[tor-relays] External connections to port 9050

[Greg W]

Are you suggesting that the IP's making the connections are potentially
exit nodes (they're not, I've checked) or that abuse email volume in
general should be lowered regardless of the nature? Just trying to
understand your sentiment here :)

Thanks,
Greg


On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Roger Dingledine <arma at mit.edu> wrote:

> 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
>
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