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Re: [tor-relays] AS awareness
by Isaac Grover, Aileron I.T. 02 Aug '18

02 Aug '18

Hi Conrad, Back in 2017 I used atlas to find lowly represented ASs and countries with regards to exits, sought out hosting providers in those areas, contacted each of them to determine if Tor exits were allowed per their TOS, and based on those responses, set up four exits with a restrictive policy all in different countries with different providers, and they were all shut down within two months. When asked why, each of them basically responded the same: 'we didn't know what a Tor exit was when you first asked'. So the challenge isn't necessarily that exits are or aren't allowed, but rather the providers haven't been properly educated or use a boilerplate TOS without proper vetting. Make your day great, Isaac Grover, Senior I.T. Consultant Aileron I.T. - "Practical & Proactive I.T. Solutions" Office: 715-377-0440, Fax:715-690-1029, Web: www.aileronit.com

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new fingerprint
by TorGate 01 Aug '18

01 Aug '18

Hi, what is the best solution to change the tor fingerprint ? TorGate torgate(at)linux-hus.dk

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DirCache on low-memory hosts
by Michael Brodhead 01 Aug '18

01 Aug '18

Those of you running relays on low-RAM hosts, what do you do about DirCache? When I first brought up my relay I noticed this message in the logs: [warn] Being a directory cache (default) with less than DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB MB of memory is not recommended and may consume most of the available resources, consider disabling this functionality by setting the DirCache option to 0. When I DirCache to 0 I see another warning: [warn] DirCache is disabled and we are configured as a relay. This may disqualify us from becoming a guard in the future. As it turns out I can increase my VMs memory for free so that’s no big deal. Still, I’m curious. What do people do with relays without much memory? Skip DirCache? Are there ways to reduce the memory footprint and still cache directory info? Thanks, —mkb

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greyponyit.com free trial report
by Dmitrii Tcvetkov 29 Jul '18

29 Jul '18

Since 25.07.2018 I'm running Tor exit relay BBF17F784433635FA28E7E585D05FE3B15A31A6B on FreeBSD VPS. Although AS16276 is quite crowded, fact that IP address space is SWIPed to Conrad Rockenhaus means that I, as relay operator, don't need to deal with a torrent of abuse complaints because of usual exit activity. This allows to run relay with default exit policy. The VPS has OS FreeBSD 11.2 on KVM hypervisor (hypervisor maybe different for newer VPS though), storage is ZFS on GPT. The relay is too young to reach it's full potential, I may post updates in the future.

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3-hourly pattern in network load of my Tor exit relay
by Toralf Förster 29 Jul '18

29 Jul '18

I do run 2 exits at the same hardware [1] and do use systat [2] to monitor system data. 2 questions: A) Since a while (months) I do observe a periodic pattern in the network load. An example is the graph (SVG format, made with [3]) of the data from yesterday. Is this typical? I did not observe such a pattern in the last few years. B) htop shows me, that the Tor exit relay listening on ORPort 443 consumes typically 30% more CPU time than the second Tor exit relay listing on ORport 9001. Boths however have nearly identical configs, bandwith weights and amount of connections (typical values are 4300 and 4500 respectively, 3700 and 3900 of them are connections to relays, the delta are exit connections). Does this explains the delta in CPU time? [1] https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/family:D11D11877769B9E617537B… [2] http://sebastien.godard.pagesperso-orange.fr/ [3] svg=/tmp/graph.svg; sadf -g -T ~/tmp/sa/sa28 -O skipempty,oneday -- -n ALL > $svg && konqueror $svg -- Toralf PGP C4EACDDE 0076E94E

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theonionbox
by TorGate 29 Jul '18

29 Jul '18

Hi i have found an issue on the freebsd startupscript. The theonionbox.py is in the /bin dir not in the theonionbox dir OLD: # That's out script command="${theonionbox_dir}/theonionbox.py --mode=service --config='${theonionbox_conf}'" start_cmd="/usr/sbin/daemon -u ${theonionbox_user} -p ${pidfile} ${command}" NEW: # That's out script command="${theonionbox_dir}/bin/theonionbox --mode=service --config='${theonionbox_conf}'" start_cmd="/usr/sbin/daemon -u ${theonionbox_user} -p ${pidfile} ${command}" Hope this help any Relayoperator :-) TorGate torgate(at)linux-hus.dk

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Nyx 2.0.4-4 on armhf - Python3 error
by Paul 28 Jul '18

28 Jul '18

I try to run Nyx on Linux 4.9.80-Re4son-v7+ #1 SMP Thu Apr 26 17:45:16 CDT 2018 armv7l getting following after start: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/nyx", line 11, in <module> load_entry_point('nyx==2.0.4', 'console_scripts', 'nyx')() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 476, in load_entry_point return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2700, in load_entry_point return ep.load() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2318, in load return self.resolve() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2324, in resolve module = __import__(self.module_name, fromlist=['__name__'], level=0) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/nyx/__init__.py", line 46, in <module> import distutils.spawn ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.spawn' Could somebody show me a way to solve this and get Nyx running? Thanks Paul

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torrelay on wan
by TorGate 28 Jul '18

28 Jul '18

Hi to all, is it a god ide to setup torrelays directly on WAN port ? Yes there are an firewall, but direkt in the torserver. So no extern firwall. I have freebsd TorGate torgate(at)linux-hus.dk

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YATR - Yet another tor relay
by zimmer linux 28 Jul '18

28 Jul '18

Hi, I too now have a shiny new exit relay, gifted by Conrad Rockenhaus for a one month trial on one of his freebsd virtual servers. I have zero background with freebd but use Mint linux on a daily basis. It's my second experience with running a relay, I ran a bridge for about a year on a home machine, but my first with an exit relay. Conrad was very helpful and supportive which enabled me to get the system and relay up and running much faster than without the personal support. It's early days yet and the server may take a while to pick up enough traffic to determine its ability. If you are wondering about trying Conrads offer, I say go ahead - you have nothing to lose except the time and input required to enable a relay. I am not an IT professional but it can be done without too much difficulty. If you have any questions about my experience to help you decide whether to run your own relay, please feel free to contact me off list. My relays Fingerprint 7D2A3BD99441CE8F104ADCB02590262ECDFEEF1C https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/7D2A3BD99441CE8F104ADCB02590… Thanks, Zim

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Something strange noticed on tor metrics
by Keifer Bly 28 Jul '18

28 Jul '18

Hello, So today I w as checking my relay on tor metrics https://metrics.torproject.org/networksize.html I noticed something strange, according to the graph, the number of bridges seems to have suddenly completely dropped to zero (the bridges line just after “2018-07”) and now slowly climbing back up. I am wondering did something happen that knocked all of the bridges offline? It seemed strange so I just thought I would report. Thank you.

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