Questions tagged [relays]
Questions relating to relays, their maintenance, and operation.
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And if DDoS attacks could enhance the anonymity of the Tor network?
The most effective approach for an attacker would be to establish Tor routing and send packets to trigger a chain reaction across 3 or more relays.
Now, couldn’t these attacks potentially be an ...
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How to calculate the number of IPs an overall passive attacker would obtain by examining a connection?
A global passive attacker might be able to attempt various correlation attacks. In this example, I would like to calculate the number of IPs they would need to collect in order to have the IP address ...
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biulding tor relay
i dont know someone else asking this before but bere is my quetion
if i had biuld tor relay to help network
obviously the network will quickly biuld circut on it
i wana put huge bandwidth on it
its ok ...
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Is an .onion service aware of its own circuit?
So I understand that when a user logs into an onion service, they are logged as ”127.0.0.1” and port
now, does the onion service log the relays or know what relays it connected to in order to ...
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Can a Hidden Service track you the same way an exit node can?
imagine if the onion service decided to be the malicious exit node itself. It’s not (Exit node) but could it travel back through its relays (possibly even skip) to the rendezvous point that track you ...
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Middle/Guard relay:WARN Bad password or authentication cookie on controller WARN Your server has not managed to confirm reachability for its ORPort(s)
OS: Ubuntu Server 22.04.2
I'm running a tor relay on an old laptop. I'm managing it on my main computer with ssh. From my perspective this is ideal because in theory I could manage multiple nodes from ...
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Malicious relays: why doesn't Tor use certificates for relays?
For many years, Tor is having issues with malicious relays.
Verifying/contacting operators via their email addresses
seems to be not an option.
Wouldn't it be feasible for the Tor project to set up a ...
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What ports do I need to open on my UFW firewall? I cannot log into nyx. Do I need to also open my 9051/tcp port?
I have just installed tor middle relay using this youtube guide.
I did everything up until the 12th minute of this video.
I have tor installed on a vps server I run from Vultr.
Then I have installed ...
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Coulde there be snitches among I2P peers or Tor relays?
I have been hypothesizing a case where a legal owner of some digital asset (e.g. a software, film, music ,etc.) is worried about the illegal distribution of the copyrighted material and wants to hire ...
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New TOR DoS Attack -_-?
I'm running a pretty strong Tor Middle Relay, not a Guard yet - at least the CPU is good for a Tor Relay - and somehow my server experiences extreme usage right now, and in the picture we can see that ...
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Tor does not auto-detect IPv4
I had to manually set up an IPv4 address because it was not automatically detected, even though I have one.
https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/D87B0E0223EDDD2C579132EB4FF46F78F23D3E97
Now ...
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Is adding bridges or relay helpful inside a censoring region?
I'm relatively new to Tor, so sorry for my dumb question.
But is adding bridges, relays, using snowflake(this one is also detectable) or other plugins useful inside a filtering country?
my guess was ...
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If I exclude Tor nodes using option ExcludeNodes, will it exclude also some Tor nodes select by options EntryNodes and ExitNodes?
I have these options in my torrc file:
ExitNodes {at},{be},{bg},{ch},{cz},{cy},{de},{hk},{is},{jp},{lu},{nl},{no},{pa},{ro},{sc},{sk},{si},{ua},{vg}
EntryNodes {at},{be},{bg},{ch},{cz},{cy},{de},{hk},{...
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How can I get the right advertised bandwidth of a relay by looking at cached-microdesc-consensus file?
Let's take a random Tor relay: privater
Tor Metrics says that it has a speed of 30 MiB/s: https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/57A295377F3167AD554B521F4615184943C39CE1
Looking this relay ...
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Hello, how do I run my information over the tor network twice
I was wondering how do I send my data through the tor circuit twice (6 relays instead of the normal 3) if that would add extra security so I can be fully untraceable?
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How do I use one and only node?
I'm looking forward to using Tor like a VPN.
I learned about EntryNodes, ExitNodes, and MiddleNodes and how to set the country code for each and setting StrictNode 1 or something. When I set all these ...
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ISP frequently clears internet connection and knocks out relay circuits
reading fritzbox log, it shows a nightly scheduled ip re-establishment. This is due to anticipated disconnect from ISP side in immediate future.
The relay node is knocked off circuits and all need ...
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Does running a tor bridge from the same public IP as a relay before make such bridge prone to censorship?
My ISP changes my public IP about once a year. I used to run a public middle relay for a couple of weeks, and then I changed my mind and decided to operate a bridge.
Let us assume that my adversary ...
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Does Tor still maintain a list of all relays?
I know that few years ago (2015 and 2017), there was a centralized list of all Tor Relays. Is this still the case? Or is there some decentralization of the nodes?
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How can i change my ip addres
I tried: new circuit, new identity, set "ExitNodes {US}" and restart tor
my ip address always remains the same.
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understanding tor cell structure
I am looking to create my own version of TOR, and to do that I need to understand the way that relay, directory servers and clients communicate. but after reading Tor: The Second-Generation Onion ...
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How do clients find what nodes to connect when connecting to a .onion link
I never seen a full explanation of how the server connects to these "introduction" nodes to the client, I understand the idea of the tor path ending with the exit node that's then resent ...
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Will Tor automatically detect when my IP address changes when running a relay?
I have an IP address that changes roughly every 24 hours. About two out of three times, I’ve seen Tor detect that my IP address changed; but the last time it didn’t work and I had to restart the relay ...
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Tor comunicating to other IPs beside my guard node, should it happen?
Running netstat and analyzing my established connections I noticed sometimes tor talks to other IPs that aren't my guard node. I'm not sure if this is supposed to happen because I very very new to ...
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What's the difference between 'secret_id_key' and 'ed25519_master_id_key'?
I'm running a TOR relay and I'm confused with the node identity keys. The secret_id_key is the identity key that was used in version 2, but now the ed25519_master_id_key is used for version 3?
Thanks.
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How can an external observer detect if a malicious relay does excessive logging?
In the entry "Criteria for rejecting bad relays" on the Network Health Team's wiki I found an interesting bullet point:
Malicious relays
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Excessive logging (over notice) during normal ...
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Can a Tor relay run on MacOS?
I have a powerful computer and a fast internet connection. I'd like to support the Tor network by operating a relay. I've seen that there are relay packages and instructions for various versions of ...
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Where in the codebase does Tor detect outages?
It seems clear to me that Tor has some facility for discovering when connectivity within a circuit is lost. I'd like to find that point and add a log_debug into it, as the current Tor logging does ...
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How can I find the IPs of introduction points for a hidden service?
I was wondering if it is possible to find the IPs of introduction points used by a hidden service. Specifically I was looking at facebook's hidden service.
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Any tor users who are looking to run relays on Windows?
So this is a tool I made which allows easy operation of tor relays on Windows. Made for people who have Windows but want to run relay without pain of Linux VM.
Features:
Auto installs tor and keeps up ...
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TOR relay and DS-Lite, no public IPv4, tunnel workaround?
I wonder if anyone here has tried this before and maybe could give me some advice. My internet connection at home is dual stack lite so I don't have a public IPv4 address and therefore can't setup a ...
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Tor hiden service ratelimits
While we are building a denial of service protection using and onionbalance for our HSv3 resources was discovered an interesting thing: during testing with simulated DDoS (launched 1000 tor client ...
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Fast/Slow relays in Tor
How does Tor classify fast/slow relays (as in what is the bandwidth bar)?
Is the Tor Path Selection protocol biased towards selecting fast relays for circuit construction? (The answer here How does a ...
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Advertised bandwidth rising but consensus weight falling?
I am a new non-exit relay operator, currently running TOR v4.5.4 rc on a RaspberryPi 3B+, on a FTTH connection.
My relay is https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/...
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Running a Tor Bridge Relay on Ubuntu
I am trying to set up a bridge relay on my ubuntu 20.04 system but getting stuck at step 3. Edit your Tor config file, usually located at /etc/tor/torrc and replace its content with:
When I open the ...
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torrc file for a private Directory Authority in Private Tor network
I am trying to build a private tor network using raspberry pis. As a start, I am trying to emulate the basic-min network configuration (4 Authorities(also works as non-exit relays), 1 Exit, 1 Client) ...
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How can I analyze Tor traffic on my relay?
I'm doing a research on Onion routing (Tor). I've successfully set up a middle relay for the purpose of analyzing Tor traffic. I'd like to:
See all circuits that my relay is currently part of
See &...
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Server is unreachable
I've set up a computer in my home just to run a relay. I have a fiber connection to my house and want to put it to good use so im trying to run tor. My server is currently running debian,(Ubuntu) as ...
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Do relay and entry nodes keep logs?
I research tor, and have some question bout it.
Can relay node know which entry node transferred certain traffic? Or can't, cause tor uses ephemeral encryption and after circuit ends, keys removed, ...
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Does an exit relay also relays non-exit traffic?
I would like to run an exit relay, but I don't want to deal with almost any abuse issues. So I figured to only exit to hidden services. If my understandings are right, the exit policy and the relay ...
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cannot upgrade to tor unstable version
i run a tor relay on a raspberry pi3. all is ok so far but when i try to upgrade tor 0.4.2.7 to the latest unstable version it says something like: N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-...
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500 new relays at the beginning of each month?
.. and then they gradually vanish over the next 4 weeks!
Can anyone tell me why this sawtooth pattern has appeared in the Tor relay metrics since August? On the 2nd August, 2nd Sep and 2nd Oct, about ...
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connect two server via tor
if we have two server let's say server1(92.92.92.92) server2(76.76.76.76).
I'm working on redirect incoming traffic on server1 port 4444 to server2 port 12345,this is easy with iptables rule on ...
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My new relay is recorded in the wrong country
On relay search my new Tor relay's country is given as Ukraine. In fact it's in Germany. Also the AS given on relay search is wrong.
Have I configured the relay wrongly? Can I change this so its ...
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Hidden Service Behind a Bridge
Without a bridge, my hidden service is accessible for others. But when I use a tor bridge, this hidden service is not accessible.
My torrc is:
UseBridges 1
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Use Tor as Proxy for Internet
I want to use Tor as a proxy. Or more specifically reroute my Internet traffic from for example my browser over Tor to change my location.
I found out you can set entry and exit nodes by country if ...
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is this a threat to tor?
an adversary controls some middle nodes and they log ip adresses of users and times they connect. if an adversary controlled middle node receives traffic from one of their own controlled middle nodes ...
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Is it possible to find encryption key in Tor Browser?
I'm doing a presentation on Tor. Is it possible to capture and find keys and decrypt data.
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Relay's consensus data scrubbed for inbound connections
Since I began running a relay several months ago, I'd occasionally see, using nyx, a recurring inbound connection from one particular Authority, along with its nickname, IP address, and flags. It ...
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Running a Tor-Relay on a private network restricts other services (eg netflix)
This is not so much a question but a post for completion. I hope this meets the community standards.
I am running a tor-relay in my home network. Naturally, it is reachable on my public IP that is ...
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