Re: [tor-relays] Performance issues/DoS from outgoing Exit connections

2022-10-24 Thread Alexander Dietrich
> Toralf Förster hat am 22.10.2022 22:40 CEST > geschrieben: > > IMO a "reload tor" is fully sufficient and should be preferrred over > "restart", or ? A "reload" will update the ExitPolicy, but not drain existing connections very quickly, at least on our servers. Feel free to use whatever you

Re: [tor-relays] Performance issues/DoS from outgoing Exit connections

2022-10-23 Thread lists
On Samstag, 22. Oktober 2022 22:40:38 CEST Toralf Förster wrote: > On 10/21/22 22:09, Alexander Dietrich wrote: > > This is still experimental, so if you decide to give the script a try, > > please keep an eye on it. > > IMO a "reload tor" is fully sufficient and should be preferrred over > "resta

Re: [tor-relays] Performance issues/DoS from outgoing Exit connections

2022-10-22 Thread Toralf Förster
On 10/21/22 22:09, Alexander Dietrich wrote: This is still experimental, so if you decide to give the script a try, please keep an eye on it. IMO a "reload tor" is fully sufficient and should be preferrred over "restart", or ? Years ago I wrote a bash script, which created for an ip to be bloc

[tor-relays] Performance issues/DoS from outgoing Exit connections

2022-10-22 Thread Alexander Dietrich
Hello, on the evening of 2022-10-18, we (Artikel10) started getting alerts about our Tor servers, while our traffic declined sharply. When we investigated, we found that there were hundreds of thousands of TCP connections (per server) open to a single address, orders of magnitude more than any