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Failed to parse/validate config: failed to bind one of the listener ports
by Christian 26 Jun '12

26 Jun '12

Hi dear fellows, I'm sorry to use again this way of addressing my problem as in Vol 17, Issue 5. It will be the last time. Promise. I can't find any solution on the web. When starting tor, it always reads "Failed to parse/validate config: failed to bind one of the listener ports". Furthermore, there are only empty logfiles, independent of the configuration of the logs option "notice". Has anyone else this kind of problem? This is my ORPort section: ORPort 443 NoListen ORPort 0.0.0.0:9090 … [View More]

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Traffic stats without vidalia
by Name Withheld 19 Jun '12

19 Jun '12

I've done some searching, but I can't seem to find any references to how I check the traffic stats (current b/w use, total MB passed, etc) for my node when running on a linux (CentOS 6) platform. I've built a new vps with a huge pipe that's command-line-only to maximize performance, but I'm noticing that I can't tell if it's working well without being able to view basic statistical info within that CLI environment. Does anyone know the solution to this? Thank you very much.

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Problems with nameservers and permissions
by George 18 Jun '12

18 Jun '12

I've just started running a relay on Linux with Tor starting automatically, however arm reported that "all nameservers have failed" and, unsure what to do, I stopped Tor to go look up the problem. Then when I tried to start it in Terminal again I'm greeted with this: Jun 18 11:53:15.000 [warn] Couldn't open "/home/george/.tor/lock" for locking: Permission denied Jun 18 11:53:15.000 [err] set_options(): Bug: Acting on config options left us in a broken state. Dying. I've tried changing … [View More]

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Failed to bind one of the listener ports / V. 2.3.17
by Christian 17 Jun '12

17 Jun '12

Hi all, since the last update from the repositories took place where I replaced the torrc file by the new version, I get the error message indicating no binding to the listener ports. I use Ubuntu lucid and Tor 2.3.17-beta-1~lucid+1 as a bridge. My ORPort section reads as follows: ORPort 443 NoListen ORPort 0.0.0.0:9090 NoAdvertise Am I missing something? I have forwarded external … [View More]

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Tor Network Map advertising available B/W way too low
by Name Withheld 14 Jun '12

14 Jun '12

Hello, I just set up an exit node (PrivacyFoundation on the list), and while I've got 5mbps up, it only advertises as 80-90kb b/w available. That's not at all accurate, and I think it's meaning the connection is ending up way underutilized, since I'm not seeing much traffic on the b/w graph. How do I change the advertised b/w? Thanks!

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running first Relay, low budget VPS on a Gigabit line
by tim 12 Jun '12

12 Jun '12

Hi, I have installed my first Tor-Relay on a low priced test VPS (1 BTC/m) hosted in NL some days ago. Today iftop shows the VPS puts 35 MByte/s in both directions through the line. *Phew* The hosting plan includes 50GB per month so I'm a bit over the fair use. What would you do? Let it run? throttle down? do no harm? Other than expected I only got a short mail with ssh login from them. The answer to my question if customers get some kind of admin-panel was: no, this would be higher security … [View More]

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ARM 1.4.5 has a very high cpu consumption
by tor-admin 10 Jun '12

10 Jun '12

Hi, today I updated arm from 1.4.4.1 to 1.4.5. After this update I noticed that the arm display is very unresponsive. The arm cpu jumps ever couple of seconds up to 90-100 %. If this happens arm does not update its display. This can be observed on all pages. I monitor two high capacity nodes with each about around 10K concurrent connections. With 1.4.4.1 the arm cpu was normally below 5 %. The tor server runs debian squeeze with python 2.6.6. Is this a known issue? Any options other … [View More]

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rpm init script not setting ulimit properly
by Aaron Hopkins 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

I noticed my exit node (tordienet) hovering around 1024 connections open, and checked /proc/<pid>/limits (available on newer kernels) and noticed that the filedescriptor ulimit was at the default 1024, which is likely not a great plan. I'm using the stock /etc/init.d/tor startup script that came in the tor-0.2.3.12.alpha-tor.0.rh5_7 RPM offered by the YUM repo http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/rpm/centos5-experimental. It attempts to set ulimit, but at least at startup on my … [View More]

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case law on for exit nodes
by Rejo Zenger 28 May '12

28 May '12

Hi, Who knows about cases where the owner of Tor exit node was prosecuted or taken to court for information that was up- or downloaded using his/her Tor node? Basically, I'm looking for case law on running Tor exit-nodes. I am especially interested in case law from countries in Europe, but other examples are most welcome as well. If there is an interesting set of verdicts, I'll compile a summary and I'll share it with this list. Thanks for your help! -- Rejo Zenger . <rejo(a)zenger.nl&… [View More]

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Re: [tor-relays] tuning MaxAdvertisedBandwidth for CPU
by Scott Bennett 27 May '12

27 May '12

On Thu, 24 May 2012 13:13:56 -0400 micah anderson <micah(a)riseup.net> wrote: >i've got an exit node that is doing a fair bit of bandwidth, but I think it is CPU bound at this point because I am >getting these: > >Your computer is too slow to handle this many circuit creation requests! Please consider using the >MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option > >i'm wondering what I should set the MaxAdvertisedBandwidth to if I am averaging this type of traffic: >http://… [View More]

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