Re: [tor-relays] External connections to port 9050

2014-03-24 Thread Greg W
It is firewalled. I should have said "connection attempts" in my first email. On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Tora Tora Tora wrote: > On 02/28/2014 11:14 AM, Greg W wrote: > >> Are you suggesting that the IP's making the connections are potentially >> exit nodes (they're not, I've checked) or

Re: [tor-relays] External connections to port 9050

2014-03-23 Thread Tora Tora Tora
On 02/28/2014 11:14 AM, Greg W wrote: Are you suggesting that the IP's making the connections are potentially exit nodes (they're not, I've checked) or that abuse email volume in general should be lowered regardless of the nature? Just trying to understand your sentiment here :) Why not firewal

Re: [tor-relays] External connections to port 9050

2014-02-28 Thread Greg W
Are you suggesting that the IP's making the connections are potentially exit nodes (they're not, I've checked) or that abuse email volume in general should be lowered regardless of the nature? Just trying to understand your sentiment here :) Thanks, Greg On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Roger Di

Re: [tor-relays] External connections to port 9050

2014-02-28 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 09:22:10AM -0600, Greg W wrote: > Roger, > > You've confirmed my thoughts. I suspected that some people were bulk > scanning relays/exits looking for open proxies too which is why I was > curious if any other operators were seeing this. Thus far today I've got > 175,000 con

Re: [tor-relays] External connections to port 9050

2014-02-28 Thread Greg W
Roger, You've confirmed my thoughts. I suspected that some people were bulk scanning relays/exits looking for open proxies too which is why I was curious if any other operators were seeing this. Thus far today I've got 175,000 connection attempts from 220 distinct IP addresses. I think I'll be sen

Re: [tor-relays] External connections to port 9050

2014-02-27 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:39:55PM +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote: > On 2014-02-27 23:12, Greg W wrote: > > I turned on some logging on my firewall today to help troubleshoot and > > issue and noticed a load of connections from external addresses to port > > 9050 on my exit node. I don't think that sho

Re: [tor-relays] External connections to port 9050

2014-02-27 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2014-02-27 23:12, Greg W wrote: > I turned on some logging on my firewall today to help troubleshoot and > issue and noticed a load of connections from external addresses to port > 9050 on my exit node. I don't think that should be publicly accessible. > Am I wrong about it being publicly access

[tor-relays] External connections to port 9050

2014-02-27 Thread Greg W
I turned on some logging on my firewall today to help troubleshoot and issue and noticed a load of connections from external addresses to port 9050 on my exit node. I don't think that should be publicly accessible. Am I wrong about it being publicly accessible and does anyone else see lots of conne