On 25 Apr 2017, at 10:29, Gunnar Wolf gwolf@debian.org wrote:
Gunnar Wolf dijo [Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 12:18:04AM -0500]:
This sounds great!
But it might be hard. Some Mexican ISPs block Tor. They stop relays connecting to the tor directory authorities. So people in Mexico tell us their relays do not work.
Umh, I don't know about this issue. What I know is that my personal (home) connection is with the largest ISP (Telmex / Infinitum), and I was able to run a Tor relay for some time at home, no issues.
Humh, so it seems there are bits to check. I will later give some attention to this bit at home, as I set up a relay, which logs no errors, but has not yet appeared at atlas.torproject.org despite being active for over 24h.
Yes, that's what people have told us happens with Telmex: the relay can reach itself, but not the directory authorities. It will start logging warnings after a few days if it is not in the consensus.
Tor clients still work. They use fallback directories, which are harder to block.
Does your university block the Tor directory authorities? Does it use an ISP that blocks Tor?
How do you suggest me to check this? So far, I have only used Tor as a client. Should I just set up a relay and report on my findings? (I plan to do it next time I have some free time available... Problem is, I never have :-( )
Good news:
https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/4661DE96D3F8E923994B05218F23760C8D7935...
Great! Looks like your university does not block clients or relays.
Please upgrade to a newer Tor version, 2.5.12 is really old!
The instructions for Debian and Ubuntu are here: https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en#ubuntu
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