[tor-relays] Changes in network traffic pattern
tor-admin at torland.me
tor-admin at torland.me
Fri Feb 6 06:44:25 UTC 2015
On Friday 06 February 2015 11:32:42 Hu Man wrote:
> First thought was DDOS but traffic is not high enough to cause any problems.
> I did some digging and in a 5 minute period received the following requests
> to the port tor is listening on (number of requests and source ip address)
>
[... removed IP addresses...]
>
> This is only the top 10 source ip addresses. I had a look and none of the
> top few seem to be tor relays.
>
> Just wondering if others are seeing a large number of requests from the
> above ip addresses or if it's just me. If it is just me then I can easily
> just block these ip addresses.
As a responsible Tor relay operator please don't snoop IP addresses and more
importantly if you get to know IP addresses accessing your relay during
operating your server never post them on the internet.
Thanks for running a relay.
Regards,
torland
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