Re: [tor-relays] freebsd relay doesnt receive any traffic (after 1 month) - tor-relays

25 Oct 2018


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On Thursday, October 25, 2018 7:24 PM, dlugasny@protonmail.com wrote:
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Dmitrii thanks for Your hints.
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On Thursday, October 25, 2018 7:02 PM, Dmitrii Tcvetkov demfloro@demfloro.ru wrote:
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On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 17:48:09 +0000
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In did, I have to read more carefully attached documentation.
After small changes torrc looks like this:
Does any one of You see any wrong parameters ?
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SocksPort 0
Log notice file /var/log/tor/notices.log
ControlPort 9051
HashedControlPassword (for nyx)
ORPort 9001
RelayBandwidthRate 400 KBytes # Throttle traffic to 100KB/s (800Kbps)
RelayBandwidthBurst 600 KBytes # But allow bursts up to 200KB (1600Kb)
ContactInfo Dlugas-ny <dlugasny AT protonmail dot com>
DirPort 9030 # what port to advertise for directory connections
ExitRelay 0
ExitPolicy reject : # no exits allowed
PublishServerDescriptor 0
CellStatistics 1
ExtraInfoStatistics 1
ConnDirectionStatistics 1
EntryStatistics 1
LogMessageDomains 1
AvoidDiskWrites 1
WarnPlaintextPorts
HeartbeatPeriod 1hours
DisableDebuggerAttachment 0
These are enough to run a relay:
SocksPort 0
ORPort 9001
RelayBandwidthRate 400 KBytes
RelayBandwidthBurst 600 KBytes
Log notice file /var/log/tor/notices.log
ContactInfo Dlugas-ny <dlugasny AT protonmail dot com>
DirPort 9030
MyFamily "fingerprints go here"
ExitRelay 0
ExitPolicy reject :
MyFamily should contain comma separated list of fingerprints of all your
guard, middle, exit relays if you have any. Each fingerprint should be
prefixed with '$' symbol. It shouldn't contain fingerprints of your
bridges.
If you want to use Nyx then you can enable:
ControlPort 9051
HashedControlPassword
Nyx I`m using, because I can observe traffic. "socket -4l" doesnt provide informations about connections.
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Option
DisableDebuggerAttachment 0
is for debugging and should be set to 1 during normal operation. Yes,
it allows to snoop on Tor circuits in Nyx, but is that really needed?
Its active because I would like to see if its really working.
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BTW you can use bits in bandwidth settings,
e.g. "RelayBandwidthRate 4 Mbits"
Other options are optional and should be evaluated each separately. For
example I don't know why you don't want to publish server descriptor,
what is the point of unpublished middle relay?
I just commented out "PublishServerDescriptor"
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Why avoid disk writes? Modern hardware won't be worn out just by Tor
relay disc activity. Why WarnPlaintextPorts? It's a relay, not a
client, as SocksPort is 0.
I just commented out AvoidDiskWriters and WarnPlaintextPorts.
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In general it's better to start with software defaults and alter the
settings only if you need them altered.
I know. I have simply blindly copied example torrc from one of the "best practise FreeBsd tor tutorials".
Thanks for Your hints.
I hope that in the next days my first BSD relay will start relaying :).