[network-health] Upgrade your 'treeltor' Tor relay?

[Z/F Posting]

Hi Roger,

Thanks for the kick in the butt. I have upgraded the system (including
Tor). If I ever upgrade from ADSL to fiber increasing the bandwidth will be
an option.

The largest issue I have had is being placed on blacklist which prevented
getting to some websites altogether (eg. Duke Energy, MonoPrice) and others
that would claim I was using a proxy (eg. Hulu) or would fail with no error
message when trying to complete a purchase (eg. Tesla).  I finally tracked
this down to BrightCloud, if anyone is having a similar problem. They
should make the bother of differentiating between someone using a proxy and
someone running a non-exiting Tor relay, but they didn't seem to be
motivated to. AT&T disconnected my service when I was configured as an exit
node, due to an abusive Tor user, but at least that was rational.

Clyde Zuber
www.zuberfowler.com

On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 9:26 PM Roger Dingledine <arma at torproject.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> You are running a Tor relay, which is great:
>
> http://rougmnvswfsmd4dq.onion/rs.html#search/46318685E48EA315588032426892D31902D95C8C
>
> First: that Tor version is obsolete, and because of old bugs, we will
> soon cut relays running those versions out of the network. Please
> consider upgrading!
>
> Second: let us know if there is any way to help you bump up the bandwidth
> that you are allocating to the Tor relay. :)
>
> You can find Tor packages for many distros / operating systems here:
>
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorRelayGuide#PlatformspecificInstructions
> and/or
> <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorRelayGuide#PlatformspecificInstructionsand/or>
> here:
> https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/
>
> Let us know if we can do anything to make the process easier.
>
> And lastly, I am cc'ing the new network health mailing list (which
> has public archives), to help us stay synced:
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkHealthTeam
>
> Thanks!
> --Roger
>
>
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