Not sure if related, but I noticed today one of my exit relays was not operating properly. Turned out the bind server was not resolving properly. I turned off dnssec and it started working again...
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Today's Topics:
- Reduced number of HSDir's (Sebastian Urbach)
- Re: Reduced number of HSDir's (Austin Bentley)
- Re: Reduced number of HSDir's (Kura)
- Re: Reduced number of HSDir's (Sebastian G. <bastik.tor>)
- Help - My relay consensus has been stripped back to 20 (bigbudtor@Safe-mail.net)
- Re: Help - My relay consensus has been stripped back to 20 (s7r)
From: Sebastian Urbach sebastian@urbach.org To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Sent: Fri Jan 02 12:25:06 EST 2015 Subject: [tor-relays] Reduced number of HSDir's
Hi,
https://metrics.torproject.org shows a big nose dive recently regarding the number of HSDir's. Did i miss anything relevant in the last days ? That
seem to be the reason why i see increasing download numbers on my system.
Thanks for any lind of info.
Sincerely yours / Sincères salutations
Sebastian Urbach
Definition of Tor: 10% luck, 20% skill, 15% concentrated power of will, 5% pleasure, 50% pain and 100% reason to remember the name!
From: Austin Bentley ab6d9@mst.edu To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Sent: Fri Jan 02 13:29:33 EST 2015 Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Reduced number of HSDir's
No clue. I wonder if there's some backlash from a anti-attack mechanism of some sort? There was a few attempted attacks against the Tor network, but it wasn't anything worth discussing. Check out the post on the 31st from blog.torproject.org.
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Sebastian Urbach sebastian@urbach.org wrote:
Hi,
https://metrics.torproject.org shows a big nose dive recently
regarding
the number of HSDir's. Did i miss anything relevant in the last days
? That
seem to be the reason why i see increasing download numbers on my
system.
Thanks for any lind of info.
Sincerely yours / Sincères salutations
Sebastian Urbach
Definition of Tor: 10% luck, 20% skill, 15% concentrated power of will, 5% pleasure, 50% pain and 100% reason to remember the name!
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From: Kura kura@kura.io To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Sent: Fri Jan 02 13:47:51 EST 2015 Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Reduced number of HSDir's
I think something must have happened, I restarted half a dozen or so of my relays over a week ago and none of them have been given the HSDir flag, which if I remember rightly is a 21 hour flag? I may be mistaken but, I would have expected that flag to be back with over a week of uptime.
-- Kura
t: @kuramanga [https://twitter.com/kuramanga] w: https://kura.io/ [https://kura.io/] g: @kura [http://git.io/kura] On 02/01/2015 18:30:00, Austin Bentley ab6d9@mst.edu wrote: No clue. I wonder if there's some backlash from a anti-attack mechanism of some sort? There was a few attempted attacks against the Tor network, but it wasn't anything worth discussing. Check out the post on the 31st from blog.torproject.org [http://blog.torproject.org].
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Sebastian Urbach <sebastian@urbach.org [mailto:sebastian@urbach.org]> wrote:
Hi,
https://metrics.torproject.org [https://metrics.torproject.org] shows a big nose dive recently regarding the number of HSDir's. Did i miss anything relevant in the last days ? That seem to be the reason why i see increasing download numbers on my system.
Thanks for any lind of info.
Sincerely yours / Sincères salutations
Sebastian Urbach
Definition of Tor: 10% luck, 20% skill, 15% concentrated power of will, 5% pleasure, 50% pain and 100% reason to remember the name!
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From: "Sebastian G. <bastik.tor>" bastik.tor@googlemail.com To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Sent: Fri Jan 02 14:51:26 EST 2015 Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Reduced number of HSDir's
02.01.2015, 19:47 Kura:
I think something must have happened, I restarted half a dozen or so of my relays over a week ago and none of them have been given the HSDir flag, which if I remember rightly is a 21 hour flag? I may be mistaken but, I would have expected that flag to be back with over a week of uptime.
It used to be a 25 hour flag. 1 day plus an additional hour.
I think (yes, that says I don't know) the period being longer than 24 hours had something to do with an attack to get relays under adversary control in the right position to become a HSDir for some hidden-services. If one pays for a relays by days an additional hour is an additional day for an attacker.
I may have missed something, but maybe it was raised.
I do remember that changes to Guards took place, like requiring them to have more bandwidth and to reducing the number of Guards clients would use. This was due to research.
Regards, Sebastian
From: bigbudtor@Safe-mail.net To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Sent: Fri Jan 02 18:28:48 EST 2015 Subject: [tor-relays] Help - My relay consensus has been stripped back to 20
On the 29th December one of our relays, bigbud (6911888F83565892FE23F1B03EB501D80E1E8780) which had a consensus of 630+ and had been running for nearly 18 months (100 days uptime running 2.5.8) suddenly started receiving much less traffic.
I have seen a gradual reduction in traffic over the course of the last year but on the 29th the drop off was very significant and I saw in Atlas that the consensus is dropped to 20. When I look at the consensus files it shows that bigbud has a consensus of 20 and that Unmeasured was set to 1.
Any ideas please? I upgraded Tor to 2.5.10 after I noticed the consensus drop. Is this something to do with the Lizard new relay flood or something or is there an actual problem with the relay?
On a related note the relay lost guard status too a few months ago and I couldn't see why that would be.
From: s7r s7r@sky-ip.org To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Sent: Fri Jan 02 18:39:52 EST 2015 Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Help - My relay consensus has been stripped back to 20
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This was reported yesterday 01.01.2015 in IRC too, for this relay:
3D7E274A87D9A89AF064C13D1EE4CA1F184F2600
The same it was pushing good amounts of traffic and the consensus weight dropped to 20 with no modifications made to the Tor config file or anything. You are the 3rd person who reports this, seams like worth investigating further.
I can see both of them are exits, but doubt this has anything to do with it.
Could it be a measurement problem from the bandwidth authorities? Why would it happen only to very few relays in this case?
On 1/3/2015 1:28 AM, bigbudtor@Safe-mail.net wrote:
On the 29th December one of our relays, bigbud (6911888F83565892FE23F1B03EB501D80E1E8780) which had a consensus of 630+ and had been running for nearly 18 months (100 days uptime running 2.5.8) suddenly started receiving much less traffic.
I have seen a gradual reduction in traffic over the course of the last year but on the 29th the drop off was very significant and I saw in Atlas that the consensus is dropped to 20. When I look at the consensus files it shows that bigbud has a consensus of 20 and that Unmeasured was set to 1.
Any ideas please? I upgraded Tor to 2.5.10 after I noticed the consensus drop. Is this something to do with the Lizard new relay flood or something or is there an actual problem with the relay?
On a related note the relay lost guard status too a few months ago and I couldn't see why that would be. _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
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