On 8/29/2013 11:09 PM, Andreas Krey wrote: > On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 19:35:37 +0000, Gordon Morehouse wrote: > ... >> Aug 29 18:19:14.000 [notice] Your network connection speed appears to >> have changed. Resetting timeout to 60s after 18 timeouts and 172 >> buildtimes. > Random data point: I had these yesterday on a VPS-based relay. > >> My main question: How do circuit creation requests on one's Tor relay >> cause load on one's network infrastructure? Is it DNS requests? Is >> it TCP connection state entries? It's not bandwidth, we observed that >> above, and my router can handle far faster pipes than the one it's on >> currently. The DNS failing is a sign that the router is under severe >> stress. > Possibly your uplink is full (supposing you're on some DSL), and is > starting to build up ping time; then DNS requests to the outside can > start to timeout. > > Andreas > >
Over roughly the same time frame I received an incredibly high number of spam e-mails in one e-mail account that normally gets 20 or so a day on quiet days. Perhaps this is another example of mal-ware in action. David C _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
