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EC2 IP vs Region & Does this matter in the Tor network?
by David Gilbert 11 Feb '13

11 Feb '13

Hello, I'm operating 6 relays in the EC2 where 4/6 claim to be located outside the US but only 1/6 show up as outside of the US based on the IP address and report on atlas (https://atlas.torproject.org/#search/relay1org, don't heckle, I'm getting an idea of pricing and boosting speed over the next 5 months). Now, I'm curious if the IP address vs region it's supposedly operating in matters at all. Will people in the middle east be less likely to connect to my Tokyo/Singapore based relays because the IP address shows its in the USA? Or any other issues? Also, if this does in fact affect the effectiveness of my relays in those regions, has anyone had experience being able to acquire an IP from Amazon for other regions? I do not have a support contract, since I'm paying for this out of my own pocket so I'm unable to contact tech support. I would be inclined to pay whatever fees it costs to get it done, if I knew exactly what it is I need to do. - David

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Possible bug on Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha and 0.2.4.9-alpha
by Jon 06 Feb '13

06 Feb '13

I started the Tor alpha yesterday, and now have numerous instances of " " Bug/Attack: unexpected sendme cell from client. Closing circ." Anything to be concened about Jon

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Newbie question
by Chuck Bevitt 05 Feb '13

05 Feb '13

I'm running an exit node using my home ISP (yes, I've read the warnings). My question is: what happens when my ISP changes my IPAddress? Will existing connections to my node be lost and will the node reestablish itself? Thanks, Chuck Bevitt Sent from my iPad

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My Relay has slowed significantly.
by Matthew Harrold 04 Feb '13

04 Feb '13

Hello all. This is my first time using a mailing list, so apologies if Im not doing it right! I have ran a couple of Tor Relays now for a few months, one was steady and reliable, and providing about 2MB/s of bandwidth. Of late, its slowed down dramatically. A reboot resolved it temporarily, but its slowed right down again, below 500KB/s. You can see the graph here- https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/2DAEE4EBA687A517F8B473894341A56820CDD… Does anyone have any suggestions? I have checked with my ISP and they are not throttling or managing the traffic in anyway, and my CPU and RAM isnt under heavy load. Ive uploaded my torrc here- http://pastebin.com/ZCnLQF0w I have read that file discriptors can also be a problem, Im not sure if this is relevant but- $ sysctl fs.file-nr fs.file-nr = 832 0 199036 Thanks in advance for your help, keep up the good work!

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help with bridge
by s 03 Feb '13

03 Feb '13

hello i am not sure this goes here but ill give it a shot i want to be able to configure a nas as a bridge is it posssible and what would i have to do? as well as run one on my desktop if yall can shoot me line it would be helpful

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Moritz in January
by Moritz Bartl 01 Feb '13

01 Feb '13

Hi, - Was invited as a speaker at CryptoParty Luxemburg. Gave two talks about Tor, one basic introduction/overview, and one about operating Tor exits. Afterwards, I helped starting Frënn vun der Ënn, a Luxemburg copy of Torservers.net by local members of the CCC -- some of which I already met at Haxogreen 2012, a Luxemburg hacker camp. They are awaiting official approval by the government, and then I will probably sign over our Luxemburg exit to them ( www.enn.lu ) - Wrote a German article about Tor by request of the CCC for their printed magazine "Datenschleuder". It will also be published on the web. - Wrote a small Python script that stores relay contact info from Onionoo data in a local database, together with "first seen" and "last seen" dates. I am currently limiting it to relays faster than 25 MBit/s. This will help me to welcome new relay operators, as well as contact "missing" operators to ask why they are gone. I am currently not publishing the database itself, but the script is at https://github.com/moba/tor-contacts-tracker - I became more accustomed to editing the Torproject website. Pushed some changes, most importantly a completely revised set of install instructions on Mac OSX using the unsafe Homebrew. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/7989 - Most of my time again went into Help Desk and IRC. For number of closed tickets, see Runa's report which will come soon. - Was offered 2-3 Gbit/s of spare bandwidth at a friendly CH ISP. Passed the offer to the Swiss Privacy Foundation to avoid running more high bandwidth nodes as Torservers.net. -- Moritz Bartl https://www.torservers.net/

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ESMTP Filtering by Santrex
by Moritz Bartl 31 Jan '13

31 Jan '13

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: ESMTP Filtering by 46.166.163.163 Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:57:53 +0100 From: Moritz Bartl <moritz(a)torservers.net> To: abuse(a)santrex.net Hi, Your customer at 46.166.163.163 runs a Tor exit relay (hooray! great!). The server should be configured in a way that does NOT tamper with outgoing or incoming traffic, but it looks like Santrex (you guys) are at least actively filtering/redirecting ESMTP Port 587 traffic. Trying 74.125.137.108... Connected to smtp.gmail.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 spamfilter.santrex.net ESMTP Postfix Trying 192.0.43.10... Connected to example.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 spamfilter.santrex.net ESMTP Postfix Please turn that off, or at least let your customer know about it so they can block the affected ports. Thanks! -- Moritz Bartl https://www.torservers.net/

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Public Munin Graphs: Security Risk?
by Moritz Bartl 31 Jan '13

31 Jan '13

Hi! I finally deployed Munin across our exit nodes. The graphs are currently public, and I don't see an obvious reason for not doing that. Any objections? https://www.torservers.net/munin/ -- Moritz Bartl https://www.torservers.net/

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iptables for relays not behind a nat
by Chris Baines 31 Jan '13

31 Jan '13

Can anyone help with equivalents of the iptables rules given here https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorFAQ#HowcanImakemyrelay… but for a relay on a vps with a static ip? Thanks, Chris

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University Exit Node Success Stories
by Patrick R McDonald 27 Jan '13

27 Jan '13

All, I am working with various PoC for US universities in an attempt to get them to run fast exit relays. While I am making progress on the universities running a Tor node, most are very hesitant to run an exit node. From several, I received the impression that this was the result of not wanting to be first. To counteract this fear, I am hoping this list can provide some success stories for the above scenario to provide the universities. Looking forward to receiving your feedback, Patrick

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