From: Keifer Bly
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2018 4:08 PM
To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org
Subject: FW: [tor-relays] Relay unreachable by authorities (Was: Re:Questiononrelay allowed downtime)

From: Keifer Bly
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2018 4:01 PM
To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org
Subject: RE: [tor-relays] Relay unreachable by authorities (Was: Re:Questionon relay allowed downtime)

That’s what’s strange. I have double checked the tor logs and the only  warning that appears is the “tor cannot help you if you use it wrong” warning; that’s the only one that appears. I did some research, and according to

https://serverfault.com/questions/145907/does-mac-os-x-throttle-the-rate-of-socket-creation, Mac os does have a maximum amount of network connections it does allow at once.

To find mine out, I tried running this in terminal

Launchctl limit maxfiles

The return was this:

maxfiles            256                     unlimited.

I tried attaching a photo of the output but got a message back saying it was held because it was too big (the file was about 6mb).

I wonder if this would mean mac os only allows 256 connections at once?  How could I modify my torrc file to not go over the max allowed connections by mac os and still be a useable relay?

Thank you.

From: teor
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2018 3:38 PM
To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org
Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Relay unreachable by authorities (Was: Re: Questionon relay allowed downtime)

On 27 Apr 2018, at 08:23, Keifer Bly <keifer.bly@gmail.com> wrote:

My apologies. The fingerprint is DB1AF6477BB276B6EA5E72132684096EEE779D30

Here are the contents of my torc file (the isp beeng run from is Charter Communications, the only isp that is available where I live.

You might want to use a pastebin service for large files.

Or cut out all the commented stuff before posting your torrc.

I do not remember applying any descriptor limit and do not see one here.

The file descriptor limit is imposed by the OS.

The default can be low.

Here is how you can find out:

Please check the logs for warnings and notices.

Sometimes tor logs a warning when it starts up (for example, low file

descriptors), and then the issue happens later.

What’s strange is my internet connection is working fine and I am able to visit websites, making it not seem like it is overloaded.

Tor requires thousands of simultaneous connections.

Tor requires constant uptime.

Internet browsing requires a few connections.

It works when the network is interrupted.

Seems strange. Does Charter have any strange policies against running tor relays (has anyone ever had a documented here problem with running a relay on Charter before)? Thank you.

You should ask your ISP.

T