Re: [tor-relays] can dirport be disabled on fallback directory?

2018-05-19 Thread teor
Hi, I didn't get your original email, it appears my spam filter is eating all your emails. (And a few other emails.) At 12:25 5/18/2018 -0400, starlight.2017q4 at binnacle.cx wrote: >Lately seeing escalating abuse traffic on the relay dirport, now up to 20k >rotating source IP addresses per wee

Re: [tor-relays] can dirport be disabled on fallback directory?

2018-05-19 Thread starlight . 2017q4
Dirport is a handy convenience, but is not essential to proper functioning of the network. Put a connection rate-limit on dirport and it stopped the abuser cold. Dirport traffic went from 15% of total back down to 1-2% where it belongs. Nonetheless the questions posed are valid. At 12:25 5/18