New Tor Relay: Help!!!!!

torhelp at Safe-mail.net torhelp at Safe-mail.net
Mon Jun 28 20:28:31 UTC 2010


Can you explain the DNs hijacking thing? I don't understand what that means/the implications.

I guess I'll wait a little longer before freaking out then... It's just the last two Tor relays I set up, within 3-4 hours of being online, they were operating at max capacity... 

> Hello ,
> 
> you should consider change of your DNS. Maybe it isn't problem in this
> specific issue, but DNS hijacking isn't good at all.
> 
> I think there is not problem with your relay. Revvvolution appears on
> torstatus.blutmagie.de without any problem so don't panic. In my case
> it took many days until clients fully used my line.
> 
> Marek
> 
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 6:22 PM,  <torhelp at safe-mail.net> wrote:
> > Hello all.
> >
> > I just upgraded my internet speed and have been running a Tor Relay for around two days or so.
> >
> > I have set up 2-3 tor relays before so I understand (I think) how to set one up.
> >
> > Here's the problem:
> >
> > In the past two days, Vidalia says I've received 200MBs of data and sent around 500MBs of data. My relay has almost NO traffic compared to the other relays I've had.
> >
> > I'm supposed to have upwards of 3MBS up and .73 MBs down. In Vadalia, I have the "Bandwidth Limits" set to 512 Kbps.
> >
> > Why is there almost no traffic? Please HELP!!!!
> >
> > Here's some other info:
> >
> > Relay Name: Revvvolution
> >
> > Port Forwarding: 443, 9030
> >
> > NOT an exit relay.
> >
> > Here's the log file output:
> >
> > Jun 25 18:06:53.078 [Notice] Tor v0.2.1.26. This is experimental software. Do not rely on it for strong anonymity. (Running on Windows XP Service Pack 2 [workstation] {terminal services, single user})
> > Jun 25 18:06:53.078 [Notice] Your ContactInfo config option is not set. Please consider setting it, so we can contact you if your server is misconfigured or something else goes wrong.
> > Jun 25 18:06:53.078 [Notice] Initialized libevent version 1.4.12-stable using method win32. Good.
> > Jun 25 18:06:53.078 [Notice] Opening OR listener on 0.0.0.0:443
> > Jun 25 18:06:53.187 [Notice] Opening Directory listener on 0.0.0.0:9030
> > Jun 25 18:06:53.187 [Notice] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
> > Jun 25 18:06:53.187 [Notice] Opening Control listener on 127.0.0.1:9051
> > Jun 25 18:07:20.718 [Notice] Self-testing indicates your ORPort is reachable from the outside. Excellent. Publishing server descriptor.
> > Jun 25 18:07:27.265 [Notice] Performing bandwidth self-test...done.
> > Jun 25 18:09:17.828 [Notice] Your DNS provider gave an answer for "wzoe.test", which is not supposed to exist. Apparently they are hijacking DNS failures. Trying to correct for this. We've noticed 2 possibly bad addresses so far.
> > Jun 25 18:09:22.734 [Warning] eventdns: All nameservers have failed
> > Jun 25 18:09:22.828 [Notice] eventdns: Nameserver 205.171.3.25 is back up
> > Jun 25 18:28:32.265 [Notice] Our IP Address has changed from 174.20.99.3 to 97.116.191.145; rebuilding descriptor (source: 216.224.124.114).
> > Jun 25 18:29:34.015 [Notice] Self-testing indicates your ORPort is reachable from the outside. Excellent. Publishing server descriptor.
> > Jun 25 18:31:28.281 [Notice] Your DNS provider gave an answer for "p376epb6f37.invalid", which is not supposed to exist. Apparently they are hijacking DNS failures. Trying to correct for this. We've noticed 2 possibly bad addresses so far.
> > Jun 25 18:31:32.937 [Warning] eventdns: All nameservers have failed
> > Jun 25 18:31:33.046 [Notice] eventdns: Nameserver 205.171.3.25 is back up
> > Jun 25 18:34:35.812 [Notice] Self-testing indicates your DirPort is reachable from the outside. Excellent.
> > Jun 26 07:05:05.781 [Notice] Performing bandwidth self-test...done.
> > Jun 26 12:09:23.437 [Notice] Your DNS provider has given "63.146.68.201" as an answer for 8 different invalid addresses. Apparently they are hijacking DNS failures. I'll try to correct for this by treating future occurrences of "63.146.68.201" as 'not found'.
> > Jun 26 12:09:28.359 [Warning] eventdns: All nameservers have failed
> > Jun 26 12:09:28.484 [Notice] eventdns: Nameserver 205.171.3.25 is back up
> > Jun 26 18:31:30.734 [Notice] Performing bandwidth self-test...done.
> > Jun 27 04:42:14.546 [Warning] eventdns: All nameservers have failed
> > Jun 27 04:42:14.687 [Notice] eventdns: Nameserver 205.171.3.25 is back up
> > Jun 27 06:38:43.296 [Notice] Performing bandwidth self-test...done.
> > Jun 27 19:10:13.578 [Warning] eventdns: All nameservers have failed
> > Jun 27 19:10:13.828 [Notice] eventdns: Nameserver 205.171.3.25 is back up
> > Jun 27 20:48:43.406 [Notice] Your ContactInfo config option is not set. Please consider setting it, so we can contact you if your server is misconfigured or something else goes wrong.
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