[tor-relays] External connections to port 9050

[Roger Dingledine]

On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 09:22:10AM -0600, Greg W wrote:
> Roger,
> 
> You've confirmed my thoughts. I suspected that some people were bulk
> scanning relays/exits looking for open proxies too which is why I was
> curious if any other operators were seeing this. Thus far today I've got
> 175,000 connection attempts from 220 distinct IP addresses. I think I'll be
> sending some abuse emails and writing a new fail2ban rule!

Great! Except, please hesitate before sending those abuse mails --
isn't that exactly the sort of thing that makes it hard for people to
run Tor exits? :) We've only got this one Internet.

--Roger