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The “tor-relay” Well-Known Resource Identifier - IANA registration
by nusenu 07 Aug '20

07 Aug '20

Hi, as already sent to the tor-dev mailing list a week ago I planning to submit a well-known URI registration ( https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8615 ) so the verifyurl is at a static place and no longer needs to be specified explicitly. Please let me know if you have any comments. https://nusenu.github.io/tor-relay-well-known-uri-spec/ kind regards, nusenu -- https://mastodon.social/@nusenu

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West Coast US Tor Relays Slow - Low Consensus Weight versus East Coast
by Neel Chauhan 06 Aug '20

06 Aug '20

Hi network-health@/tor-relays@ mailing lists, I noticed one thing: Tor relays on the West Coast US (and Canada) are generally slower than those on say the East Coast and in Europe. I moved to the West Coast this January, but this was not an issue in the past when looking at dedicated servers I had from the West Coast prior to this year. These are two middle relay instances on an Gigabit FTTH connection (Wave G in Redmond, WA): https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/B0F9BA27944FA59E3B1A182208FF… https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/DB710B14D7329B7289CFCC547F48… The Consensus Weight often is slower than the Advertised Bandwidth, and isn't ramping up despite having lots of bandwidth. I set RelayBandwidthRate to about 500 Mbps on each instance. This isn't just a Wave G problem, this affects almost every relay in the West Coast including other Gigabit ISPs such as AT&T (AS7018) and Sonic (AS46375), as well as hosting companies and colocation facilities. For instance, my Los Angeles-based Exit relays at Psychz Networks (AS40676) show this issue (however they are new): https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/156AAC3FAD1ACC8906316519DCB4… https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/A69CEB30328B1E85C6B167FECAF2… Even Emerald Onion has this issue: https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/09DCA3360179C6C8A5A20DDDE1C5… What is causing this issue and is there a solution? Is it backbone congestion due to COVID-19? The high load on dirauths? sbws regressions? Can I help fix this issue? I am a Core Tor contributor and am open to also working on sbws. Is there a way to optimize my relays (they run FreeBSD). -Neel === https://www.neelc.org/

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FreeBSD Relays in VMware VSphere
by MacLemon 06 Aug '20

06 Aug '20

Hi! We've been having serious networking problems with a FreeBSD VM in VMware VSphere for several months now. The symptom is that network throughput slowly degrades and packet loss increases until your VM is unable to transmit any meaningful data. (Cannot SSH in anymore, etc. We're talking literally BITS per second bad.) We've been suspecting the vmx(8) networking driver for some time and now there's an update to the driver available in FreeBSD 12.1-p8. So if you're running a Relay on FreeBSD under VSphere, this should fix the issue. https://bsdsec.net/articles/freebsd-announce-freebsd-errata-notice-freebsd-… We hope that our two-in-one FreeBSD relay will be stable and passing traffic again! C3WLittleGem https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/B1F09810C4F7B9D30F483DCE3891… C3WPhantomStreak https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/C04850673F655A91F5AD3C06E1E5… C3W Family Members: https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/family:C04850673F655A91F5AD3C… Best regards MacLemon for the Chaos Computer Club Vienna/Austria

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Exit relay: ERROR -- No Descriptor Available
by raspitor 05 Aug '20

05 Aug '20

After running an exit relay for a few days I see the message: ERROR -- No Descriptor Available on the torstatus.rueckgr.at site, and the traffic of my exit node is almost zero, also seen in nyx. Rebooting the system restarts everything normal and it is listed on the ruckgraet site, but after a day or so the problem occurs again. What might ne the cause of this?

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Should I use Tor Alpha on my relays
by Sebastian Elisa Pfeifer 01 Aug '20

01 Aug '20

Hello, I am currently running Tor from the Tor Repositories on Debian Stable. Its working ok, but I was wondering if the network would benefit if I would start using Tor Alpha? Greetings, Sebastian

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Recently very low Consensus Weight
by tor_this_too＠aol.com 01 Aug '20

01 Aug '20

Hi everyone, this is my first ever post on a mailinglist, so bare with me if I'm doing it wrong... I've been running a relay for some time now and recently the traffic dropped neraly completely https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/564A7F1D0314125AF60096CDE0A8… Consensus Weight is down to 71 and I wonder why this is the case? The relay was recently rebooted (just in case) and all other traffic I may initiate from this server is without a problem and at max speed. Any ideas?

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Upgrading Linux Mint to Ulyana
by Anonforpeace 30 Jul '20

30 Jul '20

Hello: I am running my bridge on Linux Mint and there is an upgrade to the latest version, Linux Mint 20, Ulyana. I'd like to perform the upgrade, buy my question is, is there a way to do it without having to reconfigure the bridge entirely?

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Guard flag got removed after only 48 hours of downtime.
by William Kane 28 Jul '20

28 Jul '20

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Recover AccountingMax counter
by Camie Hethcote 28 Jul '20

28 Jul '20

Hi guys ! I had to reset tor service which led to AccountingMax counter reset. I'm already out of traffic limit so can I somehow recover this counter or should I wait until limit reset from my provider and then start tor service again? Thanks ! Camie

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Unable to Automate TOR Browser | Python
by ABDAL LALIT 27 Jul '20

27 Jul '20

Hi, I'm trying to automate TOR Browser for anonymous scraping using python. The code is given below: from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.firefox.firefox_profile import FirefoxProfile from selenium.webdriver.firefox.firefox_binary import FirefoxBinary binary = FirefoxBinary("C://Tor Browser//Browser//firefox.exe") driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_binary = binary) def interactWithSite(driver): driver.get("https://www.google.com") driver.save_screenshot("screenshot.png") This is the preliminary code I used as a building block. I am receiving an error message, while running the code as follows: The pop-up is as [image: image.png] While the error shown in the code is as follows [image: image.png] [image: image.png] [image: image.png] I request the team to kindly help me with this issue. I'm really stuck and thus am unable to build up my project further

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