this, but have noticed that when my relay (torland at http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/router_detail.php?FP=db1af6477bb276b6ea5e7213…) Gets a lot of use, this can cause my computer I am running it on to get hot (It is a mid 2011 iMac with 8GB Ram running Mac OS High Sierra). It does not happen often, but does from time to time. I have also noticed that not often but occasionally when my relay is running, my router will lock up either for a few minutes or until I restart it. I do not know if this is related to my relay (I checked with Netgear support and was told the router is capable of about 60,000 simultaneous connections, 65,000 being the absolute maximum). The ISP is Charter Communications, and the internet speed generally alternates between 500-800 kb/s. I will maybe try running a bridge to cut down on the maximum number of connections I get, and have three questions. I have been running a public relay off my listed ip for some time but have a Dynamic IP so it should change from time to time. 1. What would be the most helpful PT to run? Obfs4 is the one I would most likely choose, and what countries are these being used in the most? 2. I looked on the tor website and could only find the instructions for installing PT on Linux at https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/PluggableTransports/obfs4…. Is there currently a way to install the PT for Obfs4 on Mac OS High Sierra (this would be installed via homebrew)? 3. Would it be possible to keep my current relay fingerprint? Thanks very much.

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Could/should I run a bw scanner authority?
by gustavo panizzo 12 Aug '18

12 Aug '18

Hello I run a relay (milanese) and an exit (sorrentini), both are located in Asia so the bw authority measures of their bw are not great. In one of the sites where i run this relays i have spare bandwidth to use (and i can't run an exit there) I'm thinking on running a bw authority to help mine and other's relays in Asia It is feasible to do that? Could a "regular" relay administrator run bw auth? Would somebody running a directory auth would scan my bw auth to check the results? How hard is the maintenance of this service? The setup is more complex than a relay but nothing that i cannot handle. However i wonder about the ongoing maintenance. I'd run it on a VM on Linode, I don't have access to physical hw thanks! -- IRC: gfa GPG: 0X44BB1BA79F6C6333

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public relay stats
by nusenu 11 Aug '18

11 Aug '18

Hi, if you are publishing traffic/bandwidth stats for your relays, please send me a pointer to them (off-list) thanks, nusenu -- https://twitter.com/nusenu_ https://mastodon.social/@nusenu

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Re: [tor-relays] [tor-talk] anonymous file storage was "freehaven question".
by Lluís 09 Aug '18

09 Aug '18

Maybe "anonymous file storage" is a better subject ? I'm posting it on tor-talk too, and we can follow the discussion there. And back to the topic, maybe it would be possible to set up a pilot-test so one could see how many use cases free haven could properly solve. If I didn't understand from "freehaven.net", just cyphering and splitting a file among many servers could be useful. Lluís grarpamp: >> The project called Free Haven never got finished, because of the hard >> research questions described on the front page: >> https://www.freehaven.net/ > > Where does (or should) the line or guidepath go on such projects > in the space between say bulletproof (for all, most, or some use cases), > and good enough for same? > > When does (or should) movement occur from one reasonably well > explored technology path, onto another exploration path combining > newer research / architecture / tech even if wholesale, when the former > is thought may no longer meet current / evolving threats for all, most, > or some use cases, as may have been rightly thought for the former > at its formative time in the past? > > Feel free to quote and rethread with a better subject > as this one is probably not a good fit. >

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Help us get recent cached consensuses from your relay
by teor 08 Aug '18

08 Aug '18

Hi, Due to a recent CollecTor outage, we are missing consensuses from 2018-08-04 19:00 to 2018-08-05 17:00 UTC. We can recover about 16 of the missing consensuses, but we are still looking for the older 7. If your relay is: * running 0.3.1.1-alpha or later, and it is only using gzip compression, * or it is running on Windows, then it might have some of these consensuses in the diff-cache directory in its DataDirectory (or CacheDirectory). You can run the following command to count the cached consensuses: $ cd diff-cache; cat * | grep -a ^document-type | sort | uniq -c 66 document-type consensus 190 document-type consensus-diff If you have more than 68 consensus files, please take a copy of the diff-cache directory, and let us know where we can download it. Your relay will delete 2 old consensuses every hour. If you’re reading this email N hours after it was sent, your relay needs 68 + 2*N consensuses. T -- teor Please reply @torproject.org New subkeys 1 July 2018 PGP C855 6CED 5D90 A0C5 29F6 4D43 450C BA7F 968F 094B ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Strange Traffic behaviour
by Tobias Sachs 06 Aug '18

06 Aug '18

Hey folks! My relay which is currently hibernating shows something strange. Hibernation is set to 19 TB’s of outgoing Traffic. Hetzner Cloud shows ~16TB outgoing traffic and the relays log itself 38TB. vnstat reports exactly 20.38 TiB tx so in conclusion Hetzner can not count there Bits and Bytes or the same as protection is not correct. Because if Hetzner’s stats are correct i would have send 3 TB’s of Traffic to other Tor servers and clients internally. Because internal traffic is not counted. I guess that a Juniper routers net flow tool is correct so how can i look at this? Because my second relay in Helsinki does have this too with a difference of 2 TB’s. "Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 27 days 1:39 hours, with 0 circuits open. I've sent 38486.76 GB and received 38489.42 GB. We are currently hibernating.“ When i divide that by two this gives me 19 TB’s of outgoing Traffic. So i guess that this is a bug? Thanks! Tobias

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contact for 'kommissarov'
by nusenu 05 Aug '18

05 Aug '18

Hi, please drop me an email if you are the operator of: https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/D1E99DE1E29E05D79F0EF9E083D1… thanks, nusenu -- https://twitter.com/nusenu_ https://mastodon.social/@nusenu

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Canned Abuse Response
by conrad＠rockenhaus.com 05 Aug '18

05 Aug '18

Hello, I'm just curious, does anyone happen to have a canned abuse response that contains the safe harbor provisions of the DCMA? I figured I would ask before I wrote up a really long email. Thanks, Conrad -- Conrad Rockenhaus Fingerprint: 8049 CDBA C385 C451 3348 776D 0F72 F2B5 26DA E93F Public Key: https://pgp.key-server.io/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x0F72F2B526DAE93F https://www.rockenhaus.com ------ Get started with GreyPony Anonymization Today! https://www.greyponyit.com

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Emails
by conrad＠rockenhaus.com 04 Aug '18

04 Aug '18

I'm suddenly without my tor-relays emails and I'm beginning to withdrawal.... test 1...2...3? Thanks, Conrad -- Conrad Rockenhaus Fingerprint: 8049 CDBA C385 C451 3348 776D 0F72 F2B5 26DA E93F Public Key: https://pgp.key-server.io/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x0F72F2B526DAE93F https://www.rockenhaus.com ------ Get started with GreyPony Anonymization Today! https://www.greyponyit.com

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Tor exit is running but persistently listed as offline by Relay Search
by Ralph Seichter 03 Aug '18

03 Aug '18

Folks, I can't figure out why Relay Search is listing the FreeBSD Tor exit node with fingerprint DB00AF98D21464157AF37BE071F858C56F5220F3 as offline. I have last rebooted the node approx. 24 hours ago, and according to the logs Tor is alive (and 'ps' shows Tor is consuming CPU cycles). I have verified IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity and cannot spot any trouble. Any ideas? The sister exit node (Debian) with near-identical config is chugging along fine. -Ralph

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NTP and tor
by Michael Brodhead 03 Aug '18

03 Aug '18

I brought up my first relay over the weekend and I am waiting for traffic to ramp up. In a few places I've read the suggestion to use NTP to keep the relay's clock in sync. Fair enough, but now there is a problem... I've been reading up on NTP a bit and using ntpdate to occasionally update the system time is now deprecated. We're supposed to run ntpd. Ntpd docs make it sound like ntpd needs to run a listener to function at all. I'd rather not add additional attack surface to my relay. Those of you who run relays, how are you keeping your system clock in sync? My relay is on FreeBSD 11. Thanks, ---mkb

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dir port on non exit
by TorGate 02 Aug '18

02 Aug '18

Hi again, is the dir port on a nonexit node a god ide ? TorGate torgate(at)linux-hus.dk

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Question regarding variables in torrc
by conrad＠rockenhaus.com 02 Aug '18

02 Aug '18

Hello All, I haven't had a chance to experiment with it yet, but can I source a variable from the tor startup script, let's say the IPv6 address of an instance, and define that within torrc as follows ORPort [$Instance_IPv6_ADDR]:443 I'm sure if it's possible it would of already been done. I just wanted to see if there was an easy fix for simplifying templates for end users. Thanks, Conrad -- Conrad Rockenhaus Fingerprint: 8049 CDBA C385 C451 3348 776D 0F72 F2B5 26DA E93F Public Key: https://pgp.key-server.io/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x0F72F2B526DAE93F https://www.rockenhaus.com ------ Get started with GreyPony Anonymization Today! https://www.greyponyit.com

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