Re: [tor-relays] could Tor devs provide an update on DOS attacks?

2017-12-31 Thread starlight . 2017q4
At 07:36 12/31/2017 -0500, I wrote: > >. . . suggest adding support for circuit-extend rate-limiting of some kind or >another. . . Further in support of the request, for _12_hours_ preceding the most recent crash, the daemon reported: Your computer is too slow to handle this many circuit creati

Re: [tor-relays] could Tor devs provide an update on DOS attacks?

2017-12-31 Thread Toralf Förster
On 12/31/2017 01:36 PM, starlight.201...@binnacle.cx wrote: > first it was hit with a DDOS packet-saturation blast calibrated to overload > the network interface but not so strong as to trigger the ISP's anti-DDOS > system (which works well); the first attack had little effect. Then within > tw

Re: [tor-relays] could Tor devs provide an update on DOS attacks?

2017-12-31 Thread starlight . 2017q4
At 18:25 12/30/2017 -0500, Roger Dingledine wrote: Thank you Roger for your detailed reply. I have some observations: 1) An additional contingent of dubious clients exists aside from the newly arrived big-name-hoster instances each generating _hundreds_of_thousands_ of connection requests _per