Been running a node (relay non-exit) for about 5 years. Since the new year, i noticed that my node went down, and that it did not appear on the usual places (http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/router_detail.php?FP=78382b769d5d3baa41e89e5d9... and https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/78382B769D5D3BAA41E89E5D9D7FF88E1A96A6...) with the last seen timestamp of 2015-12-31 20:00:00.
I run my node on a dedicated server under my physical control. I checked the Tor process and in the system it was running, with the logs showing: [warn] connection_edge_process_relay_cell (at origin) failed. and [notice] Heartbeat: It seems like we are not in the cached consensus. I confirmed and double checked all my settings and restarted my Tor node, but still noticed that it was not appearing as running on globe https://globe.torproject.org/#/relay/78382B769D5D3BAA41E89E5D9D7FF88E1A96A6B... or atlas https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/78382B769D5D3BAA41E89E5D9D7FF88E1A96A6... after almost 6 hours.
I noticed on the logs i was getting "[notice] Your network connection speed appears to have changed. Resetting timeout to 60s after 18 timeouts and 1000 buildtimes." after restarting the node. I tried to open Tor Browser on my personal use computer, and it stalls in "connecting to a relay directory" with "Connecting to a relay directory failed (no route to host - 86.59.21.38:443)". I was however able to connect with Orbot on my smartphone after several retries. That's when i tried to ping and do a trecepath to Tor directory authorities https://atlas.torproject.org/#search/flag:authority Of the ten Tor directory authorities i was not able to ping and tracepath any of them using my ISP Telefonos del Noroeste (telnor). But i was able to ping and tracepath all of the directory authorities using Riseup's Vpn servie https://black.riseup.net/ .
I even tried to traceroute directly from within the ISP provided Internet Router and was still not able to get thru to any Tor directory authority or even a Tor node.
traceroute to dannenberg directory authority with Telnor ISP: traceroute to 193.23.244.244 (193.23.244.244), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 192.168.254.254 (192.168.254.254) 1.500 ms 1.650 ms 2.120 ms 2 dsl-servicio-l200.uninet.net.mx (200.38.193.226) 10.721 ms 10.758 ms 10.702 ms 3 * * * 4 * * * -snip- 30 * * *
traceroute to dannenberg directory authority with Riseup Vpn: traceroute to 193.23.244.244 (193.23.244.244), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 10.42.0.1 (10.42.0.1) 42.364 ms 42.342 ms 42.339 ms 2 wren.riseup.net (198.252.153.1) 43.103 ms 43.103 ms 43.101 ms -snip- 22 dannenberg.torauth.de (193.23.244.244) 205.293 ms 205.783 ms 204.446 ms
Similar when i tracepath to a random Tor node in france (http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/router_detail.php?FP=7407277411041dc7bee802bf5...):
With Telnor ISP: tracepath 149.202.193.100 1?: [LOCALHOST] pmtu 1500 1: 192.168.254.254 1.500ms 1: 192.168.254.254 1.419ms 2: no reply 3: no reply 4: no reply 5: no reply 6: no reply C
With Riseup Vpn: tracepath 149.202.193.100 1?: [LOCALHOST] pmtu 1500 1: 10.42.0.1 43.093ms 1: 10.42.0.1 39.373ms 2: wren.riseup.net 44.108ms 3: gi0-0-0-5.agr13.sea02.atlas.cogentco.com 42.399ms 4: multi-use.cogentco.com 44.246ms 5: be2288.ccr21.sea02.atlas.cogentco.com 44.367ms 6: level3.sea02.atlas.cogentco.com 41.783ms asymm 7 7: no reply 8: no reply 9: nwk-1-a9.nj.us 133.351ms asymm 15 10: ldn-1-a9.uk.eu 198.174ms asymm 17 11: rbx-g1-a9.fr.eu 202.478ms asymm 17 12: fra-1-a9.de.eu 206.248ms asymm 18 13: sbg-g1-a9.fr.eu 213.218ms asymm 20 14: sbg-4b-a9.fr.eu 215.017ms asymm 21 15: ns3015177.ip-149-202-193.eu 213.182ms reached Resume: pmtu 1500 hops 15 back 21
Before the new year, there used to be around 5 to 8 Tor nodes located in Mexico, right now, only one appears as online:
http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/router_detail.php?FP=92dd0214bc72cb52777e20152...
that i am not able to ping or traceroute to. I have a dynamic IP, so i rebooted the ISP provided router and tried with several IP's that where assigned by my ISP and all provided the same results. I plan on doing more testing and calling my ISP and asking directly about the IP's i am not able to reach and specifically if they block or plan on blocking Tor.
UPDATE: Tech support chat with ISP - Jan 02 2016:
They confirmed that i can not access the IP's but don't have any info about why i am not able to access. They "escalated" the issue...
Tech support chat with ISP - Jan 03 2016:
They said: Telnor connections to the rest of the world is thru the U.S. from Telnor no blocking is made to the rest of the world.
I'm not seeing any Tor nodes with telnor/telmex/infinitum at http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/index.php only Axtel and Megared.
I am sometimes able to connect to "longclaw" longclaw.riseup.net (199.254.238.53) but not always. Sometimes i get "Connecting to a relay directory failed (no route to host - directory_ip:port)" when using the Tor Browser, but if i try several times i am able to use the Tor browser.
I would really like to keep running my Tor node, and i am willing to change ISP's, but i am still hoping that it's something on my end, but i am not seeing any more relays with Telmex/Telnor/Infinitum as ISP. Is there anyway to confirm that it's my ISP? any other reports from Mexico about similar issues?.
In the meantime, i already donated $100 while my Tor node is down. (no t-shirt yet though :( )
Tor logs here: http://pastebin.com/4XQaQyLd
torrc contents: ContactInfo fabian dot bustillos at riseup dot net ControlPort 9051 DirPort 9030 ORPort 9001 ExitPolicy reject *:* HashedControlPassword ------------------------------------------------ Nickname fbnaiaTorRelay SocksListenAddress 127.0.0.1 DisableDebuggerAttachment 0
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Fabian Bustillos Vega