AA0D167E03E298F9A8CD50F448B81FBD7FA80D56 ++ 21/12/17 10:50 +1100 - teor: >Dear Relay Operators, > >Do you want your relay to be a Tor fallback directory mirror? >Will it have the same address and port for the next 2 years? >Just reply to this email with your relay's fingerprint. > >If your relay is on the current list, you don't need to do anything. > >If you're asking: > >Q: What's a fallback directory mirror? > >Fallback directory mirrors help Tor clients connect to the network. >For more details, see [1]. > >Q: Is my relay on the current list? > >Search [2] and [3] for your relay fingerprint or IP address and port. >[2] is the current list of fallbacks in Tor. >[3] is used to create the next list of fallbacks. > >Q: What do I need to do if my relay is on the list? > >Keep the same IP address, keys, and ports. >Email tor-relays if the relay's details change. > >Q: Can my relay be on the list next time? > >We need fast relays that will be on the same IP address and port for 2 >years. Reply to this email to get on the list, or to update the details >of your relay. > >Once or twice a year, we run a script to choose about 150-200 relays >from the potential list [3] for the list in Tor [2]. > >Q: Why didn't my relay get on the list last time? > >We check a relay's uptime, flags, and speed [4]. Sometimes, a relay might >be down when we check. That's ok, we will check it again next time. > >It's good to have some new relays on the list every release. That helps >tor clients, because blocking a changing list is harder. > >Q: What about the current relay DDoS? > >We don't think the DDoS will have much impact on the fallback list. > >If your relay is affected, please: >* make sure it has enough available file descriptors, and >* set MaxMemInQueues to the amount of RAM you have available per tor > instance (or maybe a few hundred MB less). > >We're also working on some code changes. See [5] for more details. > >[1]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/FallbackDirectoryMirrors >[2]: https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/tree/src/or/fallback_dirs.inc >[3]: https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/tree/scripts/maint/fallback.whitelist >[4]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/attachment/ticket/21564/fallbacks_2017-05-16-0815-09cd78886.log >[5]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2017-December/013881.html > >-- >Tim / teor > >PGP C855 6CED 5D90 A0C5 29F6 4D43 450C BA7F 968F 094B >ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6n >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >tor-relays mailing list >tor-relays@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays -- Rejo Zenger E rejo@xxxxxxxxx | P +31(0)639642738 | W https://rejo.zenger.nl T @rejozenger | J rejo@xxxxxxxxx OpenPGP 1FBF 7B37 6537 68B1 2532 A4CB 0994 0946 21DB EFD4 XMPP OTR 271A 9186 AFBC 8124 18CF 4BE2 E000 E708 F811 5ACF
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