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Huge drop in consensus and bandwith usage
by mattia 10 Mar '15

10 Mar '15

Hi everyone! I've been running a relay ( 0D14A4498E7D1854696CC07548653EA4CD3CB2DA ) for more about 3 weeks now. Its lifecycle did not follow the path explained in the famous "Lifecycle of a relay" blog post - I think because the same fingerprint was previously used by the same server configured as a bridge. My network capacity should be around 10Mbps (20Mbps nominal) in download. While consensus and bandwith usage have been growing for the first days and then got stable (more than 200KB/s), since two days both values have been dropping extremely (https://globe.torproject.org/#/relay/0D14A4498E7D1854696CC07548653EA4CD3CB2…) The uptime is little because not knowing what to do I tried rebooting the system - it did not help. What could this be caused by? Thanks in advance Mattia

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Yourserver.se - Your TOR exit node generates too many complaints
by Vinicius 10 Mar '15

10 Mar '15

Hello to All, I am currently running two tor exit relays[1] in providor yourserver.se, all of them with restrict exit policy, until now i didnt have any problem with those, except with their's automated system implemented, in use by yourserver.se, but was easy to solve, that happend some month's ago. Recently i receive a couple(2 actually) of complaints comming from Hetzner[2], complaining about port's scans comming from the tor exit relay, and i did reply all of those, but now the operator Michael is telling me that it received to much complaints and i should stop the exit or they will suspend, does someone have any other vps providor that can be recommended for sure that it doesn't do that. I dont mind if the price is more than 100% higher of the currently providor. Thank you. Sorry about my crappy english. [1] - https://atlas.torproject.org/#search/vinicius [2] - http://www.hetzner.de/ On 06/03/2015 04:07 AM, Yourserver.se wrote: > [1] Hello, > > Your TOR exit node generates too many complaints. > Please stop it or we will have to suspend that server. > > Thank you for understanding. > > Michael. > > Links: > ------ > [1] http://yourserver.se

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relay behind reverse proxy
by efkin 10 Mar '15

10 Mar '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 hello tor ^.^ i'm trying to setup a tor relay behind a nginx reverse proxy... i would like to know if it's correctly setup. i have this warn in the logs: [warn] Received http status code 404 ("Not found") from server '85.14.240.188:443' while fetching "/tor/keys/fp/27B6B5996C426270A5C95488AA5BCEB6BCC86956". but then in the same log little bit after: [notice] Tor has successfully opened a circuit. Looks like client functionality is working. last message is : Now checking whether ORPort X.X.X.X:9001 is reachable... (this may take up to 20 minutes -- look for log messages indicating success) thx for support. it's a great community! efkin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJU/YgvAAoJEL+Ak/R8rmeLwtwQAIaWSA0Q6df1kGEV3qpO3A71 NoGbnFfs0/0fjDfRIPdf7lSDZQslaCq1IggPbv5VBTpH4JoQrqQx7jzUizKeulC+ H75JLznVCTs0FBNn+YW3k/VZ1mpe4yN0RX321TynKZB7U5J6O9ZRA2c+oJqk8MCp oiyugu2KIUJqScaGR6FxxOsj9Ff1wM57E2LzDmsa69A2GMY11vCJ020qBzKh0+cX Q9/DmhHTJKyB23IjRb5YCFQ4+F1LG/htRVQ4iIUuMyY7UVY690hCZ3d7TbWHVe/z lcdm3gDsXGxkS6weECv9oA5JyLdhs9kskCRCwbF/fy3z154C5VzxiXa7I8MUyWyC iplCzwPynA94tbX4TO1CHYYuV9gjJDUDmR3MVE34BeNKv7bYH718B1noTI0zUSIW vwH0upIGNTmseC7adCrm7TFfnIOJAHzEflcCdJAfNXSuUHsYqSjAMV6yyPe67zv0 EFVfZDJ1ksdXs1ZtnX2sSIRwe3ujCduem8Hu7eVeggP4OFvMh63geiI5W0ftO35r ZJTASUO8LAjHyRkYDnibbVRX/xRN2ko3ORt5Wl4eNCjxG3qQea4m7tqDIba2Mq05 XTZ+F3w2NYoW6qekxH9/D+12Yd4KaUTyNseRuLaT7LSfdQ38l2eBeW/dfgbQfNgC +DANKk94I5db85HzzXoY =PZ5W -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [tor-relays] Onion Tip Uptime?
by Sebastian Urbach 09 Mar '15

09 Mar '15

On March 8, 2015 3:13:29 PM Corey Wood <corky(a)corky.me.uk> wrote: Hi Corey, > Hi all, i've been noticing over the last few days oniontip.com has been > flaky. As I'm writing this the site is down again. Does anyone have > contact with some of the developers, because it's a really cool project > and I want to know what's going on Main dev is Donncha O'Cearbhaill and he is a member of this list. You can reach him here: donncha(a)donncha.is Donncha, if you need hardware / bandwidth then please just say so. I hereby volunteer :-) Im sure that most Ops want to see oniontip up and running. -- Sincerely yours / Sincères salutations / M.f.G. Sebastian Urbach ----------------------------------------- Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth. ----------------------------------------- Henry Louis Mencken (1880 - 1956), American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist and critic.

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Consensus dropped after 0.2.6.3-alpha upgrade
by relayops＠mail2tor.com 08 Mar '15

08 Mar '15

Any ideas why? Slowly dropped after upgrading. https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/113FCC01A29B4600A8BAA1CB72E6AB1FD899A…

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Onion Tip Uptime?
by Corey Wood 08 Mar '15

08 Mar '15

Hi all, i've been noticing over the last few days oniontip.com has been flaky. As I'm writing this the site is down again. Does anyone have contact with some of the developers, because it's a really cool project and I want to know what's going on. Corey Wood

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multi tor instance support for startup scripts
by Nusenu 08 Mar '15

08 Mar '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 I just filed two tickets to add support for multiple tor instances to the official deb/rpm packages. I think this is useful for many relay operators (so they don't have to replace the init scripts themselves anymore). https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/14995 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/14996 another ticket for tor alpha users: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/14997 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJU6zp8AAoJEFv7XvVCELh0mIQP/06x9Ag6N3bb+RxTyt41x8TV lEIcX9JzROZoCHS+bO17BavAHMFJiCRBbCahqT5XHMbE/aXaW0bKP7cjstZxZkxJ uGEXot8z8m3x5YVtb2a5taFwD0wjIJZJBTR0+kJ6waFvs/z7Zh04dRtvXMc9SXeJ gMCGVByIJlJQgdb3CVKgqWSlfiaYrblyY8r7YXu540Qm73yuDcVEVPvH+rudxMot hiDHD/AgC2mgfjzhJSiBCThAakWuBzm/xEDsnJxqQUQL27FYhbCGR49rTxx5rZqx X6+HaZXyvjEh/EkCbevpfNgo4WGAKdGrGTUCzTssPjT9CchqUMRrZAlTe/vpNZpR NuMnKT0z3DFQDO4qsUtplNzSBUmrGTanDqQOnGxMBwcBajx9pWFJsnozb7OBU1LR FL1RJAeZfC7TQUa0r/6/V9gbXrPSoZsI5rK3sSZSa8yLu/OUBRXk4gK36/NXO0at Fq1tM48PNIVolkU/hhb3iYFiyU3d2Qng79iGGzO7mo3/OPsqVKASie6USsiVSDmh nu2IzpXzHKO6+iI3pOn4t6UoEJG2oKmpirH1LhfNKmcJMsH8dLLYDsJWoSKjwfNG ereJB6/0b47sirXUHIPPAXhxEgCW0U26PfUlIvYEjLQ924FgIkjMKfilJJnJXI9O lA8Rpo6ziL6MTcMYkjRX =JmDz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [tor-relays] 0.2.5.10 / 0.2.6.x and ticket 9682
by Sebastian Urbach 07 Mar '15

07 Mar '15

On March 6, 2015 11:32:01 PM Tom van der Woerdt <info(a)tvdw.eu> wrote: Hi Tom, > Sebastian Urbach schreef op 06/03/15 om 21:52: > > Dear list members, > > > > I hope that some of you compared 0.2.5.10 with 0.2.6.x regarding the > > performance (ticket 9682). How big/small is the difference in the wild ? > > I would appreciate it if someone with Linux / BSD could say a few words ;-) > > > > Hi Sebastian, > > As far as I can tell the change happened between 0.2.6.2 and 0.2.6.3 so > I'll describe the performance difference between those. You're right, got 0.2.5.10 stuck in my head because it's the last stable release ;-) The patch came up with 0.2.6.3, indeed. > > Just had a look on a server of mine that is bottlenecked by the CPU. I > noticed that there was indeed a big drop in CPU usage. However, there > was also a similar drop in network usage, most likely caused by the > restart. It took about a week to fully recover to normal levels. > > It is incredibly hard to tell from the data whether there was a big > performance difference as a direct result of the 0.2.6.2->0.2.6.3 > upgrade. It's definitely not going to be a 10% improvement, as far as I > can tell. Hard to tell pretty much says it all :-( Not much of a change. Now the multithread feature becomes the last hope :-) > > Despite my nodes all running with 'NumCPUs 2', none of the worker queues > seem to be doing much : > > $ ps H -o etime,time,args -u toranon | grep node2 > 3-01:46:17 1-20:35:33 /usr/bin/tor -f /etc/tor/torrc-node2 > 3-01:46:13 00:17:09 /usr/bin/tor -f /etc/tor/torrc-node2 > 3-01:46:13 00:17:09 /usr/bin/tor -f /etc/tor/torrc-node2 > > If those threads are what the patch addressed, I'm afraid it's not going > to have a massive impact. > > In case it's relevant: these measurements are taken from an exit relay > with two processes each doing ~150Mbit/s (x2 if you count up+down). > > Upgrade was done at 2015-02-24 21:26, relevant graphs : > * cpu: > http://www.imgdumper.nl/uploads8/54fa2a823bc62/54fa2a823434f-cpu.png > * network: > http://www.imgdumper.nl/uploads8/54fa2a8ce3db5/54fa2a8cdd05c-if_eth1.png Thanks gor your reply, domehow i expected it zo be more of a boost after reading Nick's text: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/coming-tor-026 -- Sincerely yours / Sincères salutations / M.f.G. Sebastian Urbach ----------------------------------------- Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth. ----------------------------------------- Henry Louis Mencken (1880 - 1956), American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist and critic.

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0.2.5.10 / 0.2.6.x and ticket 9682
by Sebastian Urbach 06 Mar '15

06 Mar '15

Dear list members, I hope that some of you compared 0.2.5.10 with 0.2.6.x regarding the performance (ticket 9682). How big/small is the difference in the wild ? I would appreciate it if someone with Linux / BSD could say a few words ;-) -- Sincerely yours / Sincères salutations / M.f.G. Sebastian Urbach ----------------------------------------- Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth. ----------------------------------------- Henry Louis Mencken (1880 - 1956), American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist and critic.

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Ports 443 and 80 are open, but 443 not Tor reachable
by oseump 06 Mar '15

06 Mar '15

Thank you very much for your suggestion which pointed me in the right direction. It was my router that was grabbing port 443. A very helpful page on the Draytek website explains how to forward TCP Port 443 - for SSL VPN models. I had asked Virgin Media about running Tor and no objection was raised. I was told they do not block any ports.. Again, many thanks.

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