What to do when your Tor relay isn't listening
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.
What to do when your Tor relay isn't listening was originally published by Martin Paul Eve at Martin Paul Eve on February 13, 2025.
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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.
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- https://doi.org/10.59348/td9j1-v3t48
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- https://eve.gd/2025/02/13/what-to-do-when-your-tor-relay-isnt-listening/
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2025-02-13T16:55:58
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2025-02-13T16:55:58