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[tor-relays] Re: for tiny tor instances: 3 Tor config values worth to try out
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- Subject: [tor-relays] Re: for tiny tor instances: 3 Tor config values worth to try out
- From: Toralf Förster via tor-relays <tor-relays@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:21:02 +0200
- Cc: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@xxxxxx>
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On 05/08/2026 13:32, Alexander Hansen Færøy via tor-relays wrote:
On 04/08/2026 18.34, Toralf Förster via tor-relays wrote:
Based on advises here and there I configured my tiny Tor relays (1 vCPU,
1 GiB RAM) with these values:
Your firewall rules during the Hetzner abuse
complaint discussion[1] were highly valuable to a lot of folks, myself
included, and now advising people who are struggling under DoS
conditions for their smaller relays is really helpful <3
Thank you!
>
[1]:
https://github.com/toralf/torutils/tree/main#avoid-abuse-complaints--server-blocking
Thx,
FWIW today I updated [1] accordingly to enlarge a particular network mask:
https://github.com/toralf/torutils/commit/5356dc65cf61166c87d826cce73f089b4684bbd5
--
Toralf
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