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253 new exits - up and down
by Corl3ss 02 Nov '20

02 Nov '20

Hi, today 253 new exit nodes joined the network : https://onionoo.torproject.org/summary?search=apokaliz It was active for 12 hours and then down. It is enough odd to report it here. If you have any information about it, it will be a pleasure to read it. Corl3ss

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Re: [tor-relays] Log warning : possible (zlib) compression bomb on middle relays
by trooned 02 Nov '20

02 Nov '20

I see the same warnings on my bridge (uptime since last restart about 3 days) as well. Nov 02 04:52:10.000 [warn] Possible compression bomb; abandoning stream. Nov 02 04:52:10.000 [warn] Possible compression bomb; abandoning stream. Nov 02 04:52:10.000 [warn] Possible zlib bomb; abandoning stream. Nov 02 04:53:10.000 [warn] Possible zlib bomb; abandoning stream. Nov 02 04:53:10.000 [warn] Possible zlib bomb; abandoning stream. Nov 02 04:54:10.000 [warn] Possible compression bomb; abandoning stream. Nov 02 04:54:10.000 [warn] Possible compression bomb; abandoning stream. Nov 02 04:55:10.000 [warn] Possible compression bomb; abandoning stream. Regards, TrooNed

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Relays for 5G smartphones
by David Poulsen 01 Nov '20

01 Nov '20

Dear Sirs, I've been experiencing a lot of "weird" traffic to/from the Danish State's welfare and app for corona-virus testing answers! I am using 4G Orbot, RiseUp VPN and Tor Browser, Tor Browser (Alpha), but also with Proton VPN and ordinary browsers like Firefox & Chromium browsers are very unstable. I have gathered a lot of screendumps and logs, and I am sure somebody hat taken over their site, and Duckduckgo redirects all the traffic to these sites where NemID, has to confirm wh you are, when trying to get answers for the corona-test! These sites are: sundhed dot dk coronaprover dot dk There are no problems accessing these sites, with the correct setup of security settings for me! FYI the sundhed dot dk is owned by the Danish Welfare & Heakth system with an app called MinSundhed, which also have weird traffic redirections! Regards David Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email.

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How long does it take for a relay IP to stop being displayed in metrics and web service?
by shsmbcfdfk 31 Oct '20

31 Oct '20

Hi, I setup a non-exit relay on my home network and I have been listed as relay. So now me and my family even if we don't use Tor we are excluded from some online services. Beyond the discussion of whether the owners of these services understand Tor or not, it's a problem that the address is added to public lists, especially for non-exit relays. I completely shut down the relay several hours ago but my IP is still listed. My question is how long does it take for a relay to disappear ? Thanks,

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Re: [tor-relays] Snowflakes
by entensaison＠use.startmail.com 31 Oct '20

31 Oct '20

Hi Toralf and Gus, Thanks for your replies! On Wednesday, October 28, 2020 at 4:11 PM, Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster(a)gmx.de> wrote: > On 10/26/20 5:32 PM, entensaison(a)use.startmail.com wrote: >> Hi everybody, >> I'm not sure this is the right list to ask, but is it useful to run >> snowflake proxies? > I'd say yes. > > FWIW I do run it as a ordinary Linux service (git clone + go build) > instead as a plugin in my browser here under Gentoo Linux at my > desktop. > So the proxy runs even if I close the browser. > > FWIW the plugin tells me : > > Number of users your Snowflake has helped circumvent censorship in > the > last 24 hours: 5 > > :-) > > -- > Toralf > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays(a)lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

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How to manually change overloaded Guard?
by petrarca＠protonmail.ch 31 Oct '20

31 Oct '20

Since tonight I can't get any usable Tor connections anymore; restarting Tor gives the following error message: Guard TOR2DFNrelB ($0ED0EA324C931CF41CB5272BFB1D015B3D5772A9) is failing more circuits than usual. Most likely this means the Tor network is overloaded. Success counts are 152/217. Use counts are 45/59. 167 circuits completed, 13 were unusable, 2 collapsed, and 51 timed out. For reference, your timeout cutoff is 60 seconds. Any idea how to change the Guard - just restarting Tor doesn't help?

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Snowflakes
by entensaison＠use.startmail.com 28 Oct '20

28 Oct '20

Hi everybody, I'm not sure this is the right list to ask, but is it useful to run snowflake proxies? I only recently realized they can be run by ordinary people. On the new website I don't see how you would find that out, there doesn't seem to be any link pointing to them. Metrics only shows a hundred snowflake users. What is the reason they are not advertised for? (towards humans) Have a nice day!

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Re: [tor-relays] Fw: Can't update tor relay on Debian, and notice about tor log file
by Keifer Bly 27 Oct '20

27 Oct '20

Torix, I just tried your workaround, the issue still occurs. Thank you. --Keifer On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 1:58 PM <torix(a)protonmail.com> wrote: > Dear Keifer, > > Just guessing here, but have you tried reverting your sources.list to http? > > As for the notices and notices.1, this seems like normal linux log > rotation. See if you don't have an /etc/logrotate.d/tor file that gives > the structure of how the tor log is handled. Mine is set to rotate to a > new file daily, so notices.log is renamed to notices.log.1, and the new log > is notices.log. Notices.log.1 is zipped up to notices.2.tgz, and so on, and > the last 5 days of files are kept before being deleted. > > --Torix > > > Sent with ProtonMail <https://protonmail.com> Secure Email. > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On Tuesday, October 27, 2020 8:30 PM, Keifer Bly <keifer.bly(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi all, so for my bridge at > > > https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/EF36AE38C162E96E0645E1DF25EF… > > > > I am some reason unable to update tor and obfs4 to the newest version. Upon running sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y --only-upgrade tor > > > > I am getting an error saying that updating from such a resprrtory can’t be > done securely and is therefor disabled by default. I have the following > entered in Debian file /etc/apt/sources.list: > > > > > > deb https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org focal main > deb-src https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org focal main > > > > So am not sure why it thinks this is insecure. > > > > Another thing I noticed, it seems that for some reason, for the tor > traffic log file, it switches from writing to notices.log to notices.log.1 > automatically after a while, this happened on both my bridge and my relay > though I did not tell it to do this. > > > > I wonder why the update error is happening, thank you. > > >

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recently saw 4 tor relays in row on tails. bug in tor?
by BRBfGWMz 26 Oct '20

26 Oct '20

I recently saw a series of 4 relays connected to each other: itomori, MediumSlesmn, hotbrownie, pellidos itomori, docto, Geheimschreiber, 420isGay Dont most relays in the network of length 3? Bug in tor? \-- Sent using MsgSafe.io's Free Plan Private, encrypted, online communication For everyone. https://www.msgsafe.io

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relay got suspended
by Paul Geurts 25 Oct '20

25 Oct '20

hi y'all, one of my relays got suspended today, because of heavy ddos traffic. *Hello,* *Today your VPS IP address was heavily attacked by a large DDoS, so we were forced to suspend the VPS and null the IP for the time being, since it had overloaded our upstream provider. We are keeping an eye on the situation, however in the meantime you will want to get your site behind a DDoS filter such as CloudFlare.* *Let us know if you have any further questions.* *Thank you!* *Adam* has any of you see this behauvior? I think there is no use in putting a relay behind a ddos filter, or is there? In that case I'll just spin up another one. relay in question is this one, almost 7 months with no interuption what so ever, no indication in the (munin) monitoring for high or higher traffic... because the vps is suspended I don't have the latest syslog so I don't know for sure whether anything has shown up there, but I am quite sure that yesterday there were no abnormal logging entries on this server. https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/CDE4149F0DC65A7BE1AE440340BE… rgds,. Paul

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