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Please help profile Tor 0.2.5.4
by Moritz Bartl 28 May '14

28 May '14

Nick could use your help identifying potential bottlenecks in the 0.2.5.4-alpha release by profiling your relay. This is especially useful on high bandwidth relays (> ~50 Mbit/s). https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/11332 Ideally, attach your report(s) to the ticket (you can use cypherpunks/writecode as login if you don't want to create a user). Thanks! -- Moritz Bartl https://www.torservers.net/

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hardening a tor relay
by Contra Band 27 May '14

27 May '14

Hi all, I'm impressed by Tor and its contribution to freedom of speech and started to run some tor relays. The first one is https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/DBE3CE33BA8BF1CB98091EE2A72690DF8218C… and I have applied tight iptables to that as below. Can somebody advise what should be add/remove to make it more efficient to tor network? =========iptables-rules.sh========== # Flushing all rules iptables -F iptables -X # Setting default filter policy iptables -P INPUT DROP iptables -P OUTPUT DROP iptables -P FORWARD DROP #ipv4 udp drop all iptables -A INPUT -p udp -j DROP iptables -A OUTPUT -p udp -j DROP #ipv6 udp drop all ip6tables -A INPUT -p udp -j DROP ip6tables -A OUTPUT -p udp -j DROP # Allow unlimited traffic on loopback iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -o lo -j ACCEPT ip6tables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT ip6tables -A OUTPUT -o lo -j ACCEPT # Allow incoming SSH iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport xxx -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --sport xxx -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT # Allow incoming 443 iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 443 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --sport 443 -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT # Allow outgoing 443 iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 443 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --sport 443 -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT # Allow incoming 9050 iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 9050 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --sport 9050 -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT # Allow outgoing 9050 iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 9050 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --sport 9050 -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT # Allow incoming 9051 iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 9051 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --sport 9051 -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT # Allow outgoing 9051 iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 9051 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --sport 9051 -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT # Allow incoming 9001 iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 9001 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --sport 9001 -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT # Allow outgoing 9001 iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 9001 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --sport 9001 -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT Thanks Simon

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Non-exit abuse reports
by dope457 24 May '14

24 May '14

Hello, I have been running middle relay on my VPS since it was too much trouble to operate an exit. But ever since I have received two abuse reports regarding same issue. 1) Source: 31.31.78.141 Event type: DNSANOMALY Detail: High amount of TCP DNS traffic, whole transfer: 12 503 B Timestamp: 2014-05-14 20:20:35 NetFlow source: localhost Targets: 178.238.223.67 2) Source: 31.31.78.141 Event type: DNSANOMALY Detail: High amount of TCP DNS traffic, whole transfer: 667 644 B Timestamp: 2014-04-28 19:45:00 NetFlow source: localhost Targets: 178.238.223.67 relay - https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/F12AFDB3FEC184E76944579579F762F1142C7… ISP is pushing me to do something about it and that is why I am asking you to help me because I am not sure what to do. Thank you and have a nice weekend! dope457

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Fwd: [rt.torproject.org #26011] Unknown connections
by eva 21 May '14

21 May '14

Hi all, so I'm forwading my message to your mailing list - see below. And yes, I read https://blog.torproject.org/blog/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay though. The consensus weight of my relay was 27 before, and dropped to 15. Now it's getting up again, so it might be ok. But my main question is about unknown connections. Is this a normal behaviour? Apologies, if this is already answered on another page I didn't read, unfortunately. Thank you all for developing Tor. Eva -------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [rt.torproject.org #26011] Unknown connections Datum: Tue, 20 May 2014 20:36:19 +0000 Von: Matt Pagan via RT <help(a)rt.torproject.org> Antwort an: help(a)rt.torproject.org An: unnamedabc(a)posteo.de Hi: I think you would get a better response to this question by emailing the tor-relays mailing list at tor-relays(a)lists.torproject.org. To subscribe to this mailing list, visit this page: https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays You first may want to have a read over https://blog.torproject.org/blog/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay though. On Mon May 19 18:44:00 2014, unnamedabc(a)posteo.de wrote: > Hi, > > first, thanks for your incredible work on Tor. > > I'm running a middle relay on Linux for about two months and everything > seems to be quite ok. But I'm new to Linux and to configuring a network. > So if you experts have some time to spare to help a newbie, it would be > very nice. > > For the last few days the relay traffic is only a third of it's normal > traffic. And I wonder if I should worry about some inbound and > outbound connections called 'unknown'. Arm shows something like this > > outbound > address: 0.0.0.0 > locale: ?? > No consensus data found > > inbound > address: 166.84.7.148 > locale: ?? > No consensus data found > > Could that be a problem? > > The relay fingerprint is 12AAE898482C1B7CB9ED91A3D7F6EF81D2149178 > > Thanks, > Eva -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Help make more Tor-- Support the Tor Project! https://www.torproject.org/donate/donate.html

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Sorry for my molestation
by zwiebel＠quantentunnel.de 19 May '14

19 May '14

I will keep calm next days ... > Gesendet: Montag, 19. Mai 2014 um 18:19 Uhr > Von: "Peter Palfrader" <weasel(a)torproject.org> > An: zwiebel(a)quantentunnel.de > Cc: "Tor Assistants" <tor-assistants(a)lists.torproject.org> > Betreff: Your tor-relays postings (was: [tor-relays] relay not receiving very much traffic) > > Hey, > > you have been posting to tor-relays quite a bit recently. > > zwiebel(a)quantentunnel.de schrieb am Montag, dem 19. Mai 2014: > > > torrc looks good in my eyes. > [..] > > Please don't top-post, and please send text-only mail instead of HTML > mail. > > Thanks, > weasel > -- > | .''`. ** Debian ** > Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal > http://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Operating System > | `- http://www.debian.org/ >

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relay not receiving very much traffic
by Markus Klock 19 May '14

19 May '14

Hello!I deployed a new tor-relay about 2 months ago. It runs on a server with 2 Quad-cores, 8GB RAM and 1Gbit connection.However, I have still not received very much traffic to it, it almost never goes above 10Mbit.This is the server traffic the last 2 months:http://best-practice.se/dump/tor-ralay.PNG Is this normal or may I have configured something wrong?Last time I had a relay running I received 100Mbit+ traffic... Markus

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Advertised Bandwidth
by Spencer Neitzke 19 May '14

19 May '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hello, My advertised bandwidth is much slower than what it should actually be. I am running on a network that easily achieves 2gbps, although atlas is reporting 4.15mb/s. Have I misconfigured something? Nickname - ServerX5690 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: OpenPGP.js v0.5.1 Comment: http://openpgpjs.org wsBcBAEBCAAQBQJTeZXmCRAgZfyIs5JzlAAABhkH/0GeOwtqo1sE5aT7jQVT taaOKZmJiIgDfBA0KQZdq8WLAkT2V61wiOHcWf6PXIouvY/Tt3n+aWs85v4n cs5Rahj83MYZArKIm9wQ34hEkYu6Fku9HVIVZBWpPcFC6aZgKDk9xgKo4qO1 +OjxsoE8liY0WYVr9BabWKsN3+kiwWDQUk/Et48xPk6YyFJLj0Bjqa951SQf J7lTjitrfxYqPn6GHiz9njhO/szHOP24aLJR5jIagBbGJzlxeQ686C4ptDVM DuZjeTqmN6ZmVWZv5M44FdJknfUigRnUerWVBjfrVuHGU5pnSVf6owSduOX4 U+kK3PlbOrk+0zfQiyJBeuU= =A0nS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [tor-relays] relay not receiving very much traffic
by Markus Klock 18 May '14

18 May '14

Well, I *am* the network admin :) This server is directly connected to our backbone and is not being throttled in any way. AS1653 is our upstream and they like the Tor-project, no throttles there either :) How often does tor/atlas mesure bandwith? /Markus ________________________________ Från: zwiebel(a)quantentunnel.de<mailto:zwiebel@quantentunnel.de> Skickat: ‎2014-‎05-‎18 23:11 Till: tor-relays(a)lists.torproject.org<mailto:tor-relays@lists.torproject.org> Ämne: Re: [tor-relays] relay not receiving very much traffic _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays(a)lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

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Re: [tor-relays] relay not receiving very much traffic
by Markus Klock 18 May '14

18 May '14

Yeah, I have no problem pushing 850Mbit and more via iperf and wget from speedtest-servers. /Markus ________________________________ Från: zwiebel(a)quantentunnel.de<mailto:zwiebel@quantentunnel.de> Skickat: ‎2014-‎05-‎18 22:11 Till: tor-relays(a)lists.torproject.org<mailto:tor-relays@lists.torproject.org> Ämne: Re: [tor-relays] relay not receiving very much traffic _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays(a)lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

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One server, Two open tor connections
by Kurt Besig 18 May '14

18 May '14

Hi all, I'm currently running a Linux relay on one LAN machine. I recently set-up a dual boot win7/Ubuntu 14.04 LTS machine, also on the LAN. For now I'd just like to browse the tor network on the second machine and not run a relay on it for the present. I'm concerned my ISP might give me problems if my bandwidth gets too crazy. So, other than editing my /etc/tor/torrc to open a control port and forwarding the control port, is there anything else required to simply browse tor? When I installed tor on the second machine's Ubuntu install I added the tor repositories to my sources.list and updated, upgraded, and installed tor though apt-get.

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