Thanks Stephen,

I've closed both the Control Port 9030 & Socks Port 9050 on the router - thanks for the advice.

Should I be concerned that I'm getting almost no traffic still after uptime of 3 days? I know sometimes it takes a little while for the relay to get 'established' and start seeing some decent traffic, but I don't remember it taking this long last time. Currently have 3 flags: Running, V2Dir, Valid.

Bandwidth limit is set to 700 KB/s & 800 KB/s (burst). Getting a little burst of traffic for 1 second every 10 seconds or so, but only a couple hundred bytes?

Nyx is saying avg is 531.2 B/sec - yeah that's bytes.....

Log updates for the past 12 hrs or so:

19:17:56 [NOTICE] DoS mitigation since startup: 0 circuits killed with too many cells. 0 circuits
│ rejected, 0 marked addresses. 0 connections closed. 0 single hop clients refused. [3 duplicates hidden]
│ 19:17:56 [NOTICE] Since startup, we have initiated 0 v1 connections, 0 v2 connections, 0 v3 connections, and 66 v4 connections; and received 103 v1 connections, 101 v2 connections, 399 v3 connections, and 260 v4 connections.
│ 19:17:56 [NOTICE] Circuit handshake stats since last time: 11/11 TAP, 0/0 NTor.
│ 19:17:56 [NOTICE] Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 2 days 23:59 hours, with 3 circuits open. I've sent 82.83 MB and received 132.06 MB. [3 duplicates hidden]
│ 13:17:56 [NOTICE] Since startup, we have initiated 0 v1 connections, 0 v2 connections, 0 v3 connections, and 65 v4 connections; and received 93 v1 connections, 92 v2 connections, 398 v3 connections, and 238 v4 connections.
│ 13:17:56 [NOTICE] Circuit handshake stats since last time: 12/12 TAP, 0/0 NTor.
│ 07:39:27 [WARN] Malformed IP "(null)" in address pattern; rejecting.
│ 07:17:56 [NOTICE] Since startup, we have initiated 0 v1 connections, 0 v2 connections, 0 v3 connections, and 56 v4 connections; and received 76 v1 connections, 87 v2 connections, 38 v3
│ connections, and 213 v4 connections.

│ 07:17:56 [NOTICE] Circuit handshake stats since last time: 18/18 TAP, 0/0 NTor.
│ 01:17:56 [NOTICE] Since startup, we have initiated 0 v1 connections, 0 v2 connections, 0 v3 connections, and 47 v4 connections; and received 64 v1 connections, 80 v2 connections, 25 v3
─┘ connections, and 181 v4 connections.

On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 7:23 AM Stephen Mollett <molletts@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi,

On 20/09/2018 10:37, Ben Riley wrote:
> ... I've actually got 4 ports open on the router for TOR - 9001, 9030,
> 9050 & 9051.
>
> I set 9030 as my control port in torrc - does that port need to be open
> on the router? ...
You probably don't need or want either the control port or the SOCKS
port open on the router.

The control port is normally used to allow "front end" software like
Vidalia to connect to the node and get diagnostic information, change
some configuration settings, tell it to do things like build a new
circuit, etc. so it only needs to be accessible to machines from which
you want to manage the node in this way. If, for some reason, you did
want to manage the node over the internet, I would recommend keeping the
port blocked on the router anyway and tunnelling it through an SSH
connection to the server.

The SOCKS port is used to tunnel connections through Tor, either
directly from software that supports SOCKS, via a wrapper such as
socksify or torify or through a proxy server like Privoxy. Again, that
only needs to be accessible to machines from which you want to "use"
Tor. Again, if you want to use your node as a "gateway" into Tor from
elsewhere, you should tunnel the port over SSH.

Hope this helps,
Stephen
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