We were contacted by another relay operator (Zakwan Kalb zk@onionmail.org). He told us that Torproject intentionally added two new flags to our relays (BadExit, MiddleOnly) and our relays cannot be used as exit or guard. We checked our relays on https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html as he asked and found that these flags really exist and our relays only used as middle. Has anyone faced the same problem?
On Tuesday, 25 March 2025 19:02 tempemailoNiceRelays via tor-relays wrote:
We were contacted by another relay operator (Zakwan Kalb zk@onionmail.org). He told us that Torproject intentionally added two new flags to our relays (BadExit, MiddleOnly) and our relays cannot be used as exit or guard. We checked our relays on https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html as he asked and found that these flags really exist and our relays only used as middle. Has anyone faced the same problem?
Yes, zk@onionmail.org has written to all of us several times. His questions about the flags have been answered multiple times here in the list: https://lists.torproject.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/tor-relays@lists.torpr...
Because he keeps sending the same questions in PMs, emails from @onionmail.org are being rejected on my mail server.
Just ignore his emails. AFAIK he's been asking the same questions and spreading FUD for about a year now.
We can ignore him but we are still curious why our relays have these flags?
We have read this: https://lists.torproject.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/tor-relays@lists.torpr...
And here is nothing that can explain why our relays have these flags
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On Wednesday, March 26th, 2025 at 6:32 PM, boldsuck via tor-relays tor-relays@lists.torproject.org wrote:
On Tuesday, 25 March 2025 19:02 tempemailoNiceRelays via tor-relays wrote:
We were contacted by another relay operator (Zakwan Kalb zk@onionmail.org). He told us that Torproject intentionally added two new flags to our relays (BadExit, MiddleOnly) and our relays cannot be used as exit or guard. We checked our relays on https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html as he asked and found that these flags really exist and our relays only used as middle. Has anyone faced the same problem?
Yes, zk@onionmail.org has written to all of us several times. His questions about the flags have been answered multiple times here in the list: https://lists.torproject.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/tor-relays@lists.torpr...
Because he keeps sending the same questions in PMs, emails from @onionmail.org are being rejected on my mail server.
Just ignore his emails. AFAIK he's been asking the same questions and spreading FUD for about a year now.
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On Thursday, 27 March 2025 08:23 tempemailoNiceRelays wrote:
We can ignore him but we are still curious why our relays have these flags?
We have read this: https://lists.torproject.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/tor-relays@lists.torp roject.org/message/OJ3MR3ODRV6TPRAEEXRQ4LSPPJ643ETE/
And here is nothing that can explain why our relays have these flags
If your relays are misconfigured you received an email from bad-relays. Check mails & tor logs.
To help you, please post relay fingerprints. (¹I've done it now) Share tor configs and logs on pastebin.
First I would check DNS resolution: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/team/-/wikis/Criteria-for-r...
If you set up many relays at the same time, it is always a good idea to announce it in this list beforehand. Especially if you do this @ provider that have been known for malicious relays in the past. Because you can set up exits there easily and relatively anonymously.
¹ https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/family:76804FBA84FB485C2F3000D...
BTW: At Frantech, all VMs are dual stack. It would be nice if you could configure IPv6. Frantech is overcrowded and should be avoided if possible. Building 16 new exits there is generally a bad idea.
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