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Unprompted HUPs
by kingqueen 09 Jul '14

09 Jul '14

hi, Checking the log of my relay, I see that sometimes it reloads its configuration from what it says is a HUP signal. An example: "06:40:57 [NOTICE] Received reload signal (hup). Reloading config and resetting internal state." I don't understand, as I was asleep at that point and didn't interact with the relay or the server at all, I haven't set up anything to automatically issue a HUP. Does Tor automatically trigger its own HUP every so often? Thanks --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com

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Google captcha
by kingqueen 09 Jul '14

09 Jul '14

Hello Since running a relay, I have frequently had the notice akin to "Google has detected unusual activity from your computer or network" and had to do the captcha, when I have connected via the server that the relay is running on; both by Chromium over VNC and by Firefox over OpenVPN. The thing is, I am not, and have never been, an exit node. I was a middle node and am now a guard node. So I am somewhat confused as to why Google is getting unusual activity from my server? I guess it could be a coincidence and somebody else from the server farm has tripped it, but it seems a remarkable coincidence, as I have run the dedi for nearly a year and didn't have the Google notice until after the Tor relay was started in the last three weeks or so. But I don't understand how being a Tor relay could have tripped it, as I've never been an exit node. Thank you --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com

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"excessive bounces" on tor-relay list
by Kali Tor 09 Jul '14

09 Jul '14

Hi, I keep getting the warning once in a while that there are excessive bounces from my email address and that my membership to this list has been disabled until I click on a link to re-enable it. Is there any reason why something like this would happen? I use yahoo mail, as you can see but I just don't know why Yahoo Mail would bounce any message. I have not received any warnings from Yahoo about such an action. Thanks, -kali-

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Re: [tor-relays] different torrc and fingerprint when rebooted
by tor＠t-3.net 09 Jul '14

09 Jul '14

In my experience yes, you should be able to move those files to the current working directory and it will just work.

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Re: [tor-relays] Reliable way to gauge tor throttling?
by tor＠t-3.net 09 Jul '14

09 Jul '14

Assuming the Tor service is running on a dedicated host, you could use an SNMP-aware switch and query it with Cacti for graphs on the switchports, or maybe run an snmpd on the node and use Cacti to build graphs against the node's ethernet card stats. http://www.cacti.net . It can also be pulled down as an RPM from some repositories, such as epel.

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Re: [tor-relays] Hits againast GFC hex--string fingerprint in IPTables yesterday
by tor＠t-3.net 09 Jul '14

09 Jul '14

This has happened again, to the same node. The 4 hits came between approx. 16:39:57 and 16:40:27 EST on July 8. 4 offending IPs, one hit each: 1.50.251.122, 210.72.140.17, 119.4.5.55, 115.200.236.120 (they are all from China, per Apnic). They hit against the same hex-string rule as before.

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Setting up relay on fedora
by Joker Hacker 09 Jul '14

09 Jul '14

I would like to setup tor relay on my fedora box it runs 16 to 18hrs a day.' Could you please point appropriate links or videos? - Thanks

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Reliable way to gauge tor throttling?
by jason＠icetor.is 08 Jul '14

08 Jul '14

What would be a good method to determine if tor traffic is being throttled on a exit relay vs normal internet traffic? -J

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CPU usage
by kingqueen 08 Jul '14

08 Jul '14

Hi, I'm running a Tor relay on a low cost dedicated server. The tor relay is named kingqueen and it's running on an Intel Atom N2700 dual core hyperthreaded CPU with 2gb of memory, in a data centre with a symmetric 100mbps connection. I have found as time goes on and usage of my relay increases (about 3 weeks now) that the Tor process is increasingly using more of the CPU. TOP shows Tor using over 100% of CPU and the load average is 2 or more. I use the dedi for other, less intensive things (OpenVPN, seedbox, also Owncloud though this falls over). I know that this is sub-optimal and ideally the dedi should be for the relay alone. I was wondering if the CPU usage is standard. I guess it could be, given it has decryption work to be done? Is it high? Is there anything I can do to lower it, other than rate limiting, which I don't want to do? Thank you

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different torrc and fingerprint when rebooted
by Kali Tor 07 Jul '14

07 Jul '14

Hi all, When I installed tor for the first on an Ubuntu machine, ran it when logged in as normal user "tor" using the /etc/tor/torrc. However today I had to reboot the node and when it came back ps showed that it was using a different torrc /usr/sbin/tor --defaults-torrc /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc --hush IN addition, it seem to be running with a different/new fingerprint! The content of /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc is: DataDirectory /var/lib/tor PidFile /var/run/tor/tor.pid RunAsDaemon 1 User debian-tor ControlSocket /var/run/tor/control ControlSocketsGroupWritable 1 CookieAuthentication 1 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable 1 CookieAuthFile /var/run/tor/control.authcookie Log notice file /var/log/tor/log Could it be due to the different "User" that I have a new fingerprint? How do I make sure that the next time I reboot I use the correct torrc at /etc/tor/torrc and the correct fingerprint? Thanks, -kali-

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