As an update, once I showed the link from OONI to my ISP, they offered to move my server to another location at no charge. So the Tor server was moved from India to the UK. (Actually, I built a new one from scratch.)
So I will mention here this ISP - Contabo.com - for their great customer service and understanding of what Tor represents. They have automatically and temporarily blocked my IP address - and informed me that they did - 2 or 3 times in the past because they felt it was under a DDoS attack, and I'm OK with that. At one point, communicating with their support team, one person even wrote this to me:
We are glad to support your efforts in maintaining these relays, as they play a crucial role in fighting censorship and promoting internet freedom. Thank you for your ongoing trust and partnership.
I initially chose them because they have few exit relays (only 12 as of today, 4 of them being mine, but there are about 100 other non-exit relays). With that kind of service, I'm wondering why they are not more popular for exit relays.
Denny
On 2024-10-22 15:41, tor-relays@queer.cat wrote:
On 22/10/24 12:08, denny.obreham@a-n-o-n-y-m-e.net wrote:
I still haven't found a solution to my problem I stated earlier in
my email with the subject "Exit relay not in consensus" https:// lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2024-October/021899.html <https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2024-October/021899. html>
The most helpful answers were from Sebastian <https://
lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2024-October/021909.html> and George <https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2024- October/021918.html>. I contacted the ASN but never received a response. My ISP was useless as they jus t repeated "We don't block traffic."
Iâve gone through the original thread you shared and found an OONI
result that supports the notion that your ASN (141995) is blocking Tor directory authorities. You can view the result here:
https://explorer.ooni.org/m/20241001034902.297107_US_tor_d6973b06186ed4 3a
As of today, the server is still active and running. You can't find
it in the metrics but it is still in the consensus <https://consensus- health.torproject.org/consensus-health.html? #7BDDE0E7607A5F49578768F44CD721793FA2D7AE>.
I did not have much time lately and have no clue what I can do from
this point forward.
Denny
On 2024-10-22 04:48, Roger Dingledine wrote:
Hi folks! We're hunting down a mystery where two of our big
university relays are having troubles reaching the Tor directory authorities: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/analysis/-/issues/86 Can you check to see if your relay is in a similar situation? In particular, the situation to look for is "Tor process is still running fine from your perspective, but, relay-search (https:// atlas.torproject.org/) says you are no longer running." If your relay is in this situation, the next step is to check your Tor logs, try to rule out other issues like firewall rules on your side, and then (if you're able) to start exploring traceroutes to the directory authority IP addresses vs other addresses. If you need more direct help, we can help you debug or answer other questions on #tor-relays on IRC. Thanks, -- Roger _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi- bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
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