[tor-relays] Changes in network traffic pattern

[Toralf Förster]

On 02/05/2015 11:32 PM, Hu Man wrote:
> I have been running a tor relay for about a year and according to my
> munin graph It normally receives, on average, just under 2,000 incoming
> tcp connections on port 443 every 5 minutes.

/me assumes 443 is your ORport ?

> In the last few days that figure has increased to about 10,000 and
> spiked to about 19,000 incoming requests every 5 minutes.
> 
> First thought was DDOS but traffic is not high enough to cause any problems.
and why it is not a DDOS ?


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