Re: [tor-relays] Windows Relay Setup
I finally got around to playing with this some more. Thank you for your message, Bruce. I searched for Vidalia and found an old bundle that appears to work perfectly on my Windows 10 machine. Steps I took: 1. Download Vidalia Bundle 0.2.4.23 from http://vidalia-bundle.en.lo4d.com/ 2. Extract 3. Install 4. Start 5. The Vidalia Control Panel will pop-up 6. In settings, I changed the Tor executable from the one included with the Vidalia Bundle to the current version of Tor elsewhere on my system. Like I said, it *appears* to be working. Can't find it in relay search yet, but I only set it up moments ago. Nickname is inadequate Contact is willpate@disroot.org William Pate willpate@pm.me 512-947-3311 inadequate.net ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Sunday, July 14, 2019 1:44 AM, Barton Bruce <barton.bruce@gmail.com> wrote:
William,
On 7/11/2019 6:58 PM, William Pate wrote:
I'm interested in hosting a Windows-based relay, if anyone can point me to a good tutorial. I've tried the most common ones.
tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
There used to be a VIDALIA (sp?) kit that could simply be downloaded and run on a windows machine. I then worked for an ISP/CLEC and had lots of bandwidth so ran Vidaalia on a 64 bit Windows 7 Ultimate machine on my desk at work.
I never did hear why something had changed at the tor project so that stopped working, but do remember a rude snippy condescending reply from someone on the mailing list so I lost interest.
I did get the head Tor guy from the Central Square Cambridge office of TOR to come speak at a local networking group's monthly meeting we held at a MicroSlush faclity in Burlington, MA and it was well received by a packed audience. I think he now has left TOR and works for some ISP.
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Tor 0.2.4.23 is EOLed and is blacklisted from the network. Vidalia is also EOL and unmaintained. Also see: https://blog.torproject.org/removing-end-life-relays-network If you want a Windows relay, you'll have to configure manually whether you like it or not. It's hard (Tor is Unix-native), and performance sucks when compared to Linux/BSD/macOS, but on the positive Windows is still better for relay diversity than Linux. If there is Linux malware hurting the Tor network, we shouldn't just hope for BSD variants to keep us alive. Closed source or not, we should also consider Windows as an alternative relay OS (if you have a license or are willing to buy one). And I'm saying this as someone who runs FreeBSD relays and a FreeBSD desktop myself. You can also use a VM, and it may be easier, but if I were you, just use the expert bundle and try to configure Tor as a NT service. You won't have to worry about a hypervisor and will help relay diversity along the way. -Neel === https://www.neelc.org/ On 2019-10-17 15:20, William Pate wrote:
I finally got around to playing with this some more.
Thank you for your message, Bruce. I searched for Vidalia and found an old bundle that appears to work perfectly on my Windows 10 machine.
Steps I took:
1. Download Vidalia Bundle 0.2.4.23 from http://vidalia-bundle.en.lo4d.com/ 2. Extract 3. Install 4. Start 5. The Vidalia Control Panel will pop-up 6. In settings, I changed the Tor executable from the one included with the Vidalia Bundle to the current version of Tor elsewhere on my system.
Like I said, it *appears* to be working. Can't find it in relay search yet, but I only set it up moments ago.
Nickname is inadequate Contact is willpate@disroot.org
William Pate willpate@pm.me 512-947-3311 inadequate.net
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Sunday, July 14, 2019 1:44 AM, Barton Bruce <barton.bruce@gmail.com> wrote:
William,
On 7/11/2019 6:58 PM, William Pate wrote:
I'm interested in hosting a Windows-based relay, if anyone can point me to a good tutorial. I've tried the most common ones.
tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
There used to be a VIDALIA (sp?) kit that could simply be downloaded and run on a windows machine. I then worked for an ISP/CLEC and had lots of bandwidth so ran Vidaalia on a 64 bit Windows 7 Ultimate machine on my desk at work.
I never did hear why something had changed at the tor project so that stopped working, but do remember a rude snippy condescending reply from someone on the mailing list so I lost interest.
I did get the head Tor guy from the Central Square Cambridge office of TOR to come speak at a local networking group's monthly meeting we held at a MicroSlush faclity in Burlington, MA and it was well received by a packed audience. I think he now has left TOR and works for some ISP.
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For some reason, and somehow my fingerprint for tor changed about a month ago :( It is now : C9FD236FDE28003315BD8C96EE94BC58D85FBACF It used to be: B1B10104EB72A1FBBF6687B05F1915D87D00DBDE Anyone have any idea why this would have happened? Thanks, Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. Everything Computers and Networks 804.592.1672 ------ Original Message ------ From: "Neel Chauhan" <neel@neelc.org> To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Sent: 10/19/2019 7:47:28 PM Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Windows Relay Setup
Tor 0.2.4.23 is EOLed and is blacklisted from the network. Vidalia is also EOL and unmaintained.
Also see: https://blog.torproject.org/removing-end-life-relays-network
If you want a Windows relay, you'll have to configure manually whether you like it or not. It's hard (Tor is Unix-native), and performance sucks when compared to Linux/BSD/macOS, but on the positive Windows is still better for relay diversity than Linux.
If there is Linux malware hurting the Tor network, we shouldn't just hope for BSD variants to keep us alive. Closed source or not, we should also consider Windows as an alternative relay OS (if you have a license or are willing to buy one). And I'm saying this as someone who runs FreeBSD relays and a FreeBSD desktop myself.
You can also use a VM, and it may be easier, but if I were you, just use the expert bundle and try to configure Tor as a NT service. You won't have to worry about a hypervisor and will help relay diversity along the way.
-Neel
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On 2019-10-17 15:20, William Pate wrote:
I finally got around to playing with this some more.
Thank you for your message, Bruce. I searched for Vidalia and found an old bundle that appears to work perfectly on my Windows 10 machine.
Steps I took:
1. Download Vidalia Bundle 0.2.4.23 from http://vidalia-bundle.en.lo4d.com/ 2. Extract 3. Install 4. Start 5. The Vidalia Control Panel will pop-up 6. In settings, I changed the Tor executable from the one included with the Vidalia Bundle to the current version of Tor elsewhere on my system.
Like I said, it *appears* to be working. Can't find it in relay search yet, but I only set it up moments ago.
Nickname is inadequate Contact is willpate@disroot.org
William Pate willpate@pm.me 512-947-3311 inadequate.net
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Sunday, July 14, 2019 1:44 AM, Barton Bruce <barton.bruce@gmail.com> wrote:
William,
On 7/11/2019 6:58 PM, William Pate wrote:
I'm interested in hosting a Windows-based relay, if anyone can point me to a good tutorial. I've tried the most common ones.
tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
There used to be a VIDALIA (sp?) kit that could simply be downloaded and run on a windows machine. I then worked for an ISP/CLEC and had lots of bandwidth so ran Vidaalia on a 64 bit Windows 7 Ultimate machine on my desk at work.
I never did hear why something had changed at the tor project so that stopped working, but do remember a rude snippy condescending reply from someone on the mailing list so I lost interest.
I did get the head Tor guy from the Central Square Cambridge office of TOR to come speak at a local networking group's monthly meeting we held at a MicroSlush faclity in Burlington, MA and it was well received by a packed audience. I think he now has left TOR and works for some ISP.
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Hi,
On 21 Oct 2019, at 12:36, ECAN - Matt Westfall <mwestfall@ecansol.com> wrote:
For some reason, and somehow my fingerprint for tor changed about a month ago :(
It is now : C9FD236FDE28003315BD8C96EE94BC58D85FBACF
It used to be: B1B10104EB72A1FBBF6687B05F1915D87D00DBDE
Anyone have any idea why this would have happened?
The fingerprint depends on the relay keys. If you accidentally deleted the keys, or there was some kind of filesystem corruption, then tor generates new keys. Check that your keys are stored in permanent storage? T
I guess it was file system corruption, because: https://puu.sh/EyXCk/6e7a7b36a7.png it's on the physical file system Matt Westfall President & CIO ECAN Solutions, Inc. Everything Computers and Networks 804.592.1672 ------ Original Message ------ From: "teor" <teor@riseup.net> To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Sent: 10/21/2019 9:04:33 PM Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Fingerprint Change?!?
Hi,
On 21 Oct 2019, at 12:36, ECAN - Matt Westfall <mwestfall@ecansol.com> wrote:
For some reason, and somehow my fingerprint for tor changed about a month ago :(
It is now : C9FD236FDE28003315BD8C96EE94BC58D85FBACF
It used to be: B1B10104EB72A1FBBF6687B05F1915D87D00DBDE
Anyone have any idea why this would have happened?
The fingerprint depends on the relay keys.
If you accidentally deleted the keys, or there was some kind of filesystem corruption, then tor generates new keys.
Check that your keys are stored in permanent storage?
T
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