[tor-relays] many connections

2022-10-03 Thread Sandro Auerbach
Hello, After changing my server, the connections settled between 6000-8000 incoming connections in the first 2 weeks of the warm-up period. (Guard/non exit) Since it seems that many relays have been overloaded in the last few weeks, I think a big DDOS is running again. Yesterday I tried to r

Re: [tor-relays] many connections

2022-10-03 Thread Toralf Förster
On 9/30/22 17:57, Sandro Auerbach wrote: 30 minutes later still 22000 connections... Have you observed something similar? I reduced those spikes [1] by using certain iptables rules [2]. [1] https://github.com/toralf/torutils/blob/main/sysstat.svg [2] https://github.com/toralf/torutils -- Tor

Re: [tor-relays] many connections

2022-10-03 Thread Richie
Hi, toralf, since i'm quite a n00b regarding iptables and shellscripts: are there somewhere n00b-proof setup instructions for the ddos protection scripts? here: relay (schlafschaf) with the usual connection floods, running on Kubuntu (latest LTS) What i found out: ipset is not installed per d

Re: [tor-relays] many connections

2022-10-03 Thread Toralf Förster
On 10/3/22 12:26, Richie wrote: My apologies if its not the right place to ask. greetz Korrupt Every place is the right place for feedback, thx for yours ! I updated the readme [1] at the experimental branch and will merge it to main soon. Feel free to give additional feedback -and/or- make

[tor-relays] Thoughts about potentially abusive config option for exit nodes

2022-10-03 Thread abuse-node49
I did not manage to find anywhere on the new website the current config options of the torrc. So I ask the question here, although it may be already outdated. This is the third time I have had contact with the police about Exits Relays. That's why it occurred to me that someone might be acting