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new requirements for Tor Exit relays in effect as of 2018-01-20
by nusenu 11 Feb '18

11 Feb '18

Dear Tor Exit Operator, I'm sending you this email to inform you that on 2018-01-20 the requirements for exit operators changed. Since that date your exit policy MUST allow exiting to port 80 _and_ 443 to be eligible for the exit flag. If your exit policy does not meet these new requirements, you lost your exit flag on 2018-01-20 (if you used to have it before that date). Find below a list of 34 exit relays that are affected by these requirement changes (consensus data as of 2018-01-19 13:00): contactInfo: 022F 0FF2 CB04 2342 7178 334F BA3F 9725 266C DD10 (OstwaldRipening) contactInfo: 0x49FAB046 Chris Jeane <chris jeane AT gmail dot com> (SpikeNJ) contactInfo: 0xB4F409D25BC71927 18NkcxXvFQKo2qyTqa6sQNt6bNEgXAvF9U (anoncat1) contactInfo: 0xd3956a77 Your pure Manifestation of Peace (newton) contactInfo: 0xFDB8716D Gerald Turner <gturner(a)unzane.com> - 1FRMLK42AvHNwn2NV3ASrxdMDYd12C1qbs (Unzane) contactInfo: 1024R/0FCE8549 Alexander Oelzant <alexander(a)oelzant.priv.at> (SCggHJTyWbtzDA9YZi) contactInfo: 145tXZyQEfdmpYhmbFtYe84kjghB5ymPA4 (NormalCitizen) contactInfo: 145tXZyQEfdmpYhmbFtYe84kjghB5ymPA4 (OrdinaryCitizen) contactInfo: 145tXZyQEfdmpYhmbFtYe84kjghB5ymPA4 (RegularCitizen) contactInfo: <admin AT openbsd DOT se> (che) contactInfo: Eran Sandler <eran(a)sandler.co.il> (tor4thepeople2) contactInfo: flo(a)gmx.it (DannenTor) contactInfo: Magnus <magnus(a)1337.cf> (Pandora) contactInfo: nobody AT example dot com (blent) contactInfo: Piotr <unknown(a)yahoo.com> (icubdw2o2xipsdc) contactInfo: replace k with c : kontakt @ zwiebeltoralf . de (zwiebeltoralf) contactInfo: replace k with c : kontakt @ zwiebeltoralf . de (zwiebeltoralf2) contactInfo: Systems Manager <service(a)ns.sol.net> (soltor0) contactInfo: Thor Exit <thor.exit AT yandex dot com> (ThorExit) contactInfo: torinternetzforall(a)aol.com (jUsTwAnTaFREEsHiRt) contactInfo: tor-mngr AT scalaire DOT fr (servicePublic2) contactInfo: Tsen <tsenchi.ng AT yandex dot com> (mycontribution) contactInfo: TvdW <tor AT tvdw DOT eu> - bitcoin 1NKKoCQwKs67eKBGedMD8wYoAs3Z4mMAex (EmpokNor) contactInfo: TvdW <tor AT tvdw DOT eu> - bitcoin 1NKKoCQwKs67eKBGedMD8wYoAs3Z4mMAex (TerokNor) contactInfo: VolkerWilcken at web dot de (EXITNODESAVE) contactInfo: yv3r3nd5yi1k(a)mail.ru (relay651054) contactInfo: <zwiebeln at online de> please donate BTC 1K38x9xqK3YDzjehYFAEPzsESEC4ScH5wJ (alsaceonion) contactInfo: <zwiebeln at online de> please donate BTC 1K38x9xqK3YDzjehYFAEPzsESEC4ScH5wJ (alsaceonionb) contactInfo: <zwiebeln at online de> please donate BTC 1K38x9xqK3YDzjehYFAEPzsESEC4ScH5wJ (mandela) contactInfo: <zwiebeln at online de> please donate BTC 1K38x9xqK3YDzjehYFAEPzsESEC4ScH5wJ (mandelab) contactInfo: <zwiebeln at online de> please donate BTC 1K38x9xqK3YDzjehYFAEPzsESEC4ScH5wJ (montrealonion) contactInfo: <zwiebeln at online de> please donate BTC 1K38x9xqK3YDzjehYFAEPzsESEC4ScH5wJ (montrealonionb) contactInfo: <zwiebeln at online de> please donate BTC 1K38x9xqK3YDzjehYFAEPzsESEC4ScH5wJ (quebeconion) contactInfo: <zwiebeln at online de> please donate BTC 1K38x9xqK3YDzjehYFAEPzsESEC4ScH5wJ (quebeconionb) @niftybunny: I you are motivated, you can send them an email directly by extracting valid email data from this list. zwiebeln at online de, zwiebeltoralf and TvdW are aware, I don't know about the rest, and I obviously omitted those for which we do not have any contactInfo. The actual learning here are: Missing proper per-notifications for exit operators. This topic (new req: 80+443) has been discussed before [1] but has not been properly announced, this could have been a TPO tweet or a blog post or an email to this list with proper subject and not hidden in a long thread. I should auto-detect such events (multiple relays loosing flags at the same time) without knowing about them. [1] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2017-December/013663.html https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2018-January/014278.html -- https://mastodon.social/@nusenu twitter: @nusenu_

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Question regarding exit sizing
by Conrad Rockenhaus 11 Feb '18

11 Feb '18

Hello, I have a question regarding relay sizing to add additional nodes to the network. What scenario is better for the network - adding five 100mbps nodes, or one 500 mbps node? Let’s keep it easy and say all five of those 100 mbps nodes would be in the same datacenter, configured in the same configuration, etc. I’m just curious, because I”m getting ready to add a few more nodes, but I’m wondering if it’ll be better to go big, or just stay small. Thanks, Conrad Rockenhaus

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unreplied conntrack sessions
by Quintin 11 Feb '18

11 Feb '18

nusenu wrote: > If your hoster suspends your server if you exceed 10k concurrent connections > I'm afraid it is probably not suitable for an exit relay The response from the hoster was: > Your server should not have over 20,000 unreplied connections. This is a sign of abuse. What about the exit node causes such abormally high conntrack sessions? Q -- 0101100101000001010010000101010101000001010010000010000001000010 0100110001000101010100110101001100100000010110010100111101010101

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Report on the FOSDEM relays meetup
by Nicolas Braud-Santoni 11 Feb '18

11 Feb '18

Hi, I facilitated the meetup at FOSDEM, last Sunday, and I wanted to report back on what happened, and what worked (or did not). We had around 20 people, with relatively little overlap with the 34C3 meetup (I could be wrong, though, as I'm bad at recognising faces). This seems quite good, esp. considering that the 34C3 meetup was a month before, and that the meetup wasn't announced especially early (we announced ~2 weeks in advance there would be one, but the time and precise location couldn't be fixed until Sat. morning) The room configuration wasn't exactly ideal (typical lecture room, not great if you want people to talk to one another). That's something we can probably improve next year, by organising the meetup at a side-event (say, on Friday early evening) at one of the local hackerspaces or somesuch; this way, we get a better location and we could communicate time & locations much more in advance. Communication-wise, I started publishing the events in blog.tpo (thanks hiro!), which seems to have helped some people; if we organise it as a side-event next year, we shoudl also get it on their website: https://fosdem.org/2018/fringe/ Content-wise, there were some pretty fruitful discussion, but we spent quite a bit of time on questions that recurr at other meetups too: - What's the most useful thing I can bring to the network? (TL;DR: Ideally, fast relays (if possible exits); if you can't contribute more than 1MB/s, make it a bridge) - Can I run my relay on a Raspberry Pi (or similar) ? - Why does my relay (or Internet connection) die once I have TLS connections established to most other relays? (This instance was likely caused by an ISP-provided router with bad TCP connection tracking.) - Why doesn't Tor support IPv6 yet? (Feel free to add more questions if I forgot some here) Those are all somewhat simple, and I think we would definitely benefit from having better, and more visible, FAQs for those. I will try to take the time and make/improve wiki pages for those, but I wouldn't mind some help from one of the website-makers to see how we can make it more visible. Getting people to ask a bunch of questions at the start, and broadly categorizing them, as suggested by Roger last meetup, seemed to work well: we managed to cover all topics people were interested in, and were only 20 minutes over time. However, I had people shortly introduce themselves before adding their question, and that might not be so good in retrospect, as the intros took a bunch of time, and might have been an obstacle to people suggesting more questions. If people are interested, I can start collating advise on how to facilitate tor-relays meetups in some wiki page, though I'm not sure yet how to convey that “nicoo's way of relays meetup” isn't meant to be authoritative or prescriptive at all (read: I have no clue what I'm doing, but hopefully it works not too bad.) Best, nicoo

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TorAtlas/Relay Search: false-positive warnings about outdated tor version eliminated
by nusenu 10 Feb '18

10 Feb '18

I'd like to highlight a small but important change Iain (Atlas developer) implemented and deployed today on atlas. Previously there was a rare edge case where atlas would say that your relay runs an outdated version (with the big red banner some of you might know) even though you actually did update your relay already. This false positive is now gone! After you update your relay you might see something like this on Atlas (under the platform field): Tor 0.2.9.14 on Linux (version is 0.2.9.12 in consensus) This is nothing you should be worried about, it is expected to happen after a version upgrade. If it stays there for more than 2 days on a running relay you might consider reaching out to this list. happy relaying, nusenu [1] http://lists.nycbug.org/pipermail/tor-bsd/2018-January/000620.html -- https://mastodon.social/@nusenu twitter: @nusenu_

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Disable CellStatistics !!!
by starlight.2017q4＠binnacle.cx 10 Feb '18

10 Feb '18

After many crashes and much pain, I determined that having CellStatistics enabled causes a busy relay to consume at least two or three _gigabytes_ of additional memory. Relay operators with less than 16GB per instance are advised to disable it. By default CellStatistics is disabled unless explicitly set in torrc. CellStatistics can be turned off without restarting, via the control-channel command setconf CellStatistics=0

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Disable CellStatistics to reduce RAM usage
by teor 09 Feb '18

09 Feb '18

Hi, If your relay is using too much RAM, please disable CellStatistics. (It's not on by default.) For more details, please see: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/25141 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24806#comment:13 T

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High processor usage - just curious
by Gary Smith 09 Feb '18

09 Feb '18

Hi, I have noticed that after a few minutes of becoming online, and randomly perhaps a couple of times every hour (??) tor uses 100 % processor on all cores for about 40/50 seconds. I am curious what is tor doing internally to need so much power? There is normally isn't more than 4 mbits going through my relay, I noticed this a while back on htop before the December load increase and on previous versions so this has got to be an "internal thing". There is no log entry when this happens. I do not think it is a bug I am just curious why it needs this much computational power, Thanks.

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Exit Relay Up
by Conrad Rockenhaus 06 Feb '18

06 Feb '18

Hello All, I just brought up my third relay, ConradsOVHRelay03, as an exit. I appreciate the feedback that everyone provided me with before and I hope that this relay is configured perfectly. I’m glad to add more bandwidth to the cause. Thanks, Conrad

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relayor v0.3.1 is released
by nusenu 06 Feb '18

06 Feb '18

Hi, relayor v0.3.1 has been released. https://github.com/nusenu/ansible-relayor Whether you run a single or many relays, relayor helps you with running relays with minimal effort (automate everything). Introduction to get you started: https://medium.com/@nusenu/deploying-tor-relays-with-ansible-6612593fa34d Main benefits for a tor relay operator ====================================== * automation - no more manual setup tasks * security: offline Ed25519 master keys every tor instance is run with a distinct user * automatically makes use of IPv6 IPs (if available) * automatic tor instance generation (two by default - configurable) * enables tor's Sandbox feature by default on Debian-based systems * easily choose between alpha/non-alpha releases * easily restore a relay setup * easily choose between exit relay/non-exit relay mode * automatic deployment of a tor exit notice html page via tor's DirPort * automatic MyFamily management Supported Operating Systems ---------------------------- Debian 8, 9 and Debian Testing OpenBSD 6.2 FreeBSD 10.4, 11.1 HardenedBSD 11.1 Ubuntu 16.04 CentOS 7 Fedora 27 Changes since v0.3.0: ------------------------------ - support custom tor-exit-notice.html files (fixes #140) - increase tor_alpha_version: 0.3.2.x -> 0.3.3.x - Debian/Ubuntu: add support for tor nightly builds - implement per-instance ExitRelay settings (fixes #146) - make tor package state configurable (latest vs. present) regards, nusenu -- https://mastodon.social/@nusenu twitter: @nusenu_

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