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

[Markus Koch]

I am more of a fan of closing certain URL paths. So we could at least
stop these very old Apache directory bug attacks. Or forbid accessing
whatever.com/admin/

Markus


2016-10-09 2:03 GMT+02:00 teor <teor2345 at gmail.com>:
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>> On 9 Oct 2016, at 11:00, Markus Koch <niftybunny at googlemail.com> wrote:
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>> Would not help. These are bots, you can slow them down but this will
>> not stop them at all.
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> Ah, but the point isn't to stop the bots, it's to stop the abuse
> complaints by coming in under the abuse report automated thresholds.
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> In my experience, the abuse complaints are auto-generated, and no-one
> replies to my offer to block the site. So why not eliminate the
> complaints? Then everyone will be happy. Except the bot-herders.
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> Tim
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>> Markus
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>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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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