Eve, Martin Paul (2025) What to do when your Tor relay isn't listening. eve.gd ,
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Abstract
I had a problem with my Tor relay last night. For some reason, the application (daemon) started but then after about 5 seconds it stopped listening. The Tor Metrics site was displaying a red button saying my node was unreachable and when I did “sudo ss -ltp” I got nothing. The application literally wasn’t “listening” (in network socket terms). The answer was actually embarrassingly simple. If your Tor daemon stops listening, even if you can’t find a log entry saying why, it could be because you have burned through your entire traffic allocation for the accounting period. Increase the limit and try restarting it to avoid a red face.
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| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication |
| Depositing User: | Martin Eve |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Feb 2025 08:27 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Feb 2025 08:27 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/54984 |
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