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In response to a requirement by Mozilla’s Add-on Store, we’ve rolled out an update to the Snowflake proxy browser extension that requires users to opt-in to...

I was wondering if anyone had experience running a Tor relay on Gandi. According to good-bad-isps, Gandi supports all relays. However, I contacted support...

I run two WebTunnel bridges. Both of them are periodically shown as offline in Relay Search. Is that expected? I could not find anything regarding that in the...

Hello fellow onion friends, looking at the bandwidth graph, we can observe a sudden surge in total available bandwidth from ~750 Gbit/s to ~1 TB/s; an increase...

Hi, I’m scheduled to be up and running with a 5 gigabit symmetric FTTH connection next month, and am simultaneously interested in becoming a relay operator....

Hello, I am a researcher at the University of Namur (Belgium), and some of our research focuses on Tor. Recently, we started to investigate how Tor relay...

I wanted to know if I can run Tor Relay Guard on my PC. Primary machine: RegataOs (Opensuse). Virtual machine: Kali. I will be following this fundamental basic...

Hello, the first just a little note from practice, tests, using own tunnel bridge: x1 SSD w Debian 12 nosystemd 6.5.9-2-liquorix zen tested → TB 13.0.1 x3...

Hello ive been wanting to know how to back up a tor relay the proper way. Ive had about 2 relays that ive lost (1 week of progress) because I didnt or didnt...

The metrics is showing one of my relays (40D13096BBD11AF198CE61DEE4EAECCE5472F2E7) as down for around the last 3 hours. Logging in to it, I see everything...

Hello. I'm surprised that the memory savings are so great. Note that Debian Trixie does not have mimalloc2, only mimalloc3. Did you find out what caused...

Hi friends, I have been operating a webtunnel bridge for a little over a month. After a long time without any traffic at all, suddenly I see a spike in the...

I have noticed that as soon as I get the HSDir flag, the number of times my relay complains about the computer not being fast enough to handle the connections...

The fact of the matter is: I cannot afford a dedicated machine from a VPS provider who is OK with TOR exits and will take XMR. Add to that, there’s not much...

So I am currently running a non obfs bridge. I read somewhere that running obfs would be more useful/helpful than not. How would I go about making my bridge...

Hello everyone, I have a Synology NAS and I’m running a Tor relay on a Docker container on Debian, but I’m having trouble updating it with “sudo apt update”...

Dear relay operators, The next Tor relay operator meetup will happen on Saturday, November 19th at 19.00 UTC. ## Where BigBlueButton:...

I’ve spent the last few hours trying to get things set up on an old windows 10 machine for running a relay, and the instructions on the Windows instructions...

I am happy to share with the TorProject community the first 1.5 TB of data shared with the network.

Arti 2.0.0 is released and ready for download.

In the past 24 hrs, I have been receiving complaints from my hosting provider that they're receiving hundreds of abuse reports related to port scanning. I have...

Tor 0.4.5.10 on Linux I’ve had an active Tor Bridge Relay for more than 2 years, and everything works fine apart from the hibernation wake up. When the Bridge...

Hi! Since I upgraded to Tor 0.4.7.10 some (different ones each time) of the Tor relays crash regularly. I’m not sure whether it’s because of a change in...

Hello im new to this community and looking for help on configs Currently my machine has about 100Mbit/s network connection with no bandwidth limit What kind of...

I just read this research paper, maybe it’s worth thinking about some kind of implementation of this approach some time in the future. It’s an interesting read...

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Hi all nyx shows outgoing connections but no incoming connections on an exit relay. The relay has been up for about 10 days. The server has 2 IPv4 addresses. 1...

I want to run a Tor Relay on a RaspberryPi 4B Where can I get reliable information about the best way to do it. And in technical terms it will be better ISP...

Arti 2.0.0 is released and ready for download.

Hi all! Was a little shocked today to see all of our relays marked with the BadExit flag:...

Is there an issue with snowflake or a way in that wen can help. If i look for the graph in the last year user base is now just 30% at what has been 1 year ago....

Hello, Not sure where to post this topic, please move where it corresponds I supose you’re aware about some stupid people using proxy attacks from Tor using...

Arti 1.9.0 is released and ready for download.

Hi, I’ve setup a Docker obfs4 bridge a few days ago (9 days ago) but the Bridge distribution mechanism is still set to None even though it shouldn’t take more...

Hello bridge operators, I have recently upgraded the tor version 0.4.7.7 of 3 bridges Im hosting. On all of them, I have some notice logs saying : 13:10:55...

Hi, I am trying to run a TOR bridge on my server 2012 R2, to help circumvent censorship. I followed the TOR Project document but seems like my TOR bridge is...

Most likely already known, but couldn’t find a post about it. Link to proper thread, if exists, appreciated. Issue; The relay family visualization is totally...

Hi there, From time to time I check the status of the Bridge/Relay but the URL has not worked for two days. Has there been any change or is it no longer...

Would it be best to run a bridge in a specific jurisdiction to benefit Russian users or does the location not matter? I was not sure if it would be best to...

I would like to run public Tor relay on a fast residential gigabit fiber so that I can have physical control over it, but the traffic would need to be routed...

In this November, we finally get to run a new AS (autonomous system): AS63806 (MENHERA), and a new Tor relay on it! In Japan I live, Tor relays are very rare....

Hello I have multiple IPs on my server and would like to tell tor to use a specific IP as its exit IP instead of trying to use both all IPs it has access to

Hi, My newish relay, “CatButler,” started reporting continuous CPU spiking last week (see graph). At the same time, Nyx started reporting: 20:40:49 [WARN] Your...

Hello, I have my bridge online for 10 days and it isn’t registered in the BridgeDB. My bridge is reachable on both ports (Onion + Obfs4) on IPv4 + IPv6. Im...

Greetings everybody, from Greece! As the title says , i am new to all this , and after reading for the last 2 afternoons, to make sure i got everything right,...

Defend yourself against tracking and surveillance. Circumvent censorship. | Response template for Tor relay operator to ISP

Hi! I plan to have two tor middle relays on the same public IP. Which ports are I recommended to use for inbound and outbound traffic? Are there any ports that...

Hello, I am attempting to set up a bridge to help contribute. I am a gnu/linux CLI hobbyist but I lack knowledge in networking so please break it down to me...

Is this ContactInfo-Information-Sharing-Specification foo bar email:tor[]example.com url:https://example.com proof:uri-rsa uplinkbw:100 ciissversion:2 usefull...

My middle relay 605EE4375EE4C38215C8949F5808863749FD4F4A crashed and I had to set it up from scratch. It’s up again for over 14 hours now, and all logs and...

I apologize if this subject has been discussed. I tried looking around the forum but could not find anything. I might just be bad at looking\searching though....

Is there any connection between Snowflake and Snowstorm besides both being developed by Serene?

What does the IP in the bridge-line refer to? webtunnel 10.0.0.2:443 FINGERPRINT url=https://yourdomain/path Last line Tor Project | Compile and run WebTunnel...

Hello everyone, We are hosting multiple relays under our AS 210558 and received an email from a local police station in Germany requesting user data, nothing...

I have my torrc file configured to block everything but Iran, I may open it up in the future, but I stood it up just to help them out, since it’s so bad over...

Hello, I am getting warning “Please upgrade! This version of Tor (0.4.5.16) is obsolete, according to the directory authorities. Recommended versions are:...

My /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tor.list reads thus: deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/tor-archive-keyring.gpg] https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org noble...

Ever since about a month ago, Orbot for Android’s “Start VPN” button doesn’t toggle and when the device initially turns on, I get a brief prompt at the bottom...

Hi! I am trying to set up my first ever relay, and I am having trouble getting the latest version of Tor for it. I have set up Tor on a fresh install of Ubuntu...

Hi, So my relay at https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/79E3B585803DE805CCBC00C1EF36B1E74372861D is again saying it’s new despite that it’s been...

As suggested in this post [tor-relays] [Event] Relay Operators Meetup - May 21, 2022 @ 1900 UTC - #5 by gus and on the mailing-list [tor-announce] Network Team...

Hello, I have set up a bridge just for me next to my exit nodes. To simplify my monitoring I would like to add it to MyFamily, as I use the search function of...

I started Webtunnel on my VPS according to this article and it works. But if you look at the log using the docker logs -f webtunnelBridge command, there are a...

Hello Everyone, I started running a relay, recently and it got up for 3 days became middle node and suddenly stopped. I am not sure what was happened, In logs...

I’ve did my best DuckDuckFu but have come up short. I’m considering running a standalone Docker instance of Snowflake, but would like to have some sort of GUI...

Hi alls, I try start a obfs4 bridge, and I have some errors. My box is located on a DMZ where nothing is allowed by default. So I made the Port Forwarding for...

Hetzner has changed its bandwidth policy and will go from 20 TB to 1 TB on CPX11. This change applies to servers in the United States. Relay operators should...

How can i open multiple relays on the same raspberry pi5

Hello, How can I put a Tor bridge behind a proxy, so that it is not directly connected to the Internet? Something like a reverse proxy that is used for...

For a few months, I ran ~6-9 Gbps of Tor exit capacity on dedicated server host ReliableSite.Net, that with my own ARIN IPv4/IPv6 allocations, mainly due to...

Why those ips try connect using reserved port range ? IP: 148.251.46.115 Port: 1 IP: 148.251.46.115 Port: 0 IP: 95.217.200.54 Port: 1 IP: 95.217.200.54 Port: 0...

Title says it all tbh. I was wondering if it was safe, and if there are and config changes I need to make other than setting up to listen to a hidden service.

Background To My Questions: I recently set up a Tor middle relay on a VPS with 1 GB of RAM, expecting it to be sufficient. However, the relay is using up all...

Olla, how is possible to increase server connections (ubuntu latest) i also did ulimit -n 100000 netstat -np | grep “tor”|wc -l giving me only about 4300...

https://onionoo.torproject.org/details?lookup=$hashed_fingerprint https://bridges.torproject.org/status?id=$hashed_fingerprint May someone explain to me, what...

Hello, I have set up an obfs4-bridge docker container with the help of the tutorial and it also seems to work without any problems. However, I would like to...

Hi all. I’ve seen quite a lot of debate regarding whether it is possible to run a relay on an internet connection which is subject to CGNAT. It was my...

As others have mentioned, this does not look like a Tor issue to me. It more seems like a compromised or misconfigured server. You mentioned you reinstalled...

Tor has announced improved encryption and security for the circuit traffic by replacing the old tor1 relay encryption algorithm with a new design called...

Hi, I set up a middle relay, but when starting, it seems that it is loosing its connection. My torrc file looks like this SocksPort 0 Log notice file...

I’m trying to run a relay on my Arch server, and for some reason when running it as a systemd service it gets killed by watchdog very quickly. This doesn’t...

Hei, What is ATOR? 1000+ relays and 13Gb of traffic are having the contact as @ator https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/contact:@ator Also some time...

Hello. I have several relays that each have two IPv4 addresses. One of them is used for an exit and the other is used to do recursive DNS lookups with Unbound,...

Hey, I’m a new relay operator, and I’ve been obsessively monitoring my relay stats for the last week as I gain consensus weight. Earlier today, I noticed a...

Hello. One of my relays, forest19 (E21B4A2C2852298186C0EA7E2F900EF03AE38D69), frequently appears offline in the consensus despite my uptime monitors and...

I installed Tor on Debian but can’t get it to connect, even after restarting the service multiple times with sudo systemctl restart tor and rebooting the...

Those things pump out time by time : [notice] TLS error PR_CONNECT_RESET_ERROR while reading with 74.116.186.120:443...

Before my last restart 6 hours ago you get a series of messages like these: Since startup we initiated 0 and received 0 v1 connections; initiated 0 and...

Hello, my ORPORT is avalable for IP4 and IP6 and OR Addresses shows “IPv4,IPv6”. Selftesting for IP4 and IP6 is also fine. Then i tried to setup obfs for IP4...

I can’t find this in the documentation… …and some of it is ambiguous at best. So the MyFamily setting in /etc/tor/torrc should list the " identity key...

Hey everyone. I’ve recently got VPS hosting with Ubuntu 20.04 on it (its the cloud version)(no GUI). I want to start up a new relay but I am not very teksavy....