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westonreed relays: please update 'MyFamily' in your torrc
by nusenu 20 Mar '17

20 Mar '17

Hi Weston, thanks for adding an exit relay. Please do not forget to set/update the MyFamily parameter in your torrc configuration to tell clients your relays belong to a single operator, otherwise they might use your relays in multiple positions within a circuit, which is rather bad for their anonymity. If you need help with the MyFamily option let us know. thanks, nusenu https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ornetstats/stats/master/o/potentially_dan… https://github.com/nusenu/ansible-relayor The counter in the last column should match the number of rows: +------------+----------------+-------------+---------------+ | first_seen | IP | nickname | FamilyMembers | +------------+----------------+-------------+---------------+ | 2017-01-27 | 70.122.214.59 | WestonReed | NULL | | 2017-03-01 | 104.236.233.99 | WestonReed2 | NULL | | 2017-03-10 | 40.69.160.83 | WestonReed3 | NULL | +------------+----------------+-------------+---------------+

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Over 55k eth RX errors
by patacca 19 Mar '17

19 Mar '17

Hi everyone, I am running an exit node[1] with nocix (previously known as datashack) and everything worked pretty well until the beginning of March when they moved the physical location of my dedicated server: since then I am registering a lot of eth0 errors[2] and, as atlas is showing, a lot of downtime. Note also that previously I've run the server for like a year without any single eth error! I've already contacted them asking to check the cables and they replied everything it's ok but I am starting to think that *it must be* some kind of hardware issue. I'd like to debug the issue furthermore to excude any software related problem but I don't know what to do, has anybody got a hint? Thanks, patacca [1] https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/2B72D043164D5036BC1087613830E2ED5C606… [2] http://pastebin.com/7ZYXmTGE

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Strange behaviour Tor 0.2.9.10
by Geoff Down 19 Mar '17

19 Mar '17

Hello list, my bridge/client has been behaving strangely the last few days. It took 36 hours to notice that my IP address had changed, and seems to be going into some sort of sleep state - automated curl fetches start failing, and keep failing until I manually curl to a well-known site, at which point everything else starts working. Anyone else having problems with 0.2.9.10? I've only been using it for a week. GD -- http://www.fastmail.com - Email service worth paying for. Try it for free

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Relay installation instructions
by Jeff Duncan 19 Mar '17

19 Mar '17

Hi I went to install a new relay today and found the guide on torproject.org had changed. I used to follow this page: https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-relay-debian.html.en and where it says : If you're on Ubuntu or if you want to track newer Tor packages, follow the Tor on Ubuntu or Debian instructions to use our repository. The link works but this link used to have instructions for installing from the tor project repositories and installing the gpg key. I do not see those instructions now. The debian instructions in section 1 installs tor 0.2.5.12-4 I logged into another relay and found the commands and repositories via the history command and I was able to install tor successfully. Is this an oversight? Did I just miss something? jmd

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CentOS Tor exit node broken after updating to 2.8.12
by Chris 16 Mar '17

16 Mar '17

Hello, I recently upgraded my tor version to 2.8.12 from 2.8.9(?) I think. Tor can now no longer bind to ports, as a regular user: /[warn] Could not bind to 0.0.0.0:43: Permission denied/ As root: /Feb 25 11:57:14.942 [notice] Opening OR listener on 0.0.0.0:43// //Feb 25 11:57:14.942 [notice] Opening Directory listener on 0.0.0.0:9030// //Feb 25 11:57:14.942 [notice] Closing partially-constructed Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050// //Feb 25 11:57:14.942 [notice] Closing partially-constructed Control listener on 127.0.0.1:9051// //Feb 25 11:57:14.942 [notice] Closing partially-constructed OR listener on 0.0.0.0:43// //Feb 25 11:57:14.942 [notice] Closing partially-constructed Directory listener on 0.0.0.0:9030// //Feb 25 11:57:14.942 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Failed to bind one of the listener ports.// / In the former case, I tried using eip to allow tor to bind to ports lower than 1024 but it made no difference. I suspect this an issue with the configuration of the server rather than tor. Where should I start? Best, Chris -- Protect your privacy: encrypt your communications GPG: CF7F98B2

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Aggressive abuse report
by Florentin Rochet 16 Mar '17

16 Mar '17

Hi list, I am running Kadoc[0] for a few weeks and got today a more aggressive complain from a System Administrator of my VPS provider. I seek for an appropriate response to not get banned. Does someone experienced a similar scenario and succeeded to educate the sys admins ? Here's the complain: /"It is running a Tor Exit, hence producing a false positive." is not a valid reason.// //You are the one responsible for the traffic generated on/trough your server, so you should make sure that no similar traffic will appear in future. Illegal actions are strictly prohibited in our network/servers.// //Please take immediate actions to stop this kind of activity./ I am almost sure that trying to argument that I am not responsible for the traffic generated through my Exit is not the right angle with such guy. Any ideas ? Best, Florentin Rochet [0] https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/171696AFDB589CA2C4978EED2C6A91153D2B9…

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Changing exit to bridge
by Volker Mink 15 Mar '17

15 Mar '17

Hey Folks. I am going to change my Exit to a Bridge or whatever. When im browsing the Web i receive tons auf capchas and my KODI mediacenter is unable to update itself. I have my private IP fromm y Internet connection listet on some blacklists. Thats bad. What can i do to contribute and support the TOR-Network without being bugged and limited on my own private Internet Connection? Hope you can help me with some cool suggestions. Best, volker

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[FYI] cymrubridge02 maintenance - quick reboot
by Sina Rabbani 14 Mar '17

14 Mar '17

Dear Team, cymrubridge02 (meek-azure) needs a reboot, it's going to be down for less than a min and will come right back up. > https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/8F4541EEE3F2306B7B9FEF1795EC302F6B84D… All the best, Sina -- Sina Rabbani | Systems Engineer | Team Cymru, Inc. srabbani(a)cymru.com | 0x53B422A8 | http://www.team-cymru.org/ "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

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Public ntop service
by David Goulet 13 Mar '17

13 Mar '17

Hello Relay Ops! Few days ago, the bad relay team found some public ntop service running on these relays on port 3000 for which they have no or an invalid contact info. If you are one of the operator, please close or lock it down else as a safety measure we'll have to reject those relays from the network. https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/D9B536F18046990722D365BFECABBC638B41B… https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/25990FC54D7268C914170A118EE4EE7502545… https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/DB866328A5D55EBD34B5BC293FFFDD43AD81C… https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/8FD69D4C0E5CFDCD6831DD6E2141A182FC7DE… The two have contacted directly with the contact info: https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/64EB3CBCCEB760B9F647FA1B9A4053339830B… https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/BC497E213E43B51F7A893A563EEF17A99271A… And thank you for running a relay! David -- pTh3sRks6H+86/1amEcmv0zbvLoS0CTrRupKHYXthlQ=

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0.2.9.10 dir port warning
by Logforme 13 Mar '17

13 Mar '17

Just upgraded my relay 855BC2DABE24C861CD887DB9B2E950424B49FC34 to 0.2.9.10 and now I get a new warning in the log file: Mar 13 12:02:22.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 100%: Done Mar 13 12:03:20.000 [warn] Cannot make an outgoing connection without a DirPort. Mar 13 12:03:21.000 [notice] Self-testing indicates your DirPort is reachable from the outside. Excellent. Publishing server descriptor. Everything is working fine, just curious about the warning. Is it an actual problem with my setup or a quirk of 0.2.9.10?

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Tor and CIA leak
by Arisbe 11 Mar '17

11 Mar '17

Is there anything in the CIA documents that Wikileaks posted relating to hacking Tor? What about email providers like riseup.net?

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Re: [tor-relays] [OrNetRadar] AS: "Choopa, LLC" - Linux (10)
by nusenu 11 Mar '17

11 Mar '17

Dear anonymous "Choopa 9001-9002" operator, care to set MyFamily? thanks! ornetradar(a)riseup.net: > 2017-03-10 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Up|Ext|JoinTime| IP | CC | ORp | Dirp |Version | ContactInfo | Nickname | eFamlen > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 1 | 0 |00:22:18| 45.32.202.200 | us | 9001 | 9002 |0.2.9.10 | None | Unnamed | 1 > 1 | 0 |00:39:36| 45.32.199.231 | us | 9001 | 9002 |0.2.9.10 | None | Unnamed | 1 > 1 | 0 |00:40:12| 45.32.197.4 | us | 9001 | 9002 |0.2.9.10 | None | Unnamed | 1 > 1 | 0 |00:40:39| 45.32.194.162 | us | 9001 | 9002 |0.2.9.10 | None | Unnamed | 1 > 1 | 0 |00:41:02| 45.32.205.53 | us | 9001 | 9002 |0.2.9.10 | None | Unnamed | 1 > 1 | 0 |00:44:30| 107.191.55.26 | us | 9001 | 9002 |0.2.9.10 | None | Unnamed | 1 > 1 | 0 |00:44:59| 45.32.199.108 | us | 9001 | 9002 |0.2.9.10 | None | Unnamed | 1 > 1 | 0 |00:47:23| 45.32.207.152 | us | 9001 | 9002 |0.2.9.10 | None | Unnamed | 1 > 1 | 0 |00:47:58| 45.32.198.47 | us | 9001 | 9002 |0.2.9.10 | None | Unnamed | 1 > 1 | 0 |00:48:33| 45.32.198.25 | us | 9001 | 9002 |0.2.9.10 | None | Unnamed | 1 > Fingerprints: > C64B6833524B8351EEF8FDE4D9A2863CB51EEE8C,38A7F414C38582AFE89966D2C2F932EFA2C551A6,A865D74F4B1E33154A4C9F15DEAF4EF0EA899105,CAC71217E92A4FCE6DCB9CF66453678544558FF3,58AF0F8399DC2922F9D9E858AC50686926865A7C,F07B49E54AEEE343385798583CFE76E8E3F15AC4,8BD3BE8BF1AB050EFCF72B4709020805178488C5,4487A3F83CF83BA6D2CF05A25F18EDFAF20577CD,D7914FA39A0B00F38DD2DF574A75CDCDE1DC2C7C,284FFF4CC98E0F66F1881E4C28E9FEF0AE299492 >

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Replacing secret key on exit
by Sec INT 11 Mar '17

11 Mar '17

Hi Ive been away and some of my exits dropped - I have bought a number of vps to restart my exits - is there a way that I can resurrect the previous exit that was running? I have saved the keys of the previous exit so do I just copy these over to the new exit to continue where I left off or is this not possible? Cheers Mark B Snaptor.co.uk (non commercial)

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Tor Exit & Law
by Sebastian Urbach 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

Hi, It is almost never a good idea to run an Exit@home: https://www.torproject.org/eff/tor-legal-faq.html.en -- Sincerely yours / M.f.G. / Sincères salutations Sebastian Urbach --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

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"wubthecaptain1" relay a year later, or why running a Tor exit at home is discouraged
by Juuso Lapinlampi 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 A year and a month later, I suppose it's a good time to share the experiences of running "wubthecaptain1" [1] exit relay from a residential IP-address. Or, the abuse reports and mail letters that came with it and why you shouldn't run a Tor exit at home. I started running this exit on 2016-02-02, [2] which has since been turned back to a middle relay in July 2016 due to abuse complaints. [3] At the time, I believe wubthecaptain1 was the second largest Tor exit in Finland, and if I recall correctly the only one not hosted at FlokiNET. In that time, I received an uncounted amount of abuse reports from my Internet service provider, tens or hundreds of malware infection incidents daily according to ISP's autoreporter logs, and one concern from NCSC-FI/CERT-FI (FICORA) regarding a suspicion of "botnet drone". I was also interrogated by Finnish police for alleged identity crimes, fraud and attempts of fraud (and needlessly had my personal rights violated, to my belief). [4] They have since frozen the investigation and don't suspect me to be responsible for the allegations. [5] I can't say for certain these investigations to have had anything to do with wubthecaptain1 exit specifically, but that's my best guess. Now, there's something new I'd like to share with this mailing list. Starting from December 2016, – long after the exit was turned into a middle relay – I've now been targeted by four different law firms representing copyright holders, demanding reimbursements for alleged copyright infringements from residential IP-addresses assigned to wubthecaptain1 Tor exit and threats to sue to market court. The parties involved and their reimbursement demands are: - Hedman Partners (on behalf of Crystalis Entertainment UG / Scanbox Entertainment A/S), Black Sails (S3E4) (150 EUR) / Taken 3 (900 EUR) - Tekijänoikeusturva TOT (on behalf of Interallip LLP), "Z-Nation" (900 EUR) - Adultia (on behalf of Copyright Management Services Ltd / Echo Alpha Inc), various adult pornography works (16600 EUR) - NJORD Law (on behalf of Nu Image, Inc), Survivor (550 EUR), Olympus Has Fallen (550 EUR), Automata (550 EUR) According to the letters, the aclaimed infringements have happened in early or mid-2016 while wubthecaptain1 was an exit. But they've only started sending these letters months after the aclaimed infringements and court decisions. One of the parties in particular was very well aware of me hosting a Tor exit on said IP-addresses, but still sent me demands – perhaps in hopes to "fraud" the recipient of money, given how this business of sending copyright letters works. They've since seemingly taken a word to aim their demands to the actual infringer instead of me as an Internet connection subscriber and former Tor exit operator. The other parties have been more ignorant and have continued delivering me letters titled "warning of suing to market court", despite efforts to educate about shared connection / Tor. The police in Finland is not interested in investigating these letters or their sending parties from what I've heard, claiming they are a "private dispute" between the parties out of legal scope. A journalist from national public-broadcasting company Yle has become interested in these copyright letters, and is expected to publish news about them sometime in this month at Yle MOT. (I've still yet to scan the latest two received letters to them.) Nonetheless I believe the law is on my side with non-liability, so I'm not concerned for my personal legal defence. If anyone is concerned, I've not agreed to any of the imbursements so far and I've not spent any money on a lawyer or legal advice. (Though, thanks to torservers.net for the offer earlier!) I've not counted how much bandwidth was actually served and contributed to the Tor network, but it was among lines of 90 Mbps for that time and that counts for a lot in months. Since turning it to a middle relay, the actual relayed bandwidth has dropped dramatically. We need more exit relays, especially in Finland too. Meanwhile, "partyvan1" [6] exit hosted at a datacenter (AS42708 Portlane AB) has received much less abuse reports (~10/year), though the bandwidth contributed is also smaller. Since it is registered in the RIPE database to Partyvan's contact addresses, I've not heard of one complaint from the ISP and it's been a smoother experience. [7] Hope this information was helpful to someone! If anything, this should discourage other operators from running a Tor exit from home. 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Running Tor relay inside Qubes
by William Denton 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

Has anyone tried running a Tor relay inside Qubes [1]? Would it work? Does it make sense? I run relays as myself, in a shell in tmux [2], compiled from the latest stable release. I'm wondering if using Qubes to isolate it on its own, away from anything else on the machine, could add a useful layer of security. Bill [1] https://www.qubes-os.org/ [2] https://tmux.github.io/ -- William Denton :: Toronto, Canada :: https://www.miskatonic.org/ Caveat lector.

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Logfile: Tor overloaded or attacked
by Petrarca 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

Hello all, I just got the following in my tor logfile: [warn] Your Guard GrmmlLitavis ($8C00FA7369A7A308F6A137600F0FA07990D9D451) is failing a very large amount of circuits. Most likely this means the Tor network is overloaded, but it could also mean an attack against you or potentially the guard itself. Success counts are 105/214. Use counts are 71/74. 194 circuits completed, 9 were unusable, 80 collapsed, and 9 timed out. For reference, your timeout cutoff is 60 seconds. Any idea what it really means - is Tor really overloaded or anyone aware of attacks; anything special I could or should do?

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(no subject)
by Даниил Орлов 07 Mar '17

07 Mar '17

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(no subject)
by Raymond Bordt 07 Mar '17

07 Mar '17

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new Atlas feature: Not Recommended Tor Version
by nusenu 07 Mar '17

07 Mar '17

I'd like to highlight a new Atlas feature [1]: Atlas now displays a red "!" if the relay runs a tor version that is not recommended by the tor directory authorities. Examples https://atlas.torproject.org/#/top10 Thanks to RaBe and irl for adding this. [1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/21367

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torpids family seems outdated
by Felix 05 Mar '17

05 Mar '17

Hi torpids AT yahoo dot com Thank you very much for so many relays labeled torpids*. Are there contradictions in the announcement of the family ? Torstatus [1] returns 32 family members and fingerprints. Altas [2] shows as biggest family section a number of 8 relays. The manual compare of the fingerprints shows to me: * 8 relay fingerprints match and are within the pronounced family * the other 24 relays are out of the pronounced family Is the observation correct ? [1] http:// jlve2y45zacpbz6s.onion/router_detail.php?FP=0cf8f3e6590f45d50b70f2f7da6605eca6cd408f [2] https:// atlas.torproject.org/#details/6B7191639E179965FD694612C9B2C8FB4267B27D -- Best regards, Felix

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www.artikel5ev.de relays: please update 'MyFamily' in your torrc
by nusenu 05 Mar '17

05 Mar '17

Hi artikel5ev, thanks for running tor relays. Please do not forget to set/update the MyFamily parameter in your torrc configuration to tell clients your relays belong to a single operator, otherwise they might use your relays in multiple positions within a circuit, which is rather bad for their anonymity. If you need help with the MyFamily option let us know. thanks, nusenu https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ornetstats/stats/master/o/potentially_dan… https://github.com/nusenu/ansible-relayor The counter in the last column should match the number of rows: +---------------------+--------------+---------------+ | first_seen | nickname | FamilyMembers | +---------------------+--------------+---------------+ | 2014-04-11 23:00:00 | dc6jgk2 | 20 | | 2014-05-17 21:00:00 | dc6jgk3 | 20 | | 2014-06-09 18:00:00 | dc6jgk1 | 20 | | 2014-08-04 19:00:00 | dc6jgk4 | 20 | | 2016-07-22 22:00:00 | h3rmi | 19 | | 2016-09-05 17:00:00 | dc6jgk5 | 20 | | 2016-10-06 23:00:00 | dc6jgk6 | 20 | | 2016-10-19 19:00:00 | artikel5ev1 | 20 | | 2016-10-29 00:00:00 | artikel5ev2 | 20 | | 2016-11-04 03:00:00 | dc6jgk7 | 20 | | 2016-11-06 23:00:00 | dc6jgk8 | 20 | | 2016-11-07 19:00:00 | artikel5ev3 | 20 | | 2016-11-11 02:00:00 | dc6jgk9 | 20 | | 2016-11-11 02:00:00 | dc6jgk11 | 20 | | 2016-11-11 02:00:00 | dc6jgk10 | 20 | | 2016-11-13 04:00:00 | dc6jgk12 | 20 | | 2017-02-05 20:00:00 | tweinbrenner | 19 | | 2017-03-01 22:00:00 | utzer1 | 19 | | 2017-03-01 23:00:00 | utzer1 | NULL | | 2017-03-02 01:00:00 | utzer2 | 19 | | 2017-03-03 15:00:00 | tweinbrenner | NULL | | 2017-03-05 01:00:00 | Artikel5ev6 | 16 | +---------------------+--------------+---------------+ 22 rows

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dipulse.it relays: please specify 'MyFamily' in your torrc
by nusenu 05 Mar '17

05 Mar '17

Hi, thanks for adding more tor relays. Please do not forget to set the MyFamily parameter in your torrc configuration to tell clients your relays belong to a single operator, otherwise they might use your relays in multiple positions within a circuit, which is rather bad for their anonymity. If you need help with the MyFamily option let us know. thanks, nusenu https://github.com/nusenu/ansible-relayor https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ornetstats/stats/master/o/potentially_dan… ornetradar(a)riseup.net: > 2017-02-19 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Up|Ext|JoinTime| IP | AS | CC | ORp | Dirp | OS | Version | Nickname | eFamlen > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 1 | 0 | 12:53:10 | 163.172.189.100 | Online S.a.s. | fr | 8443 | 8080 | Linux | 0.3.1.0-alpha-dev | DipulseFR15 | 1 > 1 | 0 | 12:49:39 | 163.172.181.240 | Online S.a.s. | fr | 8443 | 8080 | Linux | 0.3.1.0-alpha-dev | DipulseFR16 | 1 > 1 | 0 | 12:45:42 | 163.172.187.152 | Online S.a.s. | fr | 8443 | 8080 | Linux | 0.3.1.0-alpha-dev | DipulseFR14 | 1 > 1 | 0 | 12:51:17 | 163.172.183.161 | Online S.a.s. | fr | 8443 | 8080 | Linux | 0.3.1.0-alpha-dev | DipulseFR18 | 1 > 1 | 0 | 12:42:14 | 163.172.160.239 | Online S.a.s. | fr | 8443 | 8080 | Linux | 0.3.1.0-alpha-dev | DipulseFR13 | 1 > 1 | 0 | 12:52:08 | 163.172.183.220 | Online S.a.s. | fr | 8443 | 8080 | Linux | 0.2.8.12 | DipulseFR19 | 1 > 1 | 0 | 12:46:43 | 212.47.245.227 | Online S.a.s. | fr | 8443 | 8080 | Linux | 0.3.1.0-alpha-dev | DipulseFR12 | 1 > 1 | 0 | 12:55:27 | 212.47.236.157 | Online S.a.s. | fr | 8443 | 8080 | Linux | 0.3.1.0-alpha-dev | DipulseFR17 | 1 > 1 | 0 | 14:29:40 | 163.172.166.1 | Online S.a.s. | fr | 8443 | 8080 | Linux | 0.3.1.0-alpha-dev | DipulseFR11 | 1 > Fingerprints: > 5928164F3759E3710393E7DC1ED69FACB669BE82,0211F6543B8EB8BE2AAD17ABD05635BD135FFCF7,D3FA077CE59A2D13B6E6B8C62B04A2C03BAC784F,8D60E9C8DB03BE39159B8824680ACCBD642ACF62,AF59C8E3CBB0B2C34D2BDCBA55CD7282BAA22B22,B66760160753DD26A6FD1B4B87F9CB3D0EEACC2D,619B69FD8F3A4642E2E8E40B5E97D2875496C829,B5CFDBA1E8DAFE061C5D259BBC44BF994ACB8C26,EFDCB52BD37CDDEFDD38DEF3F6C7A60DCCF099EE >

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Relay not receiving Guard flag
by Norris Thomlinson 04 Mar '17

04 Mar '17

Hi all, I've had a relay running for 41 days, with Flags: Fast HSDir Running Stable V2Dir Valid...but no Guard flag. My impression from "Lifecycle of a new relay" at https://blog.torproject.org/blog/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay is that the Guard flag should be added within about 2 weeks of starting a relay. Is that post out of date? Or am I missing something I need to enable to allow my relay to be a Guard? Atlas entry for my relay: https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/9C2BF9B1E30EBB1A3836FA04BEEE8CC192CC1… Thanks! Norris Thomlinson Deep Green Resistance Webmaster

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Re: [tor-relays] [OrNetRadar] AS: "EDIS GmbH" - Linux (15)
by nusenu 03 Mar '17

03 Mar '17

If you added 15 relays on 2017-02-24 (yesterday) on AS38478, please consider setting ContactInfo and MyFamily in your torrc (and maybe a more recent tor version). thanks ornetradar(a)riseup.net: > 2017-02-24 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Up|Ext|JoinTime| IP | CC | ORp | Dirp |Version | ContactInfo | Nickname | eFamlen > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 1 | 0 |15:31:23| 124.248.229.138 | hk | 9001 | 9051 |0.2.8.9 | None | coast | 1 > 1 | 0 |15:33:47| 124.248.229.140 | hk | 9001 | 9051 |0.2.8.9 | None | crop | 1 > 1 | 0 |15:35:17| 124.248.238.194 | hk | 9001 | 9051 |0.2.8.9 | None | beach | 1 > 1 | 0 |15:39:10| 124.248.238.197 | hk | 9001 | 9051 |0.2.8.9 | None | queen | 1 > 1 | 0 |15:51:44| 124.248.229.142 | hk | 9001 | 9051 |0.2.8.9 | None | castle | 1 > 1 | 0 |17:27:16| 103.44.66.2 | None | 9001 | 9051 |0.2.8.9 | None | tennis | 1 > 1 | 0 |17:39:25| 103.27.126.28 | hk | 9001 | 9051 |0.2.8.9 | None | court | 1 > 1 | 0 |17:48:57| 103.44.66.4 | None | 9001 | 9051 |0.2.8.9 | None | waterfall | 1 > 1 | 0 |17:58:26| 103.44.66.5 | None | 9001 | 9051 |0.2.8.9 | None | camp | 1 > 1 | 0 |18:06:15| 103.27.126.27 | hk | 9001 | 9051 |0.2.8.9 | None | fighter | 1 > 1 | 0 |18:25:53| 43.242.174.35 | hk | 9001 | 9051 |0.2.8.9 | None | burn | 1 > 1 | 0 |18:38:11| 43.242.174.36 | hk | 9001 | 9051 |0.2.8.9 | None | leisure | 1 > 1 | 0 |18:46:30| 43.242.174.37 | hk | 9001 | 9051 |0.2.8.9 | None | clerk | 1 > 1 | 0 |18:55:48| 150.107.44.3 | hk | 9001 | 9051 |0.2.8.9 | None | servant | 1 > 1 | 0 |19:00:45| 150.107.44.2 | hk | 9001 | 9051 |0.2.8.9 | None | mankind | 1 > Fingerprints: > 25214D40CD1747A06FA2E695E48AED0E988ABA61,25214D43D1FDAF97EBCB68C282D7AA247A1BC487,25214D43CF6621FD4FBEB6FC654A29702965094D,25214D42EC6083C31E1709D86CEBEFFCD4BE1958,7053866617EA5FD3AC0B5D4EB8CE6EC792F99AF5,AB559BE305A7A63962944D32A69AEB2AF9EAC7DC,AB559BE25926F720890BDAE88407E1A676883304,AB559BE2CA986C0EDEFBD78B48621DD36C349AD4,AB559BE02A323465AB8C3D0BB18EA04A1F13E32F,203281E1A349FAA241B6A66456A5AFD1C5B49410,203281E3EBC4E8AB7F040AD8A86B8767A5F6F849,203281E0784DE0DFB5C39C714BBBBA39E76AAA61,203281E37E44A5ABCEA7880DA47895197E92D546,203281E1226E3C1EEBA522409109C847AB14A2B9,203281E27627443DB6FE5E06250DDDB6D9718A0C >

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Descriptor Published: never
by Jivan Amara 03 Mar '17

03 Mar '17

My relay, which was recently restarted has a value of 'never' for 'Descriptor Published'. Is this a problem & if so how would I remedy it? https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/880EA01C702B372843A309AAE71BCBE36213C…

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Remove IP from list of known Tor exit nodes
by Paw 02 Mar '17

02 Mar '17

Dear all, By mistake I routed exit traffic from my Tor exit node through an IP that is used for NAT'ing where I live, for a short time. So now the NAT ip is found on https://check.torproject.org/exit-addresses which is a bit unfortunate, since cloudFlare now does CAPCHA check on my NAT traffic. Is there a way to remove my NAT ip from the list of Tor exit nodes? The NAT address does not see any Tor traffic anymore. Best regards, Paw

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Re: [tor-relays] [tor-announce] Tor 0.2.9.10 is released
by Ralph Seichter 02 Mar '17

02 Mar '17

On 01.03.2017 22:18, Nick Mathewson wrote: > Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01 > [...] Starting this new version results in the following log entry: This version of Tor (0.2.9.10) is newer than any recommended version in its series, according to the directory authorities. Recommended versions are: 0.2.4.27,0.2.4.28,0.2.5.12,0.2.5.13,0.2.7.6,0.2.7.7,0.2.8.9,0.2.8.10,0.2.8.11,0.2.8.12,0.2.9.9,0.3.0.2-alpha,0.3.0.3-alpha Not sure if this is just informational or if it will affect Tor node operation. -Ralph

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I have an Alleged family member
by Arisbe 28 Feb '17

28 Feb '17

Hello all, I run a variety of Tor relays--most on VPS hosts. I recently added a small relay and updated my family members. Strangely, this last relay is tagged as an "alleged family member," even on itself [0]. It has been like this for over a month. I can't detect a typo. Any suggestions? [0] 04C095E0DAB8C28BC433677C4AE8F65CB7D7083C

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Lost guard flag, IPv6 problem?
by Sebastian Niehaus 26 Feb '17

26 Feb '17

Hi, my relay lost its guard flag and I don't know what might be the reason. The flag was lost before the last reboot (due to kernel upgrade) https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/7A32C9519D80CA458FC8B034A28F5F6815649… Any ideas on that? What bothers me too is: there is no IPv6 "Dir Address" although I did not change configuration. Some days ago, I hat IPv6 connectivity issues but they are resolved. Any hints on this? I am not sure if those problems are related to each other ... Thanks, Sebastian

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ansible relayor v0.2.1 released
by nusenu 26 Feb '17

26 Feb '17

Hi, relayor v0.2.1 has been released. blog post to get you started: https://medium.com/@nusenu/deploying-tor-relays-with-ansible-6612593fa34d GPG signing key fingerprint: pub 4096R/4D705DE9 2016-02-11 [expires: 2018-07-30] Key fingerprint = A7B5 DB91 CE04 C9E0 BE66 446B 8CBE 52BD 4D70 5DE9 regards, nusenu

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Is there a logical limit of MyFamily members?
by John Ricketts 25 Feb '17

25 Feb '17

All, I have 30 nodes now and my year end I intend to run enough to reach 6% of exit probability. I want to know if there is a logical limit per family. Thanks! John

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PuTTY 0.68 released on 2017-02-21
by I 24 Feb '17

24 Feb '17

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html

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Provider Suggestion, Scaleway
by Volker Mink 24 Feb '17

24 Feb '17

Hey there J I just want to name a good provider for TOR Relays and Exits. I am running a small VPS on Scaleway.com , which costs me about 3€ a month. Unlimited traffic! Scaleway is running ARM-systems, so ArchLinux is recommended. Check my Exit on Atlas: https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/2D31C2099EB65577F5106154DDCAA6C3EAD6B… best, volker

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New Relay Operator: Hostname
by colin＠awakening.io 24 Feb '17

24 Feb '17

Hello! I have just started up a new exit node using nusenu's wonderful Ansible scripts (thank you kindly). I would like the hostname to be public, I wonder if I have misconfigured as the hostname does not display here: https://torstatus.blutmagie.de/router_detail.php?FP=b0a8f23372309d3589e70bd… I have the following in my configuration: ORPort 198.100.159.72:9000 DirPort 198.100.159.72:9001 Address tor-exit-01.awakening.io Any thoughts? - Colin

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New Tor relay
by Luca Tortiglione 22 Feb '17

22 Feb '17

Hi all! I'm paying a VPS to run a tor relay. I hope it will go well. Glad to belong to the family by helping the community. Of course, I'm runnin Tor 0.2.9.9 on Debian. Thank you. -- L.

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large server farms
by contact＠charlieluna.com 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

I'm highly interested in us creating a large server farm for Tor services. The only question is how to get the coaxial cable ran from the server facility to each subscriber. The power requirements could be handled by solar and wind systems and any water needs can be created by means of water collection systems and solar heat collectors for hot water. I think it's totally feasible. What do you guys think? Also, I'm very hardcore about taking back the internet for the people. No more of this for-profit stuff where we get throttled and our freedom of speech is abridged. Internet for the people is a means of freedom of speech. Let's take it back.

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Bandwidth Measurement
by Marcobr 20 Feb '17

20 Feb '17

Hey everyone, as far as I know, the DAs running the bwauth scripts conduct hourly bandwidth measurements. Depending on the advertised bandwidth of the relay node, a smaller/bigger file gets transmitted on a custom 2-hop-circuit and the transmission time determines the actual bandwidth. Now, here is my problem: Assuming that my relay node advertised 50MB/s, and is currently at 98% load (49 MB/s). To conduct the measurement, the bwauth script will send a 8MB file over my relay, but since it can only serve another 1MB/s, how will the bwauth script determine that my advertised 50MB/s is correct?

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Re: [tor-relays] tor-relays Digest, Vol 73, Issue 29
by contact＠charlieluna.com 20 Feb '17

20 Feb '17

On 2017-02-20 04:00, tor-relays-request(a)lists.torproject.org wrote: > Send tor-relays mailing list submissions to > tor-relays(a)lists.torproject.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > tor-relays-request(a)lists.torproject.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > tor-relays-owner(a)lists.torproject.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of tor-relays digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. large server farms (contact(a)charlieluna.com) > 2. Re: large server farms (teor) > 3. Re: large server farms (Duncan) > 4. Re: large server farms (I) > 5. Re: large server farms (niftybunny) > 6. Re: large server farms (anondroid) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2017 16:44:25 -0800 > From: contact(a)charlieluna.com > To: tor-relays(a)lists.torproject.org > Subject: [tor-relays] large server farms > Message-ID: <457551c757ee4a355917f577d2f9a7ba(a)charlieluna.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > I'm highly interested in us creating a large server farm for Tor > services. The only question is how to get the coaxial cable ran from > the > server facility to each subscriber. The power requirements could be > handled by solar and wind systems and any water needs can be created by > means of water collection systems and solar heat collectors for hot > water. I think it's totally feasible. What do you guys think? > > Also, I'm very hardcore about taking back the internet for the people. > No more of this for-profit stuff where we get throttled and our freedom > of speech is abridged. Internet for the people is a means of freedom of > speech. Let's take it back. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 11:47:46 +1100 > From: teor <teor2345(a)gmail.com> > To: tor-relays(a)lists.torproject.org > Subject: Re: [tor-relays] large server farms > Message-ID: <E696CA8C-A1A6-4D14-8B3C-E901C81E7D55(a)gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > >> On 20 Feb 2017, at 11:44, contact(a)charlieluna.com wrote: >> >> I'm highly interested in us creating a large server farm for Tor >> services. The only question is how to get the coaxial cable ran from >> the server facility to each subscriber > > Tor is a decentralised network, that's designed to be secure even if > users aren't directly connected to their network entry points. > > Can you tell us what you're trying to achieve for users by centralising > Tor services like this? > > (And what services you intend to provide?) > > T > > -- > Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) > > teor2345 at gmail dot com > PGP C855 6CED 5D90 A0C5 29F6 4D43 450C BA7F 968F 094B > ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6n > xmpp: teor at torproject dot org > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >

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Is my relay alive?
by Ian Zimmerman 18 Feb '17

18 Feb '17

Hello, I started running a relay on my server [1] about 10 days ago. I checked the log to see about the self test and everything lloked OK. But even today there is only one file in the stats subdirectory: dirreq-stats. Is that normal? The "lifecycle" document tells me I should see normal traffic beginning around day 8. Is there a human-readable realtime (or close) list of relays? I see people posting here tables like the following, where do they come from? > 1 | 0 |01:02:35| 64.137.243.13 | ca | 9001 | 9030 |0.2.8.8 | noah.holland(a)aol.com | phenomenamomentaryh | 1 > 1 | 0 |02:24:58| 64.137.172.121 | ca | 9001 | 9030 |0.2.8.8 | enriquehanson56(a)gmail.com | UwFrNxQgYtBeMv | 1 > 1 | 0 |04:10:09| 45.62.244.240 | ca | 9001 | 9030 |0.2.8.8 | kmjapiji(a)mail.com | 9U5Cs7gu3XTORY | 1 > 1 | 0 |04:17:13| 45.62.252.66 | ca | 9001 | 9030 |0.2.8.8 | jjzwpy(a)yahoo.com | 8z4w2t6qteADFfb6 | 1 > 1 | 0 |12:45:39| 64.137.197.233 | ca | 9001 | 9030 |0.2.8.8 | malvina.maybury(a)gmail.com | CHWMSRVU | 1 > 1 | 0 |13:20:17| 64.137.189.77 | ca | 9001 | 9030 |0.2.8.8 | pwcrack(a)pwcrack.com | CACpwcrackgnt4 | 1 [1] 173.255.215.69 -- Please *no* private Cc: on mailing lists and newsgroups Personal signed mail: please _encrypt_ and sign Don't clear-text sign: http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html

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Proselytizing Tor at the General Strike
by Kenneth Freeman 18 Feb '17

18 Feb '17

On February 17, the day before Presidents Day, a general strike shall be held against any and all things Trump. If Boise is having an activists workshop, then there are plenty of tranches of fertile ground nationwide to plant Tor browsers, relays, and exit nodes. http://sfist.com/2017/02/02/nationwide_general_strike_gains_tra.php http://strike4democracy.com/ https://www.facebook.com/events/1756631744665376/ There's activism, and then there's activism. I would steer clear of actual OpSec unless you're in the right milieu. I have been told in introducing Tor that it can be difficult to conceptualize. I always tell people that your privacy is more configurable than you may realize, and that privacy horizons differ. Get down. Get encrypted.

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Shutdown of TorLand1
by tor-admin＠torland.is 16 Feb '17

16 Feb '17

Hi all, after 5 years of operation I will shutdown TorLand1 (https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/E1E922A20AF608728824A620BADC6EFC8CB8C…) on February 17 2017. During the time of operation it pumped almost 6 PetaByte of exit traffic. Compared to the amount of traffic, the number of complains were quite low. Around 1-2 complains per week with a reduced exit policy. Two times I was contacted by LE via email. When I started the exit relay there were around 20-30 high capacity relays available. Today compass shows 180 95+ MBit/s exits. TorLand1 was operated and paid by me without an organization like torservers, nos onions, etc. I hope others will step up and run high capacity exits. The Tor network needs your help. I will continue to run a meek bridge. Regards, torland

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Connectivity issues; disabling my relay
by Steven Chamberlain 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '17

Hello! My non-exit Tor relay "4pyro2eu3org0" in the United Kingdom is served by a consumer FTTC broadband line. It had a rare, unexplained outage on 2016-01-19 between 00:00 and 02:00 UTC. Two other lines with the same provider, terminating in the same local telephone exchange, were unaffected. When it came back, latency was different (lower) than before, to the first hop (the LNS in Birmingham) suggesting ATM traffic maybe taking a different (faster) route through BT's network *or* just my modem having resynced with different modulation. (Smokeping graph attached). But what concerns me, are intermittent bursts of packet loss (for about 3 seconds, happening every 10-60 seconds) which have been happening for more than 24 hours since. My ISP has checked with BT and assures me no maintenance work was scheduled that night; they see in their logs that my PPP session dropped at that time but believe no other customers at my local telephone exchange were affected. I consider that - whatever may be causing this - this kind of interruption to Tor relay traffic, could make timing attacks easier for an observer. So I'm shutting down my relay until this can be explained and fixed. At the very least, I should replace the BT Openreach-supplied VDSL modem (Huawei HG521) or its firmware with something I have more control over (and third parties have less control over...) Here's how the issue looks in mtr (at 1-second intervals); it affects all IP traffic. Maybe this is something benign, but I encourage other relay operators to be vigilant nonetheless. 1. 217.155.40.118 (Tor relay) ................................................................................... 2. 62.3.80.17 (LNS) .........................???......................???............???............... 3. x.x.x.x (test machine on same ISP) .........................???......................???............???............... and in reverse: 1. x.x.x.x (test machine on same ISP) ................................................................................... 2. 62.3.80.17 (LNS) ................................................................................... 3. 217.155.40.118 (Tor relay) .........................???......................???............???............... Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain steven(a)pyro.eu.org

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[OrNetRadar] loskiq exit relays
by nusenu 14 Feb '17

14 Feb '17

Hi Amir, thanks for adding so many tor exit relays. You might want do consider rejecting port 25 in your ExitPolicy, that is the default: https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en#ExitPolicy Also please set the MyFamily in your torrc https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en#MyFamily If you need help with that let us know. thanks, nusenu ornetradar(a)riseup.net: > 2017-02-11 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Up|Ext|JoinTime| IP | AS | CC | ORp | Dirp | OS | Version | Nickname | eFamlen > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 1 | 1 | 09:34:02 | 13.94.150.167 | Microsoft Corpo | nl | 8080 | 21 | Linux | 0.2.9.9 | loskiq | 1 > 1 | 1 | 13:20:08 | 13.74.174.90 | Microsoft Corpo | ie | 8080 | 21 | Linux | 0.2.9.9 | loskiq | 1 > 1 | 1 | 10:30:29 | 13.81.62.91 | Microsoft Corpo | nl | 8080 | 21 | Linux | 0.2.9.9 | loskiq | 1 > 1 | 1 | 15:10:13 | 40.69.73.77 | Microsoft Corpo | ie | 8080 | 21 | Linux | 0.2.9.9 | loskiq | 1 > 1 | 1 | 20:00:54 | 40.118.98.190 | Microsoft Corpo | nl | 8080 | 21 | Linux | 0.2.9.9 | loskiq | 1 > 1 | 1 | 11:37:42 | 13.73.158.253 | Microsoft Corpo | nl | 8080 | 21 | Linux | 0.2.9.9 | loskiq | 1 > 0 | 0 | 11:56:32 | 104.47.155.162 | Microsoft Corpo | nl | 8080 | 21 | Linux | 0.2.9.9 | loskiq | 1 > 1 | 0 | 17:03:54 | 13.69.10.96 | Microsoft Corpo | nl | 8080 | 21 | Linux | 0.2.9.9 | loskiq | 1 > 1 | 0 | 15:36:37 | 52.164.227.83 | Microsoft Corpo | ie | 8080 | 21 | Linux | 0.2.9.9 | loskiq | 1 > 1 | 1 | 09:49:38 | 104.46.34.192 | Microsoft Corpo | nl | 8080 | 21 | Linux | 0.2.9.9 | loskiq | 1 > 1 | 0 | 16:34:04 | 13.81.114.52 | Microsoft Corpo | nl | 8080 | 21 | Linux | 0.2.9.9 | loskiq | 1 > Fingerprints: > EBCFE46B8B756B44EC93BD833804C80341EB61CC,4896D07700198BE676543CC7F29A117C9DB8EE41,425C84600D0FD3781A553BD29D4E8782AB580120,4FAFBB649045A5C466ABBE6D702A55914DA2BEA7,05DBC69C4E392F83AF5C3F803913A3907E91DD6D,5245785C5CEBB51DD7CD9BBBB649AFE3FF5A85AD,1BFA55620CFC63B6ECE80877E282526E6F493903,7CCC661464AA0A954D2584B06D411175AFC91533,7E327AC4A36679C2A0A8F694B81CD182DB0E8560,0775CC3939EC0B749377EB53DFFEEA7E41F4CE82,5743EF596F776B20B1F0F551A9BF4EFCCE2E07EE >

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Normal to lose stable/guard flags on relay reboot?
by Jivan Amara 13 Feb '17

13 Feb '17

Hi all, I recently rebooted a server hosting a relay (XOXXOX). Traffic plummeted to zero for five days and the relay lost all its flags except fast/running/valid. The server was down less than a minute. Is this normal?

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My first relay is running
by Juan Guillermo Narvaez 13 Feb '17

13 Feb '17

Hello everyone! I'm start running my Tor relay today. Now what? =) -- J. Guillermo Narvaez @_aran0id

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Reminder: If you are on 0.2.9.x, make sure you are running 0.2.9.9
by Nick Mathewson 12 Feb '17

12 Feb '17

Hi, awesome relay operators! About two weeks ago, we put out 0.2.9.9, to fix a significant problem in our build process that led to an easy remote crash attack: o Major bugfixes (security): - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option, like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001); bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. If you are on some earlier version of 0.2.9.x, it would be really great if you could update your relay some time soon: I want to put out a fix for the underlying bug here, but I'm hesitant to do so while there are still 700 crashable relays on the network. Also if you are on 0.3.0.1-alpha, you should upgrade to 0.3.0.2-alpha or later, but there are only around 53 relays still on that version, so I'm freaking out less about that. best wishes and many thanks, -- Nick

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Reaching out to webiron
by Andrew Deason 11 Feb '17

11 Feb '17

I run an exit node, and as such, I get abuse emails like this from time to time: <https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2015-October/007982.html> Mostly I ignore them, but since their automated report contains the sentence "Please feel free to send us your comments or responses.", every so often I send something to complain about their practices. To my surprise, apparently somebody does actually read these because today I got a reply. I'm not reproducing the entire response here without permission (they seem kinda touchy), but the person that replied did mention that they have some kind of rbl "in beta" regarding tor exits. They seemed to imply that doing so was quite a burden on them, though, which I don't really understand (IME blocking tor exits is easy; intentionally so). I'm trying to keep the conversation going, but I was wondering if anyone from the tor project has tried to reach out to them in some kind of official way? I'm just some random guy, so I don't know if it would be preferable for someone more knowledgeable, or with more access to tor infrastructure, to be conversing with them. (e.g. teor) I assume some people will say this isn't even worth the effort; it's not like it's hard to just ignore those reports. But it doesn't take much effort to just try to talk ot them, and it perhaps helps to give tor a reputation of cooperation and helpfulness. -- Andrew Deason adeason(a)dson.org

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Re: [tor-relays] Reminder: If you are on 0.2.9.x, make sure you are running 0.2.9.9
by Mick 09 Feb '17

09 Feb '17

Sorry, I thought I had. I must have hit the wrong reply button. Now copied in. Apologies for the top post.......On 9 Feb 2017 21:58, Roger Dingledine wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 09:57:03PM +0000, mick wrote: > > Done > > > > Now running 0.2.9.9. > > Thanks! Can you send this to the list too, for completeness? > > Or, do you mind if I do that? > > --Roger >

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Hostname in DirAuthority config
by Andrew Smith 09 Feb '17

09 Feb '17

Hi I'm experimenting running my own tor network. To achieve this I'm setting DirAuthority in torrc. But it seems that I cannot use a hostname for my DirAuthority. For example: DirAuthority da1 orport=7000 no-v2 v3ident=xxx da1:7000 xxx Results in the error: Unrecognized flag 'da1:7000' on DirAuthority line If I replace "da1" with an IP address there is no error. Is this expected behaviour? I'm running tor v0.2.8.12. The documentation calls this an "address" (as opposed to other parts which refer to an "IP") which made me think a hostname would work. Thanks -- Andy Smith http://andrewmichaelsmith.com | @bingleybeep

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