Yesterday I put in a new router for my home connexion to Verizon. Up until now, I've had to bring down my router for 18 hours or so for me to get a new ip address, so this has never really come up before. But I noticed in the new interface that my dhcp lease from Verizon is only 2 hours long. I have had 5 or 6 ip changes that I noticed, and found my relay starting all over again this morning, building up its connexions again.
I'm hoping that Verizon will settle down and start renewing my ip address instead of giving me another every few hours, but of course I don't know if their pool of addresses is running low and they are scrambling or what.
Any thoughts? I don't think I can continue with my home relay in good conscience if people are getting kicked off several times a day.
TIA,
--Torix
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On 01.05.2019 22:22, torix@protonmail.com wrote:
I'm hoping that Verizon will settle down and start renewing my ip address instead of giving me another every few hours, but of course I don't know if their pool of addresses is running low and they are scrambling or what.
Any thoughts? I don't think I can continue with my home relay in good conscience if people are getting kicked off several times a day.
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Hi,
On 01/05/2019 21:22, torix@protonmail.com wrote:
I'm hoping that Verizon will settle down and start renewing my ip address instead of giving me another every few hours, but of course I don't know if their pool of addresses is running low and they are scrambling or what.
You're right that this isn't great for a relay but...
Sounds like your home connection would be really good for a Snowflake bridge.
https://snowflake.torproject.org/
It's still in development, so don't expect much traffic just yet, but it's designed to have "snowflakes" popping up across the Internet faster than they can be blocked.
The fact that Verizon is giving you a new IP all the time may be a blessing, because once the old one is blocked you get a new one.
Thanks, Iain.
Now, a few days later, Verizon seems to have settled down and I have had tha same ip since May 1st, so things seem less urgent. Though I realize that my vision of the local "mom and pop" relays has gotten more and more outdated.
Thank you very much for mentioning snowflake; I had never heard of it before; will look into it.
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‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Friday, May 3, 2019 2:56 PM, Iain Learmonth irl@torproject.org wrote:
Hi,
On 01/05/2019 21:22, torix@protonmail.com wrote:
I'm hoping that Verizon will settle down and start renewing my ip address instead of giving me another every few hours, but of course I don't know if their pool of addresses is running low and they are scrambling or what.
You're right that this isn't great for a relay but...
Sounds like your home connection would be really good for a Snowflake bridge.
https://snowflake.torproject.org/
It's still in development, so don't expect much traffic just yet, but it's designed to have "snowflakes" popping up across the Internet faster than they can be blocked.
The fact that Verizon is giving you a new IP all the time may be a blessing, because once the old one is blocked you get a new one.
Thanks, Iain.
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On 2019-05-05 14:32:52, torix@protonmail.com wrote:
Though I realize that my vision of the local "mom and pop" relays has gotten more and more outdated.
I think it's more important than ever. In my mind diversity is more important than throughput. If everyone ran GBit relays at a few providers it would make Tor much less secure.
Re DHCP in general...
Some OS, particularly some mobile oriented Linux distros, phones, and even in popular modem gear, do now come with MAC randomizers, or have them available as addon packages. If they are enabled they can turn any seemingly static-IP-ness that comes from ISP DHCP servers, into a quite random affair.
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