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How to add the MyFamily line.
by Ignoramus Americanus 14 Sep '13

14 Sep '13

Would someone spell out how to include the MyFamily comment in the torrc file, please? What is needed more? Exits, bridges, non-exit relays or hidden bridges? -- Ignoramus Americanus ignoramus(a)operamail.com -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Or how I learned to stop worrying and love email again

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Re: [tor-relays] tor-relays Digest, Vol 32, Issue 29
by rotpoison throngnet 14 Sep '13

14 Sep '13

Hey guys - I have been tracking the clickfraud botnet that is hitting exposed Privoxy service on Tor exit nodes since early this year. I call it Rotpoi$on, and recently I have been working with at least one of the security teams for the advertisement networks being leveraged for the clickfraud, as my time allows. You can read more about some collective findings on Rotpoi$on here: https://b.kentbackman.com/tag/rotpoion FYI, LUDICROUS2U is my Tor exit node. I started purposely running Tinyproxy on port 8118, configured such that it will forward directly to the advertiser networks with a specific markup indicating fraud as well as the original client IP in the X-header. Now, if every exit relay operator that has a Tor-injecting Privoxy service open instead replaced it with a similar "tainted" proxy on port 8118, it might quickly reduce the attractiveness of exit relays for "fraud service" by the Rotpoi$on throngnet. Recently I changed my exit relay IP address and for a week now Rotpoi$on hasn't hit. I have changed my IP address at least a dozen times over the last year. The time that it takes for my exit relay to again be hit on port 8118 (at times additionally 3128--Squid port) has varied considerably. This makes me think that the perpetrators are more or less manually adding the list of exit relays into their click fraud operation (script?). For a while I was under the presumption that the massive uptick of Tor clients as recently announced by the Tor Project was sign that the Rotpoi$on perpetrators were starting to inject their fraudulent clicks into Tor the "legitimate" way, meaning with a Tor client. This corresponded with a reduction in port 8118 hits to my exit relay. But alas, communication with one of the advertisement network security reps does not suggest a massive corresponding increase in click fraud originating from Tor exit relays in general. So I am at a loss how to explain exactly what is going on, other than the fact that the perpetrators are still paying for a lot of leased Windows servers whose actual effectiveness at generating a significant clickfraud revenue streams seems limited and even silly, according to some other researcher's comments. On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 2:00 AM, <tor-relays-request(a)lists.torproject.org>wrote: > Send tor-relays mailing list submissions to > tor-relays(a)lists.torproject.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > tor-relays-request(a)lists.torproject.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > tor-relays-owner(a)lists.torproject.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of tor-relays digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Tor 0.2.4.17-rc on arch armv6 (Lukas Erlacher) > 2. Re: Sent open privoxy port warning (Luther Blissett) > 3. Re: Sent open privoxy port warning (Luther Blissett) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 15:13:18 +0200 > From: Lukas Erlacher <l.erlacher(a)gmail.com> > To: tor-relays(a)lists.torproject.org > Subject: [tor-relays] Tor 0.2.4.17-rc on arch armv6 > Message-ID: > <CAJWOhv-pxwHnqy6-bLojr66cGWg=0ee=HhO_WuNb9N= > PAw5mtw(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hello to everyone with arm hardware and arch linux, > > I just set up Tor 0.2.4.17-rc on a raspberry pi and I want to share > what I did just to create a piece of documentation that might be > helpful for others. > I got tor-git from the AUR[1], modified it to fetch 0.2.4.17-release > instead of master, and built it according to the aur[2] and > pkgbuild[3] instructions. > > Here is what I did: > > 1) Backup torrc, fingerprint, and private key of my tor node > 2) Read up on AUR and PKGBUILD > 3) pacman -R tor tor-socks > 4) pacman -s base-devel > 5) Download and extract the AUR > 6) Carefully inspect the AUR package, especially PKGBUILD and tor.install > 7) Modify the PKGBUILD file with _branch=release-0.2.4 and > pkgver=0.2.4.17.rc.0 > 8) makepkg -s > 9) pacman -U tor-git-0.2.4.17.rc.0-1-armv6h.pkg.tar.xz > 10) mv /etc/tor/torrc /etc/tor/torrc.tor-git.sample > 11) mv /etc/tor/torrc.pacsave /etc/tor/torrc > 12) systemctl tor start > > That's it. Run "tor --version" and it should tell you that it's a git > build of 0.2.4.17-rc. > > You will have to rebuild the package for every update you want to get! > > As per The Arch Way, Please familiarize yourself with pacman, the AUR, > and PKGBUILD before attempting this! > > Absolutely no warranties given. The AUR can seriously damage your system! > > Best Regards, > Luke > > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tor-git/ > [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR > [3] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 12:52:35 -0300 > From: Luther Blissett <lblissett(a)paranoici.org> > To: tor-relays(a)lists.torproject.org > Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Sent open privoxy port warning > Message-ID: <1379087555.555.10.camel@tagesuhu-pc> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 12:35 -0700, Aaron Hopkins wrote: > > I sent the following warning to the listed e-mail address of 14 of the 19 > > Tor nodes I found that accepted connections on port 8118, some of which > > bounced. > > > > If any of you run or know how to get in touch with the operators of the > > nodes DaJoker, FawkesSwissBlade, LUDICROUS2U, RaspberryPI, pangu, > > mouseHouse, tornonym, or 75.137.122.118, I'd appreciate if you could pass > > this along. > > > > Thanks! > > > > -- Aaron > > > > --- > > > > I noticed your Tor node _ with an IP of _ is one of 19 nodes that accepts > > connections publicly on TCP port 8118, which is the default port for > > Privoxy. I suspect this might be a configuration mistake. > > > > I'm investigating this because my tor node "tordienet" has received > millions > > of HTTP proxy requests to port 8118 per day for months. The requests > appear > > to come from a botnet running on roughly 1500 IPs, and seem to be > > advertising click-fraud related. From the discussion in July on the > > tor-relays(a)lists.torproject.org mailing list (archive at > > https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/) this appears to be > true > > of many nodes. > > > > Port 8118 is the default port for Privoxy, which comes bundled with Tor > but > > is meant to provide an HTTP proxy for you and your local users to browse > > through and is not designed to be offered as a public service. If you > don't > > use Privoxy, would you mind shutting it down? Or if you do, can you > move it > > to a different port and/or only allow your own IPs to connect to it? > > > > I'd be happy to provide more information or help you with the > configuration > > changes if I can. > > _______________________________________________ > > tor-relays mailing list > > tor-relays(a)lists.torproject.org > > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays > > Hello Aron, > > Sometime ago I noticed similar behavior from a series of IP numbers > which mostly were inside limestonenetworks IP range and searched for > polipo (port 8123). I sent an email alert to its admins, but received no > answer whatsoever. I also sent to this malling list and some others, but > since my mail wasn't registered I think it bounced. I'm copying it > bellow. In case this is of any help. > > Also, wouldn't this be the case for a "routine security alert" on tor > blogs? > > ************************** > > Hello dear companions, > > Two days ago one of my tor exit nodes experienced something I'm now > calling "limestonenetworks DDoS on polipo" ( $WAN_IP:8123 ), since all > packets in the storm were flowing from a range of 514 different IP > addresses, all of them inside limestonenetworks IP range and targeting > port 8123 on my tor exit node WAN IP. > > Before the packet storm, I could observe a huge increase on attempts to > access my WAN domain through tor. I couldn't relate IP addresses from > this first raise to those responsible for the actual packet storm nor > could I identify some useful pattern there, but they were all coming > from port 9001 and increased just some hours before the storm, so I'm > guessing they are related somehow. > > Also, throughout the storm, one of my log files got corrupted with some > unreadable bin garbage. I do not know if it was intended/targeted > exploit, but I'm reworking secrets and trying to figure out what is this > binary. > > Here is a sample line of a WAN attempt: > > Aug 13 16:50:22 $USER user.warn kernel: [DROP INVALID WAN] : IN=vlan2 > OUT= MAC=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx > SRC=77.56.151.190 DST=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx LEN=52 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=43 > ID=38787 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=40888 DPT=9001 SEQ=289854459 ACK=41163 > > Here is a sample line of packet storm: > > Aug 13 20:39:14 $USER user.warn kernel: [hammer] : IN=vlan2 OUT= > MAC=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx > SRC=74.63.216.60 DST=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx LEN=52 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=48 > ID=20269 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=1757 DPT=8123 WINDOW=65535 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 > OP > > The attack persisted for at least three hours and left this binary (hex > represented): > > 0000000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 > * > 0000b90 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 2067 3331 > 0000ba0 3220 3a30 3135 303a 2034 6174 6567 7573 > 0000bb0 7568 7520 6573 2e72 6177 6e72 6b20 7265 > 0000bc0 656e 3a6c 5b20 6168 6d6d 7265 205d 203a > 0000bd0 4e49 763d 616c 326e 4f20 5455 203d 414d > 0000be0 3d43 3030 323a 3a31 3732 663a 3a61 6464 > 0000bf0 343a 3a34 3030 313a 3a35 3966 323a 3a61 > 0000c00 6639 643a 3a39 3830 303a 3a30 3534 303a > 0000c10 3a30 3030 333a 2034 5253 3d43 3132 2e36 > 0000c20 3432 2e35 3232 2e31 3031 2037 5344 3d54 > 0000c30 3831 2e39 3833 322e 3533 322e 3035 4c20 > 0000c40 4e45 353d 2032 4f54 3d53 7830 3030 5020 > 0000c50 4552 3d43 7830 3030 5420 4c54 343d 2038 > 0000c60 4449 313d 3335 3431 4420 2046 5250 544f > 0000c70 3d4f 4354 2050 5053 3d54 3932 3635 4420 > 0000c80 5450 383d 3231 2033 4957 444e 574f 363d > 0000c90 3535 3533 5220 5345 303d 3078 2030 5953 > 0000ca0 204e 5255 5047 303d 000a > 0000ca9 > > Attached is the list of participating IP addresses, line by line, with > the count of packets received. The attacker started sending something > like 4 packets per second and increased to over than 9000!!! - just > kidding, over 30 per second. > > JSYK, I welcome any comments. >

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Sent open privoxy port warning
by Aaron Hopkins 13 Sep '13

13 Sep '13

I sent the following warning to the listed e-mail address of 14 of the 19 Tor nodes I found that accepted connections on port 8118, some of which bounced. If any of you run or know how to get in touch with the operators of the nodes DaJoker, FawkesSwissBlade, LUDICROUS2U, RaspberryPI, pangu, mouseHouse, tornonym, or 75.137.122.118, I'd appreciate if you could pass this along. Thanks! -- Aaron --- I noticed your Tor node _ with an IP of _ is one of 19 nodes that accepts connections publicly on TCP port 8118, which is the default port for Privoxy. I suspect this might be a configuration mistake. I'm investigating this because my tor node "tordienet" has received millions of HTTP proxy requests to port 8118 per day for months. The requests appear to come from a botnet running on roughly 1500 IPs, and seem to be advertising click-fraud related. From the discussion in July on the tor-relays(a)lists.torproject.org mailing list (archive at https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/) this appears to be true of many nodes. Port 8118 is the default port for Privoxy, which comes bundled with Tor but is meant to provide an HTTP proxy for you and your local users to browse through and is not designed to be offered as a public service. If you don't use Privoxy, would you mind shutting it down? Or if you do, can you move it to a different port and/or only allow your own IPs to connect to it? I'd be happy to provide more information or help you with the configuration changes if I can.

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Tor 0.2.4.17-rc on arch armv6
by Lukas Erlacher 13 Sep '13

13 Sep '13

Hello to everyone with arm hardware and arch linux, I just set up Tor 0.2.4.17-rc on a raspberry pi and I want to share what I did just to create a piece of documentation that might be helpful for others. I got tor-git from the AUR[1], modified it to fetch 0.2.4.17-release instead of master, and built it according to the aur[2] and pkgbuild[3] instructions. Here is what I did: 1) Backup torrc, fingerprint, and private key of my tor node 2) Read up on AUR and PKGBUILD 3) pacman -R tor tor-socks 4) pacman -s base-devel 5) Download and extract the AUR 6) Carefully inspect the AUR package, especially PKGBUILD and tor.install 7) Modify the PKGBUILD file with _branch=release-0.2.4 and pkgver=0.2.4.17.rc.0 8) makepkg -s 9) pacman -U tor-git-0.2.4.17.rc.0-1-armv6h.pkg.tar.xz 10) mv /etc/tor/torrc /etc/tor/torrc.tor-git.sample 11) mv /etc/tor/torrc.pacsave /etc/tor/torrc 12) systemctl tor start That's it. Run "tor --version" and it should tell you that it's a git build of 0.2.4.17-rc. You will have to rebuild the package for every update you want to get! As per The Arch Way, Please familiarize yourself with pacman, the AUR, and PKGBUILD before attempting this! Absolutely no warranties given. The AUR can seriously damage your system! Best Regards, Luke [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tor-git/ [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR [3] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD

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Re: [tor-relays] Getting max bandwidth out of a relay
by Jesse Victors 12 Sep '13

12 Sep '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 > As I am trying to avoid using too many IPs (IPv4 is constrainted, IPv6 > is not, but the latter won't get much traffic), I'll try if I can get my > tcp-balancer idea setup in the run of next week (low on spare cycles at > the moment) and then forcing each Tor instance to use a specific core. Right, you can only get two Tor instances per IP, at least on IPv4. The third won't get any significant bandwidth. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQF8BAEBCgBmBQJSMcSWXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQxMjgyMjhENjEyODQ1OTU1NzBCMjgwRkFB RDk3MzY0RkMyMEJFQzgwAAoJEK2XNk/CC+yA0psH/35+GsdqKtZxG1bC9pjaFeGr mySy8AQ4DTj/FPhQhCtSwlh35ZFrTnagTuK49XChLcepMV830qFon56A29aL3QI/ 9Je5PX5sILxNlMN4ubR5578PfZLTtkWm2j7l58VALFFTkozMVMbkmVsQp63+3AQN MLt6VKb7p1Oob/PGaZsk+9c9gqxDl4LnT6awzcn1caRyUcchsP98BUURtNNdiIqg 7Yb03t3toVDZnkESyqo5n10dxG5OE7EN+ldrJ5jYrZoWmcHlHG6Ln/5pdLL6u/93 4yAxO6DYijzBIXbzzG2TU1Z1t+8s5WGa5ov0s6EdssxqszfK23KgZmBWIESnP9A= =ctNz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Getting max bandwidth out of a relay
by Jeroen Massar 12 Sep '13

12 Sep '13

TLDR: what do people to do get the max throughput through their boxes? Hi, This might be more tor-dev related (due to the Tor internals, eg why it does not use multiple CPU cores effectively etc), but is likely a bit more appropriate here as there are people who are able to get a lot of performance out of their boxes. I've been playing a bit with setting up a few relays and letting them push as much traffic as possible following amongst others the items at: https://www.torservers.net/wiki/setup/server Thus making sure it is using AES-NI (which turned off and then on made a bit of a difference but primarily in CPU load), and doing some TCP stack and other kernel tweaks. I am running the current-git Tor on them, thus self-compiled and except for the install path no special configure options (any tips there?). The boxes are 2-cpu 6-core E5645 @ 2.40Ghz, with HT thus 24 cores visible. Tor is using about 170% CPU (thus effectively 2 cores) on average along with 3G of mem, the box has 70G of mem thus that is not a problem. A little snapshot from 'arm' from one of the boxes: Bandwidth (limit: 3.9 Gb/s, burst: 3.9 Gb/s, measured: 353.9 Kb/s) Download (45.7 Mb/sec - avg: 27.2 Mb/sec, total: 302.2 GB) Upload (52.5 Mb/sec - avg: 27.9 Mb/sec, total: 308.4 GB): Down/Up varies upto 70mbit, the box has full GE and between them can push easily a single-stream 900mbit flow (tested with iperf/wgets/scp) next to the running Tor process. Thus there seem to be some significant issue in the Tor portion of things (though tuning might affect it as there are more flows etc). There is no connection tracking on the box, as that would just slow things down See also the munged torrc below, in case there are options to be set there. What else is there to tune except for maybe running multiple Tor nodes on the same box? Which would require it to use multiple IPs right as one can only run 2 nodes on the same IP I understand. Would there maybe be a way to run multiple Tor processes with the same key/identity but with a TCP load-balancer in front of it which distributes the incoming connections to the processes? The only thing then is that only one of them should report their details to the authorities and the others should not publish; would that be possible or would it mess up for instance performance stats? Greets, Jeroen -- torrc used: ----- NickName <nick> ContactInfo <contact> MyFamily $<othernode> ControlPort 9051 HashedControlPassword 16:<pass> CookieAuthentication 1 DirPort <ip>:<port> DirPortFrontPage /usr/local/tor/etc/tor/tordirport.html ORPort <ip>:<port> RelayBandwidthRate 600 MB RelayBandwidthBurst 606 MB SocksListenAddress 127.0.0.1 SocksPort 1080 ExitPolicy reject *:* #Log debug file /usr/local/tor/var/log/tor/debug.log Log notice file /usr/local/tor/var/log/tor/notices.log DataDirectory /usr/local/tor/var/lib/tor RunAsDaemon 1 DisableDebuggerAttachment 0 CellStatistics 1 DirReqStatistics 1 EntryStatistics 1 ExitPortStatistics 1 ExtraInfoStatistics 1 ----- /etc/sysctl.d/tor.conf net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies=1 net.ipv4.tcp_synack_retries=2 net.ipv4.tcp_syn_retries=2 net.core.rmem_max=33554432 net.core.wmem_max=33554432 net.ipv4.tcp_rmem=4096 87380 33554432 net.ipv4.tcp_wmem=4096 65536 33554432 net.core.netdev_max_backlog=262144 net.ipv4.tcp_no_metrics_save=1 net.ipv4.tcp_moderate_rcvbuf=1 net.ipv4.tcp_tw_recycle=1 net.ipv4.tcp_max_orphans=262144 net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog=262144 net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout=4 vm.min_free_kbytes=65536 net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_time=60 net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_intvl=10 net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_probes=3 net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range=1025 65530 net.core.somaxconn=20480 net.ipv4.tcp_max_tw_buckets=2000000 net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps=0

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A bit more evidence on circuit creation storms
by Dan Staples 12 Sep '13

12 Sep '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Just to add my experiences to the mix: I started running a RPi relay back in January. It ran fine for several months, until I started to get these circuit creation storms periodically. It would come at random times, maybe once a week, and would sometimes last for enough hours that it would knock down the Pi and I'd have to reboot it. While it was clearly CPU bound during the storms (90%+ shown by top), my bandwidth was also completely saturated. I was seeing 3 Mb/s traffic, as shown by ntop (great for monitoring bandwidth over time). Shutting down Tor during the storms would reduce the traffic to < 100kb/s...so clearly the circuit storms eat bandwidth too. Gordon, perhaps you had an upstream router that was preventing the traffic flood during the circuit storms? I asked Roger Dingledine about it at PETS a couple months ago, and he suggested it might be a case where there is a nearby popular hidden service that picked my relay as a guard node, and all of a sudden I get flooded by requests for the hidden service. No idea how to test the accuracy of this hypothesis. Finally, I noticed that bandwidth-related config options had no effect on the 3 Mb/s traffic flood during the circuit creation storms. I had: RelayBandwidthRate 200 KB RelayBandwidthBurst 200 KB MaxAdvertisedBandwidth 200KB ...yet, still 3 Mb/s traffic floods. Even MaxOnionsPending 250, NumCPU 1, and AvoidDiskWrites 1 made no difference in my RPi's ability to weather the storms. I eventually had to use QoS on my DD-WRT router to set limits on the traffic it would pass to the Pi. I will try your builds of 0.2.4 to see if that makes a difference. cheers, Dan > Since I originally started keeping an eye on these on my Raspberry > Pi relay (read: slow, resource-limited), I've got to wonder if the > circuit creation storms I was seeing months ago weren't normal > network phenomena but some kind of test run. > > We are talking going from 50-250 circuits to thousands of requests > per *second* out of nowhere, and then if the machine survived it, > the storm disappearing as suddenly as it came. This was happening > months ago, but less frequently and only on lower-end hardware. > Now it's happening everywhere. > > Even if the previous case *were* "normal" Tor network operation, > I'd say it's a bug, but I'm suspicious that it was whatever is > going on now in its test phase. > > tor at t-3.net: >> Also see a repeat of the odd log message with the 154.x net >> address someone else described with the huge hexidecimal string >> (40 hex chars, + sign, 40 more, on and on). > > Here as well. I believe this is the sign of an overloaded Tor > directory server. > >>> Over roughly the same time frame I received an incredibly high >>> number of spam e-mails in one e-mail account that normally >>> gets 20 or so a day on quiet days. Perhaps this is another >>> example of mal-ware in action. > > Funny, one of the dropped connections during my storm last night > was to port 993... :P > > Best, - -Gordon M. - -- http://disman.tl OpenPGP key: http://disman.tl/pgp.asc Fingerprint: 2480 095D 4B16 436F 35AB 7305 F670 74ED BD86 43A9 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJSKInBAAoJEPZwdO29hkOpDZ4QAIjZqi9kXrcubZUg6v0nH6mP V9LT4j2Md0MqE74JcyEIgIBYKMWbun+n417LMMkb9uLu2mld6Lf/YIU9iO57JqQJ 8dM1uX0LJb51MbOj6ZTZEwMgHI8pX/ZeLj4zQscAz2C2oBwapnOpxqKTbg76CM1G DrP39iai9TpN+YfUY0FkxwdYTM46ADUvk/hbu/34CLXklOvrqWkK/Ta/nZ9zTebt HkB/KJn1P0I5L87x2VmIhIH5JKK6lszDlZg+k96PRC8oK9a1icECCGsnFJpqwVrv UyIsutezQHjT7HT4zJCNBxacHuK8VKbwayX6P/MSPpAGaobqEzSvWJmHdYRrIv2h glM5qIIzB3RmJxvHW8hCF47T8n9B6fo+J5PZly3xtwLGzCATjehnnhGTzigIw8ro WkQwMQr/3F5yQ0YS2YKh+KsQDhe2d1fYbrGtSPAG/z1RMuk2i5tmgyhAFJ8HvIfw GozzAaxcy1dCdEvQIyv/j1LCtUUpCrPVGd51grDI+GB9b5HuIEsPoQCvisshVEpu 1vLKyP7VLv+fOnvVb7MCwiWnU1Q5uw3yC3kdig9tTuAWGiMgbGoWpkGiy5MNVVQA Z2Q7uLnd7j6scTbpWgaa0Fx0HQ2euAXMwC+zS8g0PQXOEslGnnPs2Kqz5YTimtuh LWLcZ3WMZvlShurfNLse =mqNB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Upgrade your relay to 0.2.4.17-rc?
by Roger Dingledine 12 Sep '13

12 Sep '13

Hi folks, I just released 0.2.4.17-rc. Hopefully there will be debs of it soon. It comes with a new feature: - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to. Implements ticket 9574. So the more relays that upgrade to 0.2.4.17-rc, the more stable and fast Tor will be for 0.2.4 users, despite the huge circuit overload that the network is seeing. Please consider upgrading. If you do, though, please also keep an eye on it -- it's possible we introduced some new bugs and the network will start dissolving once more relays move to the new version. In my spare time I'm also working on a blog post to explain what's going on and what measures we're taking to keep things afloat. Aren't distributed systems fun, --Roger

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Why is my fast relay so slow to gain popularity?
by Jesse Victors 12 Sep '13

12 Sep '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hello everyone, newcomer here. I'm behind very fast connection (11.5 MB/sec down, 7.5 MB/sec up) and I thought that the Tor network could benefit from my connection, especially since it's apparently been under high load recently. Per the latest blog posts, I downloaded the beta TBB and configured it as a relay under Linux. It's been up for almost two days now, yet it's still being utilized at a very, very small fraction of it's potential. In the network map, I see that my relay has an advertised speed which is again much slower than it actually can be. To my knowledge, a web server can be put under full load right away, and distributing computing projects use the most of your computer right off the bat. Why doesn't Tor run computational and/or bandwidth tests and advertise my relay at a much more actual speed? I don't see why a fast relay has to start at the very bottom of the barrel to begin with. I can see the logic in slowly ramping up connections in testing for stability and scalability, but the progress is slow because it's continually fighting against that existing average. I can set my requested average and burst bandwidth, but AFAIK I can't affect my advertised bandwidth. Why are things this way, and is there anything I can do to speed up the utilization growth? Thanks in advance for any help you can provide, Jesse V. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQF8BAEBCgBmBQJSMJg3XxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQxMjgyMjhENjEyODQ1OTU1NzBCMjgwRkFB RDk3MzY0RkMyMEJFQzgwAAoJEK2XNk/CC+yAAekH/i2rHzwbGZMiL4g31d2JEkQR ZjOaDCe6aNkK/ORf5MhxW7B6L772BczjPkjuO0H1Oe41bSkglO78gCbLC+YQ1r68 0nc45dcztNDkQPhZVrkj7RconNrmfLXFozFLKY1Nr2mLy6RTg0a1yQ/WhpFa/qah cUmVnGtvIoDnDAhuCPIEu7SuGba0I4TkBph1atKAC/gQYyOSp9CpCqxy0J3Qaa3Y pcCkGC7oWW2I9g8UJOx0UKg1auiYMZ1QrwpJ6HdHhvhFSWnhWeggkvaOCDewC2pZ dQg7Odk/ISfkpdeCgd8hg2IQBh3kpI1kRVUvX0sJgbYCbizT45bwKCLf/XzMQHE= =gfnB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Exit flag given to nodes with nearly-all-reject?
by Jeroen Massar 11 Sep '13

11 Sep '13

Hi, Is the 'exit' flag given to a Tor node which only allows exit to a certain prefix? If yes, what kind of effect does that have on path selection, will it only be chosen for exit'ing to that prefix and not be used as a relay? Greets, Jeroen

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