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Tor stopped suddenly - clock/time issue
by David Strappazon 06 Nov '19

06 Nov '19

Hi, while checking my (new)or not this is what i saw in notices.log Nov 05 05:18:57.000 [notice] Heartbeat: In the last 6 hours, I have seen 0 unique clients. Nov 05 10:44:17.000 [notice] Interrupt: we have stopped accepting new connections, and will shut down in 30 seconds. Interrupt again to exit now. Nov 05 10:44:18.000 [notice] Delaying directory fetches: We are hibernating or shutting down. Nov 05 10:44:47.000 [notice] Clean shutdown finished. Exiting. Apr 11 18:28:44.000 [notice] Tor 0.4.1.6 opening log file. Apr 11 18:28:44.103 [notice] Tor 0.4.1.6 running on Linux with Libevent 2.1.8-stable, OpenSSL 1.1.1d, Zlib 1.2.11, Liblzma 5.2.4, and Libzstd 1.4.3. Apr 11 18:28:44.103 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe at https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning Apr 11 18:28:44.103 [notice] Read configuration file "/usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc". Apr 11 18:28:44.103 [notice] Read configuration file "/etc/tor/torrc". Apr 11 18:28:44.125 [notice] Based on detected system memory, MaxMemInQueues is set to 694 MB. You can override this by setting MaxMemInQueues by hand. Apr 11 18:28:44.128 [notice] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050 Apr 11 18:28:44.128 [notice] Opened Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050 Apr 11 18:28:44.128 [notice] Opening OR listener on 0.0.0.0:4433 Apr 11 18:28:44.128 [notice] Opened OR listener on 0.0.0.0:4433 Apr 11 18:28:44.128 [notice] Opening Extended OR listener on 127.0.0.1:0 Apr 11 18:28:44.128 [notice] Extended OR listener listening on port 40247. Apr 11 18:28:44.128 [notice] Opened Extended OR listener on 127.0.0.1:40247 Apr 11 18:28:44.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 0% (starting): Starting Apr 11 18:28:44.000 [warn] Received local state file with skewed time (/var/lib/tor/state): It seems that our clock is behind by 207 days, 17 hours, 16 minutes, or that theirs is ahead. Tor requires an accurate clock to work: please check your time, timezone, and date settings. Apr 11 18:28:44.000 [warn] Problem bootstrapping. Stuck at 0% (starting): Starting. (Clock skew -17946963 in local state file from /var/lib/tor/state; CLOCK_SKEW; count 1; recommendation warn; host ? at ?) Nov 05 10:45:34.000 [notice] Parsing GEOIP IPv4 file /usr/share/tor/geoip. Nov 05 10:45:35.000 [notice] Parsing GEOIP IPv6 file /usr/share/tor/geoip6. Nov 05 10:45:35.000 [notice] Configured to measure statistics. Look for the *-stats files that will first be written to the data directory in 24 hours from now. Nov 05 10:45:43.000 [notice] Your Tor server's identity key fingerprint is 'citizenfour B839503CA8F877D0263A38103DAF47EF302FBCF7' Nov 05 10:45:43.000 [notice] Your Tor bridge's hashed identity key fingerprint is 'citizenfour 9D1CCBE7EEF99FCCA6F767838FA08B23DDFABB3A' Nov 05 10:45:44.000 [warn] Our clock is 207 days, 16 hours, 31 minutes behind the time published in the consensus network status document (2019-11-05 09:00:00 UTC). Tor needs an accurate clock to work correctly. Please check your time and date settings! Nov 05 10:45:44.000 [warn] Received ns flavor consensus with skewed time (CONSENSUS): It seems that our clock is behind by 207 days, 16 hours, 31 minutes, or that theirs is ahead. Tor requires an accurate clock to work: please check your time, timezone, and date settings. Nov 05 10:45:44.000 [warn] Problem bootstrapping. Stuck at 0% (starting): Starting. (Clock skew -17944276 in ns flavor consensus from CONSENSUS; CLOCK_SKEW; count 2; recommendation warn; host ? at ?) Nov 05 10:45:45.000 [warn] Our clock is 207 days, 15 hours, 31 minutes behind the time published in the consensus network status document (2019-11-05 08:00:00 UTC). Tor needs an accurate clock to work correctly. Please check your time and date settings! Nov 05 10:45:45.000 [warn] Received microdesc flavor consensus with skewed time (CONSENSUS): It seems that our clock is behind by 207 days, 15 hours, 31 minutes, or that theirs is ahead. Tor requires an accurate clock to work: please check your time, timezone, and date settings. Nov 05 10:45:45.000 [warn] Problem bootstrapping. Stuck at 0% (starting): Starting. (Clock skew -17940676 in microdesc flavor consensus from CONSENSUS; CLOCK_SKEW; count 3; recommendation warn; host ? at ?) Nov 05 10:47:44.000 [notice] Starting with guard context "default" Nov 05 10:47:44.000 [notice] Signaled readiness to systemd Nov 05 10:47:44.000 [notice] Registered server transport 'obfs4' at '[::]:1234' Nov 05 10:47:45.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 5% (conn): Connecting to a relay Nov 05 10:47:45.000 [notice] Opening Socks listener on /run/tor/socks Nov 05 10:47:45.000 [notice] Opened Socks listener on /run/tor/socks Nov 05 10:47:45.000 [notice] Opening Control listener on /run/tor/control Nov 05 10:47:45.000 [notice] Opened Control listener on /run/tor/control Nov 05 10:47:45.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 10% (conn_done): Connected to a relay Nov 05 10:47:47.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 14% (handshake): Handshaking with a relay Nov 05 10:47:48.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 15% (handshake_done): Handshake with a relay done Nov 05 10:47:48.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 75% (enough_dirinfo): Loaded enough directory info to build circuits Nov 05 10:47:48.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 89% (ap_handshake): Finishing handshake with a relay to build circuits Nov 05 10:47:48.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 90% (ap_handshake_done): Handshake finished with a relay to build circuits Nov 05 10:47:48.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 95% (circuit_create): Establishing a Tor circuit Nov 05 10:47:48.000 [notice] Guessed our IP address as 78.224.250.217 (source: 213.220.220.60). Nov 05 10:47:51.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 100% (done): Done Nov 05 10:47:51.000 [notice] Now checking whether ORPort 78.224.250.217:4433 is reachable... (this may take up to 20 minutes -- look for log messages indicating success) Nov 05 10:47:51.000 [notice] Self-testing indicates your ORPort is reachable from the outside. Excellent. Publishing server descriptor. Nov 05 10:47:53.000 [notice] Performing bandwidth self-test...done. Nov 05 13:12:01.000 [notice] New control connection opened. root@kali-pi:/var/log/tor# When i type date, everything look fine but when i first set up my raspberry Pi3b+ (os: Kali linux) i had a hard time getting the right time /timezone. It looks like at boot it takes like 30s to get the right time. Any idea how to fix this and avoid futur issue? Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.

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Minimum traffic for a relay to be helpful to the network
by Keifer Bly 05 Nov '19

05 Nov '19

Hello list, So a while back, I was attempting to run a relay via Google Cloud, but had trouble finding an appropriate speed without having to spend a huge amount of money on outbound traffic. I am wondering what would be a good amount to dedicate to the relay while keeping it inexpensive to run: Here is Google Clouds pricing plans https://cloud.google.com/network-tiers/pricing It appears they charge a few cents a gigabyte, thx. --Keifer

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Backup the Fingerprint
by Kolja Sagorski 04 Nov '19

04 Nov '19

Hello, can anyone help me to backup the fingerprint on debian10?

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First time configuring a bridge - no log - doesnt work
by David Strappazon 03 Nov '19

03 Nov '19

Hi, I want to configure a tor obfs4 bridge on a raspberry pi 3B+. My system is Kali Linux. I followed this documentation: https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/bridge/debian-ubuntu/ Actually, when i want to check the log in /var/log/tor, the folder is empty. TOr is running but nothing happens. here's my torrc file : RunAsDaemon 1 BridgeRelay 1 Log notice file /var/log/tor/notices.log Log debug file /var/log/tor/debug.log Log notice syslog Log debug stderr # Replace "TODO1" with a Tor port of your choice. This port must be externally # reachable. Avoid port 9001 because it's commonly associated with Tor and # censors may be scanning the Internet for this port. ORPort 4433 ServerTransportPlugin obfs4 exec /usr/bin/obfs4proxy # Replace "TODO2" with an obfs4 port of your choice. This port must be # externally reachable and must be different from the one specified for ORPort. # Avoid port 9001 because it's commonly associated with # Tor and censors may be scanning the Internet for this port. ServerTransportListenAddr obfs4 0.0.0.0:1234 # Local communication port between Tor and obfs4. Always set this to "auto". # "Ext" means "extended", not "external". Don't try to set a specific port number, nor listen on 0.0.0.0. ExtORPort auto # Replace "<address(a)email.com>" with your email address so we can contact you if there are problems with your bridge. # This is optional but encouraged. ContactInfo ################# # Pick a nickname that you like for your bridge. This is optional. Nickname RageAgainstTheMachine ExitPolicy reject *:* I've tried to check everything but i can't find why it doesn't work. Any help / advice would be appreciated. Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.

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jumps of the amount of network connections
by Toralf Förster 03 Nov '19

03 Nov '19

I'm curious how to interpret the curves as seen in the attachment. The measurment were made at a stable fast relay in the past. -- Toralf

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Multiple Tor instances
by nottryingtobelame＠protonmail.com 02 Nov '19

02 Nov '19

I have read that it is possible to run multiple bridges on the same IP using different ports and multiple instances of Tor. If this is the case, is there a guide, or can anyone provide instructions, for how to setup multiple instances of Tor on the same machine? Thanks in advance.

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Issues reaching gigabit relay speeds
by Mitar 01 Nov '19

01 Nov '19

Hi! I have a gigabit connection and I am trying to utilize it as much as possible as a Tor relay. When I try various speed tests I get on the machine speeds close to gigabit, but when running Tor, I do not achieve anything close to it. I even started two Tor nodes on the same machine/connection, see here: https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/567E9785458C605E59202755C748… https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/4CF9BAEB0DE6D7230D6B7DA0FF42… The utilization of the machine is pretty low, top returns: top - 20:27:33 up 4 days, 23:01, 1 user, load average: 0.32, 0.28, 0.23 Tasks: 167 total, 1 running, 97 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 1.6 us, 0.6 sy, 0.0 ni, 97.3 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.5 si, 0.0 st KiB Mem : 3772912 total, 931336 free, 1574676 used, 1266900 buff/cache KiB Swap: 3900412 total, 3900412 free, 0 used. 1915568 avail Mem In configuration I have: RelayBandwidthRate 125 MB RelayBandwidthBurst 125 MB Interesting is that it seems each Tor daemon on same machine runs always around 5 MiB/s, when I started the second one, it just added to it with another 5 MiB/s. So it is somewhere else where is the bottleneck? What could I do to improve things here? To me it looks like more throughput should be possible? Mitar -- http://mitar.tnode.com/ https://twitter.com/mitar_m

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DDoS’d offline
by Christopher Sheats 31 Oct '19

31 Oct '19

fyi https://twitter.com/EmeraldOnion/status/1189668679752900608 Calyx appears to have been hit also, but not offline https://twitter.com/calyxinstitute/status/1189693027192840192 -- Christopher Sheats Executive Director for Emerald Onion Email: yawnbox(a)emeraldonion.org Office (& Signal): +1-206-739-3390 Website: https://emeraldonion.org/

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New relay in USA: bridge or middle relay?
by Isaac Grover, Aileron I.T. 31 Oct '19

31 Oct '19

Good morning from Wisconsin, After reading about how middle relays in the USA go largely underutilized, and having quietly run my own middle relay for several years, would it be more beneficial to the network to launch several new bridges instead of more middle relays? Make your day great, Isaac Grover, Senior I.T. Consultant Aileron I.T. - " Because #ProactiveIsBetter " O: 715-377-0440, F:715-690-1029, W: www.aileronit.com

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Re: [tor-relays] Windows Relay Setup
by William Pate 31 Oct '19

31 Oct '19

I finally got around to playing with this some more. Thank you for your message, Bruce. I searched for Vidalia and found an old bundle that appears to work perfectly on my Windows 10 machine. Steps I took: 1. Download Vidalia Bundle 0.2.4.23 from http://vidalia-bundle.en.lo4d.com/ 2. Extract 3. Install 4. Start 5. The Vidalia Control Panel will pop-up 6. In settings, I changed the Tor executable from the one included with the Vidalia Bundle to the current version of Tor elsewhere on my system. Like I said, it *appears* to be working. Can't find it in relay search yet, but I only set it up moments ago. Nickname is inadequate Contact is willpate(a)disroot.org William Pate willpate(a)pm.me 512-947-3311 inadequate.net ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Sunday, July 14, 2019 1:44 AM, Barton Bruce <barton.bruce(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > William, > > On 7/11/2019 6:58 PM, William Pate wrote: > > > I'm interested in hosting a Windows-based relay, if anyone can point me to a good tutorial. I've tried the most common ones. > > > > tor-relays mailing list > > tor-relays(a)lists.torproject.org > > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays > > There used to be a VIDALIA (sp?) kit that could simply be downloaded and > run on a windows machine. I then worked for an ISP/CLEC and had lots of > bandwidth so ran Vidaalia on a 64 bit Windows 7 Ultimate machine on my > desk at work. > > I never did hear why something had changed at the tor project so that > stopped working, but do remember a rude snippy condescending reply from > someone on the mailing list so I lost interest. > > I did get the head Tor guy from the Central Square Cambridge office of > TOR to come speak at a local networking group's monthly meeting we held > at a MicroSlush faclity in Burlington, MA and it was well received by a > packed audience. I think he now has left TOR and works for some ISP. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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