Re: any middlemen seeing DoS currently?

2008-11-07 Thread Olaf Selke
Eugen Leitl wrote: I've seen continuous table state increase since about 3.5 hours. It went up from 1 k baseline to 5 k. Anyone else seeing this? yes, the same here Olaf

Re: any middlemen seeing DoS currently?

2008-11-07 Thread CyberRax
Could the No current certificate known for authority ides; launching request. message that my client's been displaying every minute or so for the last 4 hours be related to that, or is my problem just a coincident? ___ Sent by ePrompter,

Re: Suggestion: Support UPNP

2008-11-07 Thread CyberRax
What version are you using? Atleast 0.1.9 on Windows does have UPnP support, the attempt to automatically configure port forwarding on Sharing screen does just that - use UPnP to forward the configured or/dir ports. ___ Sent by

Re: any middlemen seeing DoS currently?

2008-11-07 Thread Karsten Loesing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 CyberRax wrote: Could the No current certificate known for authority ides; launching request. message that my client's been displaying every minute or so for the last 4 hours be related to that, or is my problem just a coincident? This might be

Re: any middlemen seeing DoS currently?

2008-11-07 Thread Hans Schnehl
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 02:49:47PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 02:10:32PM +0100, Olaf Selke wrote: Eugen Leitl wrote: I've seen continuous table state increase since about 3.5 hours. It went up from 1 k baseline to 5 k. Anyone else seeing this? yes, the

Re: any middlemen seeing DoS currently?

2008-11-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 02:10:32PM +0100, Olaf Selke wrote: Eugen Leitl wrote: I've seen continuous table state increase since about 3.5 hours. It went up from 1 k baseline to 5 k. Anyone else seeing this? yes, the same here Anyone knows which kind of attack that is? Any suggestions

any middlemen seeing DoS currently?

2008-11-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
I've seen continuous table state increase since about 3.5 hours. It went up from 1 k baseline to 5 k. Anyone else seeing this? Any alternative explanation to DoS? (ISP throttling?). Thanks. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org

Re: any middlemen seeing DoS currently?

2008-11-07 Thread Hans Schnehl
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 01:38:28PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: I've seen continuous table state increase since about 3.5 hours. It went up from 1 k baseline to 5 k. Anyone else seeing this? Any alternative explanation to DoS? (ISP throttling?). Thanks. Yes, now roughly 4.5 hours ago

Suggestion: Support UPNP

2008-11-07 Thread morphium
Hi, today I looked into my vidalia settings and were surprised, because there is no possibility to use UPNP for incoming connections. I think, a lot of routers support it, and we should do, too. Not everyone knows (or is willing) how to configure port forwarding in his router. morphium

No current certificate known for authority ides; launching request.

2008-11-07 Thread force44
Hi, Am getting this message since a few hours, and TOR is very low to make circuits. I put the node ides in my exclude nodes, no change...

Re: Suggestion: Support UPNP

2008-11-07 Thread Geoff Down
As long as you disable UPnP afterwards to protect your router from drive-by attacks. http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/hacking-with-upnp-universal-plug-and- play/ GD On 7 Nov 2008, at 13:52, CyberRax wrote: What version are you using? Atleast 0.1.9 on Windows does have UPnP support, the

Re: any middlemen seeing DoS currently?

2008-11-07 Thread Martin Hodge
Same at IdentityHog. Number of TCP connections steadily increased to ~10k and then the server crashed. I have unfortunately had to shut it down for now. Eugen Leitl wrote: I've seen continuous table state increase since about 3.5 hours. It went up from 1 k baseline to 5 k. Anyone else

Re: any middlemen seeing DoS currently?

2008-11-07 Thread Geoff Down
My PC crashed overnight a couple of times now with a relay running - is this the same thing? OSX 10.3.9 Vidalia 0.1.9 Tor 0.2.0.31 r16744 GD On 7 Nov 2008, at 18:25, Martin Hodge wrote: Same at IdentityHog. Number of TCP connections steadily increased to ~10k and then the server crashed. I

Re: Suggestion: Support UPNP

2008-11-07 Thread morphium
2008/11/7 CyberRax [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What version are you using? Atleast 0.1.9 on Windows does have UPnP support, the attempt to automatically configure port forwarding on Sharing screen does just that - use UPnP to forward the configured or/dir ports. Oh sorry didn't see it ;) Yes it's there

Re: any middlemen seeing DoS currently?

2008-11-07 Thread Olaf Selke
Geoff Down wrote: My PC crashed overnight a couple of times now with a relay running - is this the same thing? my tor process' workspace increased from about 400 MB to 1200 MB over the last hours. Fortuntely anonymizer.blutmagie.de is equipped with 4 GB memory. Olaf

Re: any middlemen seeing DoS currently?

2008-11-07 Thread Jonathan Addington
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Olaf Selke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Geoff Down wrote: My PC crashed overnight a couple of times now with a relay running - is this the same thing? my tor process' workspace increased from about 400 MB to 1200 MB over the last hours. Fortuntely

Re: any middlemen seeing DoS currently?

2008-11-07 Thread Freemor
On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:44:09 +0100 Karsten Loesing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem of clients downloading certificates that often will be solved with the next alpha. But the main solution is to upgrade the authority certificate which should happen some time today. I think that it

Re: any middlemen seeing DoS currently?

2008-11-07 Thread Karsten Loesing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Freemor wrote: I think that it might be an idea to send out an official announcement here on or-announce and perhaps on the website to tell people to stop their inactive tor clients (i.e. sudo /etc/init.d/tor stop ) to take the pressure off the

Re: any middlemen seeing DoS currently?

2008-11-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 07:52:06PM +0100, Olaf Selke wrote: Geoff Down wrote: My PC crashed overnight a couple of times now with a relay running - is this the same thing? my tor process' workspace increased from about 400 MB to 1200 MB over the last hours. Fortuntely

Crashing relay (was any middlemen seeing DoS currently?)

2008-11-07 Thread Geoff Down
Is there anything, in simple terms, that I can do to stop this? Bear in mind please that I'm an expert neither in Tor nor OSX, but I would like to contribute to the network. My torrc is the bare minimum generated by the Vidalia interface, apart from my specifying my Address to avoid a bug with

Re: any middlemen seeing DoS currently?

2008-11-07 Thread Dominik Schaefer
Olaf Selke schrieb: my tor process' workspace increased from about 400 MB to 1200 MB over the last hours. Fortuntely anonymizer.blutmagie.de is equipped with 4 GB memory. Similar here: from around 2k to 5.6k connections, cpu load tripled from 25% to 75%, memory consumption increased from 240MB

Re: Crashing relay (was any middlemen seeing DoS currently?)

2008-11-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 08:02:37PM +, Geoff Down wrote: Is there anything, in simple terms, that I can do to stop this? Bear in mind please that I'm an expert neither in Tor nor OSX, but I I'm running Tor on Leopard (G4 Mac mini, 1 GByte) behind a pfSense 1.2.1 firewall on a WRAP (state

Data Retention in UK?

2008-11-07 Thread Lexi Pimenidis
Hej, I don't know to which extend already details about upcoming details on data retention in European countries != Germany hav been posted here. I just found this on the Internet: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/government-black-boxes-will-collect-every-email-992268.html

Re: Data Retention in UK?

2008-11-07 Thread Seth David Schoen
Lexi Pimenidis writes: If I interpret these correctly, this law is coming into effect beginning of next year. The Independent article says Nevertheless, ministers have said they are committed to consulting on the new Communications Data Bill early in the new year. That means that the

Re: Data Retention in UK?

2008-11-07 Thread Lexi Pimenidis
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 09:46:36PM CET, Seth David Schoen wrote: Hej, The Independent article says Nevertheless, ministers have said they are committed to consulting on the new Communications Data Bill early in the new year. That means that the particular law discussed is a proposed law,

Re: any middlemen seeing DoS currently?

2008-11-07 Thread Dominik Schaefer
Hans Schnehl schrieb: you may set the timeout values in pf.conf to rather low values. Actually I start wondering if larger values are of any use anyway. maybe like: - set timeout interval 2 set timeout frag 5 set timeout tcp.first 5 set timeout tcp.opening 5

Re: any middlemen seeing DoS currently?

2008-11-07 Thread Hans Schnehl
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 10:23:02PM +0100, Dominik Schaefer wrote: Hans Schnehl schrieb: you may set the timeout values in pf.conf to rather low values. Actually I start wondering if larger values are of any use anyway. maybe like: - set timeout interval 2