[tor-relays] DDOS alerts from my provider

[David Fifield]

I haven't read it yet, but there's a short paper at FOCI this year
analyzing a case study of a DDoS attack on relays operated by the
authors.

"A case study on DDoS attacks against Tor relays"
Tobias Höller, René Mairhofer
https://www.petsymposium.org/foci/2024/foci-2024-0014.php

On Mon, Jul 08, 2024 at 07:34:51PM +0200, Rafo (r4fo.com) via tor-relays wrote:
> I have been running a relay for a few months now without any problems. But this
> week I’ve received 2 DDoS alerts from my provider (Netcup), both are ~3
> gigabits. They seem to be coming from other Tor relays.
> I’m running an Invidious like instance on my server (which uses around 600
> megabits) but I have a 2.5 gigabit port. So I configured my Tor relay to use
> 300-400 megabits.
> I’m not sure where that 3 gigabit of data comes from.
> I have lowered my advertised bandwidth to 100 megabits, would that be enough to
> prevent these kind of issues?