[tor-relays] DoS attacks -- status update

2022-10-28 Thread Georg Koppen
Hello everyone! It's been a while since we last provided some update on this mailing list about our ongoing work fighting several DoS attacks. We can use the attached graph about detected overload over the last couple of months to show what is going on and what we do/plan to do about it.

Re: [tor-relays] MetricsPort: tor_relay_connections_total type confusion

2022-10-28 Thread nat--- via tor-relays
to remind ourselves about the prometheus types and their differences and when to use what: https://prometheus.io/docs/concepts/metric_types/ > The patch I got in makes all the tor_relay_connections_total{} metrics > "gauges" because in effect, some can go up and down and some might only go > up

[tor-relays] Upcoming OpenSSL 3 security bugfix release

2022-10-28 Thread Georg Koppen
Hello relay operators! If you are running OpenSSL 3 please be aware that you might need to upgrade it to 3.0.7 as fast as possible on next Tuesday (Nov 1). In an announcement[1] it got said 3.0.7 fixes a CRITICAL security issue. Operators running on the 1.1 series are fine as far as we know

Re: [tor-relays] MetricsPort: tor_relay_connections_total type confusion

2022-10-28 Thread David Goulet
On 28 Oct (11:04:09), n...@danwin1210.de wrote: > Hello David, > > again, thanks for your work on adding more metrics to tor's MetricsPort! > Many relay operators will love this and documentation will be useful [1]. > > I reported > https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/issues/40699 >

[tor-relays] MetricsPort: tor_relay_connections_total type confusion

2022-10-28 Thread nat--- via tor-relays
Hello David, again, thanks for your work on adding more metrics to tor's MetricsPort! Many relay operators will love this and documentation will be useful [1]. I reported https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/issues/40699 which got closed yesterday, but there was likely a misunderstanding