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TTTT
by Sebastian Urbach 08 Sep '14

08 Sep '14

Dear list members, Just a quick update regarding TTTT: Currently we are working on a technical paper based on the so far collected data. ETA is roughly 4 weeks from now on. The paper is going to hit this list asap. -- Mit freundlichen Grüssen / Sincerely yours Sebastian Urbach ---------------------------------------------- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. ---------------------------------------------- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Inventor, journalist, printer, diplomat and statesman

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Handshake flood now on NTor
by Jobiwan Kenobi 08 Sep '14

08 Sep '14

Hi, For about 15 hours straight, my relay was being hammered by connections/handshakes. I see lots of these: Sep 02 01:03:02.000 [warn] Your computer is too slow to handle this many circuit creation requests! Please consider using the MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option or choosing a more restricted exit policy. [70638 similar message(s) suppressed in last 60 seconds] Numbers vary between 30000 and 80000 per 60 seconds. Also the occasional clock jump message and other performance related messages, and of course, _lots_ of unsuccessful handshakes: Sep 01 22:31:26.000 [notice] Circuit handshake stats since last time: 5038/5038 TAP, 17771/17773 NTor. Sep 02 04:31:26.000 [notice] Circuit handshake stats since last time: 3100/3484 TAP, 465565/5417818 NTor. Sep 02 10:31:26.000 [notice] Circuit handshake stats since last time: 3139/4249 TAP, 679872/8244698 NTor. Sep 02 16:31:26.000 [notice] Circuit handshake stats since last time: 3884/5294 TAP, 502835/10443735 NTor. It is a low spec machine. I've been through episodes like this before, but this time it's different: - They are NTor handshakes, where before they would be TAP handshakes. - The amount of up and down traffic is pretty balanced, where before I would get much more down than up during these floods. - In case it matters: I am now running 0.2.4.23, before I was on 0.2.4.18-RC It stopped about 4 hours ago. Running normal now. -Job

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fingerprint info propogation
by jason＠icetor.is 07 Sep '14

07 Sep '14

Sorry if asked before, made a stupid oversight restarting one of my exits yesterday, had duplicated the fingerprint file from another node. Changed the file to the correct nickname today (I know nicknames are depreciated now) and reset tor, how long will it take this change to propogate to the network? -Jason

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TOR exit notice (not USA)
by Christian Gagneraud 06 Sep '14

06 Sep '14

Hi there, I've just installed the tor-exit-notice.html (from contrib/) on my exit node, and read it carefully. I think this is great to have such a text, but 2 paragraphs are USA specific, the one about ECPA and the following one about DMCA. I would like to know if anyone knows about equivalent text for the European Union, Germany, France and New Zealand (I'm French, I'm a New Zealand resident and I run a TOR exit node on a server located in Germany) Thanks, Chris

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Time information
by Marcin Gondek 05 Sep '14

05 Sep '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I just looking on the logs and see: ==cut== Sep 02 21:03:54.000 [info] channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(): Received NETINFO cell with skewed time from server at x.x.x.x:443. It seems that our clock is behind by 1 hours, 24 minutes, or that theirs is ahead. Tor requires an accurate clock to work: please check your time and date settings. Sep 02 21:06:04.000 [info] channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(): Received NETINFO cell with skewed time from server at x.x.x.x:9001. It seems that our clock is ahead by 1 hours, 4 minutes, or that theirs is behind. Tor requires an accurate clock to work: please check your time and date settings. Sep 02 21:06:08.000 [info] channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(): Received NETINFO cell with skewed time from server at x.x.x.x:9001. It seems that our clock is ahead by 3 hours, 35 minutes, or that theirs is behind. Tor requires an accurate clock to work: please check your time and date settings. Sep 02 21:06:58.000 [info] channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(): Received NETINFO cell with skewed time from server at x.x.x.x:9001. It seems that our clock is behind by 5 hours, 58 minutes, or that theirs is ahead. Tor requires an accurate clock to work: please check your time and date settings. Sep 02 21:08:53.000 [info] channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(): Received NETINFO cell with skewed time from server at x.x.x.x:9001. It seems that our clock is behind by 1 hours, 54 minutes, or that theirs is ahead. Tor requires an accurate clock to work: please check your time and date settings. Sep 02 21:10:49.000 [info] channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(): Received NETINFO cell with skewed time from server at x.x.x.x:9001. It seems that our clock is behind by 5 hours, 55 minutes, or that theirs is ahead. Tor requires an accurate clock to work: please check your time and date settings. Sep 02 21:11:51.000 [info] channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(): Received NETINFO cell with skewed time from server at x.x.x.x:8443. It seems that our clock is ahead by 1 hours, 26 minutes, or that theirs is behind. Tor requires an accurate clock to work: please check your time and date settings. Sep 02 21:11:52.000 [info] channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(): Received NETINFO cell with skewed time from server at x.x.x.x:449. It seems that our clock is ahead by 1 hours, 19 minutes, or that theirs is behind. Tor requires an accurate clock to work: please check your time and date settings. ==cut== Should I worry about it? Logs seems to little strange and looks that other servers provide it's local time without any timezone. [root@fido tor]# ntpq -p remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter ============================================================================== +x.x.x.x .PPS. 1 u 11 64 377 15.026 2.142 3.279 +x.x.x.x .PPS. 1 u 26 64 377 8.315 2.734 4.281 +x.x.x.x .PPS. 1 u 2 64 377 6.511 0.973 3.214 *x.x.x.x .PPS. 1 u 60 64 377 6.395 2.162 1.869 oGPS_NMEA(0) .GPS. 0 l 15 16 377 0.000 0.014 0.009 And server is a part of ntppool - valid. Regards, - -- Marcin Gondek / Drixter http://fido.e-utp.net/ AS56662 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: Outlook Privacy Plugin iGkEARECACkFAlQGGCoiHE1hcmNpbiBHb25kZWsgPGRyaXh0ZXJAZS11dHAubmV0 PgAKCRCBZoxYcbpnGhhSAJ0RENGRgehGCb/9m/P2lTHR/2k+kACgwOIXsUNHS6FW 1AOwVQoeTwSPCO0= =OYl2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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ORCONN
by Yannick Krueck 03 Sep '14

03 Sep '14

Hello, I provide a Tor-Relay Server. I have a questions regarding the Tor control protocol. If i use "setevents orconn", i get a lot of Connections. Mostly i get first a "New/Launched" message, then a "Connected" message and then a "Failed/Closed" message. But sometimes i get only a "New"-message, and a "Connected" message, but I never receive a "Failed" or "Closed" message. In this case, i only get the IP Adress, but no LongName. For example: 650 ORCONN 81.219.94.108:1976 NEW 650 ORCONN 81.219.94.108:1976 CONNECTED => Never Receive a Closed oder Failed Message Additional i can not find the IP-Adress 81.219.94.108 on https://onionoo.torproject.org/details . The question: What or Who is 81.219.94.108? Another relay? A Bridge? A normal User (Entry Guard)? 81.219.94.108 is only an example, their are many more Nodes with the similar procedure. Thank you for answering my question Y. Krueck (Germany)

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oniontip.com
by Sebastian Urbach 02 Sep '14

02 Sep '14

Hi, I like to suggest adding oniontip.com to the "Donate" section on the tor website. It's a nice possibility to help the Relay-Oerators. Have a nice day. -- Mit freundlichen Grüssen / Sincerely yours Sebastian Urbach ---------------------------------------------- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. ---------------------------------------------- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Inventor, journalist, printer, diplomat and statesman -- Mit freundlichen Grüssen / Sincerely yours Sebastian Urbach ---------------------------------------------- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. ---------------------------------------------- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Inventor, journalist, printer, diplomat and statesman

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is a KVM fine for a first quick test to setup a tor exit node
by Toralf Förster 01 Sep '14

01 Sep '14

I do have here a Gentoo Linux and a KVM (Gentoo too) - now I'm wondering if I can just emerge the Gentoo Tor package here in the KVM and play with it or should I prepare few things before to avoid that it will be used by the Tor network immediately ? -- Toralf pgp key: 0076 E94E

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Expired Key
by Sebastian Urbach 31 Aug '14

31 Aug '14

Hi, The key from deb.torproject.org archive is expired, a new one would be nice. The installation information in the docu should be updated to the new key id as well. Thanks -- Mit freundlichen Grüssen / Sincerely yours Sebastian Urbach ---------------------------------------------- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. ---------------------------------------------- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Inventor, journalist, printer, diplomat and statesman

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Authdir is rejecting routers in this range
by Davíð Steinn Geirsson 29 Aug '14

29 Aug '14

Hi all, I rented a dedicated server to run a tor relay (100Mbit/s) to contribute to the network. On this machine, tor gives messages like these on startup: http status 400 ("Authdir is rejecting routers in this range.") response from dirserver '<...>'. Please correct. The server is hosted with https://fdcservers.net/. Did I just get unlucky in picking a provider? Is there a way to check these things before spending money on setup + monthly fees? Best regards, Davíð

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