Having trouble with setting up a relay in a censored country.
Hello. For the past few days I've been trying to open a tor-relay on my old laptop running arch. The tor service starts fine but when I check nyx no traffic goes through me, both download and upload is 0. Nyx shows Unknown:portnumber. I doubt that the port is closed or somehow unavailable since arch's defaults are wide open. And for some reason my tor version (0.4.8.13) shows up as "unknown" as well. I thought the issue may lie in torproject's ban in Russia but somehow other people run relays just fine? (https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/country:ru). I've set up obsf4 as well but It didn't change anything Im quite new in all of this so bear with me. Thanks -Arttu
Hey there, to efficiently help you, could you please post your /etc/tor/torrc? Otherwise, the relays that you see in Russia are likely on a host that does not enforce the ban of the Tor Project. However, your nyx data is quite weird. Did you run it as the Tor user? - sudo -u tor nyx Otherwise, make sure that your ControlPort is opened, and that you use CookieAuthentication. Thank you, -GH On Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 at 8:50 PM, nyyymi via tor-relays <tor-relays@lists.torproject.org> wrote:
Hello. For the past few days I've been trying to open a tor-relay on my old laptop running arch. The tor service starts fine but when I check nyx no traffic goes through me, both download and upload is 0. Nyx shows Unknown:portnumber. I doubt that the port is closed or somehow unavailable since arch's defaults are wide open. And for some reason my tor version (0.4.8.13) shows up as "unknown" as well. I thought the issue may lie in torproject's ban in Russia but somehow other people run relays just fine? (https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/country:ru). I've set up obsf4 as well but It didn't change anything
Im quite new in all of this so bear with me. Thanks
-Arttu
Am 14.01.2025 um 19:50:19 Uhr schrieb nyyymi via tor-relays:
For the past few days I've been trying to open a tor-relay on my old laptop running arch. The tor service starts fine but when I check nyx no traffic goes through me, both download and upload is 0.
New relays pass a "warm-up process": https://blog.torproject.org/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay/
Nyx shows Unknown:portnumber. I doubt that the port is closed or somehow unavailable since arch's defaults are wide open. And for some reason my tor version (0.4.8.13) shows up as "unknown" as well. I thought the issue may lie in torproject's ban in Russia but somehow other people run relays just fine? (https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/country:ru). I've set up obsf4 as well but It didn't change anything
Please post the IP addresses or name of the relay, so we can test reachability. Censorship/firewalling might differ from ISP to ISP. -- Gruß Marco Send unsolicited bulk mail to 1736880619muell@cartoonies.org
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