Ech0 - 21 / 10 / 2020

TOR Relay

Before we start, you will need a Debian 10+ VPS (you can get one on digitalocean for example), if you prefer to use your own self hosted server, make sure that port 80 and 443 are correctly port forwarded so that the public ip points to the server and not the router. Once that's done, go and ssh into your debian 10 server.

You will also need to make sure that the VPS provider allows the hosting of a tor node! for instance, here we're going to use DigitalOcean.

You wouldn't be able to host an exit node on DigitalOcean, however hosting a regular node is completely fine.

Config Generation

Goto tor-relay.co:

Once you're done, generate the config:

What you're looking for here is the curl command that we're going to pipe into bash to install and configure our debian server with:

Installation

apt update -y && apt upgrade -y 
apt install curl -y
curl https://tor-relay.co/nf/HASH.sh | bash

Once that's done, run nyx to view traffic:

sudo -u debian-tor nyx

You can also monitor connections by switching to the menu (pressing m)

and then just use the arrow keys to navigate:

Hit spacebar to choose "connection"

EDIT: you can just use left arrow and right arrow to change menus quickly lol

This is going to list the active connections (Circuits) to your tor node with their ip addresses.

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