unsubscribe On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 3:13 AM, Roger Dingledine <[email protected]> wrote:
> Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload > problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their DirPort > open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off because it > used too many resources, give this release a try. > > https://www.torproject.org/download.html.en > > Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24 > o Major bugfixes: > - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays > now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended > for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing > TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are > unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling > up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets > and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling > their directory fetches over TLS). > > o Minor features: > - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique > mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to > every other relay. > - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon > as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce > the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running > in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting > up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users. > - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every > relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached, > the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides, > authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half > hour of their uptime. > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFL2IjP61qJaiiYi/URAqi/AKCR8P/SHKmTfucFliYX0Pb21VwkKACgxTA2 > onjodL4byTlt8G+VO54f92A= > =RVsB > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- Kobe Young
