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Re: [tor-relays] Trying to set up a relay at home, but get no connections



Do you have an alternative choice of ISP? In many countries, you often do (e.g. Europe, East Asia). In others, you usually don't (e.g. USA, small island nations). If you don't, another option is a VPN with a public IP address (that is, if you are willing to pay for one).

Once Verizon FiOS (US FTTH ISP) blocked the consensus node tor26 (86.59.21.38) and just tor26 and I thought that was absurd, but this is on a whole another level. At least Verizon still let me run a Tor relay (they technically ban it, but nobody enforces it), and I did get tor26 unblocked after posting on the NANOG mailing list. At least I still had the cable company here as well, but in the US cable usually sucks (some have cable as their only option if you don't want 1.5-6mbps DSL).

Maybe your ISP hates Tor and doesn't want you to run a relay. Most broadband ISPs in countries which don't block Tor usually let you run a relay even if their TOS says it's not allowed, but if you don't have net neutrality in your country, an ISP can freely block consensus nodes to prevent you from being a relay. Unfortunate, but probably is true in your case. If you are willing to get political, you should push for net neutrality in your country.

-Neel Chauhan

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On 2018-06-11 14:29, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
Graeme Neilson dijo [Sat, Jun 09, 2018 at 11:53:20AM +1200]:
See if you can route to all the authorities.
Tor requires that all relays are able to contact all directory authorities.

In my case tcptraceroute would not get to all the authorities. For some
authorities my ISP was not routing to them.

This seems to be the issue - I'm attaching a screenshot of «mtr»
trying to reach all of the directory authorities from said server.

So, it seems my ISP does not want us to run relays ☹ Can you think of
any way my connection (oversized for my regular uses) can be put to
use for Tor? I guess it would not work as a bridge either, would it?

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