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build tor out of source -> permission problems?
by Patrice Bönig 27 Jan '21

27 Jan '21

Hi @ list, I am operating a relay for several years and I really do like it and will do it for more years. My current relay residents on Pi 4. At first I installed it via apt but now the 32 Bit sources are no longer available. So I thought I could build the from source. The building process went well but now I have a problem with the user permissions. I can't get tor really running. _My first attempt was:_ To start tor with "systemctl start tor". But tor won't start and " journalctl -u tor" says only this: Jan 22 09:06:23 rpi4tor systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Starts The Onion Router daemon Jan 22 09:06:23 rpi4tor systemd[1]: Started LSB: Starts The Onion Router daemon Jan 22 09:08:32 rpi4tor systemd[1]: Stopping LSB: Starts The Onion Router daemon Jan 22 09:08:32 rpi4tor systemd[1]: tor.service: Succeeded. Jan 22 09:08:32 rpi4tor systemd[1]: Stopped LSB: Starts The Onion Router daemon lines 1-6/6 (END)...skipping... -- Logs begin at Thu 2019-02-14 11:11:59 CET, end at Fri 2021-01-22 11:54:47 CET. -- Jan 22 09:06:23 rpi4tor systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Starts The Onion Router daemon processes... Jan 22 09:06:23 rpi4tor systemd[1]: Started LSB: Starts The Onion Router daemon processes. Jan 22 09:08:32 rpi4tor systemd[1]: Stopping LSB: Starts The Onion Router daemon processes... Jan 22 09:08:32 rpi4tor systemd[1]: tor.service: Succeeded. Jan 22 09:08:32 rpi4tor systemd[1]: Stopped LSB: Starts The Onion Router daemon processes. _My second attempt was:_ I changed the user of all tor files to the current user "pi". After that I was able to start tor with "tor --quiet" as user "pi". All went fine until I rebooted the system and all my changes to "pi" where changed to "debian-tor". _My third attempt was:_ I did "sudo tor --quiet". It works, but in "notices.log" is the information that I shouldn't do that. So, now I am standing here and don't know what to do. I would like to start tor via systemd but I don't know what's wrong (maybe the permissions). Does someone has a hint for me? regards, Karl

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Server lost Stable flag but has more than 60 days uptime
by raltullou＠posteo.org 26 Jan '21

26 Jan '21

Hello list, I'm trying to find out why the server (https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/11DF0017A43AF1F08825CD5D9732…) has lost its stable flag. As far as I can see it is running a recent version of tor and has an uptime of over 60 days. Are there other reasons that factor into the Stable flag? The log file doesn't give my an indication that there is anything wrong, either. Any ideas?

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Server under attack according to my hoster
by lists.torproject.org＠stein-io.de 22 Jan '21

22 Jan '21

Hi folks, I have a dedicated Server running with the red H in Germany. https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/1CD48F4ED0F1821FFBF1940802A1… Today I received a notification that my server is "under attack" since my server got over the threshold of 300k packets/s. At the time of the mail it seems to be about 450k pps . I checked a couple of IPs and most of them are other TOR-Relays or Exits. Would you recommend telling my Hoster that everything is all fine? Cheers

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Blocking bittorrent
by kagaminesama 19 Jan '21

19 Jan '21

Hi, How do you block bittorrent nowadays? I read this page: https://gitlab.torproject.org/legacy/trac/-/wikis/BlockingBittorrent but http://www.trackon.org/api/all doesn't work anymore because the domain is expired. Do you know any alternatives? Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.

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OrNetStats: Operator Level Graphs added
by nusenu 18 Jan '21

18 Jan '21

Hi, I've added new operator level pages with an interactive graph showing the aggregated guard/exit probability and advertised bandwidth over time across all relays for a given operator. This should allow you to see whether your bandwidth and fractions are growing or decreasing. You can - zoom within the graph to a specific time window (horizontal drag and drop), - change the scale on the y axis (vertical drag and drop) - zoom to a specific area (by selecting a rectangle) or use the preset time frames (week, month, year, ..). To give you a better idea of what these graphs look like, here is an example: https://nusenu.github.io/OrNetStats/www.f3netze.de.html The data source for these graphs is onionoo (torproject.org) it starts at 2019-10-31. The data granularity is about one value per day. kind regards, nusenu -- https://nusenu.github.io

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Bridge Setup
by San Shi 13 Jan '21

13 Jan '21

Hello, I'm following the bridge setup for windows after not being able to start a tor browser for some reason and having some difficulty with the last step. After running tor.exe -f torrc, there is no notice file appearing where it should be, and Tor still seems to fail to setup. In the torrc.txt file I modified the "ORPort TODO1" and "ServerTransportListenAddr obfs4 0.0.0.0:TODO2" by replacing TODO1 and TODO2 with numbers greater than 1024 and less than 9000. I assume either I messed up modifying the text file or that the obsf4 port I selected is not reachable. Using the provided reachability test I tried ~15 4 digit numbers, using 0.0.0.0 as the IP and a 4 digit number in the appropriate range for the obsf4 port (none reachable). Any suggestions? Thanks!

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Introducing new bridge status page
by Philipp Winter 12 Jan '21

12 Jan '21

As part of our ongoing effort to reimplement BridgeDB, we now have a bridge status page that shows if a bridge's pluggable transports work: https://bridges.torproject.org/status?id=FINGERPRINT FINGERPRINT is your bridge's fingerprint or its hashed fingerprint -- either works. The backend tests bridges every 18 hours by making a tor process fetch the bridge's descriptor. Tor bridges will soon log a URL pointing to this status page: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/issues/30477 As of today, 89% of all pluggable transports work. Cheers, Philipp

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My relay software gets hung up on OVH
by Keifer Bly 11 Jan '21

11 Jan '21

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Exit node in spain
by irr4z 11 Jan '21

11 Jan '21

Hello, everybody, Quickly, I write from Barcelona, I am interested in contributing to tor with exit nodes, but I am concerned about legal issues. I see that there is only 1 active exit node in Spain, and I wonder if it is so dangerous in my country :-) Any comment or feedback is welcome. Thanks and beers to everyone! Irr4z

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Config question
by r1610091651 11 Jan '21

11 Jan '21

Hi Recently upgraded to 4.4.6 and noticed new (for me) entry in tor logs: Jan 11 09:24:28.000 [notice] While bootstrapping, fetched this many bytes: This message gets repeated every 6 hours, while there is little extra info added, as it relates to bootstrap / start-up process. I already have "AvoidDiskWrites 1" active in torrc. Is there a way to disable this extra logging? Thanks

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