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Question On Running A Tor Bridge Relay
by Keifer Bly 13 Aug '18

13 Aug '18

Hi All, So given that I am running my relay off of a home internet router (a Netgear Orbi Router) I am considering switching to running an obfuscated bridge. I am not sure I will do this, but have noticed that when my relay (torland at http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/router_detail.php?FP=db1af6477bb276b6ea5e7213…) Gets a lot of use, this can cause my computer I am running it on to get hot (It is a mid 2011 iMac with 8GB Ram running Mac OS High Sierra). It does not happen often, but does from time to time. I have also noticed that not often but occasionally when my relay is running, my router will lock up either for a few minutes or until I restart it. I do not know if this is related to my relay (I checked with Netgear support and was told the router is capable of about 60,000 simultaneous connections, 65,000 being the absolute maximum). The ISP is Charter Communications, and the internet speed generally alternates between 500-800 kb/s. I will maybe try running a bridge to cut down on the maximum number of connections I get, and have three questions. I have been running a public relay off my listed ip for some time but have a Dynamic IP so it should change from time to time. 1. What would be the most helpful PT to run? Obfs4 is the one I would most likely choose, and what countries are these being used in the most? 2. I looked on the tor website and could only find the instructions for installing PT on Linux at https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/PluggableTransports/obfs4…. Is there currently a way to install the PT for Obfs4 on Mac OS High Sierra (this would be installed via homebrew)? 3. Would it be possible to keep my current relay fingerprint? Thanks very much.

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Could/should I run a bw scanner authority?
by gustavo panizzo 12 Aug '18

12 Aug '18

Hello I run a relay (milanese) and an exit (sorrentini), both are located in Asia so the bw authority measures of their bw are not great. In one of the sites where i run this relays i have spare bandwidth to use (and i can't run an exit there) I'm thinking on running a bw authority to help mine and other's relays in Asia It is feasible to do that? Could a "regular" relay administrator run bw auth? Would somebody running a directory auth would scan my bw auth to check the results? How hard is the maintenance of this service? The setup is more complex than a relay but nothing that i cannot handle. However i wonder about the ongoing maintenance. I'd run it on a VM on Linode, I don't have access to physical hw thanks! -- IRC: gfa GPG: 0X44BB1BA79F6C6333

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public relay stats
by nusenu 11 Aug '18

11 Aug '18

Hi, if you are publishing traffic/bandwidth stats for your relays, please send me a pointer to them (off-list) thanks, nusenu -- https://twitter.com/nusenu_ https://mastodon.social/@nusenu

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Re: [tor-relays] [tor-talk] anonymous file storage was "freehaven question".
by Lluís 08 Aug '18

08 Aug '18

Maybe "anonymous file storage" is a better subject ? I'm posting it on tor-talk too, and we can follow the discussion there. And back to the topic, maybe it would be possible to set up a pilot-test so one could see how many use cases free haven could properly solve. If I didn't understand from "freehaven.net", just cyphering and splitting a file among many servers could be useful. Lluís grarpamp: >> The project called Free Haven never got finished, because of the hard >> research questions described on the front page: >> https://www.freehaven.net/ > > Where does (or should) the line or guidepath go on such projects > in the space between say bulletproof (for all, most, or some use cases), > and good enough for same? > > When does (or should) movement occur from one reasonably well > explored technology path, onto another exploration path combining > newer research / architecture / tech even if wholesale, when the former > is thought may no longer meet current / evolving threats for all, most, > or some use cases, as may have been rightly thought for the former > at its formative time in the past? > > Feel free to quote and rethread with a better subject > as this one is probably not a good fit. >

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Help us get recent cached consensuses from your relay
by teor 08 Aug '18

08 Aug '18

Hi, Due to a recent CollecTor outage, we are missing consensuses from 2018-08-04 19:00 to 2018-08-05 17:00 UTC. We can recover about 16 of the missing consensuses, but we are still looking for the older 7. If your relay is: * running 0.3.1.1-alpha or later, and it is only using gzip compression, * or it is running on Windows, then it might have some of these consensuses in the diff-cache directory in its DataDirectory (or CacheDirectory). You can run the following command to count the cached consensuses: $ cd diff-cache; cat * | grep -a ^document-type | sort | uniq -c 66 document-type consensus 190 document-type consensus-diff If you have more than 68 consensus files, please take a copy of the diff-cache directory, and let us know where we can download it. Your relay will delete 2 old consensuses every hour. If you’re reading this email N hours after it was sent, your relay needs 68 + 2*N consensuses. T -- teor Please reply @torproject.org New subkeys 1 July 2018 PGP C855 6CED 5D90 A0C5 29F6 4D43 450C BA7F 968F 094B ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Strange Traffic behaviour
by Tobias Sachs 06 Aug '18

06 Aug '18

Hey folks! My relay which is currently hibernating shows something strange. Hibernation is set to 19 TB’s of outgoing Traffic. Hetzner Cloud shows ~16TB outgoing traffic and the relays log itself 38TB. vnstat reports exactly 20.38 TiB tx so in conclusion Hetzner can not count there Bits and Bytes or the same as protection is not correct. Because if Hetzner’s stats are correct i would have send 3 TB’s of Traffic to other Tor servers and clients internally. Because internal traffic is not counted. I guess that a Juniper routers net flow tool is correct so how can i look at this? Because my second relay in Helsinki does have this too with a difference of 2 TB’s. "Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 27 days 1:39 hours, with 0 circuits open. I've sent 38486.76 GB and received 38489.42 GB. We are currently hibernating.“ When i divide that by two this gives me 19 TB’s of outgoing Traffic. So i guess that this is a bug? Thanks! Tobias

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contact for 'kommissarov'
by nusenu 05 Aug '18

05 Aug '18

Hi, please drop me an email if you are the operator of: https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/D1E99DE1E29E05D79F0EF9E083D1… thanks, nusenu -- https://twitter.com/nusenu_ https://mastodon.social/@nusenu

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Canned Abuse Response
by conrad＠rockenhaus.com 04 Aug '18

04 Aug '18

Hello, I'm just curious, does anyone happen to have a canned abuse response that contains the safe harbor provisions of the DCMA? I figured I would ask before I wrote up a really long email. Thanks, Conrad -- Conrad Rockenhaus Fingerprint: 8049 CDBA C385 C451 3348 776D 0F72 F2B5 26DA E93F Public Key: https://pgp.key-server.io/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x0F72F2B526DAE93F https://www.rockenhaus.com ------ Get started with GreyPony Anonymization Today! https://www.greyponyit.com

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Emails
by conrad＠rockenhaus.com 04 Aug '18

04 Aug '18

I'm suddenly without my tor-relays emails and I'm beginning to withdrawal.... test 1...2...3? Thanks, Conrad -- Conrad Rockenhaus Fingerprint: 8049 CDBA C385 C451 3348 776D 0F72 F2B5 26DA E93F Public Key: https://pgp.key-server.io/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x0F72F2B526DAE93F https://www.rockenhaus.com ------ Get started with GreyPony Anonymization Today! https://www.greyponyit.com

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Tor exit is running but persistently listed as offline by Relay Search
by Ralph Seichter 03 Aug '18

03 Aug '18

Folks, I can't figure out why Relay Search is listing the FreeBSD Tor exit node with fingerprint DB00AF98D21464157AF37BE071F858C56F5220F3 as offline. I have last rebooted the node approx. 24 hours ago, and according to the logs Tor is alive (and 'ps' shows Tor is consuming CPU cycles). I have verified IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity and cannot spot any trouble. Any ideas? The sister exit node (Debian) with near-identical config is chugging along fine. -Ralph

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