[tor-relays] Relay question

[denny.obreham at a-n-o-n-y-m-e.net]

For your firewall settings, you will find everything you need here:

https://github.com/Enkidu-6/tor-ddos/

It is the common setting for most Tor operators.

Although, I don't think it is the source of your problem and I wouldn't worry too much about it unless it happens repeatedly.

The log in "/var/log/syslog" might give you some helpful hints.

Denny


On 12/07/2023 10:19 PM Mulloch94 via tor-relays <tor-relays at lists.torproject.org> wrote ..
> Greetings, I was directed to this relay subscription by the owner. I've recently
> started my own relay and everything has went smooth for the first few days. Then
> the relay mysteriously went offline for a period of 8-9 hours. Happened while I
> was sleeping I think, but any rate it came back on after I restarted the tor daemon
> and rebooted the server. I'm starting to think my firewall configurations might
> have been the culprit, even though I ran a very rudimentary setup. Basically just:
> -A INPUT -p tcp --dport <my SSH> -j ACCEPT
> -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 9050 -j ACCEPT
> -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT
> -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
> -A INPUT -j DROP
> 
> Default ACCEPT on OUTPUT
> 
> My ORPort is on 443, so I don't see how this could be interfering. I noticed my
> server reboot got rid of all my rules, so I'm thinking that could've been the issue.
> If so, what other ports should I add? Do I even need a firewall for the relay?
> I don't do anything else with that server, so If it doesn't need a firewall to
> stay secure I won't use one. One more thing, I had a flag on my relay that said
> I needed to "update the descriptor." It went away after rebooting my server as
> well, could that been the issue?
> 
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