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tor weather not sending emails?
by Nusenu 16 Feb '15

16 Feb '15

Hi, I subscribed to tor weather to get notifications in case something is wrong with a relay. Although the relay had several downtimes (>1 day), I never got an email. (I subscribed to with the minimal setting 1 hour) Did anyone get emails from tor weather in the past 2-3 weeks during downtimes? thanks!

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Value of an unused bridge?
by Elliott Jin 14 Feb '15

14 Feb '15

Hi all, I've had an EC2 bridge <https://globe.torproject.org/#/bridge/FD0814BDD15B2E591B04868B988D87FC6D331…> up for 2 weeks, and it seems to have gotten no usage. I'm considering converting it into a middle relay instead, but before I do so, I'm just wondering: - Is there value in having a marginal unused bridge "in reserve"? - Is this value greater than that of an active middle relay? Thanks! -Elliott -- Anonymous Feedback <http://www.admonymous.com/eyjin>

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Thoughts on new relay
by Niklas Femerstrand 11 Feb '15

11 Feb '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Moin, Our relay is online as of Jan 23 and recently I've been thinking about pivoting it into a bridge instead. The relay lives in Cambodia and may naturally be a bit off from the rest of the network (latency). Consensus weight is steadily increasing despite various initial downtime incidents, which you can see in Atlas graphs. (We've had some network upgrades and during a separate event even had a monkey yanking the eth from the nic.) Currently we advertise 435.66 KB/s and with our current ~9d 10h uptime we have downloaded 3.6 GB resp uploaded 3.7 GB. Theoretically our tubes fit 10 Mbps download and 30 Mbps upload. The question is whether the relay is worth keeping with its current setup or if we can contribute more by re-configuring into a bridge. Unfortunately it is very risky for us to allow exit traffic, but we <3 any cipher packet. Please advice! https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/94F806110B23E727AE8BAD74DD95B0EE0B7A8… Regards, King Kong -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJU2gGzAAoJEHxAR3sGx+rLTzEP/05TJK3vzfPe3kUjUfg0G/wm vlc1vZLshAvK/pE1mf2DqDSgnuxR+QHHJI8htJOaU5VJVMlnEy4nsF0uE76It1EW OLUo7+LU452Sx7XjyVYMKOu6OJ9kD1Cg6OkNT2HEIOR+57x7vNJTYr7oF0uNu6dt UzVFJKkM3Y1ca4GsMS2M/oXFw2jGrrvmx4DLHu2OSDwNumy3ndOETnZscVfErAMK A/K4JI0Ws6pInBRciEHdak9ZBkR/f9jYGPbUXOSwnJN6XIsawijTIbrRLfYiUcro 0wj6mZYqXgKRDOvP57UNkf5UaolADQb6ssiLkhhAGu+DHnTt5V8g2vkqtY3wU02N 823X7o3oNZYq5yZFTbexH8Al+ys9KvKlu5q0YRYvbBwvI/yGHyr/gEI7ufV+9tZ6 z9Mo2hCBsaM0vrikBzejhjSw5qc4HcwMKErlC3cHQHIbszryu1O0WY1G22pwYgss mAGDr6OcdeIdMyNcJlpyH8+jToRSJrkAwDSPdQz+IVMq785x0GnOo2uV2/7NTr2J +LVUjSjAenRhPX+TrAFFujNYXZf5uD/EUfsGyUyCdBhJ5PWsLjYQ/EYD6PToDX8P BdocR3XfxZS7nD5PYRDfyWNeckCL6VPrnZrgMGIYBEXAn7jhX608vzmZV7IU7mzv 3NrnDWpllK4M42hT7fXs =hV51 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Is Bridges supposed to get a gurard flag?.
by Sasikantha babu 10 Feb '15

10 Feb '15

Hello All, I've been running a non-exit relay at home and a bridge on amazon cloud since dec-2014. And today I had noticed on atlas my bridge has got a guard flag and from the logs in the last 18 hours it had sent 4.73 GB and received 4.89 GB (finally I'm happy to see bandwidth being used on bridge). I've the following questions 1. Is a bridge supposed to get a guard flag ?. 2. Is there a difference between a guard flag of a relay and a guard flag of a bridge?. Thanks

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question and concering about probability of exitnode
by tor＠viisauksena.de 10 Feb '15

10 Feb '15

hi, just want to note, i am proud to have an german exit node with 11Mbs .. but also concerned about this raising exit node probability, actually it reads for me like 1 of 400 tor-users is going through this exit (by recalculating a exit probability of 0.25 %) - this concerns me because it should not be so easy (running just some days on a vserver) and i don't know how high this will raise ? i mean, its easy for me to guess a nsa/gchq/bnd bad-ass-club can get some hundred vservers running, and get tor exclusively exits .. and guard (which was much more easy, i lost it because i quickly run out of maximum limit for a month, so i cut it, but the 1 day downtime lost me the guard flag) just my opinion .. and if you can show me some more information over the numbers of exits and guards and so on, i would be happy, cant believe there are so less many exit nodes out there ... thx, Jens

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Minimizing service interruption when reloading torrc?
by Elliott Jin 09 Feb '15

09 Feb '15

Hi all, I'd like to reload torrc; I think I can do this by either restarting tor or by sending a SIGHUP to the tor process, but I'm not sure how much of a service interruption each of these approaches will cause. What's the best way to reload torrc (i.e. how can I do this in a way that minimizes the service interruption)? Thanks! -Elliott -- Anonymous Feedback <http://www.admonymous.com/eyjin>

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Relay operators: help improve this hardening document?
by Nick Mathewson 07 Feb '15

07 Feb '15

Hi, all! There's a project going on to try to add instructions for hardening a Tor relay for security: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/13703 The idea is that Tor could ship with some basic recommendations, and links to places to find more advice? Recently, "mmcc" has uploaded a new draft. Do we think this is better than nothing and worth shipping with Tor, or does it need big changes? If possible, please write comments on the trac ticket above: it will help keep all the discussion in one place. best wishes, -- Nick

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Changes in network traffic pattern
by Hu Man 06 Feb '15

06 Feb '15

Hi All I have been running a tor relay for about a year and according to my munin graph It normally receives, on average, just under 2,000 incoming tcp connections on port 443 every 5 minutes. In the last few days that figure has increased to about 10,000 and spiked to about 19,000 incoming requests every 5 minutes. First thought was DDOS but traffic is not high enough to cause any problems. I did some digging and in a 5 minute period received the following requests to the port tor is listening on (number of requests and source ip address) 2722 SRC=107.167.22.79 1355 SRC=107.167.22.90 1334 SRC=104.37.244.131 1237 SRC=213.251.185.14 604 SRC=188.247.130.32 13 DST=178.200.216.58 7 SRC=92.63.110.232 6 SRC=5.196.8.208 6 SRC=200.76.82.231 6 DST=93.158.248.243 This is only the top 10 source ip addresses. I had a look and none of the top few seem to be tor relays. Just wondering if others are seeing a large number of requests from the above ip addresses or if it's just me. If it is just me then I can easily just block these ip addresses.

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Avoiding using my own Exit
by Chris Tilt 06 Feb '15

06 Feb '15

Hello, When running a relay that is configured as an Exit, do you run the risk of your own TOR browsing sessions (initiated from the same private network) using the relay and effectively short-circuiting the location randomization? Note that I don't have a relay up yet, so my question may be lacking clarity. Cheers, Chris

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TOR: Inbound, Outbound, Exit connections
by Ralph Bolliger 05 Feb '15

05 Feb '15

*Good evening ladies and gentleman* I'm running a TOR Exit for a few days now ( https://globe.torproject.org/#/relay/06BA80D9E1143CFAD835442142A3FA5A1E4FD9…) I'm also using TOR ARM in order to monitor TOR's performance, log messages and connections. When I have a look at the connections page on TOR ARM I read about «Inbound», «Outbound» or «Exit» connections. I searched the web already. But I wasn't able to find a site that explains in simple words what's the difference between «Inbound», «Outbound» or «Exit» connections. Is there anybody who is able to tell me what «Inbound», «Outbound» or «Exit» connections are? Greetings from Switzerland Information Architect

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