Conrad Rockenhaus:
I noticed this when I started it up. It appears that the version of Tor on EPEL is out of date. I’ll build it out of source to fix it. I’ll probably have to do that for the Cloud solution as well since the lifecycle of EPEL is normally behind.
0.2.9.14 reached stable ~16 hours ago (generally a EPEL package stays in testing for 2 weeks before reaching stable) https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2017-97efaab7e7
If you do not want to build yourself you can enable the EPEL testing repo to get updates faster. If timely tor updates is a top priority, you might want to choose another OS.
Also please enable auto updates on your images so we avoid having lots of outdated relays on the network.
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/OperatorsTips/RPMUpdates#CentO...
- please automate the process of setting a proper MyFamily configuration - please ensure that relays have a meaningful ContactInfo set
please do not forget to set MyFamily on all your relays https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/A5C6D2EBCCA77D0B09364DD6B75FEC817AF977...
teor wrote:
I also wonder if there's a way of giving people a BSD image option as well.
Yes, BSD images would be great!
IMHO the biggest drawback with AWS is bw cost - which is a lot more expensive than most other hosters. With the same kind of money operators would be able to push a lot more traffic if they choose an unmetered hoster. From a cost point of view I would advise against AWS.
thanks for your efforts