Re: [tor-relays] Handshake flood now on NTor

2014-09-08 Thread Tor Stuff
I have a related question. I have recently built my first Tor relay (ORPort 443, DirPort 80, NOT Exit) with both the bandwidth and burst limits set to 100KB/s. It has been running for less than 3 days. During that time I have been monitoring it with 'arm' and on GLOBE and notice a number of things

Re: [tor-relays] Handshake flood now on NTor

2014-09-07 Thread Joel Cretan
I observed something similar today. It was basically as you described for the previous cases you observed, where there was a storm of about 10 times more TAP handshakes than usual. My middle relay is pretty small, limited to 1.1Mbit/s, and until this point it wasn't even saturating that. Then this

[tor-relays] Handshake flood now on NTor

2014-09-02 Thread Jobiwan Kenobi
Hi, For about 15 hours straight, my relay was being hammered by connections/handshakes. I see lots of these: Sep 02 01:03:02.000 [warn] Your computer is too slow to handle this many circuit creation requests! Please consider using the MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option or choosing a more