My efforts to get them back are/where pretty low, its not much effort
for me to set up new relays. The support also didnt gave me much
information, so i just created new Relays at Strato, but they are in the
same Datacenter as the Ionos ones. Im now checking out other providers
for more relays. Maybe it was also some combination of other factors why
they shut down my servers, i had like 13 of the 1€/Month ones, could be
that it looked like abuse to them.
On 08.11.24 08:03, Red Oaive wrote:
Thank-you for you efforts, and for the efforts of the anonymous
contributors! And let me second the motion requesting (much) more
information about the perps.
Do we know the full impact though? The vast majority of relay
operators seem not to be on the mailing list. What are the actual
numbers on how many relays went dark in that period? I think this is
a number that would be good to know. Marie lost 10 IONOS VPSs in one
shot, and only two are back. Another 10 or so IONOS servers went dark
at that same time and are still not back.
More than the number of servers lost, it was shown that it's quite
possible to discredit with an IP spoof. Given that the effect of this
should have been exactly zero, I'd (unfortunately) call their
operation surprisingly successful.
Information and education are the best weapons against any sort of
discredit attack. I recommend an official educational blog entry from
the project if (when?) this happens again in the future. Or was there
one and I'm just not aware of it? This is valuable if nothing else to
reassure relay operators that the project has their backs as much as
possible and is willing to go to bat for them.
Marie, if you're still on the list, do you want to speak toward your
efforts to get your shut down servers back? You are, to my knowledge,
the person who lost the most in one shot to this.
On 2024-11-07 14:49, gus wrote:
Hello everyone,
I'm writing to share that the origin of the spoofed packets has been
identified and successfully shut down today, thanks to the assistance
from Andrew Morris at GreyNoise and anonymous contributors.
I want to give special thanks to the members of our community who have
dedicated their time and efforts to track down the perpetrators of this
attack.
Although this fake abuse incident had minimal impact on the network --
temporarily taking only a few relays offline -- it has been a
frustrating issue for many relay operators. However, I want to reassure
everyone that this disruption had no effect on Tor users whatsoever.
We're incredibly fortunate to have such a skilled and committed group of
relay operators standing with Tor.
Thank you all for your resilience, ongoing support and for making the
Tor network possible by running relays.
Gus
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