Re: Your TeaInside relay is failing to relay exit traffic

[Georg Koppen <gk@torproject.org>]

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Ammar Faizi:
> On 8/25/22 5:13 PM, Ammar Faizi wrote:
>> On 8/25/22 4:27 PM, Georg Koppen wrote:
>>> There are different ways. One thing we do is to build circuits with the
>>> respective nodes to test as exits and then we try to connect to
>>> different websites and check whether there are any failures. In your
>>> case it seems connections are timing out.
>>>
>>> Another way, which you could try is using Tor Browser with your node as
>>> exit node. For that, after you have downloaded Tor Browser and extracted
>>> it, add to your torrc file (in
>>> tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Tor):
>>>
>>> ExitNodes F241330F16AF6BD90226CC9130DA8E20B58AAC3B
>>>
>>> The start Tor Browser and try to surf to some websites like popular news
>>> sites etc. Those requests are frequently timing out or take super long
>>> to load resulting caused by lots of circuit churn (as the circuit fails
>>> due to timeouts).
>>
>> Great, thanks for the tips!
>>
>> The latter way using Tor Browser sounds easier for me. I will
>> investigate this and be back to you soon.
> Hi Georg,
> 
> I have been trying to investigate this for several days, but haven't been
> able to fix the issue. Looking at the Tor daemon process from htop, it is
> spinning at 100% CPU. I don't know what is going on, but as far as I can
> tell, it is still consuming CPU and network I/O.
> 
> I tried to specify my relay fingerprint in torrc Tor browser like
> what you said previously. My Tor browser didn't work. It was always
> timing out with no clear error.
> 
>  From the server side, this is the last few hundred of lines of my Tor
> daemon log:
> 
>     
> https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ammarfaizi2/40be0cb122b5ad1240f9001f8e58eb7d/raw/2407fc3063d786e3e0054d522a0e63323e35513e/tor_log.txt
> 
> Do you have any suggestion?
> 
> If you need more information to diagnose this, tell me what do you
> need. I will happily provide it.

Hrm. What else is running on that server apart from the exit node? Could 
you share the torrc file you are using?

Georg



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