Issues with My Tor Relay
Hello there, For the past week I’ve been running a Tor relay using the Tor‑Relay plugin on my OpenSense. While the relay appears to be functioning, I’ve noticed a few irregularities: 1. Selective blocking: Some IP addresses that connect to me are being denied by default, whereas others with similar characteristics connect without any issue. 2. Low bandwidth usage: The relay isn’t consuming much bandwidth. I’m not sure whether this is normal while the relay is still learning its capacity or if something else is limiting traffic. 3. No connections on port 9030: So far, I haven’t seen any inbound connections to the directory port (9030). For testing, the following IP is reachable via ICMP ;) - 109.199.164.117 – Port 9001 (OR) / DIR 9030 Could you advise on why these behaviors are occurring and whether any configuration changes are needed? Thanks for your help, and stay hydrated!
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hello. stay.hydrated834＠passmail.net wrote:
1. Selective blocking: Some IP addresses that connect to me are being denied by default, whereas others with similar characteristics connect without any issue.
I'm not entirely sure what this means. What is denying them and how do you know?
2. Low bandwidth usage: The relay isn’t consuming much bandwidth. I’m not sure whether this is normal while the relay is still learning its capacity or if something else is limiting traffic.
This is normal. It can take a few weeks for a new relay to get up to speed. See https://blog.torproject.org/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay/. Speed also depends on location. Your relay is in Germany where most relays are right now, so expect traffic to ramp up rapidly over a couple weeks.
3. No connections on port 9030: So far, I haven’t seen any inbound connections to the directory port (9030).
DirPort has been deprecated for non-authoritative relays and it's no longer published in the consensus. That's totally normal, and directory requests go through the ORPort now. You have the V2Dir flag, which means you are, indeed, serving directory requests.
109.199.164.117 – Port 9001 (OR) / DIR 9030
I can't ping that host from 94.156.152.8 (RO) or 102.211.56.20 (ZA), but connections to 9001 and 9030 succeed just fine. And thank you for running a relay! Regards, forest -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEARYKAB0WIQQtr8ZXhq/o01Qf/pow+TRLM+X4xgUCaY7XcgAKCRAw+TRLM+X4 xmJbAPsGF4r7fnU2uN2zDIYgwnLBguDdbNRjGacmkYp9TSPjXAD9GTi9mVt4gRQC Wboo14/qp/yA+vfGjrn8A/ZYeL7ezwI= =1v3a -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On 12.02.2026 19:54 "stay.hydrated834--- via tor-relays" <tor-relays@lists.torproject.org> wrote:
1. Selective blocking: Some IP addresses that connect to me are being denied by default, whereas others with similar characteristics connect without any issue.
Denied by what? You need to make sure that any global routed IP address can connect to you, do not implement any restrictions here. If there is a firewall or route distribution policy that block this, disable it. -- kind regards Marco Send spam to abfall1770922449@stinkedores.dorfdsl.de
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