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Node families and guard flags
by Ralph Seichter 16 Sep '16

16 Sep '16

When running two non-exit nodes, configured as a single family with no other members, and using identical bandwidth settings, is it to be expected that only one of the nodes ever obtains the guard flag? The node uptimes are pretty much the same as well, but consensus weight differs significantly. I don't really understand why that is, given what I read about node life cycles. -Ralph

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Re: [tor-relays] Guard/Middle/Exit Hosting
by Tristan 15 Sep '16

15 Sep '16

Thanks! Going on 2 months with an exit node. I had to disable SSH after about a month, but that's the only complaint I've gotten. On Sep 15, 2016 2:43 PM, "Markus Koch" <niftybunny(a)googlemail.com> wrote: Just 2 let you know, DigitalOcean has a new Promo: $15 free aka 3 months free droplet. Guard/Middle is no problem at all. My exits have been kicked after around 4 months (too many abuse mails :( ) Promocode: LOWENDBOX https://lowendbox.com/blog/september-hosting-vps-coupon-round-up/ I do not get any money from it, just to let you know, DigitalOcean is already big in the Tor network but its free money :) Markus _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays(a)lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

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list of bridges
by Ivan Semenov 15 Sep '16

15 Sep '16

Hello, can I get some vanilla bridges pls

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tomhek - the (new) biggest guard relay operator
by nusenu 14 Sep '16

14 Sep '16

Hi Tom, thank you for operating so many relays with such a perfect MyFamily configuration, you have become the biggest (known) guard relay operator on the tor network as of 2016-09-09 and once all your new relays will gain the guard flag your guard fraction will increase even further. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ornetstats/stats/master/o/main_guard_oper… Unfortunately all your relays run in the most used guard capacity ASes, please consider choosing other ISPs as well when adding more relays to increase diversity. (A more diverse network should be considered more resilient to attacks and outages.) Considering digital oceans traffic pricing, I'm also wondering why DO is so popular? https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/ regards, nusenu tomhek relays: +--------------+---------------------+-----------------+----------+ | nickname | as_name | IP | FP | +--------------+---------------------+-----------------+----------+ | DinoaurTor16 | OVH SAS | 5.39.76.158 | 0CD23887 | | DinoaurTor17 | OVH SAS | 5.196.73.86 | FA55B57C | | DinoaurTor18 | OVH SAS | 5.196.73.88 | 5959E696 | | DinoaurTor20 | ONLINE S.A.S. | 163.172.29.81 | E44B773C | | DinoaurTor19 | ONLINE S.A.S. | 163.172.211.135 | 5AD8B42D | | DinoaurTor24 | ONLINE S.A.S. | 163.172.29.9 | C61D1EA1 | | DinoaurTor21 | ONLINE S.A.S. | 163.172.38.173 | FB733C67 | | DinoaurTor22 | ONLINE S.A.S. | 163.172.38.175 | FBFE4534 | | DinoaurTor23 | ONLINE S.A.S. | 163.172.28.159 | 52E8508F | | DinoaurTor10 | Digital Ocean, Inc. | 45.55.162.210 | 434E2796 | | DinoaurTor14 | Digital Ocean, Inc. | 95.85.21.196 | CECA079E | | DinoaurTor12 | Digital Ocean, Inc. | 95.85.41.239 | 611CBC19 | | DinoaurTor9 | Digital Ocean, Inc. | 45.55.162.189 | 8F73A7FF | | DinoaurTor15 | Digital Ocean, Inc. | 188.166.58.190 | 2F479358 | | DinoaurTor3 | Digital Ocean, Inc. | 46.101.245.10 | C41F60F8 | | DinoaurTor2 | Digital Ocean, Inc. | 95.85.41.114 | 9B99C72B | | DinoaurTor5 | Digital Ocean, Inc. | 178.62.26.219 | 317E00F4 | | DinoaurTor13 | Digital Ocean, Inc. | 178.62.211.195 | 0DB81001 | | DinoaurTor11 | Digital Ocean, Inc. | 188.166.63.60 | B12A4EF2 | | DinoaurTor6 | Digital Ocean, Inc. | 45.55.159.232 | B70CFA35 | | DinoaurTor1 | Digital Ocean, Inc. | 178.62.12.24 | FCB6695F | | DinoaurTor4 | Digital Ocean, Inc. | 178.62.26.186 | F78F391C | | DinoaurTor7 | NULL (manual: DO) | 138.68.66.236 | CE91251C | | DinoaurTor8 | NULL (manual: DO) | 138.68.74.104 | FEA0CDB9 | +--------------+---------------------+-----------------+----------+ OVH, ONLINE SAS and DO are all within the top 4 guard capacity ASes: +------------+--------+---------------------+ | guard_prob | relays | as_name | +------------+--------+---------------------+ | 17.028 | 579 | OVH SAS | | 16.380 | 312 | ONLINE S.A.S. | | 9.678 | 373 | Hetzner Online GmbH | | 9.339 | 485 | Digital Ocean, Inc. | +------------+--------+---------------------+

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Tor path selection upon failure
by Liu, Zhuotao 13 Sep '16

13 Sep '16

Hi Folks, There have been some technical reports about how to deal with the problem when a botnet uses Tor as its primary C&C channel. In this case, the CPU of some relays is exhausted, causing circuit creation failure. I am wondering currently how a client reacts when its circuit creation fails? Does the client simply resend another create cell or it will re-select new path instead? Thanks

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RPM distro users: Make sure you are using EPEL repo to get the latest tor packages
by nusenu 13 Sep '16

13 Sep '16

Make sure you switched to EPEL's tor packages if you used torproject's RPM repository in the past. EPEL provides the latest tor version (currently 0.2.8.7 [2]), former torproject RPMs are no longer updated at all [1]. The migration to EPEL packages includes some manual steps, like filesystem permission fixing (EPEL uses another username for the tor system account). Deprecation trac ticket: [3] [1] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2016-June/011070.html [2] https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2016-1b53e559ba https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2016-1dc5947199 [3] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/19501

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Weird traffic spikes?
by tmbates12 13 Sep '16

13 Sep '16

Right now my relay is set at a maximum advertised bandwidth of 12MB/s, over time as the traffic has increased I've noticed that the traffic would increase a large amount and then my consensus weight would drop on its own over time, and then the traffic would drop drastically, is there any reason as to why it does this every once in a while? Here's the Atlas link: https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/ABF5C38A93F2D7E77A226871AB0ADB052279B…

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How to include files into torrc?
by Ralph Seichter 11 Sep '16

11 Sep '16

Hello, is it possible to include files into torrc? Something like this: # /etc/tor/torrc ORPort 443 # Policies are kept in separate file for readability Include /etc/tor/policies I checked https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en but could not find anything. As an alternative, one can of course generate torrc from other files, but I'd rather use an include feature, if available. -Ralph

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British Airways website blocking non exit relays IPs?
by Pascal Terjan 11 Sep '16

11 Sep '16

I haven't been able to access BA website from home for the last few weeks. I have failed to get any other answer on the phone that to try using Internet Explorer or to wait for things to maybe get fixed. Twitter support was not more helpful. I am now wondering is this is because I run a (non exit) relay. Can anyone confirm if they also have the problem? http://ba.com/ Error is: The requested URL was rejected. Please contact our support team on Telephone: (+44) 0344 493 0787 option 3 (calls charged at local rate within the UK) Daily 06:00-20:00 UK time. Please quote support ID 13240401227540154825

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Re: [tor-relays] [tor-relays-universities] Legal issues relevant to UK
by Jens Kubieziel 09 Sep '16

09 Sep '16

X-Post from tor-relays-universities@ I ran some relays at Geman universities in the past. I guess my experiences won't help here. Maybe someone on tor-relays has experience with running a relay at an UK university, so I send this mail to tor-relays@ too. * Duncan Guthrie schrieb am 2016-09-01 um 01:09 Uhr: > I'm hoping to run a Tor relay here at a University in the UK. > Is there anyone here who might have some experience with this in the > past? I have been researching legal issues but information is > extremely sparse (mostly relating to the DMCA). All I can really work > out is that the issues relating to ISPs apply more generally, and more > strictly to a Tor exit node operator. > What protections, if any, exist here in the UK for a Tor exit node > operator? > > Thanks, > Duncan > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays-universities mailing list > tor-relays-universities(a)lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays-universiti… -- Jens Kubieziel http://www.kubieziel.de Die meisten großen Taten, die meisten großen Gedanken haben einen belächelnswerten Anfang. Albert Camus

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