On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 02:46:04AM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote: > A little while ago, I added another filter rule to the router here to > stop an apparently endless, rapid-fire series of directory requests hitting > my tor server's DirPort from 125.35.9.66, which appears to be in China. The > last time I reported this type of thing, you may recall, it came from a site > in Italy. The symptom, like the last time, was that output rate on my > machine's main Ethernet interface was running steadily around the transmit > rate limit imposed by my ADSL line. dig(1) shows:
Hi Scott, Can you check what's being repeatedly fetched? One way to do this is to run at loglevel debug briefly, and look for log_debug(LD_DIRSERV,"rewritten url as '%s'.", url); My first guess is that it's a runaway Tor client, or a runaway cache between the Tor client and you, rather than any intentionally abusive behavior. (It's amazing what can go wrong on the Internet when you have enough participants.) Thanks, --Roger
