[tor-relays] Intrusion Prevention System Software - Snort or Suricata

[Markus Koch]

Would not help. These are bots, you can slow them down but this will
not stop them at all.

Markus


2016-10-09 1:57 GMT+02:00 teor <teor2345 at gmail.com>:
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>> On 7 Oct 2016, at 05:07, Green Dream <greendream848 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> If we're going to change anything I think it needs to happen within
>> Tor software. Operators could leverage the existing "Exitpolicy
>> reject" rules, or Tor could add functionality there if it's missing.
>> Whatever we do, I think it needs to be uniform and transparent.
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> I had a conversation with someone at the recent tor meeting about
> rate-limiting Tor traffic. There are all sorts of drawbacks (blocking
> popular sites, for example), but I wonder if there are rate-limiting
> settings that would eliminate the majority of abuse reports based on
> default fail2ban and similar reporting system settings.
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> For example, I wonder if the complaints I receive about SSH could be
> eliminated by slowing down repeated SSH connections to the same host
> by a second or so.
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> Clearly more research is needed to work out if this is even feasible,
> and, if it is, what rate limits should apply to what ports.
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