[network-health] Upgrade your 'glenda2' Tor relay?

[teor]

Hi Christoph,

> On 2 Sep 2019, at 20:39, Christoph Lohmann <20h at r-36.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 02 Sep 2019 12:39:03 +0200 Roger Dingledine <arma at torproject.org> wrote:
>> You are running a Tor relay, which is great:
>> http://rougmnvswfsmd4dq.onion/rs.html#details/98FB7574932DBD6FE9E75169982EDFBA50F86175
> 
> thank you for noticing  me. I have updated the debian  on this node. It 
> is be the newest of tor in Debian now running there.                    
> 
> One note: Could the tor relay status  be changed, so the bare stats can 
> be seen without javascript? Javascript  is the main threat to anonymity 
> over tor. I am by default not  turning on Javascript in my own browser. 
> The base  stats could be  shown and only the  graphs show some  hint to 
> turn on javascript.                                                     

I asked the metrics team this question. They told me that it is a privacy
tradeoff.

Using JavaScript means that your browser can send the relay fingerprint
directly to the backend Onionoo database server.

If they ran code on the frontend web sever, then that server would know
which relay you were looking for.

You're right, it's not ideal. Privacy is really complicated.

>> Second: let us know if there is any way to help you bump up the
>> bandwidth that you are allocating to the Tor relay. :)
> 
> My nodes  were running at full  speed at the beginning  and soon ranked 
> very high. The problem is, that when  I give a maximum bandwidth, it is 
> used all the time. This of course soon takes up the maximum Terabytes I 
> have per  VPS. My bandwidth is  thus calculated to full  usage all over 
> the whole month.                                                        
> 
> If  anything, like  bigger bursts  is required,  I'd need  some way  to 
> configure when  this is  needed or  maybe some way,  to have  pauses. I 
> haven't looked up  since I set up the node,  if something was developed 
> in tor for this case. I shouldn't be alone there.

Try the AccountingMax torrc option. Your relay will go at full speed until it
has used its bandwidth, then hibernate for the rest of the month.

Then it will start at a random day the next month.

T