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Bridge distribution method stuck at "none"
by - 21 Dec '21

21 Dec '21

Hello. I tried to set up a bridge on an Ubuntu server and it seems working fine. I can connect to it manually from different devices using the bridge address from obfs4_bridgeline.txt file. However I dont see practically any traffic besides when I'm using it, and on "Relay Search" it shows as "Bridge distribution mechanism: None". The bridge has been up and running for 10 days straigth. At first I only had the line: "PublishServerDescriptor 1". After five days, I tried adding "BridgeRelay 1" and "BridgeDistribution moat", "https" and "any". Neither seems to have produced any change. Is this normal or could I have missed something on the configuration? Thank you.

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Tor Relay Operators Survey - Gamification Project - Miko
by Sukeshani Tayade 21 Dec '21

21 Dec '21

*Hello Tor Relay Operators!* My name is Miko and I am an intern via Outreachy.org. I am working on a project to understand Tor Relay Operators and incentivise your relay running experience. You can read more about this project here: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/relays/-/issues/26 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/relays/-/issues/27 We appreciate your contribution to the Tor Network and want to make your relay running experience better. We would like to hear from you directly. *Please answer the survey below* and be as detailed as you'd like. We're looking forward to your responses! They will be instrumental in directing our mission to serve you better. *SURVEY:* https://survey.torproject.org/index.php/459487

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Relay operator section in our forum
by Georg Koppen 21 Dec '21

21 Dec '21

Hello! Some of you might already have seen that we have a shiny new forum now.[1] And, of course, there is a part of it dedicated to providing support for relay operators as well.[2] Check it out and feel free to contribute! Thanks, Georg [1] https://forum.torproject.net/ [2] https://forum.torproject.net/c/support/relay-operator/17

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Running dedicated Tor node hosting
by bobby stickel 20 Dec '21

20 Dec '21

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Middle Relay shows Adv. Bandwidth of 0 B on Tor-Metrics
by petrarca＠protonmail.ch 19 Dec '21

19 Dec '21

My middle relay 605EE4375EE4C38215C8949F5808863749FD4F4A crashed and I had to set it up from scratch. It's up again for over 14 hours now, and all logs and other checks I did look fine - the only thing which is strange is on the Tor-Metrics page showing "Advertised Bandwidth" as zero (0 B). Any idea what I might have missed or overlooked?

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Introduction from lokodlare
by abuse＠lokodlare.com 16 Dec '21

16 Dec '21

Hello Tor relay operators, I joined this mail list recently and wanted to take the opportunity to shortly introduce myself. My name is Kristian, I am based in Europe, and I operate all nodes behind the domain lokodlare.com. “Lökodlare” is Swedish for “onion farmers”, which is pretty much what I do. My goal is to contribute to the Tor network by providing a couple of high-bandwidth nodes all over the globe, preferably at less common providers and/or in niche countries. I will focus on Middle and Guard relays, though I will throw some exits into the mix every now and then with a very reduced exit policy. I currently operate 90+ relays and bridges with a theoretical bandwidth capacity of roughly 25 Gbit/s. As a snapshot, those nodes handled around 280 TB of Tor-related traffic in the past 24 hours. I am looking forward to talk/discuss with all of you in the future. Thanks, have a great Sunday, Kristian

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IPv6
by xplato 16 Dec '21

16 Dec '21

Hi all, I was able to add IPv6 on four HardenedBSD relays I run however I have now noticed a number of malicious login attempts. I am wondering if there is some correlation with the IPv6 or just a coincidence? Best regards, Dan Sent from ProtonMail for iOS

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Old question
by Qimam Fellowship 16 Dec '21

16 Dec '21

Hello, the Torproject. We launched relays and bridges 3 days ago, today we received a few emails from noreply(a)torweather.org saying that our relays are down. Your metrics website says our relays are offline, but in fact our VPS are online and tor daemon is running. The status of our bridges is displayed as online. We attached tor daemon log from one of our relays and list of our relays and bridges fingerprint. Is this an error on your metrics website and Tor Weather bot or we misconfigured something?

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How to become a directory authority
by bobby stickel 16 Dec '21

16 Dec '21

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Tor not starting but log inconclusive
by yl 15 Dec '21

15 Dec '21

Hello all, I have a problem with a Tor Exit. Tor will not start correctly, but there is nothing in the logs. Here is the info I got. tor --version Tor version 0.4.6.8. Tor is running on Linux with Libevent 2.1.8-stable, OpenSSL 1.1.1d, Zlib 1.2.11, Liblzma 5.2.4, Libzstd 1.3.8 and Glibc 2.28 as libc. Tor compiled with GCC version 8.3.0 journalctl -u tor --since="14 hours ago" -- Logs begin at Tue 2021-12-14 04:28:56 CET, end at Tue 2021-12-14 10:19:59 CET. -- Dec 14 04:28:59 tor.piratenpartei-nrw.de systemd[1]: Starting Anonymizing overlay network for TCP (multi-instance-master)... Dec 14 04:28:59 tor.piratenpartei-nrw.de systemd[1]: Started Anonymizing overlay network for TCP (multi-instance-master). Dec 14 10:12:00 tor.piratenpartei-nrw.de systemd[1]: tor.service: Succeeded. Dec 14 10:12:00 tor.piratenpartei-nrw.de systemd[1]: Stopped Anonymizing overlay network for TCP (multi-instance-master). Dec 14 10:12:00 tor.piratenpartei-nrw.de systemd[1]: Stopping Anonymizing overlay network for TCP (multi-instance-master)... Dec 14 10:12:00 tor.piratenpartei-nrw.de systemd[1]: Starting Anonymizing overlay network for TCP (multi-instance-master)... Dec 14 10:12:00 tor.piratenpartei-nrw.de systemd[1]: Started Anonymizing overlay network for TCP (multi-instance-master). In the tor log I have: Dec 14 00:22:25.000 [notice] General overload -> DNS timeouts (162) fraction 1.0484% is above threshold of 1.0000% Dec 14 00:32:25.000 [notice] General overload -> DNS timeouts (154) fraction 1.0664% is above threshold of 1.0000% Dec 14 00:42:25.000 [notice] General overload -> DNS timeouts (140) fraction 1.0721% is above threshold of 1.0000% Dec 14 01:32:57.000 [notice] Interrupt: we have stopped accepting new connections, and will shut down in 30 seconds. Interrupt again to exit now. Dec 14 01:32:58.000 [notice] Delaying directory fetches: We are hibernating or shutting down. Dec 14 01:33:27.000 [notice] Clean shutdown finished. Exiting. Dec 14 10:12:01.000 [notice] Tor 0.4.6.8 opening log file. Dec 14 10:12:01.103 [notice] We compiled with OpenSSL 1010104f: OpenSSL 1.1.1d 10 Sep 2019 and we are running with OpenSSL 1010104f: 1.1.1d. These two versions should be binary compatible. Dec 14 10:12:01.104 [notice] Tor 0.4.6.8 running on Linux with Libevent 2.1.8-stable, OpenSSL 1.1.1d, Zlib 1.2.11, Liblzma 5.2.4, Libzstd 1.3.8 and Glibc 2.28 as libc. Dec 14 10:12:01.104 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe at https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning You can see the start was at 04:28:59 but it only started when I did "systemctl restart tor" at 10:12:01.103. I have this issue for some weeks, maybe since the late summer. I do not restart the Exit that often, so just 3 restarts due to some updates of Debian. Any idea how to troubleshoot this and what to look for? Thanks yl

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