[tor-relays] can dirport be disabled on fallback directory?

[starlight.2017q4 at binnacle.cx]

Dirport is a handy convenience, but is not essential to proper
functioning of the network.  Put a connection rate-limit on
dirport and it stopped the abuser cold.  Dirport traffic went
from 15% of total back down to 1-2% where it belongs.

Nonetheless the questions posed are valid.



At 12:25 5/18/2018 -0400, starlight.2017q4 at binnacle.cx wrote:
>Lately seeing escalating abuse traffic on the relay dirport, now up to 20k rotating source IP addresses per week.
>
>The simple solution is to disable dirport, but the relay is a fallback directory and I don't want to make a change that will negatively affect the relay's ability to function as such.  Would 
>disabling dirport be a problem?
>
>also:
>
>can a non-advertised dirport be left configured for local-system use while the public advertised dirport is disabled?
>
>does a command utility or method exist for querying dirport documents via tunnelled-dir-server?  including miscellanous documents such as
>
>/tor/status-vote/current/consensus.z
>/tor/keys/all.z
>/tor/server/all.z
>/tor/extra/all.z
>
>/tor/server/fp/<fp1>+<fp2>+<fp3>.z
>/tor/extra/fp/<fp1>+<fp2>+<fp3>.z
>/tor/micro/d/<hash1>-<hash2>.z
>/tor/keys/fp/<v3ident1>+<v3ident2>.z
>
>thanks!
>